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From the Office of The Augusta Herald
THE THIRD YEAR AND
THE WAR OUTLOOK
(An editorial York Times.)
If the new year brings disillusion and
hope deferred to the Western Powers in
Europe and their new ally, the United
States, it finds Germany, the leader of
the enemy federation, intriguing to win.
by insidious propaganda, a victory which
she has failed to impose by force of arms.
There have been triumphs, stopping short
of success, for the Austro-Germans in the
field, and they can point to the war map
as showing greater gains in Europe by
the square mile than France and Britain
mav claim. But the failure of the sub
marine campaign to register famine con
ditions in the British Isles is a blow to
German hopes so positive, so omnious of
ultimate defeat, that the war map might
as well be torn up for all the promise of
a German-made peace it holds ov,t.
There were three salient events or de
velopments of the-’zear 1917: The revolu
tion in Russia, resulting in the breakdown
of her government and her military ma
chine; the entrance into the war of the
United States, with al) its wealth of ma
terial and men and the illimitable moral
effect of the American decision; and the
waning of the submarine menace that was
to bring England to her knees to fmppli
cate for peace, even if the United States
threw its resources into the scale. The
end of 1916 saw Germany professing a
desire for peace, with foreknowledge tffat
disruption and chaos were coming to
Russia. At that time the last bloody
touches wew being put to.the undoing
of Rumania, bestrayed and abandoned
by the Czar’s government; but on the
western front the French and British
had proved at Verdun and in the battle
of the Somme that the Germans could
neither pass**nor hold their lines. So the
year closed for the western allies with
hopes of a military decision in a new of
fensive in the spring and summer of 1917:
although they had misgivings about Rus
sia, which, after General Brusiloff’s re
markable campaign of territory gained
and Austrian prisoners taken in Galicia
and the Bukowina, had been mysteriously
inactive and mute for months. Italy’s per
formance along the Jsonzo had been cred
itable enough to justify confidence in her
ability to bold the Austrians there at the
worst, and with thorough preparation and
at a time selected by Cadorna to break
through n the road to Laibach, and, by
driving the enemy from the Carso, in
vest Trieste. If the Russians were true to
the alliance resumed operations on
the Dvina, in Galicia, and in Asia Minor,
Teutonic extremity would be a matter of
only months. That was the fond hope in
the west, and there seemed to be justifi
cation for it.
A year ago the governments of France
and Great Britain did not count upon the
United States an an ally at sea and in
the field; and when, as a consequence
of German atrocities and bad faith, the
entrance of this country into the war was
regarded as not improbable, the thought
was more of the financial assistance it
would extend than of the armies it could
organize, equip and transport to France.
In short, France and Great Britain had
faith in the ultimate triumph of their
arms. That Germany feared it was
shown by her nervous overtures for peace,
seriously meant, but only half confessed.
But in four short months there came a
transformation that was to confound opti
mistic forecasts about the duration of the
war and to throw a baleful shadow over
the free peoples fighting for genuine de
mocracy. The Russian revolution fell
over night, carrying down the Czar’s gov
ernment in shapeless ruin; the submarine
campaign revived the hopes of Germany
to a pitch of elation. Then the United
States at last made its epochal decision.
Peace had now to be looked at through
the dwarfing end of the telescope, fop
if the United States', with its splendid
resources and young vitality, compensat
ed the Western allies lor the loss of
Russia, it would be a year or more before
America might could make itself felt;
and perhaps never, for the sinking of
British and neutral cargo ships went on
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tion for von Tirpitz, the evil fenius of
“frightfulness” at sea.
The Russians, under the lead of the
Bolsheviki, unexampled in their igno
rance, faithlessness, incapacity and blind
ness, clay in the hands of the Machiaev
ilian Germans, went from bad to worse,
and there was the spectacle of a peasant
people with no stomach to fight for dem
ocratic security and no soul to keep faith
with honorable allies. It was perfidy and
cowardice, but the cause -was ignorance
and incredible simplicity.
Even before lhe Bolsheviki eruption it
was for the Western allies a dark hour
until the United States came to their
aid. They made a heroic attempt to win
a decision ’on the . western front. The
magnificent offensives of Haig and Petain
all through the early months of 1917, the
summer, and the late autumn deserved
success—Haig particularly never relaxing
his efforts and striking repeatedly. Roul
ers, key to. the German submarine base,
was almost gained by him; and his lieu
tenant, Byng, in the famous tank as
sault and surprise, just fell short of Cam
brat, payin for the audacity with a loss
of half the ground won when the Ger
mans achieved an almost equally wonder
ful counter-attack.
It can hardly be said (hat the capture
of Jerusalem by General Sir Edmund Al
lenby and the rout of the Turks in Pal
estine made up for the greatest Teutonic
stroke of the year, the masterful invasion
of Italy, a success comparable in some
respects to the German advance into
France in the first month es the war. It
has changed the war map to the advant
age of the Teutonic powers, but has not
blazed the way to a German peace. The
stroke has fallen short. It was audacious,
but it was desperate. The new year sees
the Austro-German offensive in difficult
ies. One of the most splendid things of
.the war has been the rally of the Italians
as the French and British made forces
marched to their relief. The Austrians
were held on the PiaVe; iti s the Venetian
Alps the enemy was so stubbornly resist
ed that of breaking through to
the plains was frustrated. With the last
day of the old year ca'rne the news of an
irresistible thrust by the French. With
heavy snows falling in the mountains,
the Austro-Germans are now in difficult
ies, and for this winter their,campaign
has failed, and may prove utterly disas
trous.
The outlook for 1918. is one of good
cheer. In spite of drafts from the 'Rus
sian front, it is doubtful if the German
reserves will be equal in strength to those
that reinvigorated France and resolute
Britain can put in the field in the spring.
That they can at least nold back the mil
itary power of the Teutonic allies until an
American army of 1,000.000 men is ready
to do battle in the west may be assumed
with confidence. There is still a chance,
although it seems of the slightest, that a
strong government will rise in Russia
and organize armies rar an offensive in
1918. At any rate, Germany cannot af
ford to strip the Russian front entirely.
The year 1918 seems destined, as Ger
many cannot have peace on her own
terms, to be a year of sanguinary and
desperate combat. But there is always
possibility of an economic collapse in the
Central nations, and an enforced peace
'nay come while strategists are preparing
to fight the war to a finish.
APPROVED BY CAMP
HANCOCK SOLDIERS
When thinking of the “Sunny South.”
“A~wisil.”
(With apologies.)
Ship me somewhere south of Greenville
Nothing there could be worse:
The weather here's too cold for us
Even to raise a thirst.
The natives said when last it snowed,
'Twas the biggest in third years-
Which served to sorter pacify us,
And for a time, allayed our fears.
But now there comes another snow,
The natives are in tears;
And we suppose they’ll be a tellin’
'Tis the biggest in sixty years.
'I hese Greenville folks are mighty fine,
That fact we will admit:
But when they pose as .weather birds,
They de not make a hit.
Ah; ship me somewhere near Old San
Tone.
For that’s where I would be;
In that dear old Sunny Southern Clime,
No snow and ice for me.
—Robert Neill.
SHRAPNEL
Mississippi is the first state to ratify
the prohibition amendment to the U.
S. Constitution. It took about fifteen
minutes. There were eight dissenting
votes.
An American dentist has opened a dental
dispensary on the old kitehen in France
with a dental chair improvised from a
wine barrel.
KNOWN TO EVERY MAN
I am attractive.
I am capable of making wrong look
riglit.
1 can make a fiend appear like a friend.
I can make a man believe his sin will
never bo discovered.
I can make a Christian forget he is a
Christian.
I can make a lie shine with the bril
liancy of a truth.
1 lure men to destruction with music,
fragrance and soft light.
I take the bloom of innocence from lit
tle children and youth.
I am the enemy of a good conscience.
I am the most successful whisperer
in the world.
I am the friend of the forger, the thief,
the libertine, the murderer.
I am the skilled manipulator of wealth,
fortune and high position.
I am the cause of want and poverty
and crime.
I am responsible for the stolen virtue
of girlhood and womanhood, of boyhood
and manhood.
X am the invader of the sanctity of the
home and the cause of divorce.
I can wreck and ruin the strongest man
ever created, because I am on the job
twenty-four hours a day.
I AM TEMPTATION
GETTING READY FOR FRANCE
(By T. A. Wiggington, Camp Religious
Work Director.)
This is not a tin soldiers’ war. EVcry
man enrolled as an American soldier is
expecting to go to France, and it is gen
erally understood that there is hard
fighting to be done when they get "over
there.” As the time draws nearer for
going over, a ueeper seriousness is to be
Observed in the country and in the army.
As the men are passing over, the grim
realization of the fact that we are at war
come.- nearer home to the hearts of the
people, and they begin to gird themselves
for the strain and shock of it. In the
army, the training becomes more inten
sive. The unfit are being eliminated;
all lost motion is taken up, and every
means is being used to bring the army to
the highest efficiency for the grim busi
ness which is waiting “over there.”
It has occurred to me that this time of
intensive training is a good one for call
ing attention to the most important part
of a soldier’s preparation—a part which
we are singularly disposed to overlook —
his moral and spiritual preparedness. It
is a. good time for this because, as they
realize that the time may be very short
before they go over, men are thinking
more seriously about the tremendous ex
periences which await them there. In
stead of being a reflection upon the cour
age of the men, it is a credit to their
good sense and true insight that they
should, think seriously of these deeper
things of life as they draw nearer to what
may demand the utmost which life can
give. When we consider the things
which all good Americans desire for our
solthers, we begin to see that the most
important part of their preparation is
moral and spiritual.
First, we desire that they shall be the
best soldiers. America expects every man
to do his duty. Napoleon, the world’s
greatest military .genius, said that of the
factors which entered into the making of
a good soldier morale was as one to three.
Morale does not come so much from mili
tary discipline as from the spirit of the
men. It is born in idealism. I beieve
believe that when the history of this war
Is finally written, the battle of the Marne
will be written down as one of its de
cisive battles. It was there that the thin
lines of the French, inspired by a lofty
patriotism, and the “contemptible little
British army,” inspired by its high ideals
of liberty, stopped the drive of the most
perfect military machine the world has
ever seen. It was the triumph of high
morale over perfect discipline. The high-
Professor Foster’s French Lesson
By Prof. I. L. Foster, State College, Pa.
LES commandements
I.AY KORIA H N DMAI IN G
COMMANDS
(The word of execution of these com
mands is in capitals.)
Ecole du soldat; sans armes
Aykol dee soldah; sahng zarm
School of the soldier; without arms.
GARDE A VOUS
GARDE AU VOO
ATTENTION.
REPOS
RUIIPOH
AT EASE (Rest).
A droite, DROITE
Ah drwat. DRWT
Right, FACE
Demi tour a droite, DROITE
Duhmee toor ah drwat, DRWAT
About, FACE
Demi tonifr a droite, MARCHE
Duhmee toor ah drwat, MARSH
To the rear, MARCH
'En avant, MARCHE
Ahn avhang, MARSH
Forward, MARCH
Differents pas
Deefayrahng pah
What Our Soldier Boys
Will See In France
PROCLAMATION BY THE GERMANS.
AVIS
Les nombreux actes d’hos'ilite commis
par les habitants de ce pays centre les
troupes allemandes me forcent d’ordonner
ce qui suit:
1. Tout habitant qui se rendra coupa
ble d’ un ante d’ hostilite contre un mem
bre de 1’ armee allemande, ou de la
maison duquel on tirera sur nos troupes,
sera immediatement fusille et la maison
du coupable sera brulee a I’instant.
2. Toutcs les armes (fusils, pistolets,
sabres, etc.) devront jusqu a 4 heures
etra remises a la Mairie. Quiconque re
tient des armes ou cache chez lui des
membres de 1’ armee. francaise sera puni
d’apres les lois de la guerre,
3. Pendant la nuit, de 8 heures du spir
jusqu’a 7 heures du matin, il sera defendu
de circuler dans les rues. Les sentinelies
ont I'ordre de tirer sans appel sur les
individuals qui n’ obeissent pas aces
ordres.
4. Tout rassemblement dans les rues
est interdit.
5. En outre il sera defendu de sonner
les cloches ou de communiquer avec 1’
ennemi a 1’ aide de signaux, fanaux, ou
autres moyens de renseignement. En
cas de non-obeissance. les coupables se
ront punis de mort. Il en sera de meme
de ceux qui detruisent des moyens de
communication.
Il est egaiement interdit de quitter la
Ville sous aucun pretexte, sans s’ ex
poser aux memes peines que ci-aessus.
Saint-Die, le 28 Aout 1914.
Le General Commandant en Chef.
By T. A. WIG GINTON
Camp Religious Work Director.
Jan. 16, 1918.
est idealism and, therefore, the highest
morale, are inspired by Christian prin
ciples. American soldiers, above all others,
must maintain their idealism, for it is
their principal reason for being in this
war.
We also desire that as many of our
men as possible may come back. Again
we find Christianity, with its moral re
straints and spiritual power, the most
important means to the desired end. We
have heard a great deal of the deadli
ness of German bullets and the terror of
German shells; some of us have yet to
learn that sin is deadlier than all of
these. We are told that more British
soldiers have fallen victims of vice than
to German gun fire. Great as are the
horrors of German ruthlessness, the hor
rors of vice are greater. We spare neither
pains nor money to arm our men with
the best weapons of offense and defense;
and we do wisely in this, for men are of
much more value than money. We are
disposed to overlook the fact, however,
that the best defense which we can pro
vide for our men is the power of the I.ly
ing Christ in them, by means of which
they shall- be able to triumph over evil.
The other thing which we desire for
our men is, that they shall come back
prepared to fill the worthiest place in the
new order which shall arise out of the
wreck and ruin of this war. We do not
more than half realize it yet, but there
is to be a new order, and the men who
come back from the war are to have a
large part in establishing and maintaining
it. It means much for the future wel
fare of our country and of the -world that
these men come back to us clean and
strong in body, mind and >it. What
mother would not rather that the clean,
young body of her boy out of which a
clean soul had gone to God under the
shadow of the flag, should be buried in
the sacred soil of France, made holy by
the blood of patriots, than that he should
come back to her corrupt in body and
soul. It would be better for us that we
had never drawn the sword, that we
had cravenly submitted to the arrogance
of might, than that these soldiers who
are to be such a tremendous power in
the new order, should come back to lay
the foundations of this new order in un
righteousness. From whatever angle we
regard the matter, we see that it is of
the first importance that not only should
our men be thoroughly disciplined in all
the arts of war. but that they should also
go out as "good soldiers of Jesus Christ.”
Various steps
Fas cadence (75 c. ni.; 120 par minute)
Pah cahdahngsay
March step (30 in.; 120 a minute).
Pas de route (75 a 80 c. m.; 120 par
minute)
Pali duh root
Hike step
Pas de gymnastique, MARCHE (80 a
90 c. m.; 170 a 180 par minute)
Pah duh geemnahsteek, MARSH
Double time, MARCH (31 to 35 in.)
Changez le pas, MARCHE
Shanghgay luh pah, MARSH
Cha .ge step, MARCH
Marquez le pas, MARCHE
Markay luh pah, MARSH
Mark time, MARCH
Ecole du soldat; avert’ arme
Aykol dee soldah; aveck larm
School of the soldier; with arms
Presentez ARMES z
Prayzahngtay ARM
Present, ARMS
Reposez ARMES
Ruhpozav ARM
Order ARMS
NOTICE
The numerous acts of hostility commit
ted .by the inhabitants of this country
against tnb German troops forces me to
give the following orders:
(1) Any inhabitant who shall be guilty
of an act of hostility against a member
of the German army, or any inhabitant
of a house from which our troops are
fired upon, will immediately be shot, and
the house of the guilty person will in
stantly be burnt.
(2) All arms (rifles, pistols, sabres,
etc.) must be deposited by 4 o’clock at
the Town Hall. Whoever retains arms or
hides in his house any members of the
French army will be punished according
to the laws of war.
(3) All traffic in the streets is forbid
den during the night from 8 o’clock in
the evening to 7 o’clock in the morning
The sentinels have orders to fire without
challenging them on all persons who do
not obey these orders.
(4) All gatherings in the streets are
forbidden.
(5) It is further forbidden to ring the
bells, or to communicate with the en
emy, by means of optica Isignals, lan
terns, or other methods of conveyin' in
telligence. In case of disobedience the
offenders will be punished by death. The
same penalty will be inflicted on those
who destroy any means of communica
tion.
It is likewise forbidden to leave the
town under any pretext whatever without
being exposed to the same penalties as
are mentioned above.
Saint-Die, 28th August 1914.
The General Commanding.
