Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1918-04-17
WEDNESDAY, APRIL II, 1918.
Are You Prop or Dead Wood?

over t06Tc III L TdICt SIRIUS wal
OF flesh and blood, between US anC
the unspeakable Hun. What art
YOU doing to brace that wall from
this slider Are you prop, or are
you cluttering "dead wood?"
To the winning OF this war, through
the voice of our President, we have
dedicated tour lives, our fortunes,
everything we are and everything
we have" What does that mean to
YOU?
1t is not for US, snug at home, to
complain of petty discomforts, to
talk of sacrifice, when the young
men of the country are walloV ing in
the mud of the trenches lover there"
and offering, yes, giving, their lives
to make this country safe place TO
live in.
Oh, IL the people of this country,
of this town, would fully awake to
the menacel One writer who is
awake says: make no mistake;
Just such a terrible and cruel invasion,
with all its barbarity and destruction,
actually threatens us if we do not
insure the victory of our armies in
France. Plans are ready and waiting,
and insolent threats have been made
again and again by the Kaiser and
his Prussians.n
And then on top Of this read the
official utterance of General Haig in
Fridays dispatches: every position
must be held to the last man. There
must be no retirement. With our
backs to the wall and believing in
the Justice of our cause, each one of
us must fight to the end. The safety
of our homes and the freedom of
mankind depend alike upon the con-
duct OF each one of US at this critical
The commander of all the British |
forces in France says this; he knows
what he is talking about. We are
fighting NTH our backs to the arau.
And just over that wall is the United
States; and safe behind that wall,
as long as it holds, are YOU. What
are you doing to brace the wall from
this side?
Are you railing at the admiuistra-
lion because it las taken little
sugar out of your coffee, little white
-four out of your bread, little coal
out of your furnaee2 Are you hold
zig tight your purse strings when
the little demands are made upon you
for the welfare and comfort of tn
boys in that human wall? Are you
boarding your money for your own
possible needs when the duts-nay,
more, the privilege-of subscribing
to liberty loan is presented to you?
Remember that thin wall "over
there" Be prop. Kick the dead
wood out of the way. Kick the dead
wood out of your heart. Give and
give and give increasingly of your
moral and material support. just
now the demand is for subscriptions
to the Third Liberty loan. That is
your immediate duty. Buy your
bond to-day.
Above all, do not allow yourself
even to think discoursgingly of the
ultimate outcome of this war. We
win win. ANY other result is i'm
possible. The Hun made his supreme
mistake when he provoked this
country to war. He realizes it now,
and is making his last desperate
effort to obtain decision before we
can strike with our full force. But
there will be no decision now, nc
matter what the outcome may be Of
this tr 'mendous assault. II that wal
over there breaks, and the Huns
overrun France and England, still
we will win, but we want to win over
there, not over here. We will wir
If we fight until the babe now in the
cradle is in the front line trenches
We will win because the young mer
of this country are ready to fight fol
MS, and because there are men ano
women here at home willing to
sacrifice and work. Are you one Of
themf Are you prop, or deadwood.