The Parker post., 1917-06-30
A LONG WAR
IS PREDICTED
UNITED STATES IS PREPARING
FOR AT LEAST THREE YEARS
OF WAR-NO ROOM NOW FOR
PESSIMISM.

The world is sorely afflicted and
is cropping blindly for a way out.
Nations, plunged with little warning
into the vortex of the most cruel
and unnecessary war of all time,
are striving to remove the evil and
to find their way to lasting peace,
and to the prosperity which sheltered
the earth before the hordes from the
central powers of Europe were turn
ed loose upon their career of murder,
rapine and destruction.
The saddest part of the present
holocaust is that a single coterie of
unscrupulOus men-nOw the most
vile, blood-stained murderers of all
history--should be able to fasten
this crime of the twentieth century
upon our modern civilization. And
to the shame of civilization it must
be admitted that the assault
of the Huns must be met by
reciprocal methods; force must be
met by force and blow returned for
blow until the the power of the Hob
enzollern be broken forever and his
! feudal form of government be moth
| ing but black memory.
The United States has undertaken
a giants task, and it is big enough
and rich enough to see the work
through, be the cost what it may.
The apathy which was apparent dur
ing the first few weeks is now wear
ing off as the public is becoming ac-
Quainted with the cowardly treach-
cry of the Prussian leaders and their
atrOciOus ambitions for world DOM
ination. This apathy was due large
ly to the widespread conviction that
ped-that it could not possibly hold
out for another six months; an opin-
ion which was fostered by the Hun
publicists and carefully nutured by
the German propagandists in this
country.
The rumOr of strikes, food riots.
sOcialistic uprisings and impending
revolutions, dissatisfaction in the
Hun army, and many other bear"
stories which were purposely allowed
| to leak" through the German CEN
sorship, were undoubtedly designed
to create a false public sentiment
here and to make it more difficult to
get the actual facts before the mass
es. And the scheme worked we'll for
a time. However, the truth is known
now and a wave Of enthusiasm for
the war, which BODIES i'll for the fu-
ture Of Prussianism, is commencing
its sweep across the country.
Preparations must be made for a
long and bitter contest The gov
ernment is preparing for at least
three years of war and plans are laid
for a longer struggle if necessary.
| Washington knows that Germany's
resources in munitions are greater
| today than they were, after forty
years Of preparation, at the opening
OF the war. 1t is known that the
enemy is better provisloned with
foodstuffs for the coming year than
taken there for greater food crops
than normal will probably be success
| full. 1t knows that two or more sub
| marines are being turned out for
every one that is sunk. These and
other things it knows, and Is prepar-
ing for long struggle.
But there is no room, and little
| cause for pessimism in this country
There is not a shadow of a doubt of
the ultimate outcome THE mills
of the gods grind slowly, but they
grind exceedingly fine" and the
kaiser and his ilk are being drawn
ineXorably into the crushing jaws of
those mills. Somehow, we who are
not acquainted with the construc-
| ton Of milling plants wonder if there
are not special roasters being prepar-
ed for the Hun leaders.
This great land of freedom and
of hope has cast it's lot with other
nations which are struggling to
crush forever a black monstrosity.
1t can win when all it's resources are
marshalled, and it will win. How
ever, the necessity is to strike hard
and quickly, and to follow up it's
blows. AS an American now on the
firing line expresses it: "For Gods
sake, tell the folks back home not to
waste time. We've simply got to
show those damned Prussians what
the American punch Is. If We don't