The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1918-07-23
(From the New York Times)

| NO sooner does General Foch begin
smashing attack in the scissors
| sector and take prisoners and guns
Win the cooperation OF hard-hitung
american divisions than his move
| ment is welcomed by our impression
| able optomists as the beginning OF the
END for Germany. The note Of Ella
tlon arises to cresendo of triumph
ant faith in victory. 1t is said that
the French strategist has regained the
INITIATIVE; that he will not lose 1t
again; that Paris. Amiens and the
Cnannei ports are safe now; and that
with million American troops in the
llne the Germans will soon be driven
from French territory. 1t is unfor-
tunate that CLEAN OF success turns
the heads Of many of our people so,
and that they see in 1t the growing
dawn OF victory and the sunburst of
peace. The enemy is less imaginat-
I've; whatever his successes are, what
ever advantage he obtains, he con-
1nues to plan a military triumph in
the west-in the east he considers
that he has won the war
No optimism could be more foolish
than the administration of the Amer
leans and their allies when a German
thrust is parted, a drive" checked
or stopped, in Flanders, Picardy, or
the Champagne. There is reason for
elation when General Foch turns on
the foe and throws him back with
heavy casualties and accommodating
losses, as he has done in this, his first
real offensive since he assumed the
command of the allied forces on the
cess should not be hailed as an as
surance that the worst is over. and
that henceforth the Germans will have
to hight a defensive campaign that
must end in defeat and disaster. The
road to victory will be long and toll
some, however brilliant the strategy
OF General Foch, however valiantly
the allied troops acquit themselves in
the field. AS that master of war has
said, this is struggle between peoples
as we'll as between armies. 1t might
be just as fatal for the people Of the
allied nations to be victims of over
confidence as for their armies to suffer
from it There is little danger of the
latter; the allied soldiers know the
foe, they do not make the mistake of
Understanding his genius for war,
his fighting ability. But there is a
real danger that the allied peoples,
and particularly the Americans. will
be deceived by over-confidence to the
point of relaxing their energies when
the situation calls for a supreme ef-
fort, if victory is to be won and a
democratic peace secured.
In a homely phrase winning round
and that is just what General Foch
has done In the scissors sector-may
be, and generally is, a very different
thing from winning a fight. In this
war Germany has won most of the
rounds so far and shows few, if any
signs of waning skill and strength in
the field. 1t was never more true that
the Allies need all the resources they
can command to end the war in their
favor. AS many ships, as many air
planes, as much artillery and ammu-
nitionas can be constructed and manu-
featured, and as quickly as possible, |
is the urgent. the imperative need of
a crisis which was never more acute. |
And as for troops, too many Of them |
cannot be organized and trained, not |
two millions, but twice two millions or
more. We are speaking of Americas |
contribution-our allies are very near /
the end OF their resources in man ,
power.