The Morgan City daily review. (Morgan City, La.) 1916-1920, 1917-07-03

resting besides the Syrian sea,
built in the time of Solomon 600 B.
c. Just as our loved Louisiana is
but an offspring of dear old France;
Carthage the wonder of the then
known world, the greatest CONNER
cial Emporium and trade center OF
Antiquity. Sure She was worthy
of better fate than befell
her, Her Mighty merchant
marine carried the flag Of
Proud old Phoenicia all over the
hen known seas, leaving settle
mcnts everywhere Of which the
/ present city Of Marseilles is one.
Like the present fleet of England,
/ she was supreme at time when
Rome had not yet learned to build a
boat. In spite of all this, what do we
see? Rome is still here! But where is
I Carthage? Woe to the conquered.
During three successive wars
stretching over a period Of 70 years
she fought desperately for existence
against the Rising Star of Rome. It
was struggle for supremacy Of
commcrce-hence dominion, similar
to that between England and Ger
many. They were opposite neigh
bors over the sea, just as the latter
are today. Twice did the older City
defeat her younger rival. But the
eloquence of Cato in the Roman
Senate, proved too much for Car
thage and her mighty Hannibal!
Day after day he famed the flag
ging energies of his countrymen by
his monotonous song: Carthage
must me destroyed or Rome shall
sease to bev 1t last that chant bore
fruit. Carthage was destroyed! She
was blotted out completely with her
peoples as though she had never
been, and no trace of that Phoeni-
clan stock exists today! Did Garth
age deserve this fate? We can not
sav No more than we can say to-
day. The German flag is more to
carry the commerce of the world
than that of England or the Stars
and Stripes! But we can and do
say: 1t shall be in this contest as in
that between Rome and Carthage:
The survival Of the fittest! Can we
dream of the great merchant en-
pire of England, over whose flag
the sun never sets, which embraces
all the Breto-Celtic-Anglo-Sax
blood of the world, besides numer-
Gus dependent races which are
learning from her the science of
popular government, and others
which, like France could not live a
day without : the protecting shadow
Of that mighty fleet, going down in
defeat before the German submar-
inc, which is robbing the world Of
food and bringing it to starvation?
We can dream of the Grey Forest
Eagle Emblem Of Liberty, losing in
terrific dual with the bald headed
Eagle of the Black Mountains? 1t
lies in our power to see that it does
not! But it is within the realm of
possibilities.
Napoleon's great saving was
never SO true "Victory perches on
the side of the heaviest artillery"
This was true not only Of him, but
also Of the German Army in the
beginning Of this war when it found
all her foes unsupplied, and it is be-
ing verified today in the English and
French artillery, on the Western
front from Ypres to Verdum. An
other of his saying was: "An army
creeps to victory on its stomach"
Here we see the Importance of the
food supply and conservation. To
win we must be able to feed our |
friends and ourselves. We must pro-
vide with food the armies fighting in
France. And to do so, we must not |
only produce in abundance, but also |
use sparingly what we produce, and
learn to avoid waste no matter how |
small it may appear to us. Because
that waste repeated often by us and
multiplied by the many who will ini-
tate our carelessness or extrava-
gance may be the deciding factor of |
the war-the "last straw shat broke |
the Cancels back. Which shall it |
be? Rome Of Carthage? ''The SUBJ
or the Stars and Stripes
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