Carthage courier. (Carthage, Tenn.) 1913-current, 1918-11-07
Work on Fieht!

the country. II is the cFQfsE lE4G
every really loyal man IN America
must give himself. 1t is the order
that even the women must heed If the
United States is to hope to over'natch
that nerciless autocracy which,
through its iron discipline, has nlobi-
Lied every fighter, every worker, I
We ry m a n n d
every ounce of material for the sole
purpose of preying upon it's neigh +
bors and making the world march to .
the goose step.
Their job is to fight-those boys of +
ours, brothers and sons, who have /
gone across the seas. Day and night +
they viii stick to their job. Through
snow and rain, heat and sun, they will
fight. They know no eight-hour day.
They have no Sundays and holidays.
Always on the jobs, they brave the
rain of shells and the clouds of poison
gas. They will oppose the German
war machine with their unprotected
bodies, if necessary, that the outposts
of freedom may be defended and, it
may be, in the end extended.
The job Of those of US who remain
at home is to furnish those boys of
{ lrs-our sons and brothers-with
the material wherewith to fight.
If we slack up on our job, they pay
IN lifeblood If we fail to supply in
line the shells to break up the Hun
waves as they sweep across no-man,s
/ and, flesh of our flesh and blood of
our blood must be sacrificed to stem
the advance of the enemy. If we
/ fail to supply the ships, the cannon,
! the machine guns, the rifles, the food
/ and the clothing, through lack of en-
+ ergy and persistence in our job, we
are murdering-yes, murdering-our
sons and brothers across the sea.
Wars of today are won not by arm
les, but by nations. Machinery and
i supplies are as important as fighting
men. The armies in the field form
but the first line Unless they are
+ properly equipped, they are power
/ less. They can stand and die-Amer-
lean armies will do that if necessary
but their sacrifice will be vain unless
they can match, shell for shell, gun
for gun, the power of the enemy.
America is the richest nation in the
world. But wealth and latent re-
sources do not count unless and until
they are turned into the machinery
and equipment necessary for use in
war. The iron ore must be taken
from the ground and forged into guns
and shells and ship plates before it
counts. Our forests of spruce must
be felled and planed and cured, and
made to take the air before our avi-
ators will be of value. The sheep
must be sheared, the fields plowed and
the harvests reaped before our sol
der can be fed and clothed.
All of this means work-unremit-
ting toll on the part of all who re
main behind.
st is not money but labor which
viii win the war;" says Harry Cor
don Selfridge, American merchant
in London, who has seen industrial
England revolutionized since the war
began. He has seen the factories
which once made Injuries for the
world turned into munition plants.
He has seen members of labor unions
spending to the limit in mines ard
factories, producing every possible
pound of coal and ore, guns and shells.
He has seen delicately reared women,
whose hands had never known toll
take places on farms and in factories,
that their husbands and brothers
might go to fac the foe in Flanders.
He knows that all the wealth in the
world will go for naught unless it is
transmitted into work
We all abhor the Stacker who will
not fight, and we reverence the hero
who risks his life on the battlefield.
There are slackers as well as heroes
, at home. The man who deliberately
. slows up the driving of rivets in the
bulls of ships which are to beat the
, pirate submarine, is just as much of
. Stacker as the man who lodges the
draft. The man who, despite aching
muscles, and blind with fatigue, stag
gers to his bed after breaking a
worlds record in driving those same
rivets, is just as worthy of a medal
as the soldier who saves the life of
ais conlrade under fire.
The difference between slow and
fast work in shipyard and factory
may easily mean life or death for the
sons of the very workers employed
j here. Slowing up on the job at home
nay cost the likelihood, not of some
} unknown soldier, but of your own son
or brother abroad. America must
1 nave ordnance, munitions and ships
n unheard of quantities or America
f cannot win the war. 1t is our job to
see that these things are provided
promptly, amply and continuously.
We may not be directly concerned
in the manufacture of munitions or
| the building of ships, but we can help.
/ Every bit of useful work we will re
lease the labor of someone else for the
, things the Government directly
needs. Every household servant en-
pLOyeu HeSuleSSiy Is FODDlnS the ma
F lion of worker. The woman of
fashion may release her chauffeur for
army or factory, and use the street
car. She may make her own beds,
! care for her own rooms, do her own
cooking, and feel assured she is work
, .ng for her country. Or she may
maintain, as in times of peace, an
, army OF help to minister to her own
comfort, and know that she is sacri-
icing the lives of Aemrican boys
perhaps her own-on the altar of
luxury.
Even the boys and girls may help
= In Germany they have been herded
, nto the munition factories. 1t is to
, De hoped that America will not have
i TO come to that, but American boys