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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...sailor came in unprecedented numbers to live in towns that had seldom really known him before. Residents rallied to the war service cause with an enthusiasm and generosity that can never be forgotten. On the whole, it was just a matter of making ourselves known, as one might say, "Mr. and Mrs. Jones, I am a sailor, a gentleman and a human being, just like everyone else," and the reply was, "Glad to meet you, Mr. Sailor; Mrs. Jones and I mean to be hospitable and neighborly. You have no reason to hold aloof and consider us as 'unfriendly civilians...
...Prussianism. The training of years has done its work. The German has been led to pour out his blood to as full measure as any of his opponents, but he knows not why. As he pays tribute to his comrades who have fallen, the most glorious thing he can say is that they "died for their Kaiser." What free men will offer their lives to the ambitions of a single leader? It passes the imagination of us who are fighting for great ideals that such a thought could be widely accepted today. It indicates a condition of the German mind...
Just how much to blame the Russian people for going back on their allies is difficult to say. To pity them rather than curse them is the fairest way, for there is no sense in heaping coals of fire upon the heads of a demoralized nation. Russia is in a condition where internal reform is the one essential and where a real military resistance is impossible. We believe that by making peace she is throwing herself open to every type of Teuton trick and that Germany will exploit the Slavs solely for what can be drawn out of them...
...encountered. In like fashion the proposals in regard to Russia are met by the reply that this concerns only Russia and the Central Powers. So it is with every particular point demanded by the Allies. In the case of Alsace alone has the chancellor been definite, and then to say that Germany will not give up that disputed territory...
...last Washington order, the R. O. T. C. has becomes a cause for exemption from service in the draft army and is now a preparatory school for commissions. That is to say, any member of Military Science 2 cannot be drafted as a private without first having an opportunity to become an officer. Many men now in the corps are abusing this privilege; they are cutting drill as often as they think they can without losing their good standing with the Military Office. The two who have been discharged are not the only ones who have deserved the penalty,--they...