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Newspaper
The Diller Record
Location
Diller, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Oct 04, 1918
Page
4
Poem by Raps E. McMILLIN extols Liberty Loan support as essential for sailors soldiers and civilians. It frames Liberty Bonds as money from home powering ships aircraft and troops and securing world peace. The verse echoes wartime patriotism and calls readers to invest.
The Red Cross notes report 387 workers at a Wednesday meeting, 182 surgical dressings completed this meeting and 118 Friday, plus a calf donated for auction in Diiler to fund the local chapter. The piece also covers a wartime shell-pit and nut-shell conservation appeal and a Wisconsin espionage case where Louis Nagler was convicted for anti Red Cross and anti YMC A remarks, with Judge Evans questioning the scope of the act.
Harbine notes recount social visits from Tecumseh Hastings and Lincoln. Local life includes a watermelons shipment by Joe Specht, family movements to Omaha for service, school breaks for teachers institute, and a farewell for Os and Flora Wharton after 22 years in Harbine.
In November every able bodied and patriotic boy under military age in Nebraska is urged to enroll in the U S Boys Working Reserve. The program aims to prepare youths to support the war effort through productive labor, not military service, aligning with national goals of democracy and liberty.
A call urges every able bodied boy to enroll for productive industry to support the war effort. Training camps will be established with uniforms and expenses paid, and students will return to school after completing the program. Lennard W. Trester, Federal State Director, promotes patriotic duty. Fourteen states have abolished German language teaching, with sixteen more pursuing similar campaigns per the American Defense Society report.
Nebraska committee asks state business leaders to return letters bearing the slogan Yours for the Fourth Liberty Loan. The campaign idea originated with Thomas A. Edigon.
A Los Angeles Times item argues that constant devotion to efficiency may dull a person and sap enthusiasm. It warns against following rigid rules forever and warns that such pressure can stale a temperament and wear a person down. The tone is cautionary and reflective about overemphasizing efficiency.
An eleven year old argues with a corner druggist over a broken dime and pennies in change. The boy challenges the clerk to read the coin’s minting note and bets on soda waters and chocolate treats to prove his point.
A prose poem attacking Germany, vivid with harsh imagery of horror and disgust. The speaker condemns the foe as monstrous and depraved, claiming moral repulsion and blaming the aggressor for wartime infamy. The piece contrasts a "reptile" place with the Abominable and invokes themes of infamy and condemnation.
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