South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1918-06-30
INDEPENDENCE DAY IN 1918
By Booth
arlington

arranged and just much delayed-au Of which mean,
something the casualty lists
WYE had TO learn that criticism must know, is own
w job thoroughly IL mustn't be merely blowing oa
steam" And enthusiasm is useful only when IL never
takes its eye of the ball Thousands Of unit men
themselves i'll used and made a useless eSpen>,
Uncle sam by too much indiscriminste enthusiasm
part boards that packed of 40 training
camps. And often certain drafted men were sent
camps suIen moods, when e,c on tIlc
ball would have them in a mood ALL hut at
least beginning glow with that patriot
ism which no normal man lack when ne feels AMI
knows. UNDERSTANDINGS. that this country him.
No doubt the word Stacker" has had It's uses: bat q
is possible should not TO adoIt
it: and one thing certain: those of us who have
never a uniform entitled use Shaker
in its military sense, a condemnation OF any ohr
man who i'm uniform. We use the word
traitor" when make it good 10y proof but
should leave soldiers those who have
been soldiers We must Judge not. leI be Judged.
Let our bitterness for enemy.
To a nation war comes a a great trouble comes
a family. When trouble comes q
family members of that family closer: they
depend upon another before; they ara
kinder TO another than they have been i'm happier
They forget differences that have among
them and they make sacrifices help another.
They ind many goodnesses nobiues one an
other that they have not discovered before Their
strength their trouble unity:
they cannot meet il if they bcBer fam apart II
his share, others get from
him by scoding than if they say Come brother"
ONE day. last April we had Liberty loan parade
~ in indianapolis. Some forty thousand
and the rest looked and helped cheer and per
hsps tried not to cry when the flags went down the
street with the people who carried them singing
GLORY: Glory: HaIIelujah" There were soldiers
infantry and artiIlery-iu the parade and hospital
units and lines lines surgeons nurses. and
there and city officials and the governors
and and ex-embassadors, great part
the marchers just people a city war. Fac
tory marched with their labor leaders
marched with millonares. and unless you knew them
YOU couldn't which thants. the
bankers. the lawyers, the doctors the dentists tho
clerks, the railroad BARRIERS. brczycr~;
the steel-wOrkers. the Gamers the carpenters, tlo
plumbers-they all marched and they all sang whci,
the baIds played, and when the bands didn't
The Catholic organizations marched. and the Prot
esant organizations marched Thousands OF Negroes
marched in their church orders. singing
ign the like the there were great clubs
and organizations that had been called German.
would longer De called German, they marched
and most absolutely and violently part
Germany. There Bulgarians shouting the
there were Roumanians and Ser1ians and Greeks
and Russians, all Americans and all this There
Chinese and there a band Of Japanese.
dressed a. antique bowmen. Nowhere in the city was
there anything that wasn't "A war with the Germans
And overhead sailed the airpIsnes. was not -
with indianapolis alone, with all the
and villages and cOuntrysides of Indiana alone.
manifestation visible all America. where
there 1OO,OOOOOO people
50 we said: ROsenkranz GuiIdenstcrn
pair of worthless in Germany, Hindenburg and Luden-
dorn could only get a birds-eye what show
ing forth today il they could get but glimpse thij
America reused. they might also get a glimpse what
is coming them"
A NIERICA not only reused but America united
taught unity. have
said Come brother" stand together steadfas
we are at war with militarsm. kaiser. knowing
that ne the front symbol militarism. said.
Those who wish o destroy digging their
graves knows well enough what de-
stroy, and in his he talks graveyard brighten
VI. His worst mistake thinking that
.terrOrhation' errfcs; that numbering a mans child
subducs man keeps quiet: zeppcIins sub
marines 7O-mle guns, poison gas rape setting peace
towns fire. turning machine guns women.
children priests and old mcn-these are thc and
bloody bones uses hoping through make all
the wide world his own private ogrcs castle. But
America will him his
head and bloody bones let him threaten with graves
and make the German people believe that il +
Germany VIC mean destroy: he knows what this
public means he knows what the united
mocracy Of the world do-and il j. nc that
j. afraid and proves fear like talking big
in the dark