Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1917-09-16
Rv w. H. GARDNER.
Member Board of Trustees, American
 Defense Society.

sea.
 For many years astute anG eXper- fenced statesmen dismissed this mat ter as preposterous only to see 1t take material form and threaten to over whelm them and their nations. Likewise, those who have not for many years made study of interna- tional politics or who have not read many of the books recent y written on the politics and economies which caused the present war may be in- clined to dismiss these pan-German plans as impracticabln and absurd.
 The Prussian War Plan.
 At the close of 1915, Prussia was everywhere victorious and controlled 1OO,0OO,OOO enthusiastically subserv- tent allies in Austria-Hungary, the Balkans and Turkey, which latter held the religious leadership of tho fanatical Mohammedan world.
 After disposing of France and Russia, Prussia planned to concentrate on the annihilation of Great Britain's armies, which she expected would be rushed to tho rescue of France.
 Thus crushed, France and Great Britain were to lose all standing in the eyes of their millions of Moham- medan dependents throughout Africa and Asia.
 The Question.
 Is not all this on land and sea as im- portant to America as to Great Brit ain and France? If America had not joined in the war and if Germany had made Q separate peace with Russia and then crushed France and Great Britain. But America would then have stood alone against Prussian autocracy which controlled all but one of the ocean trade routes of the world.
 K How preposterous this seems to Americans! And vet it is the cold blooded and hard-headed plan and merely Deutschland uber Allies crushing France and Great Britain before America can help them suffi- ciently to turn back the campaign for "World Dominion Cor downfall,)" which Prussia started in 1914. It is the plan Germany may yet be hoping to make real if she can soon get sep arat, peace with Russia and then, one after the other, crush France and Great Britai, before America can eff fectively support them.
 This is the more important part of the pam German war plan, for the re- a'ization ofxMhich the pro-Germans all over the World have been working with the blind assistance of the Paci- fists, who have tried to hold back the shields and swords of their coun- tries def2nsively opposed to the Prus- sian aggression for real world domin ion-the aim of all the years of train ing of all Germany to the highest "ef- ficiency."
 Americas Answer. We now know that Prussia started this war in order to conquer world dominion for herself: w, know in what barbarous, ruthless and loath- some way Prussia makes war; and that France, Great Britain and their allies have stood the brunt of it for three years.
 We now know that if they had fallen the Prussian vulture-eaglc would be soaring over most of North and South America, making ready for the next swoop; and, therefore, that our safety actually demands that we SUD- bort all our allies as quickly and as lpowarfullv as possible
 We now know that for America, as well as for the democracies of Europe it is literally twin the war or per Iishw
 We now know that all Berlin's re- cent peace talks have the main pur- pose of getting temporary peace or such terms that tho present grip of the Hohenzollerns on all their present allies will not be broken; this because they want a breathing spell in order to reorganize the peoples now under their dominion for a fresh attack which will carry out the pan-German plan for worlc dominion.
 Realizing this, we recognize that the safety of democracy and of per sonal liberty demands that we fight until Prussia's present allies are freed from the hold she has fixed upon them by this war. The freedom of the world rests on the freeing of Aus ,tria- Hungary, the Balkans and Turkey from Prussia.
 To hberate them, to win safety for ourselves and our children, will re- quire that we devote every thought and word and act to winning the war TOT the present.. we must SnuJ out from our minds all divelting thoughts of peace, being convinced that an en- during peace will come most quickly only if we devote every thought to fighting for victory.
 America's power will come only from the loyal service of every indi- vidual citizen, be it rendered on land or sea, under arms or at the work bench
 Now, in the light of all these facts ask of yourself:
 Have I so far done everything l possibly can to help America win the waUfp
 "Am now planning my life and my work primarily to help America win the war-as every man and woman ir ermany is doing for her-or an,