The evening herald. [volume] (Albuquerque, New Mexico) 1914-1922, 1918-11-12
TODAY
IN THE NEWS
The Expected
What II Means.
Stand Up.

y fctarN, mas appcalcu y"
- President Wilson for help
for his people II is not clear as
yet Just what kind OF help is most
pressing help seems to bc needed
IN all directions.
The news today indicates that
while Solf appeals for aid 90 save
the German people from Starvd-
tion. there lies behind that reque 81
an appeal that we save them from
utter anarchy.
All this was TO have been cN
pcctcd The form of the Imperial
German government, was 80 utterly
autocratlr; II rested So completely
for direction upon the high com
mand that nothing whatever was
left to popular initiative Highly
effective as this organization wa,
II lends isclf most easily To com.
pletc disorgapilation when the SUI
prcmc rule is broken down.
President Wilson has made per.
fcctly clear what our further duty
is toward Germany Ills statement
10 Congress IN transmitting the
terms of the armlStlcc made plain
the scope of the work we have yet
10 do. II is a mighty responsible
ity While we realize It's size in "a
general way, II will not bc until
revolution has made further pro
grcSs In Germany, as It will, and
until hunger and bloodShcd run
neck and neck into anarchy, as
may result, ,hat we will under
stand fully how enormous b, the
task we have undertaken.
Bitter as our feelings now are
little as we relish the job of saw
ing Germany from herself. that
job must hc done. and America
and her great allies viii do If. with
the same paiustaklug thorougincss
exhibited IN the greater Job OF
freeing Gcrmany from autocracy.
We had u little celebration through.
out the United states YESTERDAY Busi-
ness stopped automatically and hy
universal, unspokcn agreement Yet
as u result of that stnppagc. some
branches of very essential business are
today badly dsorglui2cd. ana in con
siderable of % mess.
The Chicago livestock market for
instance. has been smut down aud an
embargo declared ON gtuI shipments
10 that market uutl Thursday. SO that
the flutted condition caused 10y the
jdlc Monday may be- relieved ono
single market ,ouEo~t"d as is the chi
caRo market to-day affects huge inter
csts all over this nation
cur nation is mo- more highly or
gani2ed. indu-trHlly, than Germany
has been. w know what happens
here at home when livestock markets
CLOSE We know what Woul' happen
II the local railroad shop. stopped
running Ton "a week and u Santa Fc
trains stopped moving We would h'
on short ratous, if not actuaN' hun
CRY.
By little comparison We can get "a
fair idea ot what is the actual C"ndi-
ton throughout Germany today
where on top of four years of gruelt
ling hardship an entire. finely organ
izcd Industrial and business machine
has entirely shut down a nation
stopped running as by the turning OF
OF an electric switch
knowing what would ho happening
here a. home should oir own great IN
dustrial ana financial machine shut
down for day or q week. We may
easily summon considerable sym
plthy Tor the German people, NO mat
tet how much We may dislike ,hcm In
the light of their recent past They orc
iu devil of fix
because Of this situation In Ger.
many and its parallel ~ Austria We
can understand that our work In Eu
zone h fnr from finished. pur armies
must sta. on the job until not only
pcacc but order b. restored, That
means many months
We must take as much care oi our
soldier. ON the duty ~ saving Ger
mans us ON the other duty "f killing
Germans
The war work fund now h"iug rails
ed is as essential 10 our nationar sue
cess In completing tho hig job over
there us was the raising ot the last
Liberty Loan.