The Labor Department declares it will mobilize for the farm an army of a million boys, as if the wise saw, "boys will be boys," did not apply with peculiar sharpness of flavor to the American vintage, God bless them, and as if it were not our plain duty at this world crisis to spur up rather than check civilizing agencies and keep our boys in school for the full term.

Russia protested, Austria mobilized against Serbia and Montenegro, and war seemed imminent.

The organization is complete throughout the nation, so that an army of 80,000 men can be mobilized in a few days.

France, who mobilized at the same time as ourselves, declared that she would respect a ten-kilometre zone along her frontiers.

According to the German apologists, it was sent because Russia had mobilized on the German frontier at the critical moment, and so made war inevitable.

All this help was mobilized within an hour.

By rail we traveled south across the level fields and lush green meadows of Holland, over bridges ready to be dynamited in case of invasion, and through training camps of the 450,000 Dutch soldiers then mobilized along the border.

All that we were and all that we had was thoroughly mobilized behind the fighting arms, the army and the navy.

Moreover, as Austria and her forces mobilized before Russia, a diversion was created by the Austrian invasion of south Poland, in which the Germans also took the offensive.

April 16Italy has 1,200,000 men mobilized under arms; Austrians report complete defeat of Russians in Carpathian campaign.

I can quote an example of an aristocrat who, in spite of his splendid château in the country, was mobilized as a simple soldat.