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11WU THE RESERVES OF VICTORY
11/I'M ** 's cas^ *or brava<*? to
ll/lM| of speculation as to what America's
I' /MmI fiff*1*'11? forces will do during the comIWJSI
y?31"- ^ur rnuscles are so strong
/*?Pj an(f our resources in strength so treApBLffii
mendous. And we are not as yet
shocked by first losses of blood, disma>'ctf
at living the first Payments
on the Price of Liberty come due.
- * "What we are going to do" must,
therefore, be given as a background
.gsB&NST "What has been done." The thrice-j
noble achievements of our Allies,
Ipyf/V bought with untold crimson sacrifices,
4 should be present as we look into the
veiled year?1918. Their example
must hearten us with high resolve that
i 1KT their dead?and ours?shall not have
jtyT died in vain. On the threshold of anMitW/'j
other year of war we must renew dent
I// 'A vot'on to lhe causc f?r which they
T/ rffy gave^full measures of devotion.'
' V//fi Determination must be curs?calm,
L 'f'l fi?'y? stern determination?that P s"j
IW'/fffi sianism ana <111 u uipiKi ,.
w/f m '\ raP'ne> violation of womanhood and
IIf Mfjk ruthless desecration of childhood's
// [Jflk happy shrine shall be crushed to earth
If Iflu never to rise again. When cur neighI
Ijrf bor's sunny-haired girl is ravaged by
ll w wolves, is our little one safe until the'
II h7 / beasts have . been destroyed. The
JW/ power we know as Prussianism hasj
L /l | taken our neighbors' precious ones.'
Mnll I' Would ours be spared, if that power
fill I I were allowed to live?
*11 1/ / Germany must be crushed, if seII
III I curity is to be vouched for all those
J / I things which Humanity cherishes?
| III I women and happiness and children and
Ml I peace. That is the task ahead. It is
J I the task to which America has put its
In I I mighty hand. Having put hand to the
III P'0^ there is no turning back. The
'I's^tTim job will be finished, and America's porM
tion in the business is a vast one:
' *% America's armies now training and
I I those to be trained, her resources in
M 11 mine and factory, her brains, her
HJ I fl womanhood, strong of heart, are to be
ca"c^ upon during the year 1918 as
IM i 11J have never been before. They
l?l^' constitute tremendous power. It is a
power which is righteously directed
and impelled by the purest of motives.
1^1 | I I It is the Reserve of Victory which will
jlj II bring an end to Prussianism.
J -.'ll'if! A MIRROR TO THE NATION
i I it The current "survey" by the Senate
Military Affairs Committee of the
War Department's preparations for
',1 the war, and more particularly of the
^ ill I preliminary work of the Ordnance DcI
ill partment, is not so much an investiga1
j | II II tion as it is a revelation, says The
I ll III Army and Navy Journal. It is the
holding up to the nation a great mirror
in which the people of the United
States can sec themselves and their
B chosen representatives in Congress reflected
in all their blind indifference to
a few simple truths about military affairs
as to which they have elected to
remain indifferent these many years.
If this mirror had the fabled qualities
of Oriental crystal globes it would
reveal to the people of the United
States a few pictures, emerging and
disappearing, of their mental experiences
since the outbreak of the European
war. They would see their sudden
TRENCH A
realization of how little we were prepared
for participation in such a war
if it came on us as suddenly as it did
on Europe. They would see their
belated emotional response to the
"Preparedness" idea and the shocking
suddenness with which they dropped
it. They would see their legislators
attempting (and for a- time successfully)
to cripple the General Staff of
the Army through the agency of the
otherwise admirable National Defense
Act. And they would see themselves
permitting their legislators to make
huge appropriations for ships and guns
and munitions and clothing only when
it was years too late. This is what we
see in the mirror the Senate Military
Affairs Committee is holding up to the
nation; and these pictures are there
for everyone else to see if he will but
clear his eyes of the mists of indifference
and ignorance that has clouded
them too long.
"IT'S ALL RIGHT*
There is no hysteria, no futile
frenzy, no maudlin regretting from
relatives and friends of those Americans
in General Pershing's list of
"missing" after the fight with Germans
near Cambrai.
"It's all right. The Stars and Stripes
are good enough for him to die for."
So one father crystallized tne sentiment
of these anguishing ones for
whom the term "missing* can mean
everything terrible. "Dead" would be
definite, at least. "Missing" harrows
the imagination and tortures the mind.
And yet there is nothing but calm
heroism from these to whom is given
the First Sacrifices. They are sustained
by a love of country and its
ideals which transcends' even the ties
of flesh and blood. Their pure patriotism
has indissoluble kinship with
the spirit in which their loved ones
offered their lives.
Unconsciously, perhaps, they all
have the spirit of that Galileean
Teacher who said His mother, sister
and brother were those who did the
win or tne urcat ratner or ah.
What a contrast to the spirit of that
spinster aunt who attempted to console
her niece! The niece had freely
sent her own best-loved?a young
husband?to France, that her country,
and ours, might be redeemed!
The aunt drew the young lady into
a darkened chamber and. pulling
down her lips, said complainingly:
"Well, my dear,' I do hate to be unpatriotic,
but I did so hope that this
'war wouldn't take any of mine!"
Bismarck's "Nation of H
A Nation of 1
The following article by Harvey
[O'Higgins is issued by'the Oommit|
tee on Public Information:
"The Germans," their beloved Bismarck
said, "are a nation of house
His successors seem to have made
them a nation of army worms.
J All their fine qualities of loyalty
and service ? which Bismarck
summed up so contemptuously?have
been turned from ideals of domestic
I peace and labor to the ravaging of
I their neighbors in a devastating war.
I A nation of army worms, led by imperial
locusts, they havn advanced
upon the world in their famous mass
formations, a gray-green swarm of
devoted loyalists, at once admirable
and horrifying.
World Banded Against Them
I And the world has banded against
them. One by one a score of States
j have been forced to arm and defend
themselves. Not even the peaceful
traditions of China or the determined
isolation of the United States could
save them from the unprovoked assaults
of this submissive people led
by ambitious maniacs. The war has
become a war to rid Germany and the
world of Germany's Mud Mullah.
And just as there would be no peace
a hundred years ago in Europe, and
no freedom in France uniu wapoieuu
had been caged, so now there can
be no security for any nation and no
liberty for the Germans until their
Hobenzollern has been crushed and
his loyal victims awakened from their
national hypnosis. The free peoples |
of the earth are battling against the,
last serfs of military autocracy not
only to protect themselves, but to;
libe'rate their enemy. America i8;
naming 10 esiuuusu aiuuug
tions of Europe another such peace-.
ful league of self-governing States as,
our War of Independence founded on
this continent. It is a war against
war?against international injustice,
and predatory ideals of empire, and
the slavery of willing slaves assaulting
freedom.
Again fend again the nations made
terms of peace with Napoleon. It
was useless until he mlde his final
terms of unconditional surrender
lNP camp
THE ENTHUSIJ
ENTHUSIASM is a variety of contagic
an enthusiastic enlisted man,. it's pi
' he has an enthusiastic C. 0.
The enthusiastic officer is to his co
kindergarten. He spreads. His spirit o
six action which gets a full mileage of "i
hay fever convention. * In the presence
position stiffens, the will gets backbone a
minatlon.
It is easy to knock on the office do<
the good of the company. The enthusiaj
In the suggestion. He will meet it wit
wisdom appeals, and if the suggestion se
* ??- >?'? "-IKtioloom Intn o narollol char
interview was a big success. You call th
tunity. -
If it's a company project, an enterj
of C.'O. puts steam back of the plans. H
the purposes and makes them big and w
This C. O. enjoys soldiering. He en
it meaningful.
MY WAR
/ oeueve tn me unneu jtmco
[ icons, my compatriots.
I believe in her Ideals, her Inst
Founded on. Equality, Liber
MUST endure, eternal among the
But America is threatened. 7
stool trembles. Neath the bludgec
and Freedom swoons.
Therefore, strong in the Faith,
erty everywhere and the prescrva
Temple?and mine.
And I dedicate without rescrv
lions, my heart, my hand and all 1
America and the World Freedom i
the World Lust.
For if you and I fail, the Bet
shall burn his brand upon us. Ever
SERF. And Freedom, made in th
perish forever from the earth.
?Written for Trench and Camf
I
ouse Servants" Now Becom
Vrmy Worms. Turned from
Ideals to a Ravaging V
after Waterloo. The French of his wt
day were an admirable, a wonderful ne
people; but led by his military am- so
bition" they became the conquering so
enemies of mankind. It was his wars th
that imposed militarism on Germany, in;
It is his tradition that now animates th
the Prussian imperial buzsard. Use- pr
less to talk of terms of peace with in,
this new Napoleonism. Useless to ro
plead the virtues of the German peo- de
pie. They have become the outlaws ra
of civilization, surrounded by a posse th
of nations ktid fighting desperately do
at the mouth of their care. There to
can be no enduring .....
havo deposed their robber chieftian sa
and renounced ttafeir creed of blood fe
and iron. ^
Forced Upon the United States
The United States has been com- gJ(
pelled to join the posse. After en- ro
during outrages with a patience that w<
exasperated mankind, we have en- jQ,
rolled in the league of peace against he
Germany. Our Navy is fighting in
European waters to protect our own wj
shores. Our Army is going to the tQ
trenches in France that we may not
have to dig trenches in America. We w<
have organized for war because we CQ
have been denied peace. We have ba
accented conscription against con- ,
Iscription We have given our Gov- "
I ernment^the powers of a military dieI
tafor to save ourselves from the military
dictatorship of the Most High .
of Potsdam. We have surrendered
all our peaceful liberties in order to
organize our country for purposes of G
war, because war can be efficiently ^
waged in no other way. Only with .
blood and iron can we save ourselves
from the devotees of blood and iron. .
When death comes into a dispute t
there is no answer to it but death. ^
The "War Lord's" Peace OfTer jn
Now that the German war lord bl
sees the sword at his throat, he i9 H
willing to use another argument. He w;
ofTers to talK of "peace without pun- w<
ishment." He is 'willing to forget H
our dead, to forgive our wounds, to wi
overlook our injuries, to bow us out di
of his fortress and repair his de- sa
fenses, and fit a new blade to his old te
hilt. His agents assure us that our I St
allies are not our friends; that this ha
vr TYPES I
istic a o.
>n. Whenever, therefore, you meet
iy envelope to a plate of hash that
mpany aa -a case of measles is to a
f rest tor work and play, his twln>ep"
are as catching as sneexee In a
Of the enthusiastic C. O. the disnd
the face becomes set with deter>r
with a suggestion all framed for
itlc C. O. is sure to find some merit
h a smile of encouragement, if its
ems wide of the mark, he tactfully
'?'I-" ?h?t the
inei. XOU go aw?; iwue
e C. 0. "Prince" at the next opportrise
to boost the outfit, this brand
e injects vigor, vim and vision into
orth while.
ijoys life, and living, and he makes
CREED
of America and in the Anteritutions
and her Destiny,
ty and Tolerance, America
- m
Nations.
'he world wars. God's Footin
of the'Beast, Nations reel
, I pledge the defense of Libtion
of America, her special
e, I surrender without condipossess
to my Country, that v
may beat down Germany and
ist shall surely triumph. He
v brow shall bear the name of
c image of the Creator, shall
'
? by Charles Wayland Towne.
eg
Domestic Peace
/ar on Their Neighbors
ir Is not our war; that we should
iver have thrust ourselves into it
unexpected. They observe with
rrow that we have renounced on
e battle field, and under fire, our
alienable right to life, liberty, and
e pursuit of happiness. They ex- ,.
ess a pious fear that in volunteerg
for a war to make the world safe
r democracy we may have surrenred
ourselves to a military autoccy
no better than their own. Like
e wolf brought to bay by the sheep
igs, they are afraid that we may #
rget our Interest in the flocks if we
ay away from them too long. "Ah,"
ys the wolf, "let us no longer be
rocious. Why should we kill one
range sensibly the terms on. which
iu may pasture your flocks, side by
ie. without quarreling. There is
om for us all in this beautiful
>rld. I will not detain you any
nger. Let us all go away from
ire. Yes?"
When the wolf becomes pitiful, the
ae dog grows deaf. We are new
this hunt. We have been without
wolf so long on our continent that
; forget he can not repent and heme
a good collie. Let him go .. .'tig
,ck to his den as meekly as you
aase, he will be out again, hungry.
soon as bis wounds are healed,
ie sheep dogs must make the world
fe for the sheep dog. It will never
i safe till this last wolfish military
itocracy has died in its lair.
And it will never be safe till the
srman people, freed of their enlantment
of loyal subservience,
ive been made to see that they are
>t a nation of green insects. "My
rds," cnea me lawyer, -we are ver- *r%
brate animals! We are mammalia!
y learned friend's manner would be
tolerable in Almighty God to a
ack beetle!" The German Most
[gh has drowned us in our ships
1th as little compunction as if we
sre cockroaches In the forecastle. nf?
e has assumed to us, and to all the
orld, the air of omnipotence ad essing
army worms. It is necesry
to show him that man is a verbrate
animal. It i3 necessary fo
iow the German people that they 1
,ve the responsibility o( backbones.