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Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1917-06-03
Military Victory Over Germany Impossible Within
Two Years; We Must Overcome Submarines and
Raise Men for the Final Blow.
GERMAN PEOPLE WILL NOT STARVE
Kaiser Hopes to Pacify Us With Western Concessions
While Retaining Coveted Advantages in East as
Planned by Pan-Germanism.

clearly that the American people do
not yet realize what is in front Of
them.
1t is only by visualiZing the world
situation rs a whole, examined in the
light of reason and not In the rosy
hucs of patriotism or sentiment, that
the nature of the task can be made
clear. To do this the investigator
must know something about the mill
tary resources of the two alliances,
how many troops they have in the
field and what reserves are backing up
the combatantS, and he must know as
well the figures of lost tonnage. the
rate at which ships sunk are being
replaced and the facts about the food
prospects Then, by cOrrclatng the
factors military, economic and naval.
and not forgetting the moral factors,
he can form some judgment as to the
prospects of the war. The writer is
not in the confidence of any high COM
mands, but the broad truths about the
armies. the submarines and the food
shortage are well known in informed
circles, even tho they cannot be dis
cussed in the press. In newspaper
dispatch cancellations can be made.
nut the TACT upon which they are
based cannot be put forward. | can
only say that all the statements in
| TINS story rest upon what / believe To
be accurate information.
The most important question for
Americans at present is the length of
the war, because upon this point de-
pends the question of effective Ameri-
can cooperation. There Is very little
possibility that the German armies can
be beaten in the field in decisive
fashion within two years. This is an
opinion Widespread among military
men, to which almost any man con-
versant with the approximate field
strength of both alliances would
heartily subscribe.
Depends on America.
TC say this. is not to say that the
war will last two years. If the United
States will promptly raise and equiv
an army of millions it will be possible
to put great numbers of troops or
the western front next spring and
summer, and to have an army in Eu-
rope at the beginning Of the sixth
campaigning season, in 1919, capable
of winning the war. This being true
the Germans may capitulate before
that time but they will only do so il
convinced that America is willing anC
able to strike the final blow.
On the other hand, the entente can
not last thru the two years which may
be necessary To destroy the German
armies unless the submarine peril is
effectively countercd, and this, too
must be the work of America. Tn,
best authorities are very skcpticl
about the possibilities of dealing witt
this menace by any other means thar
grimly continuing to build ships to re.
place those that are sunk. The pres
ont building capacity of allied Europe
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1917-06-03
BY JOHN l.. BALDERSTON.


Syndicatc)
,-.,,. "a,
lONDoN' June L. iN1o
American people pu' tioI' ~ o", N3 ,',iu
this war the German "u.oNl az!
not be Deateh' iHc ''''r -
OF Great btltaln, ldIi'e' isut SS't ,hl
ltaly Is not suilicient " .I,
enemy or even 10 IAN ~ i,o' ~
of ms gains anu re es'ap.'9i' s'' 90
ance or power as 1t cNiSteu III - T.
Nhether thc wal 10 :" i o.
- c"u ~ 10 nrohlen the answer
In which must be sought in the United
states
All this is privately admitted in high
Quarters After all the bloody sacri-
ficps the boastings and the claims
that have been INDUCED in during the
last three years, these things cannot
he openly stated to the peoples of the
entente bv their statesmen. But they
ought to be known to Americans
when American officials utter solemn
warnings to the public, they are not
trduIging in oratory exaggerated for
the p,irpose of encouraging recruiting
or arousing public sentiment: they are
telling the sober truth, or part of it
as communicated by the representa-
tives of the allies.
The writer cannot be accused OF
suddenly taking up a pessimistiC atti-
,ude to increase the war efforts of his
countrvmen. For more than two years
| have presented in these dispatches
a dispassionate view of the war situa-
tion, discounting the claims of both
sides and repeatedly stating the i'm
possibility of a military victory either
for Germany or the entente unless
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1917-06-03

mother kept him there. \ few min
utcs later the girl called him over the
phone from a drug store at Thirty
seventh street and Prospect avenue.
The druggist became suspicious and
notified the police and Detectives A.
j BerRman and william Bauawell
went after her
Lease was pnroled a short time ago
by the juvenile court after he was
arraigned for refusing to attend
school
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1917-06-03
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and of the United States. is not great
enough TO accomplish this task.
Either active measures against the
submarines. or against the bases from
which they operate. must be carried
out. or the ship building capacity OF
the world must be increased far be-
yond anything hitherto dreamed Of II
is unsafe to count upon the success
of counter submarine work. tho here,
too the United States will be able to
help. What must be done is to build
more ships, and America must Shoul-
der the lions share of this work.
There are not in Great Britain either
materials or labor to increase beyond
a certain percentage the output of ton
mage. And that percentage in the
light of the sinkings now going on is
not enough. But in the United States
there are material and labor enough
to build more ships than the Germans
can possibly sink in the two years for
which llindenburg can count upon
maintaining his military resistance.
The question of money is equally
vital. Germany and her allies are
self-contained and the little purchas-
ing they are able to do in adjoining
neutral countries is carried out on "A
gold basis But within their own bor-
ders their paper is good so long as
their well disciplined and patriotic
people will accept it, their difficulties
during the war center around short
age of materials, not of credits. The
entente is in a different position. its
credit must be maintained. and this
task has hitherto rested upon the
shoulders of Great Britain. Whether
the burden could have been borne
longer than the present year is doubt
ful, | have been assured by eminent
financial authorities IT has now been
transferred to the shoulders Of Uncle
sam. Here America has given imme-
Jiate and all-important help already,
and is evidently prepared to pass out
the dollars without stint as long as
may he necessary.
Germany Not Near Starvation.
An nordiu1te amount OF nonsense
has been talked about the food short
age in Germany, to the great adVan-
tage of the German cause. lnforma
ton here comedies with that of Hoover
and Gerard, there is little chance that
Germany can be starved out for two
years, but there is a fallacious argu
ment current that has doubtless
reached the United states, and may
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people are suffering greater hardships
now than are the British or French.
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Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1917-06-03

German rout" and predictions that
Hindenburg will be ON his knees by
August
German strategy Is to hold out on
land and TO win the war at soA All
hopes of winning a decisive victory on
the west front must have been given
Up when the Sommc onslaught COM
lclled the cessation of the great eitort
to rupture the French lines at Netdun'
The great truth that the war must be
Won upon the west front Is now clear
nven To the "oasterncrs' who looked
I year ago to the Mediterranean for
a decision
The Turkish, bulgarian and Aus
trian troops re effectively pinned
by their enemies, ana cannot inter
fcrc in the main theatcr Of war. ltaly
and Russia account for Austria, the
great allied army at Salonica Will con
tinue To occupy the attentions of the
bulk of the bulgarian army, while tho
Russian army in the Caucasus and
Generals Maudc and Murray in Mcso-
potamia and Palestine are keeping tho
Turks busy But not even the crum-
pa 3 up ui one of the minor German
allies, or of Austria, would win the
war for the allies II would release
"a certain lullbtl Nl Nl''IN l'l N''
west front, but not enough to turn
the scale this year. As for Russia,
there is no means of predicting her
course of action. but while the rcvolu-
tionary armies may give MS pleasant
surprisCs the allies are bound 10 as
sumo for practical purposes that not
much is to he hoped for on the enstern
front excepting "A pressure that Will
retain the SIS or so German divisions,
all Of inferior quality, now occupied
there
Speaking with approximate knowl-
edge of the reserves available on the
allied side In the west, the writer
would earnestly ask Americans To re-
member, when they read of German
DIVISIONS decimatcd and of troops
thrown into the Arras or Champagne
ices from the German strategic
reserve. that the same process is going
ON not on one side only, but on bot.
II this is kept in mind, the military
effort of the United states upon which
SO much depends will not he hiudercd
or delayed by irrational optimism.
Appeal to Idcall-lS.
During the next months "a recrudcs-
ccnce of German peace activity is
probable. and this activity will b. di-
r,cied towards capturing the imagina-
tious of Russian and American ideal
lists The absence of such an agitation
would be "A sinister sign. for it would
mean that the German high command
seriously believed in the possibility of
winning the war outri ght by the sub
lariuo. and debating terms that would
make all nations Vlss1ls Of Gcrmany
But il is more likely that Germany
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1917-06-03

We Never Publish Misleading Statements
Nor Catch Propositions

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Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-10-04
Recent Deaths in
Central Pennsylvania

Sunbury, Pa, Oct. 4.-Taken
suddenly i'll of heart trouble, Miss
Grace Matthews, "a years old, of Nc
Keesport, who was working here,
died.
Mrs. Lewis E. Palmer, aged 80,
of Danville, died of typhoid fever.
Mrs. Joseph Nuckles, aged 25,
died OF typhoid fever, at Danville.
David Kaseman, aged 81, died at
his home in Ralpho township, North
cumberland county.
Mrs. John B. Mcclure, aged 40,
and Mrs. Orris NJ. Mcclure, aged "a,
sisters, died within a few hours of
each other of tuberculosis. Both
were inmates of Mont Alto Sana-
torium.
Mrs. Cyrus Yost, aged 5S, years
old, died of complication of dis
eases at her home at New Column
bia.
Miss Hattie Rohrbach, aged "a,
died at her home here of compli-
cation of diseases.
Marietta, Pa, Oct. 4.-Mrs. Mary
Erb, aged 50, of Green Hill, died
yesterday. She was the last of her
family, pioneers of that section. A
number of children and grandchil-
dren survive.
Miss Elizabeth Esbenshade, of
Strasburg, aged IS, died Tuesday,
after a long illness. She was a
member of the Methodist Church
and taught in the Sunday school.
She is survived by several brothers
and sisters.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-10-04
THOUSANDS YET
TO GO TO CAMPS
Arrangements Being Made to
Move the Third Consign-
ment of Drafted Men

Over $4,000 men will remain to be
sent to the three mobilization camps
of the National Army from Pennsyl-
vania when the movement of the
second quota started yesterday is
completed. The first movement was
not far from $4,000 men and a num-
Der of additional men followed on
regular trains when the movement
OF special trains was ended. About
400 will go on the second move
ment now in progress.
There will remain approximately
10000 men to go to Camp Meade,
1900 to Camp Lee and LOO to
Camp Sherman. In addition to these
men for whose accommodation rail-
road schedules are now being worked
out there will be sent men to take
the places of men who have been
rejected for physical reasons after
examination at the camps. These
men must be replaced by the boards
OF the districts from which they were
sent The government stands the ex-
pense of sending the men home.
Considerable correspondence is
taking place between the state head
quarters and the local boards about
the sending of men who have been
commissioned in the Army or who
have enlisted to the mobilization
camps. These men have been or
dered home
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-10-04

How does corn alone compare with
these bonds? Our corn crop this year
is worth twice as much as the whole
of this second issue of Liberty bonds
Is there as much gold back of Unit
ed States Government bonds as back
of Englands Frances and Germany's
bonds? Far more.
How much more? The United States
has more gold than is contained in
the Bank of England. Bank of France
and Bank of Germany combined.
How does Americas debt compare
with those of England, France and
Germany? England's debt equals a
quarter of that country's total wealth
Germany's debt equals a quarter of
its wealth. Frances debt equals now
third of it's total wealth. But at
the end of our first year of war; next
April, our total debt will not exceed
one-tenth of our nations wealth.
Is our debt for each person smaller
than the debts of European countries? :?
Far smaller.
How much smaller? Each Briton's
share of his country's debt is now
more than $400. Each Germans share
OF his country's national debt is $780,
Each Frenchman's share of his coun-
try's debt is $500 But after we have
sold Liberty bonds for the first year
of war or up to $4,000, 600, 900, each
Americans share will be only 5000.
Does America pay off it's debt?, 1t
paid off the debt of the Revolution
completely. 1t paid off every dollar
of that of the war of 1912. 1t paid
off the Mexican War debt 1t speedily
paid off two-thirds of the Civil War
debt.
Why did it not pay off all the Civil
War debt? The law had enobled ma
tional banks to use those bonds to
issue bank notes and it was deemed
unwise to pay off the bonds and wipe
out the bank notes.
Are Liberty bonds as good for a
poor man as for rich man. Better.
Why? The rich man will have to
pay an income tax on the interest he
gets from his bonds; the poor man
will not.
Is it expensive to buy a bond?
Does not cost a penny.
Can bond be sold quickly? In two
minutes.
Can l exchange my first Liberty
bond which pays three and one-half
per cent. interest for a new bond
which will pay four per cent? Yes.
How much will that exchange cost
me? Not even postage stamp.
Who will do it for me? Any bank,
banker or broker.
What do they get out of it? My
thanks. but nothing else.
Why do such bankers and other
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-10-04

men like Mr.. Stotesbury give so much
time to selling Liberty bonds if they
get nothing out of 1t but thanks2
That is part of their volunteer serv-
ice for their country. They fight with
their brains. their time and their dol
lars. as their sons fight in the
trenches-all against the common foe
How can l help? BY rigidly de-
termining to economic a bit more
II; the future and so pay for a bond
out of what 1 save.
Must 1 sell something else to buy n
bond?' BY no means. That would not
help.
How then? BY future saving, not
by past savings.
Is saving a good habit? Rockefeller,
Carnegie. Morgan, Gould. Rothschild
and even old Croesus' would never
have been rich had they spent all
they made.
Nearly every college endowment
every hospital, every free library and
every public institution of that kind
represents in the main somebody's
saving.
No boy was ever educated. no sick
man ever cured and no knowledge
thirsting man fed with literature by
spendthrifts, like Death Valley Scot
tie" and Coal Oil Johnnie Steel.
GIRARD.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-10-04
NEW CONFERENCE
!. SUPERINTENDENT
The Rev. DR.. S. C.. Enck Sue
ceedS the Rev. DR.. d. d.
Lowery, Deceased

Annvllle. Pa. Oct. 4-Yesterday aft
ernoon's session of the One Hundred
Eighteenth Conference of the United
Brethren in Christ was opened by the
Rev. d. S. Longanecker, of Cleona.
The report of the conference superin-
tendent was read by the secretary,
the Rev. DIR. ]. a. Lyter. of Harris
burg. The report showed an encour-
aging progress in all the depart
ments of church work within the
bounds Of the conference. One new
church under construction was re-
ported at Aristes, Columbia county,
and a large number of edifices re-
modelled.
The report of the Conference Mis-
sion and Church Extension Board
was read by the secretary, T. G.
Spangler, of Lebanon.
The report of the Boundary Com
mittee was presented by the Rev. o.
T. Ehrhart, of Lebanon. Only a few
changes were made in the boundaries
of the various charges Among them
was the forming of a charge with the
churches at Swatara Hill, Shope's and
Stoverdale, to be known as Stoverdale
circuit. Schaefferstown was attached
to Hebron and Mt. Aetna to Myers
town.
The Rev. DR.. s C. Enck. of Phila-
OSlpHld, was eltCleu as conference SUI
perintendent. to succeed the Rev. DIR.
d. d. Lowery, deceased.
The report of the second years
course of reading was submitted by
the Rev. II. +. Rhoad. of Highspire,
the Rev. p. H. Balsbaugh. of Colum-
bia, presented a report on the inter-
ests of the Marietta Church. The
Rev. DR.. G. a. Funkhouse. of Dayton,
Ohio delivered an address on Semi
nary Extension" The Rev. G, d. Bat
dorf. Phi. D., of Lancaster. read a
paper on THE Biblical Conception OF
the Christian Ministry"
This evening will be devoted to
Foreign Missions" The Rev. B. +.
Daugherty, of Lebanon. will preside
and the Rev. Dr. Samuel $. S. Hough,
of Dayton, Ohio, general foreign mis-
sionary secretary, will deliver an ad-
dress on The New World, Situation
summons for a Sacrificial Advance in
Foreign Missions" He will be fol-
lowed by another address by the Rev.
C. w. Shoop, returned missionary
from China.
The following young men were rec
commended to the committee on appli-
cants for license to preach the Cos
Geyer, of Florin: Raymond 5. Heber-
ling, of Highspire; Charles r. Beittel.
of Columbia; Albert Dambach. of Co.
lumbia; Parke Kentz. of Philadelphia;
Samuel T. Dundore, of Schaeffers-
town. and Paul V. shannon, of Ann
vile.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-10-04
a LIBERTY LOAN PRIMER
FOR SMALL INVESTORS
By Herman L. Collins (Girard)
Philadelphia Telegraph

What is a Liberty pond? 1t is a
bond of the United States Govern
ment.
Why is it called Liberty bond?
Because the proceeds of the bond will
help defeat the Prussian tyranny and
insure liberty for you and your chill
dren.
Should I buy Liberty bond? 1
should buy one for two reasons. 1t is
the best investment in the world. 1t
is a duty to lend a dollar to my coun-
try If have a dollar and my country
needs it.
Do 1 give this money to my coun-
try? No. l only lend it.
Can l get my money back? Any
day 1 want it.
Can 1 be sure that 1 shall get 1t
back? Surer than 1 would be If 1 in
vested the same dollar in any other
property in America.
Why? Because the United States
has the power to levy unlimited taxes
upon all the people and upon all prop
erty over any number of years to pay
it's debts.
Did the United States ever refuse
to pay off one of the bonds when it
became due? 1t never did.
DO United states bonds usually sell
for more than their face value? After
the Civil War no United States Gov
ernment bonds ever sold for less than
par and they generally sold far above
the price paid for them originally.
Did Civil War bonds go up when
the war ended? They did.
Can L borrow money from a bank
on a Liberty bond? Any bank wili
consider a Liberty bond a sounder Sc
curity than any mortgage or any city
bond or any railroad bond.
What makes this Liberty bond so
sound? 1t is backed by the greatest
combined wealth behind any security
in the world.
How much wealth? The country's
wealth is seventy times as great as
this total issue of 100000 of Lib
erty bonds.
Can our country pay the bond in
terest out of the countrys income? I?
Yes. the total sum earned by all the
people of the United States is $45,-
000,000.000 year. which is fifteen
times as much as the bonds them
selves and $50 times as much as the
annual interest.
How many days income of our
people will be needed to pay the in
terest on all the Liberty bonds in a
year? One day.
Could our farmers buy all the Lib
erty bonds? Yes, their output in 1917
will be four times the amount.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-10-04

Another soldier who has written
home relating his experiences at
Camp Hancock, Ga, is Sergeant
Stanley NJ. Livingston, son of Mr..
and Mrs. ]. B. Livingston, of Cam
eron and Maclay streets.
Young Livingston enlisted during
the early spring campaign as clerk
to Captain II. NJ. Stine, of Company
C, Eighth Regiment, and until the
departure of that company for the
South was stationed at Chambers
burg, Owing to merited service he
was promoted to the rank of SER
geant after months enlistment.
Livingston was a member of the
first graduating class of the Whar-
ton Extension School of the Univer-
sity of Pennsylvania recently estab-
lished in this city. He was en-
ployea as paying teller by the Camp
Curtin Trust Company. He has Il
host of friends in this city who are
wishing him success in his military
endeavors.