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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...subscribing a part of the fund to Liberty Bonds the class will be doing its share toward the support of the government and at the same time will receive a profitable return on its investment. It is planned to purchase several bonds of small denominations rather than one large one so that they may be sold whenever the money is needed in cash form. As the price of the bonds will undoubtedly rise, and as they will always be saleable, a profit will be made in every case. It is essential that the bonds be bought by Friday of this...
...guide children in the path of duty. But no prophecies that "the famine'll get you if you don't watch out" may be used to instil fortitude and determination into an intelligent nation. If we as a people need such methods of comprehending the necessary, then we have small reason to exist as a strong people, but rather as a pygmy-souled race of children. However, we need no such methods, as is quite obvious...
...granted that a man radically antagonistic to the national aspirations of his race--as a monarchist in America, or a republican in Germany--has small opportunity to voice his own revolutionary opinions in the general unity of the racial aspiration. It is also to be granted that practically if not ethically a few millions have more right to the predominance and success of their views than have a few single...
...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...
There is no reason why any accident should occur. Daily in Europe millions of men handle firearms in the most deadly way. Yet by the use of a small amount of care, accidents--in the sense of self-inflicted casualties--are almost unknown. With the same reasonable care there will be no mishaps next week...