The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-10-16
HELPING WIN THE WAR
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! knows all about the war or, at least,
about one young man who has
| marched out to win the war.
No need to tell them to knit. They
| are knitting.
Why whisper to them to beware of
"slackers." The poor "slacker" al
1 ready has felt the scorn OF their
| glances.
Perhaps some hints may be tabu-
| lated in the methodical style so dear
| to professors.
1 Efficiency OF Soldiers at the
Front and in the Training Camps De
4 pendent Upon:
4 (a) Physical welfare, resulting
| sible attentions, provided by young
| women between the ages OF 16 and
| q.
| CD Mental calm, induced by the
knowledge that all the girls at home
will postpone definite arrangements
| until the soldiers come back.
Co Spiritual exaltation, encour-
aged by the occasional receipt of let
tiers from young ladies between the
ages of 16 and 81.
| From the above analysis it be-
comes evident that the successful
| prosecution OF the war is not depen-
dent upon the President and Cab-
net, or even upon the Council of Ma
tional Defense, but upon Flora and
| Elsie and Agnes and Jessie.
Don't let anyone tell you that war
is strietlyDa business proposition.
| We can't win the war unless the
| bands play and the girls wave their
| handkerchiefs. Every selected man
| who starts to France must see him
| self as the hero of the play who
steps in between the villain and the
| prosecuted heroine and strikes tho
brute to the earth, saying. Take
that! take that and then bows to
the applauding multitude.
The French weep a little and kiss
| one another on each cheek and sing
the "Marseillaise" and then they are
ready to capture some more trenches.
Repressed emotions sometimes
| turn sour. Don't be ashamed to let
| your enthusiasm float publicly TO the
| breeze.
You never saw a football team ad-
vance the ball unless 1t was getting
announcement from the girls on the
sido lines
Now for the boys.
Perhaps you have heard about the
Working Reserve.
II has been carefully organized
under government supervision. 1t has
received the official Endorsement OF
the President. The whole plan is
working out successfully wherever it
is understood.
The trouble is that some OF the
boys and some OF the parents are
still little doubtful regarding en-
listment, because they don't know
how much of an obligation is as
sumed.
Here is the plan in mt shell.
Thousands OF enlisted and selected
men have gone to the training camps
, 1t may be that thousands more will
go next year These men are being
2 called from factories and workshops
and farms. Every factory and every
, farm must continue production II we
are to render full service TO our
faithful allies during the war How
can we Gil the places OF the young
men who have gone away to fight?
We must rely upon the boys who are
old enough and husky enough to
work, but who are still too young for
military service
, So here is trumpet call for all
city boys and town boys between the
ages of l6 and 81.
Prove your patriotism and help
your country by jumping in and doing
the work of soldier who has gone
to the front.
The United States Boys Working
Reserve is not being organized for
lads who have to work for living
Nearly every soldier now wearing
a uniform could make more money
| at home.
You are not asked to work because
YOU need the money You are asked
to work because your country needs
your help and relies upon you to
chuck aside false pride and join in
the team work :.
II your big brother can dig trench
es surely you can plow corn.
Go to the recruiting officer and
| culISL LOT inc boys WORKING he
serve. Then, when you are called
upon, go and make good in the job
assigned to you and win your medal
and wear it and be proud of It.
When the Government began to or
ganize this voluntary service among
boys, so as to meet the inevitable
shortage of man-power, the. skeptics
and fault-finders got busy. They said
that boys living in cities and towns
never could be induced to work on
farms. that farmers didn't want to
have the town boys around because
they would prove to be green or lazy
or Indifferent, and the whole thing
| was fool contraption.
Doesn't your common sense and
| your knowledge of addition and sub !
| traction tell you that II we suddenly |
| take 100000 or more men right out
| OF the productive industries of this |
| country, we must either find a mil |
| lion men to take their places or else |
| go short on production?
| Are we going to do as they have
done in England-dress the women
and girls in mems garments and put
| them to cleaning the streets and max
| ing explosives and wiping up locomo- |
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