Word: nationalities
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...their capabilities in service,-note that word,-to their country, to work under the added stimulus of profits so abnormal as to be the cause of public indignation. Dean Gay admitted this failing when he recently advocated unrestricted profiteering. We have business men who persistently oppose schemes for national saving on a large scale,-such as discontinuance of the purchase of non-essentials,-because it would injure their particular business. We have employers who refuse to give their workmen enough wages to maintain a decent standard of living. We have various over-rich persons in the community ignoring completely...
...shall not see the end of these dangerous deficiencies, which have lately been especially manifest in aircraft and shipbuilding, until our nation realizes that hard work, not money appropriations however vast or intricately distributed and applied, is the only force which can bring into existence the numberless physical products which the prosecution of the war requires...
This week a nation-wide appeal is being made for contributions of books for war libraries for men in service at home and abroad. More than a million books will be required to supply camps, barracks, transports and hospitals with plenty of readable books. Fiction, biography, history, travel, poetry, and almost any form of literature will be welcome. Contributions will be supplemented by generous purchases, especially in scientific and technical lines...
...meet these needs a nation-wide book-drive will start on March 18, directed by the American Library War Service, and with every public library cooperating: Churches, schools and patriotic societies of all kinds have signified their willingness to help. Thousands of girls and boys are being mobilized to collect books from householders who are too busy to take them to public libraries, and every other means will be used to make the giving of books easy. Two million books is the goal set, but with public interest really aroused, it should be far exceeded.--A. L. A. WAR SERVICE...
These actions are antagonizing the last friends the Huns have left in Europe. They would be puzzling in any other nation, but Germany considers itself so strong owing to the collapse of Russia that it can expand in the north as well as in the east and can afford to flout the Scandinavian nations...