Jasper County Democrat, Volume 20, Number 67, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 November 1917 — SENSIBLE M’ADOO [ARTICLE]

SENSIBLE M’ADOO

During the progress of the Liberty loan campaign, Secretary McAdoo visited many sections of the country in the work of stimulating interest in the campaign. In one southern city where Mr. McAdoo is well known and admired, the proposition was advanced by enthusiastic members of the entertainment committee to designate a day as “McAdoo day.” When the proposition reached the ears of the secretary it was promptly negatived, with the remark that this was no time for self-exploitation, and that the entire energy of the American people should be centered on the one great task of winning the war. Mr. McAdoo was right. The people of this city would gladly have done him honor, and at any other time the secretary" would have been pleased and gratified at this remark of their favor. But, as he well says, this is no time for exploiting personalities. It is a time when mere individual interests must give way dor the interest of humanity in the mass. And there are many others besides the secretary who have sensed this fact. .Leaders of thought and action in every avenue of life are cheerfully relegating to the rear their persona)! interests and ambitions and making themselves mere cogs in the great wheel that is tn carry the nations onward and upward. At the same time it is a thought that needs to be emphasized, as not all our people’ have yet grasped the fact that seif must now take a more humble place at least for a season. When the cause of the people has. been won, doubtless there will be laurels distributed for many who are today working in comparative obscurity, but in the meantime let us do the work at our hand without clamoring for a place in the limelight. To be and to do is sufficient for today. Rewards may welii be deferred till our great objective has been realized.