The Green Forest tribune., 1917-12-14

| pOSSlDle fronts Will De approved ana put into effect.
 In the foregoing are included the definite proposition which military opinion here seems to think will quick on the war impulse of the United States and will aid materially in bringing the conflict to an earlier con clusion than might be reached under present circumstances. It seems finally assured that congress will unite Uncle Sans hands to give him freedom to use both fists against all the enemies of his country. A declaration of war | against Austria, Bulgaria and Fur l key, military men say, will enable the United States to round up foreign spies and agitatOrs who just now seem to be immune because they are sub | iects of countries with which we are not at war
 ! There have been a dozen political 1 diplomatic considerations to enter into the situation as it concerns itself with war on the three powers with which i today America is supposed to be at peace, while actually at enmity. It fs believed that the fear of becoming em- 1 broiled in Balkan politics and in ",rur- key in Europe" troubles and some oth- CT things that has been one of the moving factors in keeping the | United States from moving"
 Today it is said by men who seem to have had access to the information closets that the administration and all it's departmental branches realize that it is better to face diplomatic diff culties in the future than to allow l Germany to overcome the world and to answer all political questions from her own viewpoint and at her own will. In other words, the feeling finally has become fixed that no matter what hap pens so far as politics is concerned. the kaiser must be licked. and licked hard, in order to save the democracy of France, England and Italy. and last and greatest, that of the United States.
 Army men seem to feel that when the United States begins to treat en- emy aliens and traitors caught red handed in devils work in the newiy delineated military zones, there prob ably will be a stoppage of the destruc- tion of ships, factories and of food- stuffs A few trials with their sen tences quickly carried out, 1t ts held, will put an end to depredations iii short order
 Great Work by crowder's Office.
 Provost Marshal General Enoch H. Crowder is waiting the events to fo low the installation of the new select. tive service regulations and the all-em- bracing questionnaire to registrants.
 There has been constructive and in part perhaps destructive criticism Qr many of the branches of the gove ment since the United States ent into the war. The office of theN vOst marshal general has not been d- mune from criticism of individuals, |! but in general way the work that 1t has done has received the praise of the people.
 If study, care and extreme thought fitness can make for success of the preparations for the next drafts, then success is certain to come with the same fullness with which it was meted out in the first high instance.
 No one who has not been in daily touch with the office of the provost marshal general can appfeek sseth" magnitude of the work with which thi; officer of the service has been confront ed from the first. The new selective service regulations which today are in the hands of every local board in the country were prepared to meet every possible case, and contingency which may arise. If anything has been over looked it managed to escape notice while a score of pairs of trained eye were on watch.
 General Crowder and his staff of ficerS subjected themselves to a e tionnaire on their own account may be said that in effect a sch
 established in the generals offic cry question which it was conceiN that anyone might ask was given sideration and the answer was for coming. The matter was viewed only from the questioning stapdp of the man who might be drafted, E from that of every official conplectei any way with the service of drafth and from that of every person of wha ever kind or class who might take interest in the service subject.
 Law, rules and regulations are foundations of the selective servio erations. It has been the attem General Crowder, soldier and and of his assistants, also soldie
 lawyers, to strip bare the booi
 formation of all technicalities aI fusing verbiage.
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 tion of the tremendous
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 marshal general at the tl~.n
 preparation for the first draft Msz. ing the weeks which succeeded Mrs
 The correspondence of the marshal generals office was so dous that 1t taxed almost to tn. ing point the energies of8
 and stenographers who
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 apparently of the provost mf
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 possible question answefsf
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