Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-12-31
The Worlds War
Through WOn,an's Eyes
BY ELLEN ADAIR
Victory First! President
Wilson md Germany
JONDON, Dec, 3,


"WHENEvER Mr. Wilson speaks 1t
w is as though America with it's
hundred million people blew blast on a
single trumpet"
The utterances of Mr.. Wilson have
made the profoundcst Of Impressions on
Great Britain. Those declarations of
his have an assurance OF national back
ing that no European statesman COM
manls. And the ringing sentences OF ms
famous speech on victory, not less than
the measures proposed to give effect to
them. will do very great deal in Eu-
rope as well as in America to clear the
air of pacifsm.
"Our present and immediate task is to
win the war" says Mr. Wilson, and
nothing shall turn us aside from 1t until
Il is accomplished. Every power and re-
source we possess is being devoted ana
will continue TO be devoted to that pur-
pose until It is achieved
This Is heartening reading for the
Allies. All over London these words
are repeated and lauded. Victory as the
first essential Mr.. Wilson has thrown
oil on troubled waters, has set things
in their proper light and in their proper
order
The President is looking far ahead
His war utteTances show that the goal
can be reached and must be reached
and that there fs only one sure way Tor
the Allies to reach IL.
have heard the comments OF many
a. British and French soldier on this
hearten!ng message.
I'VE will fight to a finish, till the last
German is cleared from French soil,
said the "poilu" doggedly.
"Hindenburg must be smashed first
said the Tommy, and his jaw was set
very square and stiff, 'and what's more,
we're going to smash him.
The German press has Its orders from
Potsdam to treat America as trifiing
factor In the war, as something almost
negligible. Therefore, there are few
comments likely to be made of a serious
nature in German newspapers regard
ing Mr. wilson's war utterances. 1t Is
rather amusing to note this dramatic
situation, this determined effort of the
German authorities to minimize in the
public mind the danger which threatens
from America--a danger which they
realize only too we'll and round which
their war policy at present centers!
Every step they are now taking sug-
gests a wholesome dread of the hour
when the forces of freedom on both
sides of the Atlantic will be fully ar
rayed against them.
The furious onslaught at present rag
ing on the western front is due to this
unspoken fear on the part of Germany
the fear of the hour when American
| troops will hurl themselves against Ger
many for the cause of freedom and
right, Germany has shown great en-
durance, but she knows perfectly well
that she cannot cope with whole world
In arms against her-and her present
and immediate aim is to discourage and
overthrow her European enemies before
America arrives on the scene.
The winning of this race with Amer
lea is the aim of all German operations
Negotiations with Russia promise yalu
able contribution. II nothing arrives tC
Illustrate them. If such negotiations ma
terialize. then we must expect newer and
greater violence on the western and Ital
Ian fronts, for the German war lords viii
have no mercy on the flower of German
manhood and will not hesitate to throw
her last reserves into the scale.
1T will not matter in the least to thu
rulers of Germany what extrenities thei
native land will be reduced TO, in th'
event of failure" / heard a Londone
say today. "A fatherland in which thei
own power is broken matters no NOR
to them than a squeezed orange. The!
are playing the final stake of an ambi
tion. and IL ruin is to come for them
selves. the fact that their country is L
! share II will not upset them at all"
, We may then expect henceforth tn
most frantic efforts on the part of tn
German soldiery--exertions surpassin
anything previously shown. The battle
now raging in Italy and France shoy
the rising fury, though they do not ye
represent its full climax. And the at
tempt on land is being coupled with tn
desperate attempts of the submarine a
sea, the effort to cut off all food supplies