The Raymer enterprise., 1918-06-27

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WAR wa, huss name was not legion but puace
h he was almost the only compehended
his obodngs They'll predict They wake up
md out what they're in for day when It's tell
you they won't know what it greatest
military power In the world and they're sound asleep! tell
drives man almost crazy to do what
oo ABOUT nun at all these millions Of people behaving
East West got the habit of scodng He
et that he had the whole
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o hea See See s other kadser playing golf and Rnger would watch him
ne would pu They just can't realize i'll Nobody doing anythngl
of Rudlger those days. We mas
med that we felt the war more than nghbors did, the made
of editorials posters the YOU theme The kaiser will
get You YOU don't enlist Cross
or You don't buy Liberty Bonds you duty3
YOU will be painted yellow.
going You in such an obstreperous way was con-
deed by advertising experts to be the most effective form
In the light Of later events venture
ism whereas what has really made ,hins h @ % % ~, was was ua @
neither the attack on YOU nor YOUR susceptibility sdng
WE, US and OUR spirit
poster you arent in the trenches" am mt
to feel little anagond and may
Of yours you poster advertising peclsti
trenches either you safely anybody haven't
the right be screaming reproache
It's more your war than is mine and YOU think YOU have
up and YOU make me ired Or I'm selfish person.
take this form Cut bu Yelling going get
me to do anything don't want do You
OF there individuals
and no doubt the YOU work helped really
WE reached those citizens whom we
formerly called German Americans" WE OUR that
left nothing Of the yphennnd the hphn had
under the mustard plaster
called them found country they erased the
hyphen They might have
to with country great
at Germany conferred upon us when she attacked killed
hyphen She counted killing calculations cor
rect But she is pleased with her made
mistake IN an important detail: she thought the
would drop the American side yrhen thought they were really
Germans They weren't The hyph forever aren't
any citizens country
American citizens From August 1914 until April
Americans often said YOU the often said
YOU to them; but now all of us say WE. US and OUR.
friend of mine of how was with
him Until April 1911 he had been critical
OF our governments attitude toward Germany Only after
war declared met him and he fighting uni
FORM of course am he said oh everything different
until my country Germany naturally thought
that Germany was right In her struggle with other foreign
you take your old and admired friends side when
with people who your think was all
right to have felt that time
the United States IT, even though
have been Of mine now No
sir Not from the when recognized enemy of
counys enemy my enemy and I'm going to apr
TINS
out to help get the kaiser, and we're going do it,"
The German Americans" sepcism from people
who found difficult viewpoint with changed cir
cuusan and the doubt CALLING and unnful suspicious
nearly always couldn't get into
uniform and fight Germans felt the somebody they could
g al ana make vince They suffered from the natural
against Germany but sheltered behind
Hndenburg to be directly affected just couldn't contain
ourselves give something or some
,or,
to declare their LOYALTY bu bs
vast majority of them behaved well while
had abandon this
British Stacker" irritation; and per
haps did little good here Stacker" talk and
did HARM We editors
writers and speakers who uniform
aly bitter what liked -swvecha warriors in
Washington There Of draft appears Of
departments In Washington and without inquire
physically hadb be
against them
who themselves being ex