Lincoln County times. (Jerome, Idaho) 1911-1919, 1918-01-03
Americas One Big Business Is War

(From the Idaho Farmer. Dec. 27)
Americas one and only business
today is war. Whether we like 1t or
not, we are at war, and war to the
death. The time for argument has
passed. Never since the battle of
Lexington have the people of this
country been faced by the absolute
necessity of instant and united action
as they are faced by 1t now. We must
arise as one man, or let American
liberty and justice perish from the
earth.
The United States must-MUST,
not ought to-place 100000 of her
very best men on the battlefelds with
her allies at the earliest possible
hour. They will go. From farm and
factory and workshop they will go.
ready to OFFER the last full measure
of devotion" to their country. No
one should stand in their way, or
seek to have them or any of them re-
lieved Of the responsibility to which
their country has called them. Rath-
er will every patriotic man and wo-
man who remains at home do his or
her utmost in their absence not only
to maintain present efficiency Of in
dustry. but to increase that efflcien-
cy. Our soldiers must be armed and
fed and clothed, and the person who
contributes his utmost to arm and
feed and clothe them Is himself a
soldier. Americas war motto should
be: Soldiers Everywhere" Soldiers
on the firing line; soldiers digging
trenches; soldiers telling trees; SOL
diers building railroads; soldiers
building ships, soldiers making NUM-
diers manufacturing foods; soldiers
handling freight; soldiers producing
foodstuffs-every man from the plow
on the farm to the rife in the trench
equally indispensable as part Of the
great war machine that must win this
conflict. The person in any walk
of life, in any industry-farm, office,
factory, anywhere-who today thinks
OF self instead of America is to that
extent as much a traitor to his coun-
try as the uniformed soldier who de-
serts the army.
Germany's efficiency has astounded
the world. No other nation could
alone have waged 80 successful and
30 long a war on practically the en-.
tire world as Germany has. But fol
decades she has been getting ready
Forty years ago Germany was putting
into practice in her industries effic
iency measures that America Is to
day reluctantly and with difficult,
putting into hers. German efficienc,
is such that every ounce OF energ,
OF every individual Is applied withou
lost motion to the one great purpos'
and America must follow the same
ironclad rule. Every ounce Of hu
man energy must be applied that thu
soil may produce her utmost, AM
every ounce of that produce must b.
made to contribute to the accomplish
ment of Americas one great purpos
the winning of this war.
Interest Of Nation Only
When It comes to exemptions ol
account OF occupation Of the younl
man under the selective draft, sec
ton 80 Of the regulations prescribe
by President Wilson. November
1917, says:
1T Is the interest OF the natiol
solely that must be subserved. Tn
interest OF individuals can not b
considered as such and can only bene
fit from the action of district board
where the individual interest har
pens to coincide with the interest
the nation, and furthermore, the sue
eess OF the nations military oper'