, 1918-06-27

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tat h e "a aim o%t the va only S0i pe sfsaD1' in u Am Da9ea's sio N aeon Hs he Ssdst te
bis forsSoainss. :" sar 1s sea he Would ns got prs e ss"'s srn sstif1 %ass a % a Si
yn they "~ WON'T ~ know oS IN n hat' s0 %ea any whey They lfs s as Wat ,as W mag0t Il but rre ! sa
%aaea's a R %sn almost nn the crazy w9' to- sea as 'h i de r sSaRd a nsl sa9 me ! ten an % 9e as
iok about him at ali these millions of people behaving as if there weren't
East West, North and South. Rudlger got the habit of scolding. He
he hm might forget it a little, and go u and play golf. Then another day
he'd see see son other Rudiger playing gdf. and Rud4er would watch him
he would spuner. They just can't realize it'll Nobody doing anythingl
,n, Yes ST. almost aim st, al i, o IS IA a touch OF nualgsr in hos days We lmag
US US irritable irritable. and Their a a vstsc oming. We produced many thousands
: ) ToG 4 YOU don't ssis's enlist ss e t % YOU q don't : subscribe sss%s to q he 1s'dss cr Sa
S You i WIZ T1p be eG paint ssy y es%ty Bonds Are YOU doing your duty' II not
sass 1a f by adv sms ssn s ssa1s' TO aG e tn he s %ass an en ssstssp sas% o Ta ssu IA e S%t
pre s' ans s an @1 , opinion sTea aht the the " YOU Usn Campaign as szp wss ta "a aSqSt % and to 1 X
Its eongeeniaIty with the nervous rritabIity Of the time. 1t was Rudiger-
neither the attack on YOU nor YOUR susceptibility to scohns. but the
), WI When APO q poster shouts at ms, YOU aren't in TIL trenches. I am apt
TT te of seu, sih q p Sog a %sn a. or saf ssve n snga SPECIALIST PEE t. YOU D. aren't n in the
ssn right at.t to p, be , screaming seproaehes and warnings at me. you don't
e 6 s nor TS = n e. % ! an ,,, / min, e :; y y = % - e. tsIss : YOU hay ss ? wake q 1 N E
the kind at whom the you shooting is chiefly aimed. ~ emotional process
Re to do anything | don't want to TO- You can't wor ME, boz ""'S . 80
and n Q doubt The YOU work helped to get her into line, but the really i'm
p pis%l 1 %y"s' WE '1 Us and 5's OUR s't thsf reached ss che ll those . citizens as s'v wno aa'' %e
1 IafH nothing SsD of the .sf hgpnen@anS the hyp IT Hh had W only 8 s s ns the e red ssr
s %d ss the isus mustard ;ss%. P 9o. t PrGns oWn r soU.tr, wh S, the r ~ser% an snesls f =
by hyphsn. t~ They yf might 'i have " remained Germ err %s' if 1--WE We ti had gone
that Germany conferred upon us when SHE attacked us: she killed the
hyphen. She counted on killing it. and SO ar her calculations were cor
rect But she is not pleased with her success in the matter, for she made
a mistake in an important detafl: she thought the COMMUNICATIONS
would drop the American side of the hyphen; she thought they were really
Germans. They weren't The hyphen is gone forever, and there aren't
m "German-Amerun" citizens any more in III country; there are only
Americans ' loten' said il You to tn the rest st Of !" and at he est est Of % us oftsn said
YOU Ito them; but now all of us SAL WE US and OUR.
A young friend OF mine, of German descent, told me how 1t with
him. Until April, 1917, he had been proGerman, and at times critical
war a declared 1 met him and he "a in uniforn-a fighting mans uni
FORM. "Of course 1 a ~ he said. "h, yes; everything ws different
utlm my country went to war. ! loved Germany, and 1 naturally thought
that Germany vas right in her struggle with other foreign countries. Don't
versy with people who are strangers to your Well, l think I WI all
right to have felt that way and to have taken that attitude u to the time
the United Stntes vent to wal, and 1 cam be ashamed of it, even though
I may have been mistaken. But Germany is % friend of min now. No,
my country. My countrys enemy is my enemy and I'm going to fight
this enemy of my country If it costs my life. Germany is my enemy! I'm
nut to help get the kaiser, and wereg going o do itl"
o.. The "GermanAmedcans" encountered skepttdsn from people
substances and the doubt a calling and unhepful as suspicious doubts
nearly always are. A great many god Americans who couldn't get into
uniform N fight Germans felt the need of attacking somebody they could
get at max vince They suffered ron the natura and JUST anger
against Germany, but Germany wa too far away and too sheltered behind
Hindenburg, to be directly affected, and a lot Of us just couldn't contain
ourselves; we we're SO hot We had to let tut and give something or some
body within our reach a good cussng" We cussed the "GermanAmei-
CAM" n made 1t a title harder for them to declare their oyaty' but the
vast majority f them behaved SO well under the stress that after while
we had to abandon this ear of blowing off or steam So re pickles
up the British word Stacker" and used 1t to vent or irritation; and per-
certainly we did some harm. We we're very free with the word, we editors
writer's INT speakers. who weren not in uniform ourselves. We were espe-
emy bitter against what W e liked to call the "swfvelchair warriors" In
washington. There were men OF draft age 1t appears, serving N som OF
. Of these were physically unfit for service in the field, or how many had be-
com Indispensable in the positions they were filling W e ragged against them.
Virtuous congressman. who themselves had n intention of ever being X