Pioneer press. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1882-19??, 1915-01-16
STURD|EST MEN
ARE SLAUGHTERED
Correspondent Cannot See How War
Can End Without Oestruc-
ton.
(By LAWRENCE ELSTOND

LONDON, England, Jan. S.-From
Il close first hand study of the situ
alton | do not see how the war can
erd without the destruction Of such
large number of men as to lead to
permanent i'll effects upon the Euro
pean race, and evil results on the
civilizations If the world Freedom
from a German world wide military
despotism is purchased at a terrible
heavy price
After the failure Of the first Ger.
man rush on Paris in the early part
OF September, the possibility Of a
quick end was eliminated. The battle
OF the Marine marking he high tide
Or German invasion, will probably be
thought Of as the true crisis in this
conflict years to come. But a sud
den German collapse on either the
southern or western battle fronts is
impossible to conceive The Prussian
nilitary organization is in better
working order than ever. Moreover
!eroplanes have made scouting on
Goth sides SO perfect that strategy in
,he old sense is no longer possible.
With sudden suspl1ses eliminates
becomes a war Of exhaustion. Now
his is the most terrific form war
an take, as / will try to explain
Exhaustion might come for some
nations in the form of a food famine,
but Germany highly organized as she
is, can feed herself indefinitely
What other form can the exhaus-
ton take. 1t may be exhaustion of
wealth, Of men, or of war material.
In wealth the enemies Of Germany
are enormously superior But it must
be true that It will be long while,
certainly several years, before Ger
many's wealth will no longer be suffi-
cient to finance her campaigns.
Probably German money will last
az well as German men. And des-
pite the heavy casualties in the first
five months Of war, the Germans SUP.
ply OF men is not exhausted. There
are still large numbers Of unframed
men in Germany, who have not vol
uhteered since the beginning Of the
war, and besides it must be remem.
bered that each year the youths
growing to manhood, several hundre.
in thousand in number make up for
a certain amount of Wastage in war.
Enormous Capital Wiped Out.
Sc 1t is easy to see that if the war
ends in German exhaustion of their
wealth, or men, or both enormous
ariounts of capital must be wiped out
AS political economists have pointed
out many times the new generation
will have as fathers the unfit young
men, the weakling who could not
come to war, or the towards who
were not. This will result in gen.
eral lowering of the personnel
throughout Europe.
The United States went through
almost the same process in 1861 to
1865. If we compare Germany to
the South, and the allies to the North
VIC have fair anology. The men
of the southern states proved the bet.
ter warriors, but the weather. and
more populous northern routes finally
overwhelmed them. 1t took thirty
years for the South to recover, while
the North as well showed the effects
for many years.
Copper Supply.
l recognize though the posslbil.
ity Of German exhaustion along some
novel line, which modern civilization
makes ossible. The British feet is
trying to cut Germany off from COP
per and rubber. Copper Is almost