Arizona republican., 1917-11-19
Collapse of Russaa amd
 Uwe0daAess~ W America
 Meons No.B Peace Before '19
IRepublican A. Q. Leased Wlrel


 CHICAGO, Nov. 1S.-Russia's col lapse and the nnreadiness of the Uni ted States make hopless any thoughts Of }peace before 1919 in the opinion of MeGll McCormick congressman at large of Illinois. who has just returned fUom 2 visit to most of the important .nunts of the European ba rtle line. Mir. MfcC Cormick said:
 "The Germans are not winning the ~ar
 Neither are We
 The WAT today presents a stale mate ffbm which we are unable to ex tricate ourselves because of the col lapse Of Russia and the unreadiness of the United States. There is prac- ucahy no hope that Russia can be in any sense useful during the year ls1S- From the most responsible persons l heard a disheartening tale of Russian lnsfifiency corruption, incendiarism and murder. Russia is so disordered Bhat she can not make war. Happily, fah all probability. neither can she make peace. Germany might propose con cessions and indemnities in the west and te recoup herself in the east. What would the European democracies do under these circumstances" The prin- clpai public men with whom l talked were not all agreed upon the answer To that question. Since the German high command controls all the central powers from the Bosphorus to the Bal tic. utey act with greater energy, unity and skill than their enemies Thus theE made seemingly successful drive mo Italy. The real object of their political foray into Nenetia was partly to make camoufiage on a grand scale f. d. ferdun to Passchenadele and partly to hrov0ke revolution in Italy.
 While l was in the now conquered Italian territory 6 little while ago. the Italian command expected an attack on the neighborhood of Asiago. The Ital- lans were under gunned. neither had they enough ammunition. The mar gin or subsistence in the country is So narrow that it must affect the morale of the population. But even so, the Italians would not have been driven back so far as they were if two or three divisions, holding an almost inn pregnable position, debauched by the excellent spy system of Germany had not thrown down their arms The Italians had defeated the Austrians It was German divisions with artillery from the eastern and western fronts which restored the morale of the Aus tro -Hungarians troops and themselves led the successful thrust
 The French and British have the great preponderance in guns and man for man they outfought the Germans
 An the German class of next years boys of seventeen are in the army and many of sixteen, whose tear stained faces among the prisoner were enough to touch the hearts of the tommies and the Poilous. who show them shy. ten der and clumsy kindness. Plainly the resources in men and material are run ming low. While there are still excel lent German divisions in Flanders there was appreciable diminution in the morale and the personal quality o1 the German troops on the French ana British fronts during the ten weeks in which l was in Europe. Germany ev- cry where had lost the offensive The issue of the war will be decid- ed not on the IsonZo or the Piave; mot on the Mouse or the Rhine, but ir Washington and by the furnaces ot America This war must be won, il we are to win it. by the manufactur, hn America of thousands of engines oi war. Men cannot win the war The splendid little American army which already has crossed the seas rendered q Efcdl seTNlce when the report or the first American fleet upon the soil oi France carried to every home whicl has sacrificed. (and almost all Frencl homes have sacrificed the promise that strength and still more the indus | trial ingenuity of America would bring suceor to France.
 One of the greatest of French gen. ! erals, sperhaps the greatest with ths 1 burden of the long front upon hi, | shoulders, said to me: Thank God fol your little army. 1t buoyed our fail
 ing hopes but it's present growth cost.
 us material. Send us cannon and am. 1 munltlon now, and more of them, leas 1 there be none of us left when yol
 really get here
 We cannot hope to have a vas
 army in France next year But Amer. fcan furances can forge as mach stee ss the furances of all Europe can pro duce, about 25,0o0 cannon
 We must have greater CO., o-ordina
 tion of effort than we have now w,
 must have more power of the,direction
 greater unity of effort true wa
 council such as does not exist in Wash iDgton-a council of men, who, ire l spective of faction and party repre-
 sent in the greatest degree the energ,
 and the genius of America. We mus | bend all our energies to make the grea industrial effort in time. It will b fruitless if we are ready-late" 1 --o--