The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-10-06
HELPING TO WIN THE WAR
Article l. Advice to Americans Six Years
of Age and Under
(By George AIDE

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(By George Ade)
Can a mere child be of service to his OF
her country while we are trying to make
the kaiser behave!
Undoubtedly.
How
BY observing the conduct OF weak
kneed, hysterieal and complaining adults
and then being just as different from
them as possible.
This war is neither joke nor a pro.
traeted funeral.
You win notice that some Of the Older
people refuse to accept it as fact, while
others move about in blue funk, ex-
claiming, between sobs, that the Z. S. A
is going to the bowwows.
Let the very young children set their
elders a good example by remaining calm
but determined.
Ii you pick up the morning paper and
read that the U-boats bagged II ships
instead of the customary IS and the
Canadians captured only one line OF
trenches instead OF two, do not shake
your head and declare that the Germans
never can be licked
Set a good example to your fathers
and mothers and uncles and aunts by re-
newing your faith --lily in spite of an
occasional setback
Quote to them the words Of Abraham
Lincoln: Let us have faith that right
makes might and in that faith let us, to
the end, dare to do our duty"
You might remind your grown.up rela-
tiyes that all during the Civil war the
northern states harbored good many
well-meaning people who went about
moaning that the Union never could be
preserved and we had better accept peace
at any price,
These invertebrates Tan inyertebrate,
is a creature with string of
where the backbone should be
these spineless ones were willing to-
let certain states seeede. The blacks
were to remain in slavery. Our flag was
to be lowered. Anything to avoid fight
to a finish
Even after the battle of Gettysburg,
when the fortunes of war began to favor
he North, just as they are now fayoring
he allies, every community had to put
Up with a few of the winners and fault |
inders who belittled each victory and
nagnifed each reverse.
Your grandfather can tell you about /!
hese peace lovers who helped to prolong
he war by failing to give united and /
oval support to the soldiers at the front
+ it should happen that grandfather was /
me of these '.peace-at any price adyo-
atcs. doubtless he will change the sub
Get and talk about something else.
Even if YOU are less than six years OF
ge, surely YOU can understand that the
ssues involved in this dreadful war must
e settled and settled right before the
,orld may hope for abiding peace.
Therefore. if anyone asks YOU what
gu think about the war, reply as fol-
lws:
president Wilson was right when he
aid that the world must be made safe d,
Or democracy. The American people
ave no desire to destroy Germany or J
reyent it from regaining commercial inn {
ortance. They want Germany to re-
ore the stolen property and go home in {
chastened mood They want to jam !
&c knowledge into every elose.cropped 9
russian head that just because man {
Sns high price automatic gun and has ]
lot of ammunition and a college educa J
on he has no right to go out and shoot q
> his neighbors. The American people !
e hoping to make it clear to the kaiser =
i'd the crown prince and the various
uare- jawed Hindenburgs that it is
ghly improper to form a partnership
it'll God for purposes of murder, and
len treat God as a silent partner. As
the final outcome, the battle of the
arne was the beginning of the end. For
u wears all the big events Of history
we marked an Irresistible advance to-
ard the establishment of democracy.
hon the Germans failed in their mad
sh OF 1914. it meant THAI an all-wise
evidence and the laws of evolution
ere not to be thwarted by a military
spot with a bristlinC mustache. Ger
any cannot win and therefore Germany q
lst lose. The end of bloodshed and
critiee and widespread terror viii come
soon as the United States Of Amer
i begins TO strike aggressive blows.
lie more men we send 10 the front. the
ver we will lose. Our greatest enemy
present is INDIGESTION. Our strongest
nd is Faith. Our most needful watch {
nd is Faith. We are going to end the
II and then sit at the council table TO
Press greed and curb injustice
IF course, the foregoing viii sound {
her hifsluting 10 come from a six
lr-old child. but it will be the truth,
Z the truth is needed in large doses
present especially by people more {
IN SIX years Of age 8
That viii be all for to-day, children
u may run along and play.