Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-10-06
BY the DnuphIn County Patriotic
Citizens and Veterans of Former
Wars Recruiting Committee

America" What shall we do; turn
over and dream as did the Turks
before Bozzaris during the night of
their annihila tion, or shall we realize
that this means Arise. Americans, and
grid yourselves. for the world looks
to us to do our duty for liberty and
civilization! We need men, we need
ships, we need munitions. Without
ships we cannot transport our troops
nor can we carry food, munitions or
coal to the allies. Consider that the
total shipbuilding capacity of all the
allied plants and yards is approXi-
mately 3.000.0 600 tons year. The
average loss by submarine warfare
admitted by the allies is 100000 tons
a month or the loss each year of a
tonnage equal to the entire new out
put and an additional 100000 tons
of the standing tonnage. Thus far
over one-fifth of the entire tonnage
of the world is at the bottom of the
ocean. Another thing-as tonnage
decreases, so does the means of car
rying shipbuilding materials to the
allies, thus decreasing their building
output while the submarines are con-
stantly increasing in number, size
and efficiency. England and France
can spare us no ships-they scarcely
have enough for home trffic.
Therefore, the trail leads straight
back to American tonnage activity and
men to win this war If you do your
part. or to lose 1t if you don't,
Without all of the above necessary
aids furnished by us, the allies cause
may soon wane and with its waning
will result a defensive warfare by the
United States-and what a defensive
warfare! when you realize that great
part of our coal mines and munitton
plants are included within a very
small section of the Eastern Coast
States and that their destruction
would be a terrible calamity to our
hope of even armed self-defense. you
can understand what 1t is we seek to
avoid-the invasion of America. When
you realize further that one loaded
ship leaving every hour in the day is
necessary to supply 100000 of our
own men (and we contemplate using
millions), you can gain an idea or
| the number of ships necessary for
| our own forces. Then consider the
| ships to carry supplies for the allies
| and the necessary enormous supplies
! themselves, including the coal neces-
sary to run their warships, which,
during our period of preparation. must
be our defense against invasion, and
/ which without our coal lose every
! particle of offensive power outside the
range of their guns.
If. then, we hope to cooperate in
| this war for American rights and in
| ternational freedom. everyone must
| do his or her bit. There's plenty OF
work at good pay for everyone. Men
between the ages of is and 40, and
| drafted men not yet called, can as
! volunteers select any open branch Of
the service they so desire with splen-
! did opportunities for promotion with
| advanced pay and privileges. The
| select branches of service are being
! filed entirely with volunteers, and
now is the time to volunteer-not
next month nor next year. Your
! Country wants you now, needs you
now. and your own heart should tell
YOU whether you should take your
| Countrys part, your own part and
the part of all those who look to you
| to do your share in maintaining the
dignity of our Nation and the honor
| OF our flag. Acti
Don't be deceived either by false
| sentiment of Business as usual"
Business mustn't be las usuar'-it
must be greater than usual If we
want to get anywhere in this war.
| The business" of this Nation now
! is war. Industrial activities should
| be carried out mindfully of and as
an aid to this war. AS it is, the war
! is being used by many merely as an
aid to their respective enterprises
which is neither patriotic nor effica-
cious.
There are hundreds of young men
in this country perfectly fit to get out
and do something. Are they doing it?
Go out any night in any city or town
and what do you find?
In this connection it has been said
Il have haan
found to exist during the physical
examinations in various thickly-popu-
lated centers. frequently due to causes
easily prevented.
How much better would it have
been if these young men had en-
ployed even a small part of their time
in becoming physically fit to. in some
manner, ssist in maintaining thelr
country's interests instead OF having
to be, while still young, placed on
the shelf as physically incompetent.
What a sad commentary 1t is on
american activity that, while as
suming that the body of the Ameri-
can people are behind this war, their
interest in it seems to be more nearly
that of spectators than participants
Slothfulness on the part of the Amer
lean people is a powerful weapon
against us in the hands of Germany
as indicating lack or moral support
by us and apathy regarding the cause.
lack of realization of what the war
actually means to us.
Must it be necessary to bring 1t to
your very doors before you will re-
alize there is a war? 1t may not be
as real to you as to the people of
France or England, but it will be just
as real to families bereaved of loved
ones partly through lack of nation
vide moral as well as physical sup
port.
Don't you realize, then, you men
of America, that nationwide recruit
ing activity would be one of the
greatest possible inducements to Ger
many to quit? That rush of volun-
teers to the colors would be the clear
est possible evidence to Germany that
the entire weight and strength of this
Nation was in this war, and would
not Germany's secret agents, who are
no fools, with their fingers on the
pulse of the situation. promptly ad-
wise their government that America
was awake and had arisen!
Men-you who want to be worthy
of the name, show your Country that
you are in heart soldiers. Come to
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