Word: goings
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Some Steamer of the French Line will take the unit across. Applications to join the Ambulance Service have been pouring in so fast from all over the country that all accommodations for sailing up to June 2 have already been filled. In all, 192 men will go May 19 to drive ambulances, 203 the following week, and 165 on June 2. Many of these men have signed up to serve during the duration of the war, while the others are either going over for an indefinite period or for the usual six months...
...American Corps is considering taking up transport work so that when the United States troops go abroad the Corps will be able to take care of the transportation for such an army. As a means of fitting itself to carry on efficiently this work, the Service expects to organize in Paris a school for instruction in the organization and manipulation of motor-truck units...
Every year the fertility of this nation is taxed at the rate of six billions pounds of foodstuffs which go into the production of forms of alcohol which have no social nor economic value. That is enough, as our economists have shown, at a low estimate to provide sustenance for seven million men for a year. Such figures might be compiled indefinitely. They may be gained from any governmental report...
...gold, and out battles to be fought here at home, we are worse than the blind who cannot see, for we will not see. The strength of our armies is needed now, has been needed for months, and will be needed more terribly as weeks go by, to drive back in hard battles the German arms...
...some definite plan of national service, he should go into that provided it measures up to his abilities and he measures up to its opportunities. If he has no plan for service, he is not justified in delaying at all his enrolment in the summer training camps...