The daily commonwealth. (Greenwood, Leflore Co., Miss.) 1916-1919, 1919-05-10
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EhDt|RE5 Is KIND
UNDER TEST now
IT WAS EASY TO RE PATRIOTIC
IN TIE BLAZING DAYS OF
GREAT WAR.
RECALL I1O;y you FELT
Do You E=icng to the Ranks Of the
Stesdfast in Victory
Loan?
RECALL NOV YOU FELT

1t wasn't hard to be patriotic in The
hlazing days of the Great War! No
American will ever forget the stirring
that came when we finally declared
war on Germany No American will
ever want to forget 1t. )
1t wasn't hard to be fiercely patri-
otic when the war fever swept like
flame over the country. When rhe
president read his message and con-
ssress acted
1t was easy to be patriotic wlleu
young Americans began moving to-
ward the training camps and the old
regular army was taking ships for
France
1t was difficult to be anything other
than patriotic when the first troop
ships, with portfolios darkened, went
lodging out to see with the stinging
cestroyers darting at their sides.
While We were racing with Germany
to see who should first arrive in force
on the fields of France, who should
hold Paris, who should. dictate the fu-
ture of the world.
A man who could not thrill with
A'nericanism back in the days when
our troopsh:ps were actually fighting
their own way across the Atlantic
through nests of U-boats in order that
we might arrive in time Do you IT,
call how we dreaded the coming ot
day tor fear that it might have
story to tell Of American troops go1n.
down By the transport load? Why,
It seemed that the guns along. the
way from New York tc San Francisco
when the Hindenburg drive, the kaiser
latte, began ore short year ago. We
couldn't help but be patriots then.
Or in those great days when we first
heard the magic names of Belleau
rood and Chatea Th:erry! We were
AL thrilled b. the dogged heroism, by
the savage dash and power that the
Yankees carried into the line with
them We all walked little straighter
In those days. 1t was good to be an
An;erican!
1t Was Easy to Enthuse.
And when they asked us to raise
them Liberty Loan we went out and
straightway raised it,. We were not
afraid of the biggest loan they could
give Us then. We were far more in.
terested in whipping the Boche. We
wanted to get the loan t of the way
80 we could go on and read the pa-
slers, follow the war maps, and watch
the war being won
We were all working then. Why.
the Red Cross units were crowded.
the WSS squads were working, war
activity drives were going over with
yelp and a hurran.
The guns are quiet now. From the
North Sea to Switzerland the grass
grows undisturbed on the old trench
systems. The night-bomb:sg ai7
planes no longer slip from, tht.Ir
hangars when the moon comes up.
The armies are melting away. The
war is over
Only the patriotism that endures
comes to our help now in raising tn.
victory Liberty Loan, only the stead
last love of country and OF .dag is
with US now. But that is sufficient.
II is the sort that never dies in
time of peace. That is never lost un-
Ger the fatty degeneration OF years
of cay living and unbroken tranquil-
+lty. It is clean and calm, deliberafo
and unchanging. The patriotism OF
lear and of excitement may last for 4
tsseason, but It is the patriotism that
-endures which saves nation in the
end
Il puts national welfare and tho
country's honor above all else. II
does not confuse men and issues but
looks always toward one goal. Il IS
this strain of patriotism that is push
ing irresistibly behind the Fifth and
last of the Liberty Loans.
The Victory Liberty Loan is show.
ing very plainly Just who 1t IS among
We Americans who have that endur-
ing patriotism that is always the same
n Nar OF il peace. Do you belong II
the Ranks ot the steadfast3