The Washington times., 1918-03-31
Country
A Chain From the Atlantic to
the Pacific
Its Strength Is Devotion and Prussia Will Not Break It.
War Is THOUGHT, bound up and working in hums

War is THOUGHT, bound up and working in human
On one side is the evil thought born of insane ambition
On the other the determined thought You shall not WIN
See the line as it stretches across this page
Youth at the front giving and taking the blows eager
Tor fight later dead dying the field returning flushed
with glory.
Next comes the nurse spirit of devotion who shares the
danger right the battle ne but shares no glory She
does not need it.
Then the young worker aborng at home until his youth
and strength shall be called to the fighting line His strength
s in the American field his thought is the with
the American force.
he wears the honorable uniform of labor To that
form this giving the dignity to which entitled
Fourth in the line the owner of the industrial coopera
tive BRAIN directing wisely the efforts of thousand hun
dred thousand or more men.
The General in the field plans for the utmost DESTRUC
TI0N at the least cost of life.
This man. the General of industry plans for the utmost
PRODUCTION at the least cost in men and money.
Next comes the American mechanic the skilled man
whose brain and nervous energy multiply by two and by
three the efficiency and productive power of the unframed
average
TO this the nation looks for the things that war and
peace demand-shps cannon flying machines dynamite for
abroad locomotives cars rails "copper" steeeveyhng for
work at home.
And at the end of the line comes the creative mind and
creative body the mother who gives to the nation all of those
that fighting and serving The mother gives infinitely
morethe inspiration in which all find their strength the
devotion that makes permanent conquest of real people
impossible
You cannot destroy nston until you destroy mother
love for her son and the chds devotion to the
that you cannot do.
This picture shows the line of service When you look
at the faces and multiply each by millions you realize
what power is back of your nation at war.
There sa force greater than that Of dynamite resist
ance more determined than that of tempered steel
XII the man in 'front.' and he will die knowing that his
brother Is ready to take his place. and proud of it.
Tel the woman at home that her first born dead Her
answer win be- II have another son-and he is ready
You cannot make slaves of human beings that are not
willing to be slaves.
You cannot beat the of good mothers they will not
stay down. Or they die their brothers will carry the
fight
Wars and battles are fought and forgotten written
away In the books They change nothing.
The line that you in this picture will be the ruling
line this continent when the Kasers ambition shall have
been forgotten and he turned to dust
BE boasts of cannon that will carry bullet seventy
miles
Is feeble weapon compared to the patriotism that
has made France great teaching nation for than
thousand years the spirit that makes it possible to say
with truth of England that the Prussan conuuers that
country viii first have to kill the last Briton.
This nstOn in the present war is untried It is not for
the United States to boast predict victory.
But here the line of Arercn servce-at one end the
oun fighting man. at the other the mother-and her sons
are not towards.
This line stretches from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean
1t reaches from this continent to rope where we are helm
ing with all our power the cause of Justice
THIS LINE WILL NOT BE BROKEN
This powerful picture of nations fighting force reproduced by
permission from Hedrsts Magazine for April
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