Bisbee daily review., 1918-10-06
MT. Kuhn said:

isc qualities, conduct and achieve III ..5 If our army are the just admir- aC of our comrades in arms, as they , just pride of America. Wher- ever American troops have fought thus far they have either held the line or advanced, but never gone back. Our young army has been tested in many a battle. and wherever it has fought it has proved itself a worthy custo- dian of American honor and a zealOus artisan of American glory.
 Now, gentlemen, what is the under lying cause for the phenomenon that our Doys, taken from the most diver sified walks of life. brought up in surroundings and in a spirit which are the very negation of martial dispO- sltlon, became in an incredibly short space Of tune soldiers of first rate ef- ficiency; that our business men, farm CTS, mechanics, college boys are mak- ing competent, indeed excellent off cers; that our West Pointers. taken rom small army posts or office posi- tons in Washington, were found qual- flied generally not only to command laIge bodies of troops, but that among them were discovered men fitted,when the emergency arose, to plan and exc cute the business undertakings of war on a stupendous scale with a high de gree of organizing and administrative ability (even though these men would be the last to dispute that consid- erable share of the credit for the re- suits accomplished is due to those who. at the very start of the war,
 
 l have heard this debated a good many times lately both in England and France, and the consensus of replies is this. You in America have always been a nation of private enterprise and and individual initiative. You have had no caste, or fixed class, either aril- tocratic or bureaucratic. You have given almost unlimited, perhaps toe unlimited scope to ambition, ability, force. imagination, hard worK You had a healthy skepticism Of govern mental capacity to do things well.
 Under the stimulus of these condi- tions you have produced a race-dar- ing, keen, quick witted, adaptable, self reliant The American of today, as We see him iE the officers and men of your forces and in the business men we have met, is the product of genera tons of sturdy individualism"
 The Frenchman would point out L-.at France has had experience of bureau cracy, governmental standardization and paternalism for several generations. Taat system had lamed enterprise, atrOPhied commercial daring, l>tarded the development of the country.
 In Russia, bureaucracy and pattern alism. plus weak, corrupt and ineffi- cient autocracy, had led to revolution, chaos and anarchy.
 In Germany, bureaucracy and pa ternalism plus militarism and junker- ism had resulted in bringing untold misery upon the world at large and inevitable disaster in the end to the German people.
 In short, my French interlocutors would coincide that whenever, wher- ever and however the system of gov ernmental omnipotence had been tried il had failed in a greater or lesser de- gree; that France had given it a sui ficiently long test to be weary of it, and that after the war the tendency of the French people would be to turn more towards individual effort and to stimulate personal initiative.
 On the other hand it cannot be gain said that there are a good many per sons in France, as in Great Britain and America, who firmly believe that the era of individualism, or as they prefer to call it, capitalism, has come to. an end, and that an entirely aew kind Of social structure will be reared after the war.
 They are very active, jealous and eager, these militant preachers of a new day. They possess the feTvcr the prophet allied often to the plausi- bility and cunning of the demagOguc.
 They pour the vials of scOrn and contempt upon those beniehted ones who still tie their boat to the old moor ings Of the teachings of history and Of common sense appraisal of human nature. And being vOciferOus and plausible they are unquestionably making converts. They are offering the vista of a catching program to the popularity-seeking politician.
 They are perturbing the minds of sCOd many who honestly seek-as ey- cry right minded man should-tO bring about a better and more justly ordain- ed world They have not been without producing g certain effect even in high places.
 Nothing is easier than to start, noth- ing moves faster when once started. tran economic iallacies Nothing is harder than for sober unvarnished truth. loaded down with the weight of realities of existence, to catch up with