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Show u THIS IS OUR WAR C ECRETARY LANE told the Na-J Na-J tional Chamber of Commerce, assembled as-sembled at Atlantic City, "We make war in France that we may not be compelled com-pelled to do battle here. Let Germany have Canada or Mexico or even Cuba, and we would go to our daily work like the Pilgrim Fathers with our guns in our hands. It may be hard that the clerk must be taken from his desk, the lawyer from his case, the fireman from his engine, the farmer from his plow, the mechanic from his lathe but if they did not go now, they and their sons, other clerks and lawyers and farmers and mechanics, would live one long dread clay of fear. This is our war." And what we Americans do well to remember in October, 1917, is that we are mighty lucky to have loyal allies fighting our battles while we learn how. Collier's. |