The Wahpeton times. [volume] (Wahpeton, Richland County, Dakota [N.D.]) 1879-1919, 1918-05-30
We DO NOT KNOW
WHAT war MEANS
War Correspondent Declares
Even Neutral Countries Fed
It More Than We.
MUST Make EVERY SACRIFICE
70 Win This War the American Pc.
pie Must Awaken 70 Full Rsallxa.
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Chicago.-"We do not know that W
arc at war. Five thousand miles away
our troops are moving into battle. In
a million American homes. the casualty
lists are watched with anxious eyes.
Tears and anguish and heartbreaks are
the price We must pay to write head
line OF Victory" declared Oswald r.
Schuette, for three years war CORES
pondent Of the Chicago News with the
armies Of the Central powers. in an ad.
dress before the Press club Of Chicago.
"A year ago we unfurled the battle
flags Of the republic. We pledged our
selves to the greatest sacrifice this
greatest Of world wars might demand.
The American people are ready to
make that sacrifice. But so far we do
not know over here what war really
Is. I have come out of three years in
that inferno. All Europe is aflame.
1t knows 1t Is In the war. Even neu.
trail countries such as Switzerland feel
1t hundredfold more than we. There
economy and conservation IS no longer
a master Of preachment, Of voluntary
sacrifice. 1t is a matter Of enforced
necessity, Of grim compulsion. They
are not saving food to feed someone
else. They are saving because they
have too little themselves. And in the
warning countries, there is war in every
breath. War Is tragic reality for
them. They do not need flags In the
streets tn remind them Of the war
and You see few flags over there. War
portions out their meager rations. War
is their cook. War allots the comforts
of their daily life. and the proportions
are small. Luxuries are gone. War
stalks through their streets with the
soldiers in uniform. Wars shadow is
behind the mothers who pray in the
churches that their boys may be saved.
Sounds q Warning.
1--WE hardly know these things. We
are revealing in luxury, and call 1t war
economy. We think we are saving,
yet l have seen more food wasted in
the two weeks since I landed In New
York than in the three years Of my
war experiences.
II do not say this as complaint.
I say it as warning. We must learn
quickly the great lessons Of this war.
For every day we wait now will cost
us two later on. II we wait long
enough. they will cost US weeks. To
win this war, we must awaken to a
full realization Of all 1t means and all
1t demands. We must be in It, not one
million strong. but one hundred mill
lions strong. We must make economy
not fad or principle. but a sacri-
nee.
"Five weeks ago. I was In General
Pershing's headquarters In France, and
saw our soldiers march out to unknown
destinies In the trenches. Proudly
they marched. knowing that they car
rted with them the hearts and the pray.
ers Of our great nation. Now It is up
to us to show them that we are behind
them. And We will do 50. We will
show the people Of France who have
seen our soldiers march into French
trenches. that this great nation stands
behind those soldiers.
"Don't be misled BY any false tale
that our enemy Is collapsing, that Ger.
many Is on the verge of revolution.
that her army is ready to mutiny, that
her people are starving. We have be-
lieved too many such reports In the
year that has past. Germany is not
starving. She has been mighty hum
FRY for three years. But Germany
knows that she Is In the war.
One Eco In Three Weeks.
shortly after the break Of diplo-
matte relations a year ago, when
was still in Berlin for the Daily News,
an American colleague, the Berlin rep
resentative of the Associated Press,
contracted pneumonia. It was a criti-
cal case. The physicians said they
could cure the pneumonia. But they
said the patient would never recover.
The Berlin food rations, they said,
would not permit that. Patients such
as he. they say, invariably died. That
was the penalty Of war. For it takes
eggs and butter and milk and other
unknown luxuries to bring a man back
from the grave. At that time, the Ber-
lin egg ration was about one every
three weeks. Every three weeks, by
the calendar, coupon on the egg card
would be validated to entitle the hold.
er to purchase one egg from the grocer
with whom his name had been regis
tered. Often the groceries did not have
eggs enough to fill even this scanty or.
der. But we sent out an appeal to
every available American to help. We
mobilized every egg in the American
colony In Berlin. We gathered all the
butter we could find. We asked no
questions when there seemed some
doubt as to the strictness with which
the zone egg every three weeks" regu.
latiOn had been obeyed. But this pa.
tient had three delicious omelettes q
day for three weeks. No one CLEO IN