Word: war
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Many of the men have left to enter training camps, or have gone to the Ensign School, while a few have been drafted. The Third Reserve Officers' Training Camp took 51 men, and the two terms of the Ensign School have drawn 38 students into the war...
Newton D. Baker, our Secretary of War, has arrived on French soil for the purpose of investigating military conditions there. No obligation of his office required him to undergo the rigors and risks of such an adventure--and he may have been needed at home--but he cannot fail to profit by the experience. His remark before the Senate committee that the war was 3,000 miles away, in giving an answer to the question why he had not moved more rapidly towards preparation, has been symptomatic of his state of mind. He can now realize what war at hand...
...great economic problem of the war is that of redirecting our national energy. Questions of money, finance, industry, thrift, taxes, war loans, ships, food, labor,--in fact, every special question is really a part of that great question, and must be solved with reference to it. We must manage some way to redirect our national energy and bring it to bear upon the purpose of the war rather than upon the multifarious purposes of peace. The first question which we must ask regarding every question of public policy, however detailed it may be, is: How will it affect the redistribution...
...will admit that women are as yet superior in initiative and originality. Man has long regarded woman as the great source of inspiration for his accomplishments, but he has fondly thought the creative ability his and his alone. The service of our women in the present war has gone far toward destroying completely such an assumption, and a few years may find it thoroughly obsolete...
...this selfish masculine theory a further push toward refutation. The young women of that institution have organized a farm unit which will spend this summer raising food, not as dilettantes of backyard gardens, but as farmers of the real school. With food ranking equal to bullets as far as war necessities are concerned, the Radcliffe plan is true patriotism. We do not need Battalions of Death or Squadrons of Amazons, but the more Maud Mullers we have during this war summer, the greater our strength against Kaiserdom...