The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1918-07-27
PEOPLE MUST
| THINK VICTORY,
NOT PEACE
DIR. J. G. AchesOn, Just Returned
From Western Front, Makes Won
derful Address ut the First
Presbyterian Church.

think or talk about and that Is a peace |
signed in Berlin when the Kaiser and |
his pirates have been eliminated by |
death, said DR.. j. c. Acheson, presi-
dent of the Pennsylvania College for |
Women, in one of the greatest war
addresses heard in Maysville at the |
First Presbyterian Church last night.
DR.. Acheson opened 81 great |
address by describing the wonderful
spirit of the French soldier and pay
ing a high tribute to the French civil
ian. He said there was no doubt that |
France would hold out and could hold
out until the war was brought to a
successful conclusion.
The British Tommy was also given
high praise by the speaker, who af-
ter spending three months on the
Western front and after having trav-
eled all over France, was in a splen-
did position to Judge. He said that
while the French had the dash to go
into the fight. the English had the
grit to stick it out. Contrary to the
general opinion of the American peo-
ple. he said, the British were furnish
ing the humor over there and several
examples of this humor were given
which brought laughs from the large
audience.
In talk.with high British ofiic-
ial, Dr. Acheson said ne was advised
that the British had come into possess
sion of the plans of the German High
Command in this war. Those plans
we're to crush France in a sudden
blow, then turn on Russia and com
bine the captured fleets of France and
Russia with the German fleet and at
tack England. Canada was to be one
of the prizes of war to be demanded
by Germany and the United States
would soon have been a neighbor to
the Hun.
After having dealt at length with
, the French and the British, DR.. Ache
son turned to the American soldiers
, in France. He said that he was not
exaggerating when he said that the
American forces were the most ply
r sically perfect men in 'France-that
, no troops in Europe could match
them
The American forces measured up
I in efficiency too, the speaker said, as
their accomplishments were marvel
Y Gus. He warned against exaggerated
s press accounts of wonderful heroism
e but pointed out the great accomplish
h ments of the American engineers and
/ foresters.
d Speaking of the morality of the
t American troops, DR.. Acheson de-
s Tended them against false reports that
4 immortality reigned among them. He
said that in all his travels through
France he had not seen one single
drunken American soldier He said
that they were the cleanest type and
5 body of men in France today and that
5 their morals were being cared for bet
q ter in France than they would be back
Z here at home.
IL AS to the care of the wounded or
II sick among our men, he said that
s none could receive better attention
/ and treatment and the American Med
ical Corps was complimented as being
the best in Europe.
DR.. Acheson gave the following as
# convictions he had received as a re-
# suit of his experience at the fighting
,e front.
n Q) The American people must get
10 together and stop. critisizing the adj
IS ministration.
" (2) Slackers, loafers and traitors
must be handled without gloves. And
in referring to slackers he said he die
not mean only the military slackers
but those who were slaskers on the
food conservation program as we'll.
he (3) We cannot refrain from sup
g. porting every war enterprise such as
to the Liberty Bonds, the Red Cross thu
Is Y. M. c. A. Etc.
ca We have got to stop talking
and thinking peace He said there
was only one way to think and tall
-, and that was to think and talk in thu
=, terms of victory-a smashing mill
- tary victory over the Hun Hordes.
"a The speaker told of lunching witt
General Pershing shortly before hi
left Europe for America and he salt
IL that General Pershing told him ant
the four other members of his com
mission that there was one messag
he he would send back to the Amer
et lean people by them and that was L
at stop talking peace.
DR.. Acheson said there we're bu
three ways peace might come On
was through a collapse of the Allie
and this would never be possible An
49,. other was by the collapse of the Gel
mans and this was not probable. TIL
way victory must finally come, ID
y Acheson said, was through smash
n ing military victory over the Hun
Nh and that the terms of this peao
a, should no an absolute and uncond