Word: higher
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...great objection to shifting the higher officers of the Corps has been that company records and the other data which are so essential a part of company organization must also change hands. This would be an insurmountable difficulty if the R. O. T. C. were on a basis similar to that of last summer; that is to say, if we were under intensive training. As it is, with but an hour's drill two or three times per week, the clerical work could easily be shifted without loss of organization...
...symbol of the discipline without which an army is an ungovernable mob which a handful of real soldiers can put to rout. The young ignoramus who writes from Camp asks, "Why should an American citizen humble himself to every stripe or collar mark that indicates a grade higher in the service than himself?" The answer is that he does not humble himself. The salute is a mark of respect not given to the individual but to the rank, therefore to the system of which the democratic soldier is supposed to be an intelligent part, therefore the salute...
...what a pity if the treasury must become a knee-dropping suppliant to the American public. There is a higher obligation than self which confronts the true citizen. In Senator Lodge's words it is this...
...break fewer dishes "because of the war," college students would work harder "because of the war," dentists would be gentler and plumbers have a heart. But we all know that it is not often so. The storekeeper is uncertain with his deliveries "because of the war"; the factory charges higher prices for shoddy materials, the clerk is late to the office, the telephone or janitor service is poor "because of the war." It is such an excuse for slackness as slackness has not had in nearly two generations. Because a great burden is laid upon the nation, millions of people...
...whole economic life seems whirling in a vicious circle: the government sets a maximum price on staples, to reduce the cost of living; labor strikes for higher wages and shorter hours, there by increasing the cost of transportation and manufacture; increased cost sends prices soaring again; until the government's price regulations are encountered, and a new circular motion sets...