Metropolis weekly gazette. (Metropolis, Ill.) 1???-19??, 1917-11-02
WAR TALKS
By UNCLE DAN
Number Thrse
How War Methods Have Changed
Everybody Must Help.
Number 1hree


Sorry If have kept you long," said
Uncle Dam. -Your mother has been
telling me how bashful | used 10 be.
She said II girl spoke to NE would
blush to my hair roots Well. 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
your Wen. war methods have under
gone many changes and they are still
chonging. No two wars are fought
alike. In carly 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
we're the great warriors. The inveu-
ton Of cunpowdcr. however. has
changed all this. 1t has enabled men
80 kill one another at considerable
distance. and do it wholesale. The
war. as we know 1t now. Is combina-
ton Of chemicals, machinery. mathe-
uadeal calculations and highly trimmed
men. Just think Of I'll Airplanes.
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 tho kali
ser and his allies are simply deyillsh-
He must answer In history 10 the kill
ing OF thousands of innocent women
and children He has broken every
international law and every rule Of
warfare; he has bonbarded hospitals
and undefended cities. sunk Red Cross
ships on errands OF mercy he has do
ures Of art TINT can never be replaced;
he has made slaves of his prisoners:
he has tried to get us Into war with
Japan his ernInissarles have blown up
our ships, burned our factories and
fired our forests. lie knows no mercy
or honor. The most charitable view
to take OF this blood-thirsty tyrnnt
Is that no Ia crazy.
"ono thing Is certain" continued Tn
Gle Dan, with greut emphasis. "Our
liberty. the safety of our homes md
our country. and the security of the
world demand the speedy and abso-
lutte overthrow OF the kaiser and
crushing out once and forever the
reign Of Prussian brutality
aHov about the German people"
said BILLIE.
Uncle Dan replied: The splendid
German people were happy. thrifty.
prosperous aud eontcntf-d. They have
been tricked into war and made to
suffer the ,.toftures OF the damned:
they have been crneliy and systematic
silly decdved. God grant thnt the real
fncts may get to them. and II they do.
Lord help the kaiserr'
"Of course the aHses will WIN" said
Mrs. Graham.
Probably So" sold Uncle Dan. '.But
If We are 10 win. We must 20 the limit.
We must check the awful destruction to
shipping by the German submarines.
or we may not be able to &c: food and
supplies to orr own inen and e Our al
lies; we must also put hundreds OF
thousands, and perhaps millions. Of
fsrst-class soldiers In the battle limo.
food IL the frst consideration Un-
Gle Dan continued. ~Eo army can hold
cut against hunger. 1t has been said
that food Will win the war. and this Ia
largely true. Hence the importance
of tho farm IN the war plans of our
country
Mrs. Graham interrupted by saying:
In view Of the importance Of farming,
don't you think, Daniel, that the farm
ers ought to be exempted from war
servlcey'
NO, thousand times no." said Un-
Gle Dan. striking the table NO hard TO
emphasize his protest that he tipped
over a vase of flowers. I'VE must
have no Gloss legislation. The duty to
serve Is the common duty of all, and
no class must be relieved of this oh
legation. The question Of exemption
must be personal one and decided By
the facts surrounding each ease. In
no other way can we have a square
deal. and TO insure thia 1t is the duty
nf congress 70 pass Immediately the
Chamberlain blll or some such meas
ure, which is fair TO all classes. II
would settle all these questions and
do 1t fairly. Safety now and safety
hereafter demands such legislation,
and let me suggest that you and your
friends get busy with your congress
man and senators and urge them to
prompt action.
at is time for as to realize that we
are not living In fools paradise;
that this great country OF ours cost
oceans Of blood and treasure and 1t is
only due 10 the loyalty. sacrifice and
service of our forcfathers that we have
a country. and 1t is our highest duty
TO preserve II unimpaircd and pass it
on TO posterity, no matter what the
cost may be. Our citizenship and their
ancestors came from all parts of the