Word: civilians
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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There is but one thing for the civilian population to do: keep calm. We must continue our daily work as before and let the Navy worry about the U boats. If we object too strongly to submarines we had best enlist and fight them with guns, not loiter around and fight with words. The Germans considered the Scarborough vandalism a victory and they soon found out that it was merely acting as a stimulus for British recruiting. If the same takes place here, the U boats' journey will have been well worth while...
...Give Your Country Your Vacation" was first raised in the recruiting campaign for the 1916 Civilian Plattsburg Camps. It should today be the motto of every able-bodied undergraduate not entering the service at once; the idler is as bad as the draft dodger. Nor can it be a question of training on one hand against war work on the other. Do both--train for six weeks for your own future call, and then work for the nation's present needs until September 23. For no man in the United States should the summer of 1918 be called a vacation...
...qualified preparation if they have had at least three consecutive years of business experience and have been over 21 years of age. It offers under the present temporary arrangement for men above the age at which the Government is calling to military service, opportunity for training for civilian positions in which men may be more directly useful than otherwise in helping to produce the material means by which in part the war will...
...having backed up with his high authority the criticism I expressed so often. Our men must acquire more precision and more snap in all the close order exercises, in marching, and in all these details which give troops a good military appearance, and impress in a favorable way the civilian spectators...
...demand the right of way on all canals and railroads for the transportation not only of civilian supplies but of war supplies amounts to a denial of Dutch neutrality. Control of transit is a vital function of every nation. To submit to foreign dictation is to abandon sovereignty. Moreover, the obligation of neutrality demands that Holland refuse any step which will be of direct gain to the enemy in its prosecution of the war. This side of the affair is clear, the laws of nationality and neutrality make the acceptance of the proposal impossible...