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JULY FOURTH, 1917
BY HERBERT KAUFMAN
Forty-eight stars count them! Not a traitor in the galaxy; not a stain upon the honor of
a State! .
Upon this Holy day we lay the account of our stewardship upon your graves, O Fathers of
the'Republic: We, too, have kept the faith.
The spirit, of 76 still rules America. Your sons are leal to their heritage and in your name
and for their children, devote themselves and all the wealths you willed them, to freedom and
enlightenment. "
We, in turn, shall not fail the appointed hour.
Despot and vandaLmust again learn how magic is the might of Justice and the strength
that serves sovereign peoples.
Here, in the haven founded and consecrated for the oppressed and ambitious of all lands,,
a stern and doughty host rises to defend and extend the principles for "which you fought and
fell from Bunker Hill to Yorktown.
The hates and wrongs and prohibitions that wore you sore would dare the very seas on
which you fled for sanctuary. .
Royal right insolently challenges Republican might: the champions of caste aspire to uni
versal supremacy. . '
Independent government the earth over is threatened with' a Hessian blight.
A crown lies across the High Road and Progress must halt and bleed until the barrier is
broken and the way clear for Liberty.
There can be no hope of enduring peace while .the Black Eagle flies.
We.have been patient before insult; we have held hand from the avenging sword, even when
outlaw Powers repudiated pledge and pact and profaned the commonwealth with intrigue
and treason. .
It was our wish to observe your behest and remain aloof from European entanglements
to stand alone to pursue the wise courses you surveyed; but we had no election.
The price of further sufferance was ignominy and abiding shame. ;
From the deeps we heard the voices of our dead cry retribution upon the marauding fleets
that spare neither child nor woman when they seek their prey.
We saw France perishing before our eyes and remembered Lafayette and Rochambeau.
We heard the wail of violated Belgium: the moaning of her starved and the prayers of Vir
gins are counted with the conqueror's loot.
We are at war because God bids us to the front: because humanity has summoned us to
arms: because we -would be false to conscience and to you if we abandoned Civilization in this
extremity." ' . ,
We neither fight for conquest nor plan for profit. We walk in your paths and stride toward
your dawns.
We go to answer Tyranny, defiant on its ancient vantage grounds.
We bear your message to the High Lords of Privilege and Heaven grant that our deeds
shall be worthy of your creeds.
We, too, have kept the faith, O Fathers of the Republic.
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Set your price and mark it
high,
Better .fail than never try.
And suppose we do deny
That you're worthy of the
place
You elect? You can erase
Years of setback with one
play.
Fight on and youll win your
way.
Nothing ' great is quickly
done
Paste that in your hat, my
son.
Woolworth started with one
store.
Jim Hill had to wait before
Fortune knocked upon his
door.
In his thirties, Heiry Ford
Barely earned his bed and
board.
If you'll only think and stick
Long enough, youH turn a
trick.
You Bought a Bond Now Buy a Bed
DISEASE is the best marksman on the battlefield. War is a verminous
beast, infested with germs and creeping horrors. Typhus, typhoid,
tetanus and tuberculosis are the eaters of armies.
Proper medical facilities double the effectiveness of any military force.
Every hundred dollars contributed to the Red Cross preserves a life or
keeps a soldier in active service. If you can't afford to give that .much,
you can be one of ten to contribute ten apiece. The golden scalpel must be
as mighty as the golden sword. Your duty to your country does not end
with the buying of a bond. Now buy a bed for a war hospital.
Remember the Poor as Well as the Flag
UNCLE SAM heads the billionaire list he's worth two hundred thousand millions.
Nothing short of the outrageous indemnities to be exacted by a victorious enemy
can perceptibly weaken his financial resources. He can build half a dozen super
fleets, support limitless divisions with all requirements and still provide the necessary
means to carry on "business as usual." Therefore it will be solely through thought
lessness entirely because his mind is momentarily distracted by certain pressing
engagements, if sick babies and old women and blind men and crippled children and
the homeless and the helpless suffer for aid and comfort this Summer.
We must not neglect our regular charities in a. patriotic enthusiasm to support
the Government in its crucial adventure. The maimed and wounded and ailing on
life's battleground call to our hearts and purses as loudly as ever. Do your regular bit
for the fresh air funds, the lying-in hospitals, the orpharf asylums, the deaf and blind
homes and the social settlements. Remember the poor as well as the flag-.
Don't Tax Advertising
THE advertiser has this to say of Congress: "Don't
single me out as a special object for taxation. I
above all others am an exponent of faith and
optimism. My publicity is a bet on prosperity a
wager on National victory. I believe that America
always repays the man who confides his hopes in her
tomorrows.
"The money that I invest in printer's ink is a guar
antee to my employes that I will continue to provide
them with work it assures labor that I am planning
to engage more people notifies the producer of raw
materials that I am striving to be a bigger customer
informs the country that I am endeavoring to enlarge
my organization and extend my operations.
"My influence steadies the market and encourages
merchant, manufacturer and capitalist to loosen their
purse strings. I am a tonic for bad times. When you
throw a wet blanket upon my enthusiasm, you aid and
comfort the enemies of confidence, hearten conserva
tism and support pessimistic and non-progressive
policies. '
"Do not take my planting dollars, but wait and
share the harvest. I can earn far more for America
and can well afford to pay it in the form of a profit
tax, than you can gain for the budget by making the
cost of expansion prohibitive.
"To penalize advertising is to strike back at the
consumer, to unstabilize conditions, to discourage pro
motion, to decrease output; therefore to increase the
expense of production and consequently the price of A
goods.
"I deserve your aid as much as I merit the prefer
ence of the general public
"Tax luxuries and leave necessities alone. Tax the
business that isn't doing its duty to opportunity. I
am trying to keep wealth 'in free circulation, to keep
the dinner pail filled, to keep times good."
Flattery Tells No Truths
CONTRARY opinion, like many another corrective
remedy, is sometimes a very bitter dose. But the
protests of conceit are the loudest confessions of
inefficiency. ' "When a man is sure of his facts, he wel
comes the chance to vindicate them. Those who resent
viewpoints because they do not coincide with their own
(like knives that never reach the hone) soon dull.
Things which sting vanity oftenest cure it. The ear
that welcomes flattery seldom hears truths. A pam
pered conviction hampers intelligence and encourages
unjustified prejudices. Folks you dislike can gneerally
add more to your information and accuracy than the
friends who pretend to share your ideas for the sake
of sparing your feelings.
Women in Business
IT IS not because you are considered inferior to men
that you are so seldom given superior positions.
No one doubts your equal intelligence or capacity,
and experience demonstrates that you are infinitely
more reliable and faithful. But experience also asserts
that women regard work as a stop-gap that they are
ready and anxious to abandon it at the first favorable
chancato marry.
So men are preferred for executive jobs, since there
is a greater likelihood that the trouble of training them
for responsibilities is more apt to justify the education.
Few things annoy a business man more than the
replacement of an aide upon whose acquaintance with
certain phases of affairs he has begun to rely. The
memory of countless firms is bitter with the loss of
valuable assistants who found matrimony preferable to
sulf -support, just when their services were hardest to
duplicate.
The inducement of higher pay will usually hold a
man in . his place but there are no competitive argu
ments against the plain gold ring, once it is fixed in a
girl's thoughts.
It exasperates a farmer to cultivate a tree up to
the. point of fruition and then find it blighted. It is
equally irritating for a firm to coach a woman for ad
ministration and suddenly learn that her troth is
plighted. Here you have one valid reason for so-called
"sex discrimination." Of others, deponent knoweth
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