WINNING A CAUSE***
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WINNING A CAUSE
by
JOHN GILBERT THOMPSON
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In Flanders Now
(An Answer to Lt.-Col. McCrae)
We have kept faith, ye Flanders' dead, Sleep well beneath those poppies red, That mark your place. The torch your dying hands did throw We 've held it high before the foe, And answered bitter blow for blow, In Flanders' fields.
And where your heroes' blood was spilled The guns are now forever stilled And silent grown. There is no moaning of the slain, There is no cry of tortured pain, And blood will never flow again In Flanders' fields.
Forever holy in our sight Shall be those crosses gleaming white, That guard your sleep. Rest you in peace, the task is done, The fight you left us we have won, And "Peace on Earth" has just begun In Flanders now.
EDNA JACQUES in the _Calgary Herald_
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[Frontispiece: Edwin Rowland Blashfield's poster, "Carry On," used in the Fourth Liberty Loan.
This striking lithograph in the movement of its design expresses the compelling force of the American spirit as it entered the World War.
The original oil painting has been purchased by The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City.]
WINNING A CAUSE
World War Stories
by
JOHN GILBERT THOMPSON Principal of the State Normal School, Fitchburg, Mass.
and
INEZ BIGWOOD Instructor in Children's Literature, State Normal School, Fitchburg, Mass.
Authors of Lest We Forget
Silver, Burdett and Company Boston ---- New York ---- Chicago Copyright, 1919, by Silver, Burdett and Company.
PREFACE
_Lest We Forget_, the first volume of World War stories, gave an outline of the struggle up to the time of the signing of the armistice, November 11, 1918, and contained in general chronological order most of the stories that to children from ten to sixteen years of age would be of greatest interest, and give the clearest understanding of the titanic contest.
This; the second volume of the same series, contains the stories of the war of the character described, that were not included in _Lest We Forget_,--stories of the United States naval heroes, of the Americans landed in France, of the concluding events of the war, of the visit of President Wilson to Europe, and of the Peace Conference. In a word, emphasis is placed upon America's part in the struggle.
This volume should be of even greater interest to American children than the first, for it tells the story of America's greatest achievement, of a nation undertaking a tremendous and terrible task not for material gain, but for an ideal.
No more inspiring story has ever been told to the children of men than the story of America's part in winning the greatest cause for which men have ever contended. President Wilson said in Europe, "The American soldiers came not merely to win a war, but to win a cause." Every child in every home and in every school should be made familiar with how it was won, and with the separate stories which go to make up the glorious epic.
