The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1917-11-09
WAR TALKS
By UNCLE DAN
Number Three
How War Methods Have Changed
Everybody Mat iseip.
Number Three

"Hello, Uncle Dan, Jimmie and /
have been waiting for you"
Sorry If have kept you long" said
Uncle Dan. "Your mother has been
telling me how bashful / used to be.
She said If girl spoke to me would
blush to my hair roots. Wen, re-
minded her Of the time your father
first came to see her and the joke we
played on them, SO I guess that will
hold her for WHILE"
Continuing, Uncle Dan said: "You
want to talk more about the war. do
you? Well, 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 lnven-
ton Of gunpowder, however, has
changed all this. It has enabled men
to kill one another at a considerable
distance, and do It wholesale. The
war, as we know 1t now, is combina-
ton Of chemicals. machinery, mathe-
matical calculations and highly trained
men. Just think Of It'll Airplanes,
submarines, armored tanks, or cater
pillars. poison gases. and curtains Of
fire are all used for the first time In
this war; and they are destructive be-
yond anything heretofore known.
"The methods followed by the kai.
ser and his allies are simply devilish,
He must answer in history to the kill
ing Of thousands Of innocent women
and children. He has broken every
international law and every rule Of
warfare; he has bombarded hospitals
and undefended cities, sunk Red Cross
ships on errands Of mercy; he has de.
stroyed cathedrals and priceless treas.
ures Of art that can never be replaced
he has made slaves Of his prisoners
he has tried to get Us into war with
Japan; his emmissaries have blown uI
our ships, burned our factories and
fired our foresta He knows no mercy
or honor. The most charitable view
to take Of this blood-thirsty tyrant
is that be rs crazy.
"One thing is certain, ;. continued Un
Gle Dan, with great emphasis, "Oul
liberty, the safety Of our homes and
our country, and the security Of the
world demand the speedy and abso
lutte overthrow Of the kaiser ant
crushing out once and forever thu
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 t.
suffer the tortures Of the damned
they have been cruelty and systematic
ally deceived. God grant that the rea
facts may get to them, and II they do
Lord help the kaiser"
i "Of course the allies will win," sale
Mrs. Graham.
i. Probably So" said Uncle Dan. "Bu
II we are to win, we must go the limit
I'VE must check the awful destruction t.
shipping by the German submarines
or we may not be able to get food ant
supplies to our own men and to our al
lies; we must also put hundreds o.
thousands. and perhaps millions O.
Iarst-ciass soldiers IN the battle line.
FOOD Is the first consideration" On
Icle Dan continued. mo army can hole
but against hunger. It has been sale
nat food win win the war, and this 4
largely true. Hence the importance
OF the farm in the war plans Of oul
country"
III Ma Graham interrupted by saying
l'rn view Of the importance Of farming
don't you think. Daniel. that the farm
Iers ought to be exempted from wa
jservicer'
= mo. 4 thousand times no." said On