Word: evens
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...battle raged around Cambrai and far east of the Somme, the opposing armies are now aligned upon the Messines Ridge. That the tide of battle has meant a serious reversal for the Allies, no explanation or expression of hope may minimize. The Allies have been driven back and even now are struggling at a point beyond which the German hordes may possibly pour to the sea. The war has been indefinitely prolonged, and its final verdict has been pressed into an indefinite future. The most hopeful of us must stop to ponder over so dark an outlook of the world...
...Even here in patriotic Philadelphia you will see them sometimes salute shamefacedly and furtively, as if they were trying to avoid the soldier who has just saluted them...
...commanding officer is a living representative of the Stars and Stripes, and as such he deserves to be saluted even more than the flag," says Major Humphreys of the British Army, stationed at Camp Jackson as an instructor...
...does not mean obliteration of parties. Of course, all platforms will be American. They will be composed of one big plank--Victory, And yet there are many ways of obtaining this national goal. Destroy the parties and you kill all criticism, the right kind of which is essential even in a crisis. If we have arrived at that state where all the voters of this country think alike, then away with all parties. It may be questioned whether such a state is either healthy or desirable...
...spend your money even with the belief that by putting it into the channels of trade others into whose hands it comes will lend it to the Government, you will have done something the patriotism of which may be very questionable...