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...true that "America," both in tune and words is characteristic of the grand simplicity of our people. In ten thousand kinds of impromptu choruses its music is borne to the heavens. Is there one town meeting, one sixth-grade class, one Sunday school picnic, in which every one to the very least may not arise and join in, at the close of any festivity, with praise to the "Sweet land of liberty"? Is there one small corner of this broad land where rocks do not their silence break...
...that the remoteness of the call to service may cheer them. If they are, if those ten million men will regard the twentieth part chosen as unfortunate, and the twentieth part will lament the injustice of a fate that calls them to the road of courage, then five hundred thousand drafted men were worth less than the English first army, volunteers for which almost fought for the opportunity to fight...
...first five hundred thousand will not be the last. It is within possibility, though terrible to reflect on, that the whole ten million will be called on before that cause which we have fully under taken is fully laid aside...
...members of the University who were accepted for the Officers' Training Camp at Plattsburg had all arrived at the camp by yesterday noon, and with the two thousand other potential officers spent the day in obtaining equipment and getting settled in their new quarters...
...Joffre, Marechal de France, that those thousand men, upreared in the spirit of liberty and proud in their strength, are worth more than a regiment of infantry. They would have stood well in the forefront of battle beside your bravest at the Marne...