[The Life and Letters of Walter H. Page, Volume I by Burton J. Hendrick]@TWC D-Link bookThe Life and Letters of Walter H. Page, Volume I CHAPTER XI 7/70
In fact, we are helping this Government much in the management of these "alien enemies," as they call them. I am amazed at the good health we all keep with this big volume of work and the long hours.
Not a man nor a woman has been ill a day. I have known something about work and the spirit of good work in other organizations of various sorts; but I never saw one work in better spirit than this.
And remember, most of them are volunteers. The soldiers here complained for weeks in private about the lethargy of the people--the slowness of men to enlist.
But they seemed to me to complain with insufficient reason.
For now they come by thousands.
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