{"id":899,"date":"2017-11-06T15:37:12","date_gmt":"2017-11-06T20:37:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/44parkave.com\/holdernewt\/?p=899"},"modified":"2022-03-16T11:04:01","modified_gmt":"2022-03-16T15:04:01","slug":"log-of-earl-w-baker-may-1918","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/44parkave.com\/holdernewt\/2017\/11\/log-of-earl-w-baker-may-1918\/","title":{"rendered":"Log of Earl W Baker, May 1918"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">May 5th, 1918<\/span><\/h5>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Third Liberty Loan greatly oversubscribed &amp; not all returns in. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Have been for the last week off the books &#8211; checking all bills &amp; acting as ass\u2019i to the office head. Believe I am getting along fairly well. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sunday morning I attended the class of Prof. Shear whose talks are remarkably strong and helpful. Re. the war, he asserted that regardless of seeming defeat and disappointment, he never had any fear or the slightest doubt as to the outcome for the reason that \u201cthe truth will always eventually prevail.\u201d If we are without this belief, we are without any religious convictions whatsoever.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Regarding the wealth of which we are all so covetous, he assured us that <\/span><b>whatever ephemeral possession &amp; money might buy, it could purchase not one of the eternal values, which are character, honor, love, truth and integrity. And without these eternal values how may we find happiness.<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Last Friday I saw the film Materlink\u2019s \u201cBlue Bird\u201d and it was beautifully presented. Took miss HIll and enjoyed her company. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The German drive has been renewed for the third time. Ireland is bitterly resenting threatened conscription of manpower.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">E Hunt, on furlough, tanned &amp; rugged, after 4 weeks training dropped in this P.M.<\/span><\/p>\n<h5><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">May 1918<\/span><\/h5>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The last Sunday in May \u201cBab\u201d Hill\u201d Alice Duryea, Paul Weiss and myself went to Mohonk by trolley to New Paltz &amp; carriage to Mt. Rest. We had a delightful day tho\u2019 a dry one. \u00a0Sometime ago I had spoken to A. D re. reading Hugh Walpole &amp; I was pleased to hear her enthuse over his \u201cFortitude\u201d. Am beginning to approve of Alice.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Huns are finally stopped after a 12 mile lunge into France. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>May 5th, 1918 Third Liberty Loan greatly oversubscribed &amp; not all returns in. Have been for the last week off &hellip;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/44parkave.com\/holdernewt\/2017\/11\/log-of-earl-w-baker-may-1918\/\">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":[51,52,34,50],"class_list":["post-899","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-20th-century","category-wwi","tag-mohonk-mountain-house","tag-new-paltz","tag-poughkeepsie","tag-wwi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/44parkave.com\/holdernewt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/899","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=899"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/44parkave.com\/holdernewt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/899\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":900,"href":"https:\/\/44parkave.com\/holdernewt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/899\/revisions\/900"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/44parkave.com\/holdernewt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/44parkave.com\/holdernewt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/44parkave.com\/holdernewt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}