The Canon City record with which is consolidated the Canon City cannon., 1918-07-25
TOUGHER
DELIVERS
A GREAT
LECTURE


One of the most inspiring and in
structive war lectures ever given in
Canon City was delivered Friday aft
ernoon at tie Chautauqua tent by
Lieut.. Z. H. Loughen. direct from the
battlefields of France. Few Of the
war lecturers from the trenches. who
are now flooding this country. have
the wide experience OF Lieutenant
Iougher. He was present to witness
both the Boxer uprising in China and
the Russo-Japanese war. and was sent
TO Europe as member OF the Ameri-
can Red Cross commission. He saw
conditions in France and England as
they exist at the present time. and
had the rare opportunities and privil;
eges extended only to the members
of the important commission to which
he belonged. In treating worldwide
conditions ard problems his view
point was that OF the deep thinker.
and when he had finished. everyone
in the large audience had larger and
better conception of the war. In part
' lie said;
~There has not been time in the
history of the nation when America
did nQi accomplish the thing she set
out TO do. Today she has n task be
fore her. greater than was ever
dreamed OF by any people. America
must win the present war: and we are
going to win. There Is no question
about that But the price that we
must pay for worldwide freedom from
sutocracy rcsis entirely with the men
and women of our country.
THE foe we have to face IL vile and
treacherous- There is no fair play In
her mode OF warfare. Germany has
now under her control. Austria. Rou-
mania. Montenegro, scrvia and Rus.
sla
These countries are regarded by her
no, as allies. but conquered territory,
and the Kaiser. when addressing his
wards from the newly acquired po-
sessions" In Roumania when the war
was over
The fall of Russia was a triumph
not of the victorious German armies
bur OF German propaganda. The Rus
sian soldiers were made TO believe
that n they did not stop fighting and
so home. all their possessions would
be taken from them. and at the end of
the war they would be paupers. The
defeat of the Italians In the early part
of the war was due 10 German propa-
ganda. and this IS today. our greatest
enemy at home In America
before the present war. the great
est army the world Lad ever known
was that of Nerxes. which consisted
OF one million men. America has un-
dertaken not only to assemble and
equip an army five times as large as
that. but to- transport that army safe
IS all the way across the Atlantic
ocean in the face OF German U-boats.
and to feed and clothe Il while II Is In
France To do this we must literally
bridge the Atlantic with ships. We
have already more than million men
in France and we are building ships
three times as fast rs the submarines
can destroy them.
"neicre the AmericanJ soldiers had
arrived in France. there were hun.
drods OF American doctors and nurses
working al the front and among the
civilian population. In the first seven
months of the war. eighty per cent of
all the doctors in France had been
killed. II was the American doctors
and nurses who had TO take their
places.
when ? was In a small town the
other day, lady came to me. after
the lecture and told me that their 10
cal Red Cross chapter had made six
thousand bandages, and she asked
me II thought they had done enough.
while in the headquarters in Paris.
! heard an order given for million
bandagrs TO be sent To the front for
the use Of our soldiers for one day.
II is no time to stop making band
ages
After his lecture was finisher. Lieut..
Tougher displayed to the audience a
number OF interesting things he had
brought with him from France. and
told a number of interesting stories
of his experiences. He showed
French helmet. gas mask. and life
saving suit which every man must