April 16, 1915

The Indianapolis Star

“King Needs You.”

“King and country needs you” was a printed and spoken appeal that took to the front only those Englishmen who would have gone anyway from the first pulsing sense of duty. There were those who need stimulus of another kind for eye and ear, and they were given it in daily increasing doses. A Sportsman’s Battalion poster drew hundreds to the recruiting offices within an hour of its flaring. This did it: A wounded motor cycle messenger in the foreground; back of him the red-lit battle line with shells bursting about an British standard. Underneath the vivid picture was the appeal in order form

“Don’t let them do it all.”