Licking Valley courier., 1917-11-29
WAR TALKS
By UNCLE DAN
Number Three
How War Methods Have Chanued
Everybody Must Help.
Number Three

Hello, Uncle Dan, Jimmie and l
have been waiting for you"
! Sorry If / have kept you long," said
Uncle Dan. "Your mother has been
telling me how bashful used to be.
She said If girl spoke to me would
blush to my hair roots. Well, re-
minded her Of the time your father
first came to see her and the joke we
played on them, so l guess that will
hold her for a WHILE"
Continuing, Uncle Dan said: "You
want to talk more about the war, do
your 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 lnven-
ton Of gunpowder, however, has
changed all this. 1t has enabled men
to kill one another at a considerable
distance, and do 1t wholesale. The
war, as we know 1t now is a cOmbina-
ton of chemicals, machinery, mathe-
matical calculations and highly trained
men. Just think Of 1t! Alrplanes,
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.
1.-THE methods followed by the kali
ser and his allies are simply devillsh.
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 emmlssaries have blown up
our ships, burned our factories and
fired our. forests. He knows no mercy
or honor. The most charitable view
to take Of this blood-thirsty tyrant
Is that he Is crazy.
zone thing Is certain" continued I'm
Gle Dan, with great emphasis, sour
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
reign of Prussian brutality"
"HOw about the German people,
said Billie.
Uncle Dan replied: "The splendid
German people were happy, thrifty
prosperous and contented. They have
been tricked into war and made tC
suffer the tOrtures Of the damned
they have been cruelty and systematic
ally deceived. God grant that the real
facts may get to them, and If they do
Lord help the kaiserW
"Of course the allies will wln,n said
Mrs. Graham.
"Probably So" said Uncle Dan. "But
II we are TO win, we must 90 the limit
We must check the awful destruction tC
shipping by the German submarines
or we may not be able to get food ant
supplies TO our own men and TO our al
lies; we must also put hundreds o.
thousands, and perhaps millions, o.
first-class soldiers in the battle line.
"Food is the first consideration" I'm
Gle Dan continued. "NO army, can holt
out against hunger. 1t has been sale
that food will win the war, ind this 4
largely true. Hence the importanc,
of the farm In the war plans of ou
country"
Mrs. Graham interrupted by saying
"In view Of the Importance of farming
don't you think, Daniel, that the farm
ers ought to be exempted from wa
serviceT
'No, thousand times no." said Un
Gle Dan, striking the table so hard L
emphasize his protest that he tippet
over vase of flowers. 1--WE mus
have no class legislation. The duty t
serve is the common duty Of all, an
no class must be relieved of this Ot
legation. The question OF eXemptlo
must be n personal one and decided b
the facts surrounding each case. /
no other way can we have sQuar
deal, and to insure this, 1t is the dut
Of congress TO pass Immediately tn
Chamberlain bill, or some such meas
ure, which Is fair TO all classes.
would settle all these questions an
do 1t fairly, Safety now and safet
Hereafter demands such Legislation
and let me suggest that you and you
friends get busy with your congress,
man and senators and urge them I
prompt action.
at Is time for us to realize that "
are not living In fools paradise
that this great country of ours co!
oceans of blood and treasure and 1t
only due to the loyalty, sacrifice an
service of our forefathers that we hay
country and II is our highest dut
: to preserve It unimpaired and pass
Oh to postcfity, no matter what Il
cost may be. Our citizenship and the
ancestors came from all parts Of Il
world to make this country hon
and enjoy It's blessings and opport
mites; hence, in the crisis before u
II is ihe duty of everyone to star
squarely back of our country and
prepared to defend the llags Ever
: one in this crisis is either pro-Amel
can or pro-Germau. Great Ns the cou
try Is, there is not room enough f
, two flags"
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