The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1918-03-14
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EVERYBODY'S WAR
God is Not Dead--Righteous-
ness Shall Not Perish From
the Earth--The Noble Work
of the WOmen--A Patriotic
Home.

of the WOmen--A Patriotic
Home.
(BY DIR. GILBERT T. ROWE
IN January of last year Germany
announced that on the first of
February that government would
he6in to wage war against the whole
World and since that time the con-
dict now raging has been literally a
world war. This announcement of
Cermanv was to the effect that any
vessel of any nation found within a
certain defined area would be sunk
without warning. By what law?
Germany did not even pretend that
there was any recognized law to JUS
tifv her course-solely by the law
Of might. The only law she recog-
nizes is might, and the only law
oiver the strongest, which she con-
s;ders to be herself Goodbye Moses
and the prophets; good bye all rec
o3nition of moral consideration;
dood.bye all arguments among the
nations. Only the strongest has any
thing to say about what is right,
and the strongest shall be governed
and limited only by its power.
On the 9th of April our govern
ment took up the challenge, not only
for itself but for the whole world.
II was not merely question as to
whether the ships of this nation
should be sunk without warning,
hut also as to whether there should
he such a thing in the future as in
terpational law, which should be as
binding on the strong as on the
weak. Th-re was no other course
for a great country to take, and
realizing the sacrifice it would in
volye, Congress with vote OF 1O to
1-fi1cthe Senate and is to in the
House declared this country to be
in state of war with Germany. We
did not 90 in hastily, and under
standing the magnitude Of the issue,
there will be no cessation until Ger
manv's insolence has been rebuked
and her power "a repudbate anslaw
has been destroyed. -,
The heaviest part of this load Will
he horne by our soldiers III the field,
and that they will bear it nobly there
is not the shadow of a doubt, for
there is something in the American
soldier that is not in the soldiers ol
the central powers. They may be
equal in physical strength and equip
ment, but while the German tights
for the kaiser, the American nights
for himself, his country and his God
The German soldier fights for one
king the American soldier Is hlni
self a king, gand it is this spirit o1
liberty that will be'the unconquer
able thing on the American side;
But the efficiency of the soldier
however brave he may be, will de
pend upon the support of a uniiet
and devoted people behind him, TO-
onr army is simply the head ant
front of the whole people ln thl'
stru9ele. 1t is therefore not the sol
diers' war simply; it is the war o
everv man, woman and child IN thu
country. The results of victory VII
not benefit simply the soldier the
will benefit every man, woman AM
child now in the land and tnelr pos
teritv till time shall be no longer
Realizing at least dimly this grea
truth, the people of this mighty lan'
are gradually falling into line Ou
Grand old ship of state is getting un
der way to sail the seas OF storm u
the haven of universal liberty sna
be reached at last.
STRANGE to say there are som
who are so callous in their selnsI
ness and so dead to generous III
pulse of every kind that they al
able to think only of their persona
welfare and the inconvenlences tns
the war entails. There are eve
some who take the knitting Dat
symbol of patient, loyal service an
use It as a camouf1age Tor COMM
ting acts of petty theft in dryeooe
stores The knitting bag, mace I
carry yarn and needles, is made II
rtcentacle of stolen articles. An
some are even specializing on Il
misfortunes of mankind, hoping
get rich through the war.
But happily these instances Oh u, "a
sreakabIe meanness are few: II
ereat majority of the people a
earnestly trying to do their pa
Millions have left their princely So
aries and are serving the COVER
ment for one dollar year, The ca
italist, the laborer, the farmer: ! u
nrofessional mar are freely ot1eTlI
their services to Uncle Sam. II
women, God bless them, are sellll
1:., for the Red CrOS