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| The Stars and Stripes in the Service of Humanity | [2] | |
| “When I was a Child, It was You Who Saved Me” | Hon. Myron T. Herrick | [4] |
| The Hun: “Keep Neutral” | Robert Underwood Johnson | [6] |
| Peace Plots Revealed in America and France | John Jay Chapman | [8] |
| Belgium, 1918 | Ralph Adams Cram | [10] |
| “We will not Wear Convicts’ Stripes, Wear Them Yourselves” | Poultney Bigelow | [12] |
| The Final Argument | Charles Hanson Towne | [14] |
| The End of the Hindenburg Line | Meredith Nicholson | [16] |
| “Something’s Wrong. She Doesn’t Seem to Inspire Confidence” | Robert Grant | [18] |
| Angels of the War Zone | Gertrude Atherton | [20] |
| As Thou Sowest, so Shalt Thou Reap | Hon. A. S. Burleson | [22] |
| “Don’t Stop, Old Chap, Keep It Up!” | John Philip Sousa | [24] |
| “So We Are Only a Dollar-making People, Are We?” | John Kendrick Bangs | [26] |
| “No, Thanks, I Know These Princes of Yours Too Well” | Herbert Adams Gibbons | [28] |
| Speeding Up | [30] | |
| Toward the Valley of Decision | Rev. Stephen S. Wise, Ph.D., LL.D. | [32] |
| Wake Up, America! | Mary E. Wilkins Freeman | [34] |
| “There are Plenty of Lamp-posts!” | Hudson Maxim | [36] |
| “We Don’t Seem to Inspire Enough Confidence” | Hon. Henry Cabot Lodge | [38] |
| German Submarines Fire on Open Boats | Alice Brown | [40] |
| Not This Time! | [42] | |
| The President to the Workers | [44] | |
| “Well Done, Fellows! Keep the Home Fires Burning!” | Hon. Lindley M. Garrison | [46] |
| A Bit of the Hindenburg Line | David Bispham | [48] |
| The Rats in Our Home Trenches | E. S. Martin | [50] |
| Seeing Stars | Booth Tarkington | [52] |
| The Two Giants | Hon. James W. Gerard | [54] |
| “Will They Last, Father?” | George W. Cable | [56] |
| “The Ugly Talons of the Sinister Power” | John Burroughs | [58] |
| Restitution and Reparation | Ellis Parker Butler | [60] |
| The Only Possible Position for Traitors | H. C. Chatfield-Taylor | [62] |
| “Do You Mean to Make a Real War?” | [64] | |
| Justice! | Basil Lanneau Gildersleeve | [66] |
| Another Peace Proposal | Henry Dwight Sedgwick | [68] |
| The Fine American Spirit | G. E. Woodberry | [70] |
| Poisoning the Well of Public Opinion | [72] | |
| The Enemy Within | William Roscoe Thayer | [74] |
| Count Von Bernstorff: “Noblesse Oblige” | George Trumbull Ladd | [76] |
| Peter the Hermit | Ida M. Tarbell | [78] |
| The Germ-Man | Albert Bigelow Paine | [80] |
| “A Tid-Bit for ‘The Sick Man’” | Hon. George W. Wickersham | [82] |
| Plain Language from Truthful James | [84] | |
| Helping Hindenburg Home | [86] | |
| A Bad Prophet | [88] | |
| At the Holland Frontier | Hon. William Jennings Bryan | [90] |
| A Rehearsal | [92] | |
| The Path of Kultur | Edwin Markham | [94] |
| To the Victor! | Geraldine Farrar | [96] |
| The Eyes of the Army | Thomas Mott Osborne | [98] |
| “Is It Nothing to You, All Ye Who Pass By?” | Rachel Crothers | [100] |
| The Rainbow Division Leaves for France | Hon. Frederic Courtland Penfield | [102] |
| Russia Reborn | Edward Alsworth Ross | [104] |
| Higher Than a Sour Apple Tree | Samuel Hopkins Adams | [106] |
| “What a Mean Trick to Turn on That Strong Light!” | [108] | |
| Christmas, 1917 | Henry Mills Alden | [110] |
| Helping Uncle Sam to Get Up Speed | [112] | |
| The Wind of Democracy | [114] | |
| “This One for the Babies!” | Rev. Lyman Abbott | [116] |
| A Scene on the Somme | [118] | |
| Hollweg as Robespierre | J. G. Phelps Stokes | [120] |
| President Wilson’s Declaration | John Luther Long | [122] |
| “Don’t Stand in Our Way to Victory!” | George Haven Putnam | [124] |
| “German Soldiers Cut the Throat of an American Sentry” | Cleveland Moffett | [126] |
| Bang! | [128] | |
| “I Must Break in Here Before That Comes Down” | Palmer Cox | [130] |
| Bring Her In! | Charles Edward Russell | [132] |
| Germany’s “Peace” With Russia | Arthur Train | [134] |
| The Better Fighter | [136] | |
| The Dungeon of Autocracy | Hon. Maurice Francis Egan | [138] |
| “Hurrah for Peace, Lads!” | S. Stanwood Menken | [140] |
| Ecce Homo! | Robert W. Chambers | [142] |
| “We Must so Destroy France That She Can Never Resist Us” | Rev. Hugh Black | [144] |
| The Japanese Mouse | [146] | |
| “Ueber Alles” and Underneath | [148] | |
| Expostulation and Reply | [150] | |
| The Second Election | [152] | |
| The Mad Shepherd | Alice Hegan Rice | [154] |
| “Sink Without a Trace” | Oliver Herford | [156] |
| Changing the Guard | Agnes Repplier | [158] |
| The Penitent Artist | [160] | |
| Peace Angels of Doubtful Purity | [162] | |
| The Black Flag | [164] | |
| The Annexation of America | Rear Admiral Robert E. Peary | [166] |
| “Welcome, Mate; You’re Just in Time!” | [168] | |
| The Editor | [170] | |
| German Intrigues in Mexico | Albert Bushnell Hart | [172] |
| German “Militarist” Socialism | William English Walling | [174] |
| The Old Hammer and the New | [176] | |
| The Spirit of Washington | [178] | |
| The Massacre of the Innocents | William Dean Howells | [180] |
| In the Ring to Stay | Harvey O’Higgins | [182] |
| “We Attacked the ‘Fortress of London’” | [184] | |
| Not a Bad Start! | Hon. Thomas R. Marshall | [186] |
| An Echo of the Luxberg Case | [188] | |
| German Chivalry to Wounded Officers | Hamilton Holt | [190] |
| Socialism in Germany | John Spargo | [192] |
| The Spirit of German Science | J. Mark Baldwin | [194] |
| Humanity and Her German Lovers | [196] | |
| The Strikers | Carrie Chapman Catt | [198] |
| 1776-1917 | William Allen White | [200] |
| “Now, Hindenburg, Bring on the Rest of My People” | Hon. David Jayne Hill | [202] |
| The Master of the Hounds | [204] | |
| Processional | Cale Young Rice | [206] |
AMERICA
IN THE WAR
The Stars and Stripes in the
Service of Humanity
“WE have no selfish ends to serve. We desire no conquest, no dominion. We seek no indemnities for ourselves, no material compensation for the sacrifices we shall freely make. We are but one of the champions of the rights of mankind. We shall be satisfied when those rights have been as secure as the faith and the freedom of the nation can make them.”
From President Wilson’s Message to Congress, April 2, 1917.
“When I was a Child, It was
You who Saved Me”
WHETHER it is that an invigorating climate has given our Anglo-Saxon blood a piquant Gallic flavor or because Europe sent us for ancestors only those light-hearted and adventurous souls with a spirit akin to that we admire in the French people, true it is that Americans have always had an especial liking for France and the French. They were our first allies as they are the latest. From Lafayette and Rochambeau to Joffre and Viviani, a host of Frenchmen have won the affectionate regard of Americans and are numbered with our national heroes.
But our relation to the French has a deeper foundation than admiration for a courageous and accomplished race which for centuries has made generous contribution to the sum of the world’s knowledge and achievement. The French were early settlers on this continent; LaSalle and Champlain were the forerunners of a host of French explorers and settlers whose descendants are today taking active and honorable part in the life of community and nation.
Before the war one of the foremost French statesmen said to me, with a certain note of sadness, that in the course of two thousand years of advancing civilization his countrymen had lost something of their initiative: that he believed it would not now, for instance, be possible to build up in France vast industrial organizations like those which are so effectual in establishing the commercial prestige of the United States.