Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1917-10-11
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| Can q mere Child be OF service Z,
to his or her country while we are
trying to make the kaiser be-
have?
Undoubtedly.
| How?
By observing the conduct Of
weakened, hysterical, and COMFY
planning adults and then being
just as different from them as
possible. Y
This war is neither joke nor q
protracted funeral.
| You will notice that some Of
the older people refuse to accept 81
it as a fact, while others move
about in a blue funk, exclaiming,
between sobs, that the U. S. "A. is
going to the bow-wows.
| Let the very young children set
their elders good example by re-
naming calm but determined. 81
If you pick up the morning pa
per and read that the U-boats
bagged AZ ships instead of ths1
customary IS, and the Canadians
captured only one line of trench y
es instead of two, do not shake
your head and declare that the
Germans never can be slicked.
Set a good example to your
fathers and mothers and uncley
and aunts by renewing your faith
daily, in spite of an occasional
setback. Oh
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 relatives that all during the
Civil War the Northern states
harbored good many we'll,
meaning people who went about
moaning that the Union never
could be; preserved and we had
better accept peace at any price.
These invertebrates Can inver-
tebrate, children, is a creature
with string of macaroni where
the backbone should be)-these
spineless ones were willing to lei
certain states secede. 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 Gettysr
burg, when the fortunes of war
began to favor the North, just as
they are now favoring the Allies,
every community had to put up 4
with a few of the winners and
fault finders who belittled every
victory and magnified each re-
verse.
Your grandfather can tell you
about these peace lovers WHO
helped to prolong the war by fail
ing to give united and loyal sup
port to the soldiers at the front.
II it should happen that grand
father was one of these peace
at-any-price' advocates, doubt
less he will change the subject
and talk about some thing else. =
i Even if you are less than six
years of age, surely you can un- 4
derstand that the issues involved
in this dreadful war must be set
tied and settled right before the
world may hope for abiding
Ipeace. Il
| Therefore, if anyone asks you
what you think about the war. re-
ply as follows:
President Wilson was right
when he said that the world must
be made safe for democracy. The
American people have no desire TO
destroy Germany or preventing it
from regaining commercial i'm
portance. They want Germany 60
restore the stolen property andsgo
home in chastened mood. They
want to jam the knowledge into
every close-cropped Prussian
head that just because a man
owns a high-priced automatic
gun and has a lot OF ammunition
and a college education he has no {
right TO go out and shoot up his
neighbors. The American people
are hoping to make it clear to the
kaiser and the crown prince and
the various square-jawed linden
burgs that it is highly improper
to form a partnership with God
for purposes of murder, and then
treat God as silent partner.
! AS to the final outcome. the
Battle of the Marine was the be-
ginning of the end. For 200
years all the big events of history
have marked an irresistible adj
vance toward the establishment
OF democracy. When the Ger
mans failed in their mad rush Of
1914, it meant that an All-Wise
providence and the laws Of evo-
luton were not to be thwarted by
military despot with .bristlinR
mustache. Germany can not win
and therefore Germany must