Mexico weekly ledger., 1918-07-25
AT THE BEND OF THE MARINE.

THE following editorial from thu
Kansas City Star is one that should
be read BY every American citizen q;
home. 1t should cause the Stacker
whether they are food shakers OK
fighting slsckers, to bow their heads
in shame The editorial follows:
Of course, you are doing your bit
You " heriocslly going without sug-
ar, except one lump IN your coffee in
the morning. which your doctor say
yozr constitution absolutely Requires
Yen have bought y0ur share Of LFber-
= bozas. saying opaly that any old
t=e y9z are not wiling TO risk your
raoney with unele Sam the huns can
come ard put . collar on you You
hzTe gwen literally 70 the Red Gross
Ena pinned a button On your coat, 50
that any shopping German spy who
wants 70 ear send your name to the
kaiser. You're an American and
you don't care who knows it.
Yes, you are doing your bit. Bit is
right While you were doing it this is
what Is happening at the bend Of the
Asrne:
"The American machine gunners and
infantrymen fought and died where
they stood"
You read that comfortably seated on
your porch, and you said to yourself
that you guessed IT would ultimately
dawn on the boches that there were
some Americans in France after all.
You e entitled to that feeling Of
exultstion and pride, but was that the
only feeling you had when you read
It? Didn't something come over you
that made your chair feel a little less
comfortable? Didn't your petty little
sacrifices, your money patriotism and
your wordy loyalty seem a little cheap
to you IN comparison with what other
Americans were doing, there at the
bend Of the Marine?
THE American machine gunnerz
and infantrymen fought and died
where they stood"
An order had come TO hold the en-.
envy at that point. Did you ever get
military order7 They're rather di.
rect and terse, without explanation
and no rhetoric at all They don't re
quest you to do something il perfect
ly convenient, OF II you can spare thu
time, or II you can do it without per
sonal risk TO yourself. They don't re
mind you that it is your duty, that yol
really ought TO do it because it is you
BIT. They don't assure you that i
won't seriously interfere with you
business. Nothing like that; nothing
like the orders you get 70 please COM
out and help the liberty Loan, TO kind
~ lend your motor a for an after
noon, TO cat cornbread, to buy wa
savings stamps. Those are orders h
Americans at home, attending mostl,
10 their own business. To American
at the bend Of the Marine, attending
solely 70 the Nations business, tn,
order is: STAND here and die"
II doesn't leave your patriotic ef
forts in a particularly heroic light
does II? You never picked up the pa
per and read Of yourself and you
neighbours that you died where yol
stood, OF hammered a rivet into
ship where you stood, or even wen
without your dinner where you stood
You may have read that you delivere,
q speech whore you stood, and perhap
you thought, when you delivered II
that il would help win the war. VIVA
do you think about II now? Woul
IL have helped 10 throw the German
back, there az the bend Of the Marine
Would our names on Red Cross an
Liberty bond lists have been efectiv,
II displayed there?
"The American machine gunner
and infantrymen fought and die
where they stood"
Let us here at home strip Off on.
yanities and bow our heads.