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Title: The Independent
Year: 1849 (1840s)
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Publisher: New York : S.W. Benedict
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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© American Prett NIECES OF UNCLE SAMWomen dont stop to think, which may be interpreted as meaning that they go ahead where theres work to be done and do it. At any ratethere are already all sorts of womens organizations preparing for war possibilities in this country. Here are two samples: the Red Cross en-rolling volunteer workers, and a U. S. Army recruiting station, set up in New York City by wives of the officers at Fort Slocum
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Drawn for The Jndepnnh-nt ly TV. C. Motrin READY, UNCLE SAM! ::;llJl!lilllll!llll!llll(llllll!llllii!lill MOBILIZATION . WHAT WE MUST DOAND HOW REAR ADMIRAL FISKE REAR ADMIRAL PEARY HENRY A. WISE WOOD HOWARD EARLE COFFIN GRACE PARKER m lijlllillllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll THE NAVY NEEDS STRATEGY BY REAR ADMIRAL BRADLEY A. FISKE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES NAVAL INSTITUTE IN the present situation the mainthing for us to realize is that thecrisis has become a military one, andthat history shows that the mostdangerous thing a country can do in amilitary crisis is to underestimate thegravity of the situation. The fashion in this country has beento take it for granted that, in the pres-ent conflict, the Allies will surely win.At its outbreak, the great majority ofour people thought that the war wouldsoon be over with the advantage onthe Allies side, and there were manyhighly influential men who thought thewar would not last more than ninetydays. Army and Navy officers

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