Word: calls
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...going to call on a half-million from that vast aggregation which is now rendered by law liable to draft. That is a proportion of one in twenty. If anyone, having reached within the last ten years that age which presumes to manhood, is fearful of undertaking those duties which he, as a courageous and honorable citizen, owes his nation, he may allay his fears for the time. The chances are nineteen to one against unwilling individuals being taken. Such over-whelming odds do not even partake of the adventure which hinges to a sporting chance...
...believed, however, that the young men of this nation are not yet of such timid heart that the remoteness of the call to service may cheer them. If they are, if those ten million men will regard the twentieth part chosen as unfortunate, and the twentieth part will lament the injustice of a fate that calls them to the road of courage, then five hundred thousand drafted men were worth less than the English first army, volunteers for which almost fought for the opportunity to fight...
Permit me to call explicit attention to the saving of man-power and the increased efficiency of the nation's workers which might also be obtained through prohibition. The great problem at the present time is to bring the nation to its highest productive efficiency. This may be done through the conservation of foodstuffs and other raw materials, by withdrawing men from non-productive or destructive occupations and putting them to work where their labor will be of use, and by increasing individual efficiency in any way whatsoever...
...content to hold to his central domains, many brave Frenchmen would now be living in peace, and their children would look to their fathers for support. But the ambition of a foreign emperor brought havoc in lands not under his control, and as a result the orphans of France call to America...
...track management has found it necessary to call off the annual interscholastic meet which was to have been held in the Stadium next Saturday, May 12. The possibility of a military review before Marshal Joffre on that date together with the comparatively small number of entries, made this cancellation advisable...