Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1917-10-27
WASHINGTON SAYS
WE MUST WIN 1T
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chasers TO superdreadnaughts 1t will
require time TO turn these out, and
they may be obsolete before COM
pleted. The allies have constructed
many means Of defense, only to find
them useless on completion, so rapidly
does the means OF warfare progress,
and the manner OF fighting change.
The American people are not awake
TO the war. ! do not say that crit
ically. 1t IS simply beyond our mind
power OF comprehension. 1t Is too big
for us to grasp. We see II and we
don't see II. We think we realize the
magnitude OF it, but we cannot-not
yet. But we will. Every energy of
the government is taxing the power of
the country's expert ingenuity toward
preparation for successful prosecution
Of the war.
Allies in Bad Way.
Germany has great hopes in her
submarines, and she is playing a de-
fensiVe game on the western front and
I'm the meantime building more sub
marines. Russia is practically out Of
the war. and since the revolution Ger
many has withdrawn a million men
from the east front in Russia and put
them against the armies of Italy. Italy
Is short of ammunition, and the situa-
tion there is grave. Germany Is bet
ter supplied with resources today than
she was six months or year ago. She
has had harvest; she has had ample
agricultural land acquired in the war,
and, has ample prisoners, children
women, old men, and deported Ser
bians and Belgians to till the soil and
harvest the crops. She has coal from
France, and she has iron, and she has
the oil fields from Rumania. She is
short on fats, ii is true, but then she
has the best chemists in the world.
And she has n hardy, frugal people
who can withstand hardships and want
with more fortitude than any people
on earth; and she has people who
believe in, swear by, and will die for,
their king. They believe in God, but
God TO the GermanGerman is re
Elected thru their kaiser.
The United States congress has pro-
vided money in quantities that is hard
er to comprehend than the beginning
and ending of time. We have appro-
priated twenty billion dollars, but who
knows what twenty billion dollars is
The war is costing the United States
and the allies alone seventy-five bill
lion dollars year.
To get an idea of how many dol
lars that is, let us take the life of this
republic, one hundred and forty four
years. Compare that with time
LAO minutes to a day or $1,000 sec
onds In year we have only 31,-
$4,000 seconds; in 144 years we have
4,541.1S4,000 seconds. Hardly one
fourth rs many seconds of time since
the birth of this republic as we will
spend dollars in a single year of the
war.
II YOU care to carry your mathemat-
ical calculations little further. you
will find that there have been but
practically 60,454 $4,000 seconds since
the birth OF Christ, nineteen hundred
ana seventeen years ago. The allied
nations in a year, therefore, are spend
ing more dollars than there are sec.
onds of time since the Christian era.
What's the use of trying to compre-
hend 1T?
We have tive know 1t, and we'll
use it--every dollar of it, IL necessary
10 reassure the world of a lasting
peace.
The Washington opinion is that the
war will be long one, and that the
American people have not yet begun
10 sacrifice,
But we will win 1t; win II in the
blood of the land. Our forefathers
died that we might live in liberty and
frsedom-we owe IL to the generation
TO come to here and now die and sac
rifice that our children may enjoy
the liberty we inherited.
And We'll win 1t as followers of God,
not Dragging Of partnership.