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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...both theoretically and actually pay but a small part of the heavy cost. The Government has offered millions of dollars in bonds to be subsidized for by the people. In this way coming generations may help pay for the cost of the war which we wage for the whole future no less than for the present...
...into-line-double-time-march has taken second place to the more exacting sport of rushing imaginary trenches under an imaginary "hail of death" (as the war correspondents always describe it). The cinder-heaps are hills, the grass is forests, the fence is a wall of China, and the whole land is "terrain." A man may be a squad, a squad a company, and a company a regiment. In such Lilliputian measure do we play at war, seeing how armies move and battles...
...little more clearly what manner of men will form our new armies. It has been estimated that ten million men will be of the age subject for conscription. That is almost as large a total as Russia might offer. It is larger by two-thirds than the whole forces the German Empire has put in the field. Yet her men have been able to hold half the world at bay. The power in numbers of our nation is unconquerable. What our power in actual fighting ability is rests with the stamina and the bravery of our citizens. If their stamina...
...first five hundred thousand will not be the last. It is within possibility, though terrible to reflect on, that the whole ten million will be called on before that cause which we have fully under taken is fully laid aside...
...Cross to organize. The work performed by it will be similar to that of the American Ambulance Field Service except that the wounded will not merely be transported from the front but will also be taken care of at the hospitals. Although the company may, either as whole or in part, be required to man hospital trains, hospital ships, or if the need is great, the emergency hospitals, it will be used mainly to furnish transportation for and to give first aid to the wounded...