The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1917-11-04
oFFICIA LoRGAN CRISP COUNTY
BOYS, The WORLD is CALLING.

Z BOYS, The WORLD is CALLING.
Sometimes we wonder whether the
world properly appreciates the fine
Y young men who are marching away
to the trenches in France to put them
4 selves against the greed of the Ger
z man War Lord. We wonder if our
own people think the least little bit of
4 the sacrifices these countless thous-
ands OF young men are making for
A their country,-for us and our con.
Try and the principles of freedom we
have long cherished. Is It possible
that thereare q i'll amongus those who
would hang back and say il is ali un-
necessary?
What they are doing is not only
necessary, but something of the good
eff ct of their fighting powers must
q socn be felt or else German pillage
and plundering will be felt on Amer
lean shores. No shores, no border in
tla Old World has escaped he Teu
toms terrible lust for blood and butch
err. I'm spite of the great bravery,
~ssScrifices andexponditure OF every ma
o tons resources beyond the seas, The
military campaigns sill go
ION. Men are going to their death as
in great maolstrom, but S eady and
sure of their determination to stop
the onslaught and it will be stopped
some day soon.
r .sBut the world,--the civilized world
liberty loving orderly governments
set alp and operated byfthe will of the
people are calling for men to resist
the Teuton. There IS hardly a dem
ocra1ic form of government in the
world today that is not already d.
over against German influence W tn
4 all its monay and its men. Germany
must be destroyed The old Roman
4 phrasing Of an eternal Vengeance:
Carthage delenda es'," modernizod
and shaped to substitute the Teuton
for the ancient African enemy of civ
ilization, is now on every lip, in every
: national capitol, in every home over
the wide borders of all the liberty
loving peoples of the earth Ger
4 many must be destroyed
But. boys, do you know anything
of the tremendous task? Are you
preparing yourselves for the duties
: of citizenship in the greatest nation
on earth ? Your country requires the
greatest manhood efficiency. 1t re-
. quires it in physical health, bodily en-
durance. as we'll as in mental qualifi-
: cation You must be man--cvcry
I inch You must be educated You
must have Drawn and endurance The
sun never shone on greater possibil-
ties for you and for our boys from
1 one end of the land to- the other.
You never had greater missions 10
live for. Your future duties never
called for greater efficiency in the
history of all the world.
Are you getting an education, a
thorough. competent mental train
ing in school? Are you by hard labor
redoubling your physical endurance?
Are you reading, reading, to master a
knowledge of the history of men and
nations,-how they came to be what
they are? Do you know anything
about how much your country needs
just such men? Have you an idea
that the demand for such men will be
only temporary
If such thought dominates. remove
it now, far, far as possible. When
we have won an established freedom
for the rest of the burdened peoples
of the earth, we win still have use for
the very best men we can make OF
you. The work of reconstruction is
thousand fold more important than
the work of destruction that is going
on now. Qualify qualify now. while
you have your life ahead of you. You
want to be equipped to serve we'll