The Alaska daily empire., 1918-06-15
Americanisnl.
Seattle Post-Intelligencer. )

What a magnificent demonstration of American ism has been given since war was declared upon the draft is to be found test of loyalty that stands out supreme. Had the country been invaded or threatened with invasion this responsiveness might be taken for granted But the call to arm' for service the was unprecedented - something hitherto undreamed of. It came wher pacifsm had not yet spent itself and when large element of our polygot population was plainly anc progressively proGerman But what transformatioI and equipped for duty at the front, with million the way!
 Better still, in that army and animatng thai army and behind that army is the American spirit
 Only few days ago ten thousand raw recruits the depot brigade assembled and passed in ro view at Camp Lewis. None had been in training than three weeks! They did not, of course march like regulars or keep line and step and execute movements with the precision of West Point CTS, but they did put their feet down firmly and carry the air and look the part of soldiers
 When the review these ten thousand men in close formation before the reviewing stanc were called upon to sing. And how they did sing with a vim, every mothers son of them, that al once proclaimed the spirit within them. Only fight. ing men sing Slackers cant sing or won't sing.
 What inspiring evidence of country's Joy atty and devotion to Uncle Sam than thus furnished by that depot brigade?
 Consider too, the industrial activity through out the land Within the year manufacturing plants large and small converted to new uses, have been con tributing nightly to the waging and wning of this righteous war The country hears of the proud achievements in shipbuilding. It dofs its hat t' Seattle in recognition of her fine part It knows, too what the great steel concerns doing, something about the stupendous output of Du Pont powder and the making of great guns. It reads of automo bile factories engaged in producing Liberty motor the like. But the country does not know, save II general way, about the hum of industry ethere everywhere engaged outside of limelight, il furnishing the essential things that go into ship building and the making of great guns and ammuni tion.
 Seattle and other great ceners of activity have their housing problems and solving them But how infinitely greater the problem confronting lesser cities suddenly out of towns in the expansion of factories running fight and day to hell meet the urgent necessities of war!
 People busy to realize that this great try in tragic twinkng has been made over and that Americas resourcefuness already has ceeded all loftiest conceptions,
 But above and beyond all else in heartcnng is the change that has the masses of American mankind denied active partci. patton in the Today, surely, they keeping the home fires burning. Not yet have they felt the pinch of Not yet have they begun the actual practice of economy which cannot be avoided as the war goes But they enlisted in support of Old Glory. Their hearts in the war.
 Soap-bo malcontents have disappeared from famil- far haunts the foreign-language press has learned discretion, if not loyalty; enemy propagandists longer ply their infamous calling in schools leges and universities and sedition treason have ceased stalk out None of these things is safe to- day
 Verify the whole atmosphere of the nation has hee clarified by may in