Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1918-03-05
WAR To THE DEATH
. FOR AMERICA NOW;
MEN TASTE BLOOD
United States Has Reached
Point in War Where Hard
JOItS Begin-MuSt Expect
SetbaCkS
BY C. c. LYON

SOMEWHERE in FRANCE. March
America has reached the point in
this war where the hard jolts begin.
Our troops arc in the first line
trenches, facing the Germans.
Our airmen are now weaned from tine
French and English instructors and are
covering their own section % the front
German submarines have sunk 2n
American troop ship and many lives
have been lost.
Our troops have been gassed by the
Germans
Up to this time Americas chief con-
tribution to the allied cause has been
money and. food. But these things did
not bring the war close up to the Amer
lean people.
America will never put forth her
best efforts until she suffers French
general told me months ago, when our
troops first arrived. "A soldier must
feel deeply before he fights in deadly
earnest"
So must the people at home.
This same general has already lost
three sons killed in action and a fourth
is now in a hospital desperately
wounded
If anybody in France has suffered,
he and his good wife have.
Yet they have not permitted their
sorrows to overcome them or prevent
Them from putting forth their most de-
termined efforts to help defeat the Ger
mans.
,r1o r.ora 7 cae IF t1a VAR over here
the more I realize what is ahead for
America before a victorious peace
comes.
America must set her face and be
prepared TO accept with grim determine
ton whatever comes in the way Of set
backs-becausc every army has it's set
backs, no matter how superior it may
De.
IT has seemed to me at times that
the American people had notion, in the
backs of their heads, that they could
get through this war without very many
American boys being killed or wounded
From this side of the Atlantic. read
ing American newspap ers, ii was easy
to get the notion that many statesmen
in America felt that the war could be
I ended by talk and propaganda.
/ iunched not long ago with some
high officers who not long before had
received valuable information as to in
ternal political conditions in Germany.
Said one of them:
Get rid of the idea that 'bust-up'
is coming IN Germany, which would re-
suit in the ousting of the Hohenzollerns-
The German people, apparently, are
thoroughly convinced that the kaiser
stands next to God and that anything
he does is just the right thing. They're
with him and they're going through with
him, even to inglorious defeat, which l
think is ceretain for them.
THE way to win this war is not by
coddling the German people. but by
killing every damned one of them who
faces an allied trench"
This is real war and the only way
to settle it right, and so the world Will
be free for democracy for all time 70
that the kaiser will be forced to do
what we tell him to do
It becomes more apparent every day
that this war is going to be settled
with the sword.
Bloody days are ahead for the Amer
lean troops.
The Germans indicate a desire to
make it knockout fight
America must be prepared for enor-
nous casualty lists.
German miIitarism can be crushed
out in no other way.
The troops know exactly what is
ahead for them and they are ready to
take what comes.
1t is only to be hoped the folks back
home will show the fortitude that the
American troops at the front are show
ing.