The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1917-11-01
WAR TALKS
By UNCLE DAN
Number Three
How War Methods Have Changed
Everybody Must Help
Number Three

"Ilello, Uncle Dan. Jimmie and 1
have been waiting FOR YOU
Sorry II have kept you long" said
Uncle Dan. Your mother has been
telling me how bashful used to be.
She said n n girl spoke TO me would
blush TO my hair roots. Well, l re-
minded her Of the time your father
first came to see her and the joke we
played on them, so guess that win
hold her for a while"
Continuing Uncle Dan said: "You
want to talk more about the war, do
you? Wen, war methods have under
gone many changes and they are still
changing No two wars are fought
alike. In early times, the weapons were
stones, clubs, spears, bows and arrows,
swords, etc. In this kind Of warfare,
victory was with The strong right arm.
Men Of enormous size and strength
were the great warriors, The inyen-
ton OF gunpowder however. has
changed all this IT has enabled men
to- kill one another at considerable
distance, and do it wholesale. The
war, as we know IL now, is a combina-
ton OF chemicals. machinery mathe-
matlcal calculations and highly trained
men. Just think Of itl Airplanes,
submarines, armorel eanl;s. or cater
pillars, poison gases, ana curtains Of
fire are all used for the first time in
this war; and they are destrncfiye be-
yond anything heretofore known.
"The methods followed by the kai-
ser and his allies are simply deyilish.
He must answer in history 70 the Kill
ing Of thousands of innocent women
and children He haa broken every
international law and every rule Of
warfare: he has bombarded hospitals
and undefended cities, sunk Red Cross
ships on erands Of mercy: he has de-
stroyed cathedrals and priceless treas
ures Of art that can never be replaced; I;
he has made slaves of his prisoners;
he has tried to get us into war with
Japan: his enmissaries have blown up
our ships, burned our factories and
fred our forests. He knows no mercy
or honor. The most charitable view
to take Of this blood-thirsty tyrant
is that he is crazy.
"One thing Is certain continued Tn
Gle Dan. with great emphasis. "Our
liberty, the safety Of our homes and
our country, and the security Of the
world demand the speedy and abso-
lute overthrow Of the kaiser and
crushing out once and forever the
reign Of Prussian brutality"
"How about the German people"
said Billie.
Uncle Dan replied: "The splendid
German people were happy, thrifty,
prosperous and contented. They have
been tricked into war and made to
suffer the tortures Of the damned;
they have been. cruelty and systematic
ally deceived. God grant that the real
facts may get to them. and if they do,
Lord help the kaiserl
"of course the allies will win said
Mrs. Graham. t
"Probably so, said Uncle Dan. but
Il we are to win. we must go the limit.
We must check the awful destruction TO
shipping by the German submarines.
or we may not be able to get food and
supplies to our own men and to our al
lies; we must also put hundreds Of
thousands. and perhaps millions, Of
6rst-class soldiers in the battle line
'Food Is the first consideration" IN
Gle Dan continued. "No army can hold
out against hunger. II has been said
that food will win the war, and this Is
largely true. Hence the Importance
Of the farm in the war plans Of our
country"
Mrs. Graham Interrupted by saying
In view Of the Importance of farming,
don't you think, Daniel, that the farm
crs ought to be exempted from war
serviceT
NO, a thousand times no sald Un-
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