Word: us
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...done more than lay buildings waste. It has for the moment at any rate distorted our standards. It has compelled us to look too much for immediate efficiency rather than permanent utility...
...fact that the United States has just made a government loan to Great Britain and France of 40 million dollars, making a total since our entrance into the war amounting to 2 billion, 600 million, goes to show to how great an extent our allies are dependent upon us for financial support. News is being sent daily to Europe, to Germany as well as to France and England, of the response which our people make to government movements. We do not want it said that we are lukewarm, but that the loan has been greatly over-subscribed and that...
...fall. The natural result or our six months in the conflict, without appreciable casualties, without seeing the power of the enemy, and without the stimulating influence of a Zeppelin raid, is to create a feeling that we have an easy path before us. Newspapers have enlarged this misconception. Stories of the remarkable strides being made by our troops, of compliments paid to them, and of German prisoners' surprise at seeing so many, are printed frequently and read widely. Stories of an opposite character are seldom even printed. The result on the average person can be none other than to elevate...
...considerate word, in publishing large headlines to the effect that a member of the Reichstag has declared Germany cannot win against the United States. To print this so prominently amounts to saying, "Stay at home, boys; keep your money in your pockets. The Kaiser is afraid of us and wants to quit." Privileges of the press may permit this, but a reasonable sense of patriotism does not. Such a sacrifice of common sense for sensationalism, by creating an unfounded feeling of security and contempt, endangers loan campaigns, recruiting agencies, and our mere nucleus of an army...
...this point the speaker brought his words home by declaring that unless those who stay here hold themselves just as true on a fixed course, they will become "mere onlookers, helpless to aid in the struggle. In some ways," he went on, "it is harder for us at home than for those who are fighting, for they have a concrete task before them, while we apparently have only a stale, dull, unimportant routine ahead of us...