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Show M (Hele.-ised by Western Newspaper Union. MEANING OF UNITY IN WAR EFFORT THERE IS NO DOUBT about America being collectively a unit back of the government in the world contest in which we are engaged. We are all of that unit. Every man, woman and child wants the government 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 a government war. It must be individually in-dividually 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 the First World war. We had it largely because each individual had a definite part or place in it. We had Liberty bond sales, with a quota set up for each community, each county, ward, township and block. It was Joe Brown's job to see that Frank Mills bought one or more bonds, and it was Frank Mills' job to see that George Smith came across. When it was not bond sales, it was Red Cross, YMCA, Salvation Army, Knights of Columbus, or some other drive for war funds. In all these, quotas were set and it was up to the individual to meet those quotas in the field allotted to him or her. Such efforts included the school children. chil-dren. They brought their pennies and nickels and dimes, and made sacrifices to do so. That war was the individual's war, with something definite for each of us to do, and over which we could, and did, enthuse. Through doing do-ing each individual job, we, individually, in-dividually, hated the Germans. The kaiser was the enemy, not only of our government, but of each one of us. To arouse the full force of America, Amer-ica, to make this an "all-out" war, we must each have a definite job to do, and we will do it. Civilian de-.' de-.' fense is only a part of what we need. With that must be civilian offense 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 each of us has been assigned as-signed a job to do, this will be an individual as well as a national war. When it is that, there will be no doubt of its being an "all-out" war. RELIGIOUS REVIVAL . . . AND AMERICA " ABOUT A YEAR AGO Daniel J. Schuyler, a Chicago attorney, said to me: "What America needs most is 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 this column. In something of the same vein, 37 citizens of Dinwiddie county, Virginia, Vir-ginia, addressed a statement to the general public through the columns of the Southside Virginia News at Petersburg, Va. That statement calls for a prayerful prayer-ful appeal by the people for Divine guidance and spiritual support that will enable us, as a people, to carry on in these days of conflict with the forces of evil. That appeal represents the Christian Chris-tian virtues for which we are fighting. fight-ing. Its 37 signatures are of all types of citizens teachers, farmers, merchants, doctors, workmen, public pub-lic officials, lawyers, bankers and others. It is truly representative, not alone of the people of Dinwiddie county, Virginia, but of the people of every county in every state. We are a Christian nation, and it is well that we make public acknowledgement acknowledge-ment of our dependence upon Divine guidance. YOUR NEWSPAPER A BULWARK OF UNITY THE COUNTRY NEWSPAPERS of America, those published in communities com-munities of a few hundred to a few thousand people, constitute one of America's important institutions. Their editors of an earlier day pioneered pio-neered from ocean , to ocean. They aided materially in building communities com-munities and in developing those communities into market places and cultural centers. They were, and are, the spokesmen for rural America. Protection for the town and farm home is their province. They are listened to, and their views are respected re-spected in the legislative assemblies of the land. In these days of national peril, they, collectively, are a bulwark bul-wark for national unity, maintaining maintain-ing the courage and patriotism of rural America. They are safe, sane and sensible, and stand four square for the America of yesterday, today to-day and tomorrow. THE YOUNG WOMAN STENOGRAPHER STENOG-RAPHER in Cleveland whose ?25 a week salary was augmented to the extent of $40,000 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 a contract that would permit of such profits? THE AMERICAN SOLDIER and sailor's idea of what they are fighting fight-ing for is the preservation of our form of government and our way of life and standard of living. |