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The Butler Herald
Established in 1876
C. E. BENNS.
Editor and Publisher
OFFICIAL ORGAN OF TAYLOR CO.
PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY
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THURSDAY, APRIL, 25, 1918
• - - This paper has enlisted
with the government in the
cause of America for the
period of the war
The Death
Grapple.
Never before in the history of
this world have as many men en
gaged in slaughter, and we know
of no record battle which equals
that now raging between the
British and German armies. The
two enemies are settling their
differencies with terrific tolls,
and the world looks on with
amazement, hoping each day that
the British will lambast their at
tacks.
There can be no doubt of Ger
man intentions. Destruction of
the British army is the object of
Von Hindenburg. Not Dnkirk,
not Calais, not even Paris is his
aim; territory will never end the
war, it is the complete annihila
tion of Britain’s fighting strength
that Germany’s leaders are try
ing to encompass.
The sons and friends of the
British empire, in spite of the dis
appointing loss in territory, have
every cause for pride. No man
in England ever dreamed that
the day would come when the
army of his country, the “con
temptible” army would stand be
tween the Prussian and victory.
No one in England would have
remained calm at the thought of
a day when a newly made army
wrestled on a foreign soil for
supremacy with the machine made
soldiers of two generations. Great
Britain placed her faith in her
“ditch” and her fleet; but the
army of England has saved the
day.
True, the French have splen
didly performed their tasks, but
in the present struggle only a
small per centage of the French
army has been engaged. At a
later turn of events it is not to
• be doubted that the French, and
the Americans, as well, will start
the ball rolling somewhere along
the line, and that the Germans
will he glad to leave the contest
in Flanders to defend themselves
in the new sector.
Confidence in the end is su
preme in all countries. Time will
bring disillusionment to the Prus
sian, and the people of the woi Id
can safely place their welfare in
the care of the men in France
and Belgium, and they will trim
the wings of Germany’s ambi
tion.
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Daily Thought.
Creation is great and cannot be un-
fierstood.—Carlyle.
Heroic Phrases
of Great Men.
General Foch, the allied com
mander in chief, is a great soldier.
He had probably more to do with
the victory at the Marne than any
body else. He commanded the
British, French, and Belgian
troops that stopped the first great
channel drive of the Germans. He
commonded the French at the
Somme, he healed the allied ar
my of relief rushed to Italy, and
now he takes command of all the
entente forces facing the German
army.
When the battle of the Marne
had reached its critical stage,
when General Joffre had decreed
that retreating must cease, and all
French men who were in the
confidence of the situation looked
forward to the fate of their coun
try being decided within the next
day or two, the orders of Gener
al Joffre to his army commanders
to attack came to General Foch
in the center. His reply came:
My right is shattered; my left
is wavering; with what remains of
my center I shall attack.”
Equally as determined was his
reply to one of his subordinate
commanders, who demurred to
orders by saying that his men
were exhausted: Foch replied:
“So are the Germans—you will
charge.”
These phrases will always live.
Just as Caesar’s “I came, I saw, I
conquered”; just as Petain’s
“The enemy shall not pass” at
Verdun; just as Napoleon’s, An
army of stags led by a lion would
defeat an army of lions led by a
stag; just as Nelson’s “England
expects every man to do his duty;
and just as the ancient Laceda
emonians were said to ask not.
How many are the enemy? but
only where are they.
Will the Navies
Fight?
The German campaign in Flan
ders has led to many rumors of
an impending naval clash, in
which the German fleet might at
tempt to disable the channel
transport system, and cut off
the British expeditionary armies
from their home base. Such an
effort while disasterous to the
German navy might be worth its
price if it would tie up, even for
a week or two the flow of ship
ping across the narrow channel.
Such a development, however,
is extremely unlikely at this stage
of the war. A recent official
statement from England an
nounced that the British fleet de
stroyed ten German trawlers in the
Cattegat, which is the immediate
pathway into the Baltic. Perhaps
this means an allied naval of
fensive with a view of destroying
the German fleet, or of forcing its
retirement and effecting a land
ing of soldiers in Germany.
We confess that we hope it does.
The superiority of the allied na
vies at this time is so large that
the change of a naval victory out
balances the risks to be run.
Nothing would be more pleasing
than a clash on the seas that lap
the Teutonic fatherland, with a
decisive allied victory.
The Ground
Glass Myth.
How many times have you heard
the “ground glass myth?”
Right in this town we have heard
of men who claim to have found
it in foodstuffs. Yet, the United
States Food Administration wrote
a man in Arizona as follows about
it:
“We have found the elusive
ground glass story from Maine
to California and from the lakes
to the Gulf for the past four
months. War Intelligence, Navy
Intelligence, and the Department
of Justice are doing the same, and
the thousands of cases that have
been reported we have found but
one genuine case of deliberate in
tent in putting ground glass in
food. This case was where a dis
gruntled employee of a'bakery in
Fort Smith, Ark., placed glass in
one loaf of bread. This was done
for the purpose of injuring the
business of the baker, and suc
ceed so well that the baker is out
of business, due to untimely pub
licity.
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Down on the
Rio Grande.
American troops have recently
crossed the Mexican border to
punish raiders who crossed the
line into this country, and after
plundering, attempted to escape
by recrossing into Mexico. After
a pursuit following the killing of
four Americans on March 26 ten
bandits were killed on the Mexi
can side of the river three days
afterwards.
A protest has been received
and Mexican soldiers have in
trenched themselves across the
river from the American forces.
Shots have been exchanged and
three Mexicans have been killed.
At other points shots have been
exchanged. It is reported that
Mexico is full of German propa
ganda, and it would not be sur
prising at any time for the gov
ernment of Gen. Carranza to use
force in an effort to stop our
soldiers in pursuing some group
of bandits.
If it should unfortunately come
to that we may be sure that the
soldiers will know what to do,
and we merely mention these in
cidents so that our readers will
understand .that Mexico is still
dangerous in her way. The Eu
ropean war has pushed bandit
raids out of the press, and we
have little time to listen to Gen.
Carranza, but he exists just the
same.
THE KAISER
WARNED US.
Former Ambassador Gerard
has repeatedly called attention to the
threat against America uttered by
the German Emperor a short time
before diplomatic relations with the
imperial government were severed
by President Wilson. Wwhen this
war is finished’ I will not stand any
nonsense from the United States’ the
German ruler said..
It was not a wise remark. The
Kaiser must have been in something
of a temper when he made it. It was
“fair warning”to this country’ and re
cent history teems with proofs that
fair warning is somethimg which Ger
many has not considered necesmsary
even when solemn treaties were to be
torn to shreads and trampled under
footr. t
What if Germany’ by massing all
her resources and hurling them
against the Allies as she has been
doing in France and Flanders’should j
win a decissive victory on land
What if the German submarines
should in doing what they have tried
so desperately to do ?
It would then be in order for th
Kaiser to undertake to execute the
threathemade to Ambassador Gerard
and unless the war Lord has chang
ed astonishingly within the very r-
cnt past’ we can have no reason to
doubt that the attempt would be se
riously made.
The folly of not putting every ounce
of our national strength into the task
gaining a becision in France ought to
be apparent to every intelligent man
and woman in this country. Germa
y’ triumphant in Europe’ would never
consent to a peace that the United
States would be willing to agree to
The struggle’ perhaps after a brief
intermission but probably wthout’
would have its center shifted from
the other side of the Atlantic to this
side’ and those who have been shirk
ing patriotic duties during the past
year would soon be kicking themselv
ves as 32nd degree boneheads.
The United States will be in this
struggle to win when every man in
the country has responded to duty,s
call. If we fail as a nation,1 it wil
be because there have been enough
slackers to nullify the efforts of those
who have tried faithfully to perform
every patriotic duty.
Every man is in one or the other
class. There is no middle ground.
—Albany Herald.
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