New Britain herald., 1917-03-24
.ANY4H1NG UNCLE SAM WANTS :

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 X Ghearies Berry Of SIP Church
 street is the youngest recruit yet to enlist in the New Britain Home Guard. 4IeA has just spassed sshis ssvSntsenth fhirthday. He Is not yet a grodpats of iknickerbockers: In taking the path
 of allegiance to the city, the state. and
 the nation, this young patriot added:
 s.Yes, and for anything Uncle sam i When the men of Boston went
 down to the wharyes' iia 1775 and threwss the. tea n sssAI assarhusetts Bay. they sAng .ins their hearts the song of' l young Berry. For anything Uncle Sam wants!'' {sss When Thomas Jefferson, met John Hansock on the s4th of. July, s177s. anas,togethcr they affixed their sigma lstures to the Declaration of Indepen- }fdcnce. both exclaimed, in. the language of Ghearles Berry Yek. lnnd for any other thing sJ5ncie Sam wants.'' s .sssss.:.s.s:ss a When GsQrge Washind spent the winter of 177s at Valley Forge with half clad, half fed soldiers. and refused. in the face of these hartiships, so sssrSentIsr he said, with the spirit 0f Hlie4rIes Berry es, and amy tilis more than this.- that uncls gam wants,
 When Apsain Perry conquered the British Asets1n the war ofs1 1s1 2.. when he entsshis famous message: we |have mol the enemy. and they are ours ad6sd deep in n,htsshsart the sentiase a3hearles Kerry. v xss, and x ltlI U \ niinion lsSIosre sshfps, ors anythiKx Alaee I8ncie want ,.;i
 When old < kson Tesa z fused to pefuiit pssdzth sC Salr5Dlina to nuIlify the ISwss of nation. shs said to Martin Van Burssn, the same as Ghearles Berry spoits to the recruiting omcer. '.Yes. and even more than: that. or anything Uncle sam wants!'.. When the Stars and Stripes at Fort sumseF were iirsd Nton that memorable morning in April 1861.
 Lincoln, refusing 10 s give e union,r z said to Wialt&m H. & TT sas s Gl.sarles Rssf said x VI ytis sisss] |s bied, q3jS sshortly aster.ll (tl,e esine hsd been b 1n suk5 <, 2irI Havena harbeys askfAe tha iier1 bora F|t0 l,ars the nation tor war. hel unttsd with the then unborn GhearIesl Berry in saying. Yes and anything else Uncle sam wants!'''
 When Admiral Dewey, following the ldSplaration of war against Spain, lafeasned into Manila Bay on the first idaT of May. 1898. he told Gridiey he could fire when ready, adding, like Cherries Berry, Yes. and anything Ielse Uncle sam wants..'
 Whom President Wilson 1. read his
 famous message to Congress on Fsb-
 ruary 3, 1917. after. breaking dlplo-
 matic relations witht Germany he declared the American goyexnsnsnt
 stands ready to light for its cttise,;s lin. their .rightfui azrands ola the hieh
 seas. . and said In liis heart with lGheatfes Berry. -'sYes, n Sven more
 than that for Uncle a x Whsn the sixtysnfth corsisysss coiis as-s
 senblts h xdinary, usjl,i Sjn Con:
 tho second day 6f Aprtf, eta, sssits..
 msInbers, if they decide sou;equip the Enati0n for war with .. IT ton already
 at war with us. must eay h the words
 of ahearles Berry ofsNsw Britain;-
 .Yes. and for any ss Uncle Sam I lwants!''
 When all true hearted citizens of lthis land are asked to sacrihce life
 or treasure for the, greatest democracy
 on earth, they must pledge in the |simple language of Ghearies Berry i.fes. and anything else Uncle Sam lwants!" T
 Those are the words of.San Ameri- lean. Those are the words of a patriot Those are the words that might have
 bden uttered by the greatest states. linen of the past. Those are the words
 that have dwelled in the vocabuiarie. Iof all true citizens of this continen, from Colonial days to now, from Patrick Henry to Woodrow Wilson lThose are the words that every loya man, woman and child must utter 1T their hearts when duty calls,-"Ye, and for anything Uncle Sam wants!"
 These be melancholy days for ths House of Romanon. A gentleman
 named Constantine Romanoff. who