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Dates: during 1910-1919
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This country needs half a million trained soldiers, either with the colors or in the reserve, to protect our international rights and obligations...
...talk nonchalantly about our entering the war do not seem to have the remotest realization of what that step would mean in every branch of our daily life. An open breach with the Central Powers would almost certainly be followed by a call for the mobilization of a half-million men. The response is not doubtful; twice that number could probably be enlisted within a very short time. But the sudden withdrawal of so large a body from the productive activities of the country would almost surely upset our whole economic organization, all the more so because those...
...problem confronting this country would not be that of getting men or uniforms or rifles or machine guns. Our industries are today better organized for the production of equipment and munitions than they have been for 50 years. The most acute problem would be that of supplying a half-million men with the necessary officers. Nearly 30,000 of these would be needed and needed immediately, for without officers even the rudiments of drill and organization cannot be carried through. Right there, as the experience of other countries in the war has shown, would be our most stupendous problem. Even...
...explanation to the puzzle--despite their 11th hour devotion they are not patriots. For a patriot is always ready to fulfill the needs of his country, and our country has as great a need now for volunteer officers, under training, as she will have for a million raw recruits when war is declared...
...Mars keep his exclusiveness. Let him keep his frozen colds. Let him keep his red grass and his last icy immersion. Even though he does belong to a family older than ours by some million years, even if he is a more remote neighbor of the garish sun, even if he is a gentleman, yet we can get along without replies to our wireless greetings, nor smiles to our heliographed winks. We can get along without Mars. Mars is so cold he would freeze alcohol...