<html xmlns:tei="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"><body><h1 align="center" class="head">An American Creed</h1><p class="byline"> EVERARD JACK APPLETON <br xmlns:exist="http://exist.sourceforge.net/NS/exist" xmlns:html="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40"/>By permission of Stewart & Kidd Company, Cincinnati, Publishers of 'With the Colors," by Everard Jack Appleton. Copyright, 1918.</p><div class="stanza"><p class="line">STRAIGHT thinking, </p><p class="line">Straight talking, </p><p class="line">Straight doing, </p><p class="line">And a firm belief in the might of right.</p></div><div class="stanza"><p class="line">Patience linked with patriotism, </p><p class="line">Justice added to kindliness, </p><p class="line">Uncompromising devotion to this Country, </p><p class="line">And active, not passive, Americanism.</p></div><div class="stanza"><p class="line" style="text-indent:8%">To talk less, to mean more, </p><p class="line" style="text-indent:8%">To complain less, to accomplish more,</p><p class="line">And to so live that every one of us is ready to look</p><p class="line">Eternity in the face at any moment, and be unafraid! </p></div></body></html> · Great War