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...SALUTATIONS (WITH WHICH NO ONE ON THE STATION IS FAMILIAR) "SLACKER," "SUCKER" AND "PROFITEER" ARE EVER USED, IT MUST BE IRONICALLY. THESE "SLACKERS" ARE TRAINING FOR A SERVICE WHICH HAS SUFFERED A HIGHER PERCENTAGE OF CASUALTIES TO DATE THAN HAVE ANY OF THE ARMED SERVICES AND THEY KNOW IT. THESE "DRAFT DODGERS" ARE VOLUNTEERING FOR AS TEDIOUS, AS HAZARDOUS AND AS ESSENTIAL A DUTY AS THERE IS IN THE WHOLE WAR PROGRAM. THESE "PROFITEERS" COULD MAKE MORE MONEY IN DETROIT OR GARY OR CLEVELAND FROM THE BACKGROUND OF THEIR OWN HOMES WITH THE COMFORT AND PLEASURES OF PRIVATE LIFE THAN...
...thousand men between the ages of 17 and 35, who customarily greet each other as "Slacker," "Draft dodger" and "Profiteer," stood for one and a half hours in the icy offshore wind at the United States Maritime Training Station at Sheepshead Bay, N.Y. last week and heard themselves lauded by President Roosevelt (by letter) and a No. 2 company of lauders as potentially gallant merchant seamen. To the undisguised relief of the station's 1,800 instructors, they uttered no boo, no Bronx cheer, and only a few rude mutterings...
...grasped the fact that trained professional, mechanical, agricultural or other workers are just as patriotic when performing civilian jobs as they would be if in uniform. . . . If those same persons were in the Army, they would perhaps do much less real good. Fear that the term yellow or slacker may be given them after the war is driving many essential civilians into uniform. I have recently seen a school superintendent, a mathematics instructor, a physician and several essential iron-ore mineworkers, all of whom were not replaceable, join the colors because of this fear. An unthinking public daily cuts national...
Next day at the University of North Dakota, in Grand Forks, 1,000 men and coeds jammed into a mass meeting. Up jumped Dean William G. Bek and roared: "Field work is not beneath any of us, and any one of you who thinks so is a slacker in every sense of the word." Then & there the college decided to shut down for two weeks and man the fields. So also did the North Dakota Agricultural College, the State teachers' colleges...
...publicity given to Ingersoll as a draft dodger has detracted attention from Marshall Field as a slacker. Field is of age to volunteer. . . . The term to fit him and all hysterical effeminates is coward...