The Morgan County press. (Wartburg, Tenn.) 1916-1926, 1917-11-30
WAR TALKS
By UNCLE DAN
Number Three
How War Methods Have Changed
Everybody Must Help.
Number Three

"Hello, Uncle Dan, Jimmie and I
have been waiting for you"
"Sorry if have kept you long," said
Uncle Dan. "Your mother has been
telling me how bashful l used to be.
She said if girl spoke to me would
blush to my hair roots. Well, l re-
minded her of the time your father
first came to see her and the joke we
played on them, so guess that will
hold her for WHILE"
Continuing, Uncle Dan said: "You
want to talk more about the war, GO
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 inven-
ton of gunpowder, however, has
changed all this. 1t has enabled men
distance, and do it wholesale. The
war, as we know it now, is a combina-
ton of chemicals, machinery, mathe-
NAUTICAL calculations and highly trained
men. Just think of it! 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 up
our ships, burned our factories and
or honor. The most charitable view
to take of this blood-thirsty tyrant
is that he is crazy.
zone thing is certain" continued IN
Gle Dan, with great emphasis, "Our
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 and
crushing out once and forever the I
reign of Prussian brutality"
GLOW about the German people,"
said Billie.
Uncle Dan replied: "The splendid
German people were happy, thrifty,
and contenteG. They have
been trickcd into war and made to
suffer the tortures Of the damned:
they have been cruelty and systematic
lilly deceived. God grant that the real
facts may get to them, and if they do,
Lord help the kaiser!"
"Of course the allies will win," said
Mrs. Graham.
'Probably So" said Uncle Dan. 'But
f we are to win, we must go the limit.
We must check the awful destruction to
shipping by the German submarines,
)r we may not be able to get food and
supplies to our own men and to our al
les; we must also put hundreds of
and perhaps millions, of
irst-cless soldiers in the battle line.
'Food is the first consideration" Un-
lie Dan continued. mo army can hold
tut against hunger. 1t has been said
hat food will win the war, and this is
argely true. Hence the importance
# the farm in the war plans of our
Mrs. Graham interrupted by saying:
In vie& of the Importance of farming,
lon't you think, Daniel, that the farm
RS ought to be exempted from war
erviceT
mo, a thousand times no." said Un-
lie Dan, striking the table so hard to
mphasize his protest that he tipped
yer a vase of flowers. 1--WE must
ave no class legislation. The duty to
erve is the common