Licking Valley courier., 1918-07-18
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Which is plain Common Sense, in United States
"a language without Educational Furbeows.
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situated. Can you wonder, then,
that we are heart and soul in the
work of winning the war? But
none save the father who has
given what is dearer than life
his boy-to his country can know
the loathing we have for slackers.
If my boy had not wanted to go
when his country called | would
have been disappointed in him,
and felt that / had failed in my
rearing him. In my prayers fol
his safety | always thank GOD
that my boy was not a Stacker.
And how hard it is to restrain
my feelings when | see young
men, physically fit and without
dependents, Sinking because
they are either a little too young
or a little too old to be compelled
to go. And those within the call
who try to evade it. Neither of
these closes can be good citizens.
The first and chiefest requisite
of good citizenship is the recog,
milton of duty to our country and
a willingness to do that duty,
Good citizenship recognizes that
only when we perform the duties
we owe to our country are we er-
titled to its protection. Slackers
from service, financial slackers
and those who disobey the rules
Of the Food Administration are
all in the same class.
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When the boys come home, as
hundreds of them will, slackers
will have all the peace taken Out
of life by the sentiment that the
soldier boys will mold. II was
not 21, or II was over 81, will
not satisfy them when they ask
man why he was not on the fir
ing line. And they will make
life uncomfortable for the mar
who has used his energies tc
make money while they werC
risking life for their country.
They will search out-and the
records are being saved for then
whether the Red Cross and Y.
M. c. A. subscription lists have
as big contributions after YOU
names as THEY think ought t.
be there (the boys are particular
ly grateful to these organiza
tions), and whether you have
bought Liberty Bonds and Wai
Savings Stamps as you should
These boys are going to run thi
country when they come back,
and when they put their seal O.
disapproval upon man that maj
will be Stunned as a leper. The
Stacker business man will be boy.
cotted, the young man who coult
nave enlisted but didn't will b,
ostracised and branded yellow, "
and what they will do to the pol.
iticians will be enough. Five Oh
six hundred veterans of this wal
will look up the candidates wal
records, and if they say, bad
i've or six hundred of US father
)f the soldier boys will echo,
bad" for we will vote will
them. Politics won't count will
/
,hem. After the Republican
Ooy and the Democrat boy hav,
endured hardships and facet
death together, succoring ant
defending each other, they Wi
earn that the issues" that the
politicians have conjured up al,
shams and snares and of not suf
icient Importance to divide then
after their comradeship in arms
rhe will demand real men fol
officers and will decide on the is
sues themselves.
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1t is going to be hard work -
practically an impossibility fo
the fellows who ought to hav,
gone and didn't to explain VIII.
they didn't, and the slackers o
every description will pray fo
The mountains to fall upon then
when the boys come back. F.,
the boys will have a broader Wis
ion and higher purposes and W
will have to conform to thei
ideas.
Moreover, Germany must b
destroyed.
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