{"id":816,"date":"2017-06-07T19:12:34","date_gmt":"2017-06-07T23:12:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/44parkave.com\/holdernewt\/?p=816"},"modified":"2022-03-16T11:16:28","modified_gmt":"2022-03-16T15:16:28","slug":"log-of-earl-w-baker-3121917-441917","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/44parkave.com\/holdernewt\/2017\/06\/log-of-earl-w-baker-3121917-441917\/","title":{"rendered":"Log of Earl W Baker 3\/12\/1917 \u2013 4\/4\/1917"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">March 12, 1917<\/span><\/h4>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Posted most of 10th cash. Am downstairs. Went to Library. Noted article in Collier&#8217;s in favor of broad general business knowledge &amp; contra specialization. Met M. R. who introduced me to Miss Ginsberg. M. R. is verbose &#8211; friendly. Studied Coml. Course slightly (?)* 11 P.M.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">*the (?) was his note<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<h4><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">March 17, 1917<\/span><\/h4>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Russia is in the way of becoming a Republic. The reigning house have abdicated in favor of the Duomo. All with comparatively little bloodshed or interval of time. So the Great War here accomplishes democracy, and turns history into a new period.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Tonight, Wilton Lackage, courtly villian &amp; Blanche Bates in 11 P.M. Plot risque, acting superb. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Billiard &#8211; Highland &amp; Hyde Park. N Hamburg\/2. Too many sweets.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Opened Coml. Course books last eve. Am appreciating the book \u201cFellow Captains\u201d by S Cleghorn. New thought in variations. Veget. diet still dormant. Am over indulgent. 12 PM<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Am slack and not progressing; sheer impotence.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Wilson has called for an extra session.<\/span><\/p>\n<h4><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">April 2nd, 1917<\/span><\/h4>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Wilson made a wonderful speech to Congress &#8211; calm, logical, coherent, and clear cut in its definitions. His peroration \u201cfrom Luther\u201d is Lincolnesque in its eloquence. <\/span><\/p>\n<h4><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">April 3rd &#8211; 4th, 1917<\/span><\/h4>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Congress declared war &#8211; first the senate -latter the House where pacifists mustered 50 strong. The Pres. has signed the declaration &amp; the allies are rejoicing. 5 Billion $ will be raised of which 3 will go as loan to the allies. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The conscription problem holds the stage. Considerable opposition may loom up against service abroad. Teddy R. is for once with the administration as are Taft &amp; Bryan who has offered his services as private. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>March 12, 1917 Posted most of 10th cash. Am downstairs. Went to Library. Noted article in Collier&#8217;s in favor of &hellip;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/44parkave.com\/holdernewt\/2017\/06\/log-of-earl-w-baker-3121917-441917\/\">Continue reading &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,19],"tags":[69,34,68,50],"class_list":["post-816","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-20th-century","category-wwi","tag-declaration-of-war","tag-poughkeepsie","tag-russian-revolution","tag-wwi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/44parkave.com\/holdernewt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/816","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/44parkave.com\/holdernewt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/44parkave.com\/holdernewt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/44parkave.com\/holdernewt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/44parkave.com\/holdernewt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=816"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/44parkave.com\/holdernewt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/816\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":817,"href":"https:\/\/44parkave.com\/holdernewt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/816\/revisions\/817"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/44parkave.com\/holdernewt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/44parkave.com\/holdernewt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/44parkave.com\/holdernewt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}