South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1917-11-12
PASTORS LAUNCH
CAMP A|GN HERE
Y. M. c. A. War Fund Drive
is Now on in Full
Force.

With rousing sermons from the
pulpits of the city. the Y. N. c. A
war fund campaign was launched in
Mishawaka sunday. Before it closes
every person will have understood
its purpose and contributed to the
cause il represents, il the expecta-
tons o. the committee at its head
are realized.
No other ORGANIZED effort will
reach the boys in quite the way that
the Y. NJ. G. A. will. 1t will be the
one element binding them to the as
sociations and refinements of home,
the one means by which the teach
ings inculcated by parents and in
structors can be made 10 survive the
destructive influences of barrack
life.
In a sermon which took to task
the pacihsts. the pro-Germans and
unpatriotic of the country, and held
up as an eternal example of the true
significance Of the Flag which floats
above us, the sacrifices at Valley
Forge and Gettysburg, Rev. B. Earle
Parker of the First Methodist
church introduced the subject from
his pulpit sunday morning.
Rev. Parker's address was a stir
ring appeal 10 the loyalty and ma
tional pride of every person VINO
heard him. and was as well an in
teresting historical review OF the
steps which led up TO the most
cataIlysmic war the world has ever
known. II follows in part
First Duty Union.
I'm meeting the needs of the
hour, our first duty is TO get
together. We need strong
national consciousness. Many of our
people are foreign born, or children
of the foreign born. They have
loved two flags and cherished fond
recoIlections OF other lands where
loved ones lie buried.
we have not sought 10 discou-
rage this. The Englishman singing
Rule Britannica by his fire side
and the Irishman on his doorstep
humming Where the River Shan
non Flows. the Italian singing the
songs of sunny Italy and the
Frenchman the souls Cirring strain
of the Marseilles nave evoked an
approving smile.
we have joined with the Ger
mans in singing Watch on the
Rhine and even 'Detchland Uber
Allies, but the hour has come when
every American citizen or alien who
enjoys the hospitality of our shores
should learn TO sing The Star
Spangled Banner Let them click
their heels together and salute the
Stars and Stripes. or stripe them un-
til they see stars.
The first thing 10 De done in Sc
curing his national unity is TO elm
mate the German language from
our public schools and suppress the
German press with its seditious ut
terances. If these people have any
thing 10 say let them say il in plain
United States In the second place
we should stop the pacitist move
ment in this country. 1 am aware
that there are some among us so
mentally dull or spiritually befogged
as to be unable TO see the eternal
obligation TO humanity that has
drawn us into this war.
faCllSl German 10 ftcilfN.
But the great majority of paci-
fists in this country are German in
heart If not brave enough 10 confess
their sympathies by word of mouth.
The kaiser has no more effective al
" than the American pacifist. no
matter what motive lies back OF his
pacifism. They have heckled the
administration, attacked the morale
of the nation. hampered legislation,
retarded the development OF the
army. sought 70 defeat the conscrip-
ton bill and stifle the voice of the
pulpit
They have entered into politics
and only last week assisted in elect
inS mayor OF New York a man who
has long been regarded as a pro-
German pacifst. These people talk
about their rights 20 free speech and
a free press under the American
Flag. But where did they get those
rights and who made the Flag mean
anything
There were pacifists and slackers
in 1776 ands1S60. but none cares TO
remember their names. II was the
boys who made the SHOWS of Valley
Forge crimson with their bleeding
feet and followed the Flag at Get
tysburg, Antietam and Missionary
ridge. that made this country free
and the Flag a symbol OF rights
The man who lives under that
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