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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...national army of five hundred thousand men, whose fortitude is equal to the task which must be done, it may be pointed out, unless someone has been deceived, such an army might be raised overnight from only those who are most eager to volunteer. Entirely disregarding that now historic million which was to spring to arms in the same short time, there were two hundred thousand men eagerly anxious to obtain admission to the officers' training camps. Their pristine patriotism may not be considered to have lost its gloss. A like number of men volunteered for service under Mr. Roosevelt...
...percentage of those who would go to war at the first call from a spirit of adventure is only about one-tenth or one-fifteenth of those who will willingly go when called upon (as the experience of England has shown) then we may count on four or six million men whose love of country, unlike their love of adventure, is superior to selfish motives of physical immunity...
...however, there are in this nation a number, small but hardy, of men who by unpolitic fate have been born to a land with which they have no sympathy, we should not with harsh restriction prevent them from seeking the lands of their hearts desire. A hundred million people may not bind their hands in weakness that a hundred men should live free from the perils of valiant service. But the hundred...
...hoped that the district in which the University is will subscribe at least three million dollars of this government bond issue. It is not only large amounts from a few individuals which the government wishes, but that the issue may be spread among the entire nation, and thus add strength to the issue itself and the general financial situation. The greatest record which the United States has made in this respect--that of extending the sale to a large number of citizens--was at the time of the Civil War was the ratio...
...needs of national service are great. One of the greatest of those is for an efficient and adequate military corps. We have not in our nation now enough qualified doctors to serve the nation at home, and to serve an army of a million men abroad...