Word: war
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...natural laws of economics apply in times of war as well as in peace. Supply, demand, the distribution of labor can be only directed, not governed, by Federal action. It requires the co-operation of the entire nation to insure a proper emphasis upon our war industries...
...harmful to the interests of our cause? We have in our country a definite available supply of goods. We have a definite amount of labor, already diminished by the draft, which can be applied to the extraction and fashioning of such goods. We have an ever-increasing demand for war commodities, which means a necessarily additional application of labor to war industry. Yet we are told to spend our money freely for articles produced by concerns "of every kind." Non-essential industries (in the war sense), finding the same demand for their products, will continue to use supplies and labor...
...interests of the whole are certainly above those of the few. Leave your savings in the bank, where they will find investment, or buy Liberty Bonds. Pity the well-meaning though selfish business man, who shouts from the housetops "business as usual," but learn that wars are won through economy in non-essentials, rather than in pernicious ignorance which maintains an industrial organization entirely unfit for war-time needs...
...these was the "William Henry Meeker '17 Scholarship," to be awarded "for excellence in some of the English courses"; while the second was founded as the "Robert Darrah Jenks Scholarship" in memory of a graduate of that name of the class of 1897. For the duration of the war, the income from this latter scholarship may be applied for such military measures as the University may desire...
...war is to be won, America must make a mighty effort,--and make it in force this year. The policy of another year's stalling before a grand Allied offensive in 1919 is dangerous. It takes no particular insight to see that Italy and France are tired under the strain of the war. The true instinct of immediate self-preservation which destroyed the Russian resistance is likely to spread to Western Europe if its peoples are called upon to face a fifth and a sixth year of war. We hope that Germany feels this influence first but we cannot count...