Arizona republican., 1917-04-25
When Will tho War End

Notwithstanding predictions that the end of the is beginning, our government is basiag it's cal cuation two-year war It's preparations would be no more comprehensive if it known that the would last years Preparation for two year war is essentially the same preparation for war of indefinite length, and that is the kind of preparation the government is making The two- year period mentioned is only arbitrary period.
 The of the British and French success- the western front even if true, do not forecast an early end of the But do not know that those accounts true We only know that in the past the war news was far from reliable. We learn of German losses in dead and prisoners but have yet account of the cost of allied vic tories The London Times of three English papers which come to this office regularly, prints every day the names of those soldiers officially reported killed, wounded, prisoners and missing, and usually the list in fine type fills entire page.
 We have had hope that the war might be brought to a sudden end by German revolution similar to that which overturned the autocracy of Russia Not long ago The Republican showed why the thing that had happened in Russia would probably not happen Germany; that the which brought about democracy constituted the foundation of the German military system. The view then expressed is taken by the Philadelphia Ledger
 That anything like the Russian revolution im-
 
 known the state of mind that universally pre- vails among Germans of all classes The general at titude of officials well civilians, indeed represented very accurately in the aduration of Vice Chancellor Heifferich that those home should their cry, hold on And hardly needed the denial of the so-caed revolutionary outbreaks realize that whatever domestic troubles may occur at present they are not and have not been anti dynastc. For if the German people have proved anything over and over again they have demonstrated that they the perfectly disciplined people Inc nf thp IYnhtt with fanatical devotion to their and their country, they seem to feel more than the of the people with their rulers.
 Their leaders out that they are all in the boat all making the same sacrifices and are all working to the one result In Russia the people viewed the official bureaucracy corrupt incompe- tent and traiorous-something entirely of the mind of the German people, who accept the loyalty of all officials as an axiom and view their efficiency and their honesty as brilliantly proved before all the world And their patriotism now at white heat tends to glorfy the kaiser and all he stands The suggestion of revolution in Germany is largely in the nature of the wish being father the thought it would seem, for in Germany today the wind sits not in that quarter.
 If anything in the present situation is clear It Is that the war is not nearly and that will end without the most serious co operation on the part of America. The work we will have to do will not be perfunctory work either. strain going to be put on the resources of this country industrial resources and its wealth of and money
 We do not mean to say that the will last two years or longer. We see into the future; the war may end much sooner than two years but what we mean is to point that there is nothing in sight to warrant the belief by many that the war will be over before will get ready to get into It. We must undergo the rigid discipline as that which has far enabled the German people to stand against the world. We cannot have that discipline under system which permits those who want to enter military service to do so when they might better elsewhere; or which permits those who do not want military service to remain out Of it. In where every citizen may do as he peases there be no discipline