Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1918-06-10
AMERICA MUST SACRIFICE MORE,
SAYS E. r. MEREDITH, HOME
". FROM WAR ZONE.
ECONOMY AND PERSONAL
SERVICE ARE REQUIRED
All In Money, Time and Blood =
Doctors Doing Manua! Labor After
Professional Hours-Men Only One
of Great Needs.

Des Motnes. June 1O--~The greatest
thing that any man or woman can do
in the United States is to devote a
few minutes or a few hours each day
to the doing OF some definite thing
that will help win this war; declared
e. T. Meredith, who arrived hc,le
yesterday after an extended trip to
England and France as a member of
an official commission.
II have come back from the war
zone, not to entertain people by tell
ing them of what 7 have seen, or to
amuse them, but to impress upon their
minds more than ever that we are at
war, and TO educate them into doing
things now to win the war, so that we
may be spared from the things that ]
have seen in France and England.
at is not enough to have bought
bonds, TO have given to the Red Cross
and Y. NJ. c. A. for it is not money
that will win the war. but service
sacrifice, self denial, doing ones ali,
instead of ones bit. Until everyone
feels an individual responsibility tat
the war is their war. we will have this
war to fght-and it viii not be over
until it Is won this way"
He stated further that if the men
who are worrying about not being able
to go to the front would get down to
business here at home. the men at the
front would be better off
Men Not Only Need.
"Otf1er things besides men are
needed-food is needed. And food
means ships, and ships mean labor. Any
time a man can do without anything
that means an additional expenditure
Of labor on the part Of anyone, he
should go without-and if he will not
go without voluntarily he should be
made to-"
He stated that a very forceful
illustration Of the indifference in this
country to the e1igencies OF the war
was brought to his attention the day
he arrived in New York.
ut was in the dining room OF a New
York hotel. On the menu were half
dozen kinds Of meats and fish. and
many more dishes and pastries OF
which I had not seen mention in all
the time was IN the war zone. In fact,
I had not eaten any meat or sugar or
fats in the nine weeks had been gone
Afrum America The list Of eatabies
before me seemed sumptuous, aitho it
las supposed to be a war ;.senu, stat
ing chat only dishes listed Would De
served, because of war conditions.
-But there was man at nearby
table that was not satisfied, and
caused some little trouble because he
could not have a special dish that
was not listed. called the head waiter
over afterwards and asked him il there
was much dissatisfaction expressed,
and he said that there was.
Would Waste Labor.
II would have required corps OF
perhaps twenty-five additional chefs
in a hotel of the size was in to have
catered to the wants of such people as
the dissatisfied man noted above. He
wanted twenty-five men to be with
held from winning this war to wait on
him and supply his wants.
Meredith mentioned the coal situa-
ton as another exemple along these
same lines. The coal output for this
year VIII be :5.ofo,OO0 tons short Of
what will be required. yet the hrst
thing he noted when ne reached Chi
cago was that the people were not
responding ID the advice Of the nation
to fill their o.ns now, but we're wait
ing to see If tne price would not be d
little lower, when they had been as
sured that It would not be.
Every man and manufacturer who
does not lay IN his coal now Is help
ing Germany cefeat the allies. Bust
ness and money have nothing to do
with il any more; it is either win or
lose. and Il we lose there wall be no
money or business. and If We win We
can make more money and rebuild ou-
business. But all We have right now
is war"
Professional Men Helping.
The one thing that impressed
MI Meredith most. he said, is the
sacrifice Great Britain is making,
and the extern TO which the United
States is Indebted to her. He
stated that all doctors and lawyers
and professional men above 81
years old are devotfr.s from two TO
six hours a day. and often more in
some kind of war service aside from
their regular business That after
working all day, they would help IN
load hospital ships at night; would
90 ponce Culy, licSPAto4
orderly work everything. in fact, that
would in any way release other men
for more important work
In Great Britain so Per cent Of
the workers on munitions contracts
are women. In fact, if it had not
been for the women of Great Britain,
says Mr.. Meredith, Germany would
have won the war. They do every
kind Of WORK and do it willingly. He
has seen $500 women in overalls IA
munitions factories. In the rnanufac-
ture of a certain chemical used in
high explosive shells, the faces Of the
women turn lurid yellow, this some
times becoming permanent; but tie
women do not hesitate to disfigure
themselves for life if by doing so they
IRE ahlA tn help the great cause.
Scotland alone, out of population
OF 100000, mas sent 100000 men to
the front: on the same basis the
United states would have IN send
10000. 900 men, He said that the
spiIit oi tho i>. ~ =s,cs.des-ftll and
gave the instance of Sergeant Cahili
whom he met in London, who lost a
leg at the battle of Loos, but within
Ave days after his discharge from the
hospital had re-enlisted in the tank
service, and ls at present instructins
500 American soldiers in the use OF
the tanks. He also mentioned the work
being done by the British in theii
training of carrier pigeons for dis