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/ftjfl "It is sticking to it that does it."
I "It is the side that has the nerve
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jM| With these pithy sentences former
President Taft closed his speech to
the soldiers in twelve Army cantonments.
He has just made a thirtyday
tour of the cantonments for the
War Work Council of the Young
Men's Christian Association.
VKsf/ Mr. Taft talked on the Great War
why wc are in it; what caused it;
who will win it.
"The battle is not won in the first
day. but by the commander and the
army that are ready, even after ap
I 'Mi1:ty/'\ parent dereat, to begin me nrxi uaj,
Mm/1ny/ lie said.
IN r/A hiked His l^ugl. and Talk
III\ f/iw. This is the stuff the soldiers liked,
//7jil They believed it. They have to live
HA W i it. And^besides liking what Mr. Taft
//? said, the soldiers loved to hear him
?/// lauKh.
V/f Ji/ The Commanding Officers at each
W(f fJftk cantonment welcomed Mr. Taft and
awi with ",eir sta^s escorted him* to
/. ' headquarters. The salient argu //
09 U i 1,,pnts in -N,r- Taffs address follow:
III IW/i i'eace now. even though it be made
ml y. /l , i on ",e ha-sis o{ the restoration of the
Vi\l/ll I flatus QUO WllUOUl iuueuiu.1.53 a..v
MrI I I without annexations.'' would be s
/III// I failure to achieve the great purpost
illII I ^or wbich the Allies have madt
!lll .heartrending sacrifice. Armament!
hll would continue for the next war, anc
Wlj this war would have been fought ii
HI Vllln'" Future at Stuke
I I A"ies are fighting for a prin
H ciple the maintenance of which af
fects the future of civilization, li
AM they do no? achieve it they have sac
rificed the flower of their youth ant
mortgaged their future for a century
The Allies cannot concede peace un
A til they conquer it. When they dt
WJfi so. it will be permanent. Otherwisi
wMfH I they fail.
IWP^ lrnder the first William with hii
',r'mo Mintster*Bismarck. who rami
I to power in 1S62. the whole Prussiai
f^i 11 I nation was made into an army, ant
'If I it soon became a machine with i
I I 'ill power of conquest equaled by nt
I '/'iff other. The diplomacy of BIsmarcl
! ! first unittd F'russia with Austria t<
I [ \y deprive Denmark of Schleswig-Hol
stein by force, then secured a quar
v-rfl rel with Austria over spoils, and de
^?fT| prived her of all influence "6ver th?
Ml'I I German states by humiflating defea
I 1 I 11 IIII in the six weeks' war of 1866.
I} 111 f |J |j Then in 1870 the occasion wa
1 ll^mrll 8e'ze^? when it was known - tha
I hi France was not prepared, to strik
at her. France was beaten, am
Alsace and Lorraine were taken froE
MVl her" The German Empire was es
JfejUraL tablished with a Prussian King at it
^ WtMSN destiny of Germany gre*
larger in the eyes of her Empero
and her people, and the blood am
iron I)olicy w^'ch had been directei
ifflK first to the achievement of the unit
I of Germany expanded into a drear
"f Germanizing the world. German;
did not nlan the killing of th/j Aus
trian Archduke and his consort, bu
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Has The Nerve
This War, Says Taft
the minute that that presented the
likelihood of war, Germany accepted
it as the opportunity for her to strike
down htr neighbors, Russia and
France, and to enlarge her power.
She-knew that Russia was utterly 1
unprepared. She knew that France ?
was unprepared. She knew that r
Great Britain jms unprepared. She
herself was ready to the last cannon ,
and the last reservist.
To End Militarism j
| President Wilson says the Allies j
I are fighting to make the world safe ,
for democracy. Some misconception
I has been created on this head. The ^
i Allies are not struggling to force a e
particular form of government on .
J Germany. Their purpose is to end ^
the military policy and foreign ,
policy of Germany that looks to the ,
maintenance of a military and naval ,
! machine, with its hair-trigger prepaI
ration for use against her neighbors. ,
How is the change to be effected? \
j By defeating Germany in this" war. ,
Men whp see clearly the kind of .
peace which we must have, to be a ,
real and lasting peace, can have no ,
:| sympathy with a patched-up peace,
. !nn? made at a council table, the re- .
I suit of diplomatic chaffering and bar- ]
l gaining. |
t And now what of the United
; States?
j The right of non-combatants on ,
I commercial vessels, officers, crew, :
i and passengers, either enemy or neutral.
to be secure from danger of
life, has always been recognized and
- never contested. Nevertheless, Ger
many sank, without warning, 150
[I American citizens, men. women
- and children, and sent them to
V their death by a submarine tor.
pedo, simply because they happened
- to be on English ofr American com,
mercial vessels. We protested and
> Germany halted for a time. We
thought that if we condoned the
* peace with that Power,
l U. K. Forced Into War
1 But It was not to be. and after
i more than a year Germany an)
nounced her purpose to resume this
i murderous and- illegal course toward
) innocent Americans. Had we hesi
tated, we would have lost our inde
pendenco as a people.
But we are at, a danger point. The
e war is now to be determined by the
t active tenacity of purpose of the contestants.
England showed that ten
s acity in ine wars 01 napuieuu. n?t
poleon succumbed. General Grant, In
e his Memoirs, says that the battle is
i won not in the first day, but by the
a commander and the army that are
ready, even after apparent defeat, to
s begin the next day. It is the side
that has the nerve that will win.
v "It is doggedness that does it."
r Stamp on all proposals of peace as
i ill advised or seditious, and then
& time will make fOT our certain vicy
tory.
ii When the war is won, the United
y States will insist on a just peace, not
one or material conquest. It is a
t moral victory the world should win.
HEADLINE
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Secretary Baker, In W
Able To Call Up Gen
And Converse Over \
"Hello, Mr. Secretary, this is Central
Pershing speaking, I have the
lonor to report that we have the
tnemy on the run and are getting
learer and nearer to Berlin." %
"Fine business and more power to
rou. Press on. Roll them back,
rhe War Department and the whole
tountry congratulates you. If there
= """ttiirrr vn?v need 'Over There,'
? I."?o / ?
ust ring me up and I'll ship it over."
This is a purely Imaginary conrersation
between General Pershing,
Itting in his - headquarters In
France, and Secretary Baker at his
lesk in the War Department in
iVashington, but after next August
t will be not only possible but probible.
i
Work of putting General Pershing
ind Secretary Baker into telephone
connection is being rushed. The fact
hat 3,000 tniles of water and hunireds"
of miles of land will separate
:hem will be an inconsequential delail.
Telephone communication between
the two will be established when the
Slant radio station which the United
States Government is building in1
France is completed. The station Is
being constructed by the Navy Department,
which has charge of all
radio communication. It will cost
$2,250,000 and be as powerful as
the wireless statioa at Arlington,
Va., WHICH nas a range ui aiuioai o,000
miles.
The practicability of using the
telephone in connection with wireless
telegraphy was established many
months ago and Secretary of the
Navy Daniels has already sat in his
office in Washington and talked to
the commanders of vessels far out
at sea.
It w'ould take an entire volume to
fully explain how the human voice
NEW WAR TELE
6,000 WC
A seven-league stride has recently
been made in high speed telegraphy.
An apparatus which in actual tests
has proved its ability to transmit
over a single grounded wire 6,000
words a minute has been evolved.
The real significance of this escapes
one until it is realized that
6.000 words set in type will fill
seven a half standard magazine
pages. *
Details of what appears to be an
epoch-making achievement must be
withheld for military reasons. It is
a war invention and has for its chief
purpose the liberation of hundreds
of expert operators for the signal
corps without disorganizing our
much needed commercial lines. No
secret is divulged, however, when the
apparatus is described as a printing
telegraph systwm depending upon a
universally used recording instru
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rashington, Will.Be
. Pershing, In France, 4
Volottbnnp /Vpr/ A110list
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can be transmitted several thousand
miles and be heard as plainly as H.
the speaker were just across the
room, but here Is a rough outline
of it: A. ,
The human voice vibrates the air,
or chops it up into waves. When
the sound of the human voice is if
sent over the telephone wife to the
wireless station, it goes up to the top
of the high tower. There the vibrations
or waves are thrown out on the
atmosphere, which it chops up into
chunks. When the sound waves are ' #
thrown out on the atmosphere there
is sufficient powerful electrical current
behind them to drive them to
their destination. So much for the
Btart. The
wireless tower to which these *i
sound waves, the vibrations of 8ec
reiary eaKers voice we win von
them, are directed is equipped with
a powerful magnate which attracts
the chunks of atmosphere. This attraction
is strong and comes just ^
about the time the "juice" put behind
the vibrations at the start is 1*
| evaporating. The sound waves run
true-to the magnate which transmit#'
the vibrations down the wire into the
wireless station, where the sounds
are transmitted to the telephone
wire.
When the vibrations strike the
telephone wire they cease to be mere'
waves of air but are converted back
into words which General Pershingcan
understand. The words have the .
same tone, pitch and inflection they
had when they left Secretary Baker's
lips and General Pershing can recognize
the Secretary's voice.
When the wireless tower in France
is completed Secretary Baker- can
telephone to General Pershing with
practically as much ease as the
could call up a bureau chief in some
part of the War Department.
'GRAPH SENDS
)RDS A MINUTE
l ment that has never before been as
sociated with telegraphy.
Messages are handled in any Ian- ?
guage or cipher with equal facility
and rapidity. The apee4 of 6,000
words a minute does not hinge upon
the use of an abreviating code, but
by such an agency it could be in- :&
creased several fold. Crack operators
are not required. In two hoars'
time, it is claimed, a quick wltted
person witft no previous knowledge
of telegraphy can be trained to send
and receive messages. Instead of
being highly complicated and expensive
the instrument^ are not of involved
character.
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