Word: war
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...competition, open to all citizens of the United States, in the making of patriotic posters and advertisements to stimulate the buying of War Savings Stamps has been announced by the American Institute of Graphic Arts. Prizes totalling $2,000 will be given for six best drawings, and there is to be an exhibition of 100 or more selected entries. The competition will close on April 25. The form in which contributions are executed is optional with the competitor. The results will be publicly announced...
...energy and that of other people toward the objects of peace must, in many cases, be asked to rearrange their plans, their habits, and their work. The people concerned do not always see the connection between the change which is required of them and the winning of the war. Therefore they are sometimes impatient of the necessary discipline or restraint. Again, this redirection of the national energy necessarily involves more disarrangement of plans and change of occupation on the part of some than of others. They who were doing in time of peace things which are equally necessary in time...
This is not the time, therefore, to single out any particular group or class of citizens for reproach. All classes are equally guilty and equally meritorious. That is there are individuals in all classes who are willing to suffer inconvenience and hardship in order to win the war, and there are others who are not. There is not the slightest doubt that a strike in any essential industry is a hindrance to the great work of massing our man power at the points where it is needed. No loyal citizen who sees and understands that fact can possibly favor...
...scoundrel or a slacker. In fact, if there are others who are doing less than their share, that is the best reason in the world why I should do more than my share. That is the only way in which we shall ever get enough done to win this war...
...with outside colleges or service teams should not be provided. The only requirement for organizing a team in any sport is that enough men show an interest. In fact, minor sports are considered by the Athletic Committee as important in comparison to major sports, as they were before the war...