Word: giving
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...main difficulty with such a conscription is that it might start labor troubles in the country. It is a delicate proposition and would have to be handled in an extremely tactful way. One feasible method would be to draft these men for military service, give them uniforms, put them under martial law, divide them into regiments of engineers, and just as we have the Railway Engineers in France today we could have shipbuilding and munition regiments, farming regiments scattered in squads or platoons where they are most needed. Such an arrangement would satisfy the pride of the laboring classes...
Perhaps the intention was to give the advanced course men extra credit because of their attendance at the Barre camp last summer. Allowing this to be an entirely fair and just reward, nevertheless should a course which requires twice as many hours of work as a regular college course count only as the equivalent of half such a course...
ORDNANCE DEPARTMENT WILL GIVE INFANTRY EQUIPMENT...
...this subject is concerned. I am very grateful to him for 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...
Scarcely has the Liberty Loan been subscribed but we are called upon again to give our money. The cause is no less just, no less necessary. The money spent in bonds goes to create great engines of destruction that shall shake the enemy and drive him back from the country he has ravaged; the money given to the Red Cross maintains a great organization that alleviates the suffering of our own soldiers and of the unfortunate civilians in this war zone...