Weekly journal-miner., 1918-08-14
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accord on thIs matter. General w. l.. $. voiced his scnf'uents along these lines more than a half century ago and Jimmie told big audience at the Elks theater here last night what he thought about thcNconflict now rag ing.
 If America speeds up her war pro, gram and gets 100000 men in the trenches by next May, and does not allow Germany sufficient time to mobilize the man-power of Russia, the Huns will possibly be given a good trimming and pushed back to Berlin by October, 1920, according to Mir. Douglas, who has just returned from France, where he spent nearly a year working for the American Red Cross. Mr. Douglas, m common with all other well-informed Americans, IS of the opinion that the only peace that the Allies dare make with the Huns will be that which can be made only after the kaiser has been whip ped to a finish. Any other sort of a peace treaty will mean but contin- nance of the war in few years when Germany has had opportunity to re assemble her shattered forces and again prepare for another mighty drive on the forces of the Entente.
 Douglas, who since September, 1917, has been in Paris looking after the stores and warehouses of the Red Cross. came back to the United States and later came to his old home ln Jerome. where he is at the head of the activities of the United Verde ENten- sion Copper company Since his ar rival in Arizona he has made three or four addresses in the larger cities and has presented line of plain, un- vanished facts regarding the status of European conditions which are de- signed to rob his hearers of their pre- conceived notions that Germany IS getting the worst of the present con flict. Germany has all the best oi things as they now stand, said MT. Douglas. and until America gets an army of several times the size of the one now in the field lined up against the Hun the latter will continue to have the best of it notwithstanding the spasmodic drives which the Allies make into the enemy lines.
 "I ct me remind you that up until inc present moment, the Central pow CTS have been gloriously triumphant. said NIr. Douglas Just now the Ger mans control three times as much ter ritorv in Europe as they did when the war commenced. They have m ther Dossession the oil and wheat fields ot Rumania and Ukraine. They have inc immense natural resources ot Kus- sia to draw from, and until about three months ago. they were getting all of the copper and cotton which thev needcd-copper and cotton which came right from the United States. You know that we left the doors open until just short while ago, and we allowed immense shipments Of cot ton and cooper to go to Holland and Denmark. from which countries, the Germans were easily able to procure it. Germany is not going to starve- Don't be fooled by any statements 10 the contrary. That's Hun propaganda of the most cunning sort. The Gcr- mans are using every means at thelr disDosal to cause the Americans to slow down their preparations. We can see in the lamcntablc fate ot Rus- sia the workings of Hun propaganda allowed to run riot
 "As vet the United States Is bear ing but a comparatively small part oi inc load of waging war on Germany Up until the beginning of thls year. this country had not done much to be proud of. What little Censurc France had for the United States during the few months following our entrance into the war was due to the fact that 1ve were not rushing men across fast enouph Great Britain begged us to send them quick. even offering uS ships in which to transport them. he Continental idea was to brigade the raw American troops with the season. ed French and English fighters and thus keep up the training of our men. This plan was rejected for some req son and the American troops contln- ned to dribhle across the ocean m small contingcnts until the big German drive of March Fist opened. Then the Allied demands for American troops became so insistcnt that even Wash inptou could not longer remain pas siyc. and when the British again agreed to furnish about 65 per cent of the transport vessels, the Ameri- cans began to cross the Atlantic in adeduate numbers. And YOU can al ready begin to see the wisdom Of such a procedure The Americans are bear-cats for fighting, and the events of the last two or three weeks have proven the correctness of the English and French theory that the masses of fresh Americans could do more comparatively than the war weary soldiers of the other Allied armies.
 To-day the United States has ap- proximatcly 300,0O0 troops on the bat tlc line. The remainder of the million and a half men which Pcrshing now has at his disposal are either in train ing or are engaged in activities back of the lines, such as hospital work which must be done to support the fighting men.
 Every time the Hun has been able 10 break through the Allied fronts, his victory has been due to his uumer-