Word: whitings
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Prussia and the Allies are not bled white, and the offensive which she has so highly advertised is going to be a tremendous effort which will need all the power that can be mustered in order to hold the line. But after it is over we may feel assured that the War Lord and his staff will still be forced to eat their meals at Potsdam and not Versailles...
...seen Boche--wounded as well as whole prisoners, just as they are brought up from the trenches. One I can't forget was a fragile kid, clammy white, and with eyes gaping in terror. He was so young, so frightened, and so hungrily sick--looking. How could one transfigure him into the ferocious Teuton of most accounts...
Besides this actual gain, there is the moral one which comes from enforcing a patriotic principle. Just as any one individual household saves little white flour by using graham twice a week, so we conserve only a relatively small amount of fuel by dimming out lights. But, as the household, because it has the spirit, helps materially to prevent waste, so the student body can check needless consumption. We shall back up an actual physical profit by the knowledge of having done as much as possible to preserve the vital supplies of the nation...
...members of 1918 are asked to submit designs for the Senior button to D. L. Richardson, Holworthy 6, before February 4. The design must be in the class colors, green and white, and must be simple in design. The man who hands in the winning design will receive a free button...
...more than likely that the answer is found in the political and social structure of Australia. That country is one which has founded not only its social and economic systems, but its politics, on free white labor. All Asiatic and all semi-servile workers have been excluded. There is no foreign or mobile labor. Every worker is a politician, and every politician has at least sprung from the workers. The maintenance of the Commonwealth on its present basis depends on the presence of an industrial body of workingmen in Australia itself. The Labor party, in short, cannot spare any more...