Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1915-07-01
WHEN WILL WAR ENp7

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not reach Paris or London or Petr,
grad or even Warsaw, and even
they reached all four the war woul
only be begun.
The allies have not yet succeedP
In putting and keeping a single SO
der. except as prisoner. into Gel
many. They cannot even drive tn
Germans out OF Belgium, out O
France, out Of Poland, out of Ser
via.
To date all the honors OF a won
derful offensive campaign agains
overwhelming odds are with tn,
Germans. Yet even the Germani
have failed to advance after tn,
first dash. 1t is impossible! Con
centration cannot be effective be
cause Of aeroplane scouting and tel
ephone conference.-the
In trench fighting those who
press forward lose more than those
who defend. II Germany is outnum-
bered and is ultimately driven out
OF Belgium, out Of Alsace, out of
Lorraine, out of Poland, even across
the Rhine, with every backward
step, like compressed air, she be-
comes more resistant. The Rhine is
a natural barrier; she has ample
time to prepare, not only first and
second and third line trenches, but
hundreds Of lines Of trenches and
underground tunnels equipped with
electrically driven trains for rapid
movement of troops.
Berlin is 400 miles from the
French frontier, 200 miles from the
Polish frontier. At the rate of 100
yards continuous advance a day, it
would take seventeen days to adj
vance one mile.
But the Germans will be killed |
off! Will they? Germany was grow
ing at the rate of a million a year.
This means at least 100000 fresh !
soldiers coming into manhood an
nually. This number could be killed
every year, yet the war go on with
vigor for twenty years.
But no such number is killed. About
of those disabled are
killed, the others are taken prison
,rs or are wounded, and of the
wounded the greater number re-
over.
1t is unthinkable that 100000
Germans should be killed each
ear; but even this unthinkable |
catastrophe the Germans could meet.
In the supreme interest Of the
'atherland the Germans might !.
lake the rearing of many children !
he one great duty of Germany's h
omanhood, thus doubling the nor
al increase. 1
But Germany will be starved out! y
ain thought! Germany was an ex- =
orting nation and very wealthy. =
Gch of her effort was in the pro- I,
iction of home-consumed !lxuries. o.
cw, instead of producing luxuries n
r foreign export and home con- p
mption, she will produce only the D
'cessities, whether for war or for -
cd.
In Germany women have always u
orked in the fields and at other a
I'D manual labor. / have seen 70
EN- wedding the sugar beet fields =
four O'Clock in the morning. Chill ~
en- above twelve or fourteen can -.
} an immense amount of work. he
e MANNED and the crippled re- "
ming from the front can do half, Pc
'ee-quarters, seven-eighths of a
ms work. There is much that old
n from sixty up can do. Let us wi
forget that among warlike races IL
} world over the women have
lie all the work, and the men have ~
he all the fighting. The hours
herto given to pleasure can be ou
erted to work.
There are in addition tens of.
usands of war prisoners who will =
made to- work. %,
can continue forever to nee
frugally self-supporting. ma
What about war supplies, espe- -,
~ gasoline and copper? Alcohol how
be made to take the place IF mir
'line, and all the copper now in Sidi
many can be used for military wes
Is. Even II no copper could be ter
'igned to neutral countries ex- nee
on guarantee that 1t would be cur
Iumed in the neutral country, 80