Show HYSTERIA NOT patriotism there are those who would hae us believe that because the people of this country area are ablaze bine with en thud aidin and shouting their patriotism from the housetops they are necessarily not in sympathy with the war program but no a greater mistake in judgment was ever made T the h e amer american can people as a em mass have re regretted grette d the necessity for going to war we had hoped again at hope that it could be avoided even at this day there I 1 la an undercurrent of hope that in some wo wa consist consistent nt with honor the dire con sequences of war as aa felt by the european europe a n nations may be avoided but while hile this hope is in the mitt national emid heart there is also in that heart a grim deadly deadly der termination the that certain objects must be attained even even through our sacrifice equal or exceed that of the others our people were slow blow to arouse e even e A yet are only partially awake b but ut in the great heart of the nation i t there he e is steadily awakening that inherent herent loyalty to our great ideals deals th that t has carried us ua triumphantly rough tb through 0 very every crisis that has ever confronted us this feeling is not built upon froth it is not the result of hysteria it is born barn and bred in A us a bad and in as nine much h a part of us as our very life blood the attitude of the american people today is 13 that of f facing a d duty a very disagreeable duty but afine but one of which there can be no faintest thought of our shirking or iia evading ding we are coming to see be fore us a gigantic task but a task upon the accomplishment of which depends all 11 we have hoped for far and and longed fo for a and d striven for during the and a half of our existence it is the solemn realization of this task and the grim deadly earnestness with which our people are setting about its accomplishment that has produced over the land aquiat a quiet datered determination nation that to the super fickal fiatal observer might be mistaken for in indifference difference but the man or nation that thus judges is due for an astonishing awakening in the months ochs to come americ americans A ns aroused are invincible and they know it hence we have no need for hysteria |