Word: war
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...desire them. In the first place, if one intends to buy a luxury, now is a poor time to buy it, because prices are inflated and one will not get very much for one's money. The same money, if one will save it, will buy more after the war is over and prices have returned to a normal level. A Liberty Bond is as good as cash and can readily be turned into cash. Besides, if one will save the interest one will have more dollars to spend later on than now. This, together with the fact that each...
...better, also, for industry in general that the individual who has money to spend for luxuries should postpone it until the war is over. To spend money now gives employment to men when they do not need it, when jobs are abundant and labor scarce. To spend it then will give employment to men when they need it very much, when millions of men will be released from the armies and the munition factories, when men will be numerous and jobs relatively few. To spend money now while the Government is spending so much is only to increase abnormally...
Should we, therefore, make education more materialistic? For two reasons we should not: (1) The greatest after the-war problems will be social and moral, not materialistic. However much we may be concerned about the expansion of our South American trade, we are far more concerned about conserving the moral insights of war and of salvaging the social wreckage that forms in its wake. (2) Modern life overemphasizes the materialistic. Strong enough in any age, the magnetic pull of the almighty dollar is redoubled in this age of material expansion. Mr. Lazarus talks as if we heard nothing of money...
...first time since the declaration of war a year ago a representative American electorate is given the opportunity to express its opinion on the issues and conduct of the struggle. In the three-cornered senatorial campaign which ends at the polls today the Wisconsin voters will choose between Len-root, a Republican who supports the war but who reserves judgment regarding its conduct, Davis, who is an out-and-out Administration Democrat, and Berger, a Socialist who runs on the astounding platform that "the American army should be immediately withdrawn from Europe to give complete security to the United States...
...Democrat or a Republican or a Socialist more or less will have any effect upon the legislation of the Senate, but because it will indicate the change, or lack of change, in sentiment in that hitherto pacifistic state. More than half the representatives from Wisconsin voted against declaring war last April and the legislature has only been induced after the lapse of a year to censure the notoriously disloyal La Follette. While the majority of the press and public men have since come out in support of the Government's war policy, it remains for the inarticulate mass of voters...