The Washington herald., 1918-06-12
The Truth.

Praise from Sir Herbert indeed is this word
from special correspondent of the London Times
VINO has been making a two weeks Journey over
the American front in France:
After fortnight of solid travel | am con-
Nnced that what the Americans have ACCOMPLISHED
VIII rank IN history as of the greatest achieve
ments of the war
For instance, out of the waste lands adjacent
10 an old French port they have constructed
splendid line of modern docks where sbins now
are daLy dlscharging men, war materials cars and
machinery. A huge new warehouse system at this
point IS nearing completion, in addition to motor
parks cold storage plants and railway yards with
tracks aggregating 200 miles in length In the c,r
assembling shops steel are being put together
at the rate OF a completed train each day
work IS proceeding rapidly on a new 10000
bed hospital the largest vet to be construct.d
There are also immense artillery camp and
Temount camp, where | saw several thousand
horses.
lheSe port schemes being so we'll worked
out That they are capable of almost unlimited ex-
pansion which will be used most in nool;ne n.
allied effort, for the American base ports NAV
easily become the main reserve centers for dis
triOuting supplies 10 railroads everywhere on the
'front.'. The conditions were the same along the
hundreds OF miles of American communications I
visited"
~ - no Hood merely OF stimulating allied
morale, or OF fattering the American effort. that
the Times says, edtorially. regarding this article:
The German knows his doom is drawing near
lie IS we'll aware of what the Intervention of
America means for him. When American prepa-
uons IN France are complete, the superiority in
numbers. the enemy's only advantage in the field,
will be gone, and the world will be in sight of A
real peace"
Oh course, the American people have been im-
IN the field. They have not understood-and it is
clear that the majority of French and British have
not understood-the way in which the United
States has gone about the immensely difficult prob
lem before 1t. First and last it has been an en-
gineering problem. Engineering is not matter of
flag-waving, Of let the eagle scream of legions
marching spectacularly by passing throngs For
the hrst year OF our work abroad our allies saw
no more on the fighting front than a passerby sees
OF a iuurc skyscraper the machines are drilling
into rock TO establish its foundations Such men
as Andre Tardieu knew the real scope and techni-
cal difficulty OF the American program and gave
1t their unstinted admiration The merely fighting
men, with the public, which knew little or nothing
about the construction Of a 4oo-mile railroad in
France from the Atlantic to the firing line, grew
dubious and skcptical more than once OF the eff
ciacy OF American intervention; and during the
turbulence OF last winter, Senator Chamberlain
found great audience for his hastily uttered
opinion that the American war organization had
broken down."
Just now VIC just beginning to garner the
hrst fruits OF our years work. For instance, Sec
rotary OF War Baker announces that we have
100000 troops in France; this announcement is
conservative and the big fact is that our plans
have been drawn on SO large scale that an army
Of millions can be handled by the present facilities
aud absorbed into the existing organization
There is no doubt that the doom of the Hun is
scaled, as the Times says. The foundation of the
work OF encompassing his fate already has been
laid.