Yet there are men and
women who are going without bread and butter to buy Liberty Bonds, and
who are buying them not as a safe investment, as rich men buy, but
because the boys need the money. And there ought to be poems written
and statues erected to commemorate some of the sacrifices for the sake
of the Red Cross.
"Yet I think that, in a way, we have not emphasized enough the
picturesque quality of this war, not on this side. They do it in
France--they worship their great flyers, their great generals, their
crack regiments, everything has a personality, they are tender with
their shattered cathedrals as if something human had been hurt, and the
result is a quickening on the part of every individual, a flaming
patriotism which as yet we have not felt. We don't worship anything,
we don't all of us know the words of 'The Star Spangled Banner'; fancy
a Frenchman not knowing the words of the 'Marseillaise' or an
Englishman forgetting 'God Save the King.' We don't shout and sing
enough, we don't cry enough, we don't feel enough--and that's all there
is to it. If we were hot for the triumph of democracy, there would be
no chance of victory for the Hun.
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