Word: home
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...than modern industry in the heads of efficiency experts, and we're going to keep on specializing until we've won. Surely it will take a few years; casualty lists will be heavy; mistakes will be made, but the point is we will win. Furthermore the sacrifices necessitated at home and the new ideas derived therefrom...
Next comes--oh, yes; oh, yes--a Christmas story. After two pages, in which the old millionaire bachelor demonstrates in many successive speeches that he does not appreciate Christmas, he leaves the club and starts for home in his "perfectly appointed car." Presently he learns from his chauffeur that they have knocked down a child--"a wisp of a girl, poorly clad, whose pinched face spoke the lack of food." From this point on the old millionaire buys Christmas presents until along toward the end, when we hear of "the star which they saw in the East"; and catch from...
...many--no less eager to go over there than those who have been accepted--have been compelled to stay at home. To these I offer this suggestion: There are forms of service other than that on the battlefield, on the sea or under it or in the air. At this time the most important form of auxiliary service I believe to be co-operation with the American Red Cross. Such co-operation can be effected best through membership; and all those who by reason of sex, age or physical disability, are prevented from going to the front are being urged...
Vital as these functions are, however, the Christmas membership is being conducted for the purpose of showing the man who is fighting that the men, women and children he is fighting for are solidly, aggressively back of him; that the morale of the folks at home is as high as the morale of the fighter in the field; and that their purpose is as patriotic and their determination as deep as his. Ten million new members of the American Red Cross will not leave a doubting United States fighting man--nor a doubting enemy...
...college student can be a big aid to us in enrolling these new members. He is going home for his Christmas holidays--holidays that in thousands of families mean sadness because of the absence of loved ones in camp or at the front. If he will enter into the spirit of the Red Cross Christmas, if he will give part of his vacation to active service in the Red Cross membership drive, he will find that lie has served his country--and himself--profitably and patriotically. Chairman, War Council, American Red Cross...