| Show rr lt Released by Western Newspaper Union MEANING l OF UNITY IN WAR EFFORT THERE IS NO DOUBT about America being collectively a unit back o of the government In the world contest in which we are engaged We are all aU of that unit Every man mant wom woman m and child wants the government government government govern govern- ment to win But there is a difficulty We must be more than collectively supporting support ing the war It must be more than thana a government war It must be individually individually individually in in- our war We must think of what losing it would do to each individual and what stake each of us has in the defeat of the Huns and Japs We had that individual interest in inthe inthe inthe the First World war We had it l largely because each individual had hada a definite part or place in it We had Liberty bond sales with a n quota set up for each community each count county ward township and block It was Joe Browns Brown's job to see that Frank Mills bought one or more bonds and it was Frank Mills' Mills job to see that George Smith came across When it was not bond sales It was Red Cross YMCA Salvation Arm Army Knights of Columbus or some other drive for lor war funds In all these quotas were set and it was up to the individual l to meet those quotas in the field allotted to him or her Such efforts included the school chil chil- dren They brought their pennies and nickels and dimes and made sacrifices to do so That war was the individuals individual's war with something definite for each of us to do do and over which we could and did enthuse Through doIng doing do do- Ing each individual job we we in individually individually in- in hated the Germans The kaiser was the enemy not only of our government but of each one of us us To arouse the full force of America America Amer Amer- ica ica to make this an out all war we must each have a definite job to do do and ani we will do it Civilian defense defense defense de de- de- de is only a part of what we need With that must be civilian offense offense doing doing something on the part of the individual that will hit the enemy We need brass bands flags flying and parades of which we as individuals will be a part When hen each of us has been assigned assigned assigned as as- signed a job to do do this will be an individual as well as a national war When it is that there will be beno beno beno no doubt of its Us being an out all war var RELIGIOUS REVIVAL AND AMERICA ABOUT A YEAR AGO Daniel J. J Schuyler a Chicago attorney said to tome tome tome me What America needs most Is Isa isa isa a great religious revival It would arouse our sense of responsibility as nothing else could At the time I wrote a piece about that statement which appeared in inthis inthis inthis this column In something of the same vein 37 citizens of ef Dinwiddie county Virginia Virginia Vir Vir- ginia addressed a statement to the general public through the columns of the Southside ide Virginia News at Petersburg Va That statement calls for lor a prayerful prayer prayer- ful appeal by the people for lor Divine guidance and spiritual support that will enable us us as a people to carry carryon on in these days of conflict with the forces of evil That appeal represents the Christian Christian Christian Chris Chris- tian virtues for lor which we are fight- fight Ing Its 37 signatures are of all types of citizens citizens teachers teachers farmers merchants doctors workmen public public public pub pub- lic officials lawyers bankers and others It Is truly representative not alone of the people of Dinwiddie county Virginia but a of o. the people of every county in every state We Weare Weare Weare are a Christian nation natian and it is well that we make public acknowledgement acknowledge acknowledge- ment of our dependence upon Divine guidance C YOUR TOUR NEWSPAPER A BULWARK OF UNITY THE COUNTRY NEWSPAPERS of America those published in communities communities communities com com- of a few hundred to a few thousand people constitute one of Americas America's Imp Important Institutions Their editors of an earlier day pioneered pioneered pioneered pio pio- from ocean to ocean They aided materially in building communities communities communities com com- and in developing those c communities into market places and cultural centers They were and are the spokesmen for rural l America Protection for the town and farm fann home is their province They are listened to to and their views are re respected respected respected re- re in the legislative assemblies of the land In Tn these days of national peril they collectively are arc a bulwark bulwark bulwark bul bul- wark for Cor national unity maintaining maintain maintain- In ing the courage and patriotism of rural America They are safe sane and sensible and stand tour Cour square for the America of yesterday today today today to to- to- to day and tomorrow THE mE YOUNG WOMAN IAN STENOGRAPHER STENOGRAPHER In Cleveland whose 25 25 a week salary was augmented t to the extent of by a bonus must feel exceptionally patriotic That bonus was paid out of profits the company that employs her made out of war contracts Who gave them thema a n contract that would permit of such profits profi ts THE AMERICAN SOLDIER and sailors sailor's idea of what they are fight fight- fighting fighting ing lag for lor is 15 the preservation of our form o of government and our way of life and standard of living |
