The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1918-10-03

"The war must go on! We must fight
it through." These words are as i'm
perative to-day as when first uttered
by John Adams in the Continental
Congress. I'VE must educate or wei
must perish!" These words are as
true to-day as when Beecher first used
them ITO the end that no boy or girl
shall have less opportunity for educa-
ton because of the war" President
Wilson urges that "the people CON
tinue to give generous support to their
schools of all grades" These are the
supreme duties of the hour. Whether
it will be more difficult for the coun-
try or for the city to measure up tol
these responsibilities it is hard to tell.
They are herculean tasks for both
country and city The factories must
be kept running at full blast; business
and industries must speed up; wei
must produce greater crops than ever
before, and we must harvest them, too,
if we are to win the war,
Whether we i've in town or in coun-
try, we must prepare ourselves to en-
dure taxation and priyation, to suffer
and sacrifice if we are to win the war
and fit ourselves and our children for
The citizenship that the war is usher
ing in. Some of us must work where
we have never worked before. Some
must return to work that they once
did, as, for example, married women
who were once professionally trained
teachers must return to this service i'll
the schools are to be maintained at the
highest efficiency, for there is a short
age Of 10000 teachers in rural
schools and 5000 teachers in city
schools, with 10000 inexperienced
teachers in rural schools. Those with
missionary spirit must see that here is
a field white unto the harvest and that
the laborers are few. Some must
work who have never worked at all.
Women must work where women never
dreamed of working before this crisis
was forced upon us, and if any able
bodied man is found a Stacker any
where he must fight, work, or 90 to
jail.
There is an inspiration for all OF us
in the spirit of sacrifice in the Scotch
people OF old Drumtochty, as described
by Ian Maclaren There was just a
single ambition in those humble homes,
to have one of its members at college,
and If Domsie approved lad then his
brothers and sisters would live on
skim milk and oat cake to let him have
his chance This was a sacrifice made
In time of peace. Are we willing to-
make such 8 sacrifice in time Of war
first, TO win the war and second to
fit ourselves and our children for the
citizenship after we win the war?
A mothers toll, a sisters sacrifice,
and fathers selfdenial and his own
best efforts-all thls-was the price
paid for the education of William Nc
Kinley. His mother helped out the
narrow income Of the family by taking
boarders and herself did the cooking,
with the help of the girls At one time
IT was almost decided that the plan for
his education must be abandoned, but
his elder sister, Annie, came to the
rescue with the money she had saved
as a school-teacher.
This sacrifice made II possible in
after years for William Mckinley, as
President of the United States, dis
cussing the yexing problems of the
Spanish-Ameriean War, to speak
words of wisdom for us then, which
are words of wisdom for us now as we
face the yexing problems of the world
war.
at is sometimes hard To determine
what is best to do and the best thing
TO do is oftentimes the hardest. The
propher OF evil would do nothing be-
cause he ninches at sacrifice and ef-
fort, and to do nothing Is easiest and
involves the least cost. On those who