Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1917-09-28

Napoleon said, IAN army fights on
its stomach" No one has ever dis
puted his wisdom, so it must be right.
If any further proof is needed, to con-
vince Doubling Thomases," a visit to
any army camp at mess time will dis
solve all contradictory opinions. All
United States soldiers are real fight
ers, so it is little wonder that they are
all great eaters. Uncle Sans grub
is good, but it must be plentiful and
the supply must be on huge scale to
feed the million or more men Uncle
Sam is to train and place on the bat
tlefield in France.
he seems to thrive on his work, and to
gather new strength, as the days go
and as time tests it, in the conscious
ness that it is good.
His faith in God supports his faith
in victory. For he is deeply religious
man, his favorite daughter, by the
way, Is a nun, and while such feeling
means a good deal to human lives that
are intrusted to him, 1t helps him to
request of them all the sacrifice that
the higher ideals may require.
1t is his firm conviction that ito
sacrifice one life wantonly is crime
to use q hundred thousand if neces-
sary is a duty" for the commander of
a nation at war. eff necessary" is his
condition; and ''if necessary, let it be
done" his slogan, just as the slogan
of the officers with heavy responsible
ties is: "When in doubt, go to Ca
dorna."
The particular characteristic of his
mind is breadth of vision and the
sweeping aside of all minor issues, not
to speak of petty details. He is, above
all, practical and simple. The funda-
mental law of his thought is common
sense and a remarkable clearness in
seeing things as they are"-not as he
might like them to be or as he might
object to their being.
He even has gone the length of writ
ing that 1.-THE art of war must be gov
erned chiefly by common sense pure
and simple" And by the study of war
on this basis he has reached a deep
knowledge of the world, on the princi-
pie that there is everything in war,
from geology to the human heart"
Given his simplicity and directness Of
thought, the simplicity and directness
Of his written words are consequential,
and 1t may fairly be said that since
the commentaries of julius Caesar"
Italy had heard nothing to compare
with the splendid simplicity and the
Latin Zine" of his war bulletins.
1t is whispered among those who
know that, in the early days of the
war, the task of drafting the daily
had been intrusted to a
very brilliant Italian Journalistic Of
icer, whose headline ran, ""Gran Quar-
.iere Generate" (Chief Headquarters,
,r something to that effect, with OBJ
,ious reference TO the Germanic equiv |
llent). General Cadorna, after hav- |
ng firmly established his men on
he outer side of the Italian border
inc and carried the war into the land
II the enemy "a privilege which the
Italian army alone of the belligerents
las,enjoyed since the beginning of the
var), turned back and saw that the
eports were not half so good as the
,ork-literary, but not razor-keen.
md this journalist was thanked
which. by the way, in the Italian war
one slang, is expressed by silurate
and this characteristical-
= Latin headline was adopted: Com
ndo Supreme (Supreme Command).
From that day on, the communicate