The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-10-18
ALLIES DEFEATED
IF UNITED STATES
DOES NOT HUSTLE
That Is What DIR. LOVeland
Told ROtarianS Today.
Germany Is Far From Being on
Her Last Legs.
HUN ATROCITIES RECiTED
10000 Belgian Girls Victims
of Their Barbarity.
France, England and Italy
Have Done Their Best.
HUN ATROCITIES RECiTED


The submarines have England by the
throat. Italy is bankrupt.
Standing before the Rotary club to-
day, Dr. Frank L. Loveland, student of
international affairs, Representative of
the state and national defense councils
and former pastor of the First Meth
odist church in Topeka, made those
assertions. without lifting his voice
above a we'll modulated tone he talked
into the hearts of the Rotarians a
firmer determination to see the war
thru and spurred the scores of bust
ness men at the noon luncheon with
stories of German atrocities that al
most made the blood run cold Then
he discredited stories that the Huns
are almost whipped and declared that
the length of the war depends upon
America because of the condition
of the European allies.
God VIII Take Hand.
when General LeClercq of the Bel
gian commission told me that the Bel
gian government has positive tnforma-
ton of more than 10000 Belgian
girls who are soon to become mothers
because of Hun barbarism" Doctor
Loveland said, Il told myself that if
there is a God that has anything to do
with human affairs, that awful trag-
when he told me of seven little
Belgian boys with their eyes made
sightless and no hands on their arms
l wanted to take off my preacher coat
and don the uniform of Uncle Sam
and swear everlasting vengeance
against such barbarism.
And that is not all. In every Bel
gian base hospital there are maternity
wards with a capacity of some 500
women each. That is the result of
this terrible barbarism.
America Must Wake Up.
You have heard some people talk
of waiting until the Hun invades the
United States. The man who talks
that does not even talk good nonsense.
What America must do is to wake
up to the mighty task confronting
her. Motion is built upon emotion,
and as far back as fifteen years ago
when Prince Henry visited this cOun-
try and started his German-American
alliance, the United States has been
inundated with propaganda urging
that we keep out of war. That pro-
paganda must be defeated.
There is talk now that Germany is
about finished. Put that talk out of
your mind. Germany will never be
starved out She knows better than
any nation on earth how to make the
soil contribute her foodstuffs If
America raised as much foodstuffs in
duce enough in one year to feed the
world for twenty years.
THE length of war depends upon
America. We have the men. We have
the munitions. We have the food
stuffs.
All Up to the Q. S.
1T must be remembered that not
gun of this war has been fired on
German soil. France is bled as white
as a bone. She is making a great
struggle, but hers is the struggle of
dying man. 1t is a well known
fact that the submarines have Eng
land by the throat and she is dying
of slow strangulation. Two million
Englishmen were slaughtered before
England was prepared to fight. Ger
many has today SO per cent more
fighting men than England. 1t must
be remem bered that in the last fif-
teen years the French birth rate was
only per cent above the death rate.
England has faced about the same
condition. And Germany-Germany
had been bringing men of military
ge in at a rate of nearly a million a
year.
And the submarine If there is
any problem that is keeping the allies
awake nights it is the submarine. Wait
until the American shipping goes out
| Then we will begin to realize the truth
America gave the submarine to the
Huns. 1t was an American invention
and we turned it down and allowed
the Hun to get it.
The truth of the matter is Ger
many had the allies whipped when
America got into the war Now, we
have the men and we have the money
to win for the allies. There isn't a
doubt in my mind but what the allies
will win. We have everything except
the will to do the job and we must get
that will.
Must Defeat Propaganda.
I'VE must stamp out the German
propaganda For the last fifteen
years Germany has had hundreds of
/ her keenest men in the American pull
pit and schools. They have honey
combed the nation with their teach
| ings- We must defeat this with the
Liberty bonds You business men
must do that and with food conserva-
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