umper.

The Red Cross War Fund and Membership poster.

A photograph of the United States Transport _George Washington_ taken
from an airplane.

President Wilson driving from the railroad station in Paris with
President Poincare of France.

Sergeant York wearing the French Croix de Guerre and the Congressional
Medal of Honor.

Pronouncing Vocabulary (four images).

WINNING A CAUSE

WHY THE UNITED STATES ENTERED THE WAR

The United States was slow to enter the war, because her people
believed war an evil to be avoided at almost any cost except honor. In
fact, "Peace at any price" seemed to be the motto of many Americans
even after two years of the World War.

[Illustration: The standard bearers and color guard leading a column of
the Fifth Artillery of the First American Division through Hetzerath,
Germany, on their way to the Rhine.]

President Wilson declared in a speech at Philadelphia on May 10, 1915,
that there is such a thing as being too proud to fight. He was
severely criticized for his statement, and yet it is very true, and for
more than a generation it had been taught to American boys and girls.
Peace societies had sent lecturers to the public schools to point out
the wickedness of war and the blessings of peace. Prizes had been
offered to high school, normal school, and college students for the
best essays on _Peace_, _How to Maintain the Peace of the World_, and
other similar subjects. To get ready for war by enlarging the army and
navy was declared to be the very best way to bring on war. School
reading books made a feature of peace selections, and school histories
were making as little of our national wars as possible. These
teachings and the very air of the land of freedom made people too proud
to fight, if there were any honorable way of avoiding it.

It is said that "People judge others by themselves." So Americans,
being peaceful, contented, and not possessed with envy of their
neighbors, supposed all other civilized people were like themselves.
Therefore they could not at first believe that the Germans were
different and looked upon war as a glorious thing, because through it
they might get possession of the wealth and property of others.
Perhaps the Germans, judging other people by themselves, believed that
the French and Russians and English, like the Germans, stood ready to
go to war whenever through it they might gain wealth and territory; but
the Germans did not think