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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...that the Liberty Loan is fully launched, the question of individual responsibility confronts each one of us. The great financial and industrial organizations of the country have subscribed millions of dollars without hesitation, recognizing a duty which they would not avoid. But the extent of their support is limited. They have another obligation, quite as real, that they should keep the channels of business and banking open for the use of the nation...
...months before we entered the war the action necessary to transform the United States into an efficient and strong martial nation, should war be forced upon us, was evident. We had the lessons of ten belligerent countries through months of conflict to guide us. We knew we must have a national army raised by conscription. We knew we must conserve our food supply if we hoped to live and let other nations live. We knew we must have prohibition not only of the manufacture, but of the sale of intoxicants. Without the first measure we could not have armies commesurate...
...fact has recently been impressed upon us that the Allies need 600,000,000 bushels of grain. Last year America only reaped 639,000,000. It is difficult for us to realize how strenuous the food situation abroad is until we consider that 300,000,000 must be fed, and that 40,000,000 have been taken out of productive forms of work. Each bushel produced here now means a great deal to the progress abroad and makes the disposal we are to make of the summer seem very vital. We are not planning a summer lark, but the most...
...this work that the need of labor is most acute--so acute that in mid-summer many factories are planning to release their hands to help the farmers--and it is thought that the most effective service can be rendered here. The New Haven Farm Bureau have assured us that they will find work for all applicants...
...into the same paths that England traversed America has entered. The same problems are to be solved. We are all united by the same culture, the same language, the same ideals. One immediate goal confronts us, to defeat Prussianism. In accomplishing this we must have action immediately for a concerted and deathly blow, and to the American college man I look for coolheaded, but decisive action...