Cottonwood chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1917-current, 1918-08-16
AIRPLANES WILL
WIN THE WAR
,-. 2
Suggests Destruction Ol
Berlin in This Manner.

one of the ablest and brightest
writer's in America, believes that
airplanes will play a most i'm
portant part in winning the war.
In the last issue of his publication
he says:
Civilization stands at bay,
gashed and torn by the ruthless
fangs of the Beast of Berlin. For
almost four years the world has
bled from the countless wounds
rent agape by the buzzards of the
air, by the serpents of the sea and
by bloodhounds on land. Regrets
are useless, repinings are vain.
what might have been" has no
place in the bloody present, for
"the mill will never grind with
the water that has passed. "
What enchains the eyes of hui
manity is the future.
There is just one business which
confronts civilized human beings
to win the war. All else can
and must wait, All else weighs
not a feather in the worlds scales
of outraged justice. Let us front
facts.
With a heroism hitherto un-
known, with a courage more
dauntless than ever before paint
ed on history's page by crimson
brush, the Allied forces have
fought on land the maniacal le-
gions of Hundom, trained for for
ty years for their bandit foray.
Step by step, yard by yard and
mile by mile have been literally
washed by waves of blood. There
is not a foot of contested soil but
that has drunk its fill ofgore pulls
ing from heroes veins. But
that does not win the war! AS
General Foch pithily puts it:
"A purely defensive battle, even
we'll conducted, does not result in
a victor and vanquished. 1t is
simply a game that must be be-
gun over again" Further he apt
ly adds: 'To maintain our po-
sition is not synonymous with be-
ing victorious, and even prepares
for a defeat" These are weighty
words from the pen of the ablest
defensive strategist in human his
tory. The best defense can but
prevent annihilation, and il
brings no victory. "Victory by
attrition" has a sonorous sound
but it echoes far down futurity' s
roads. "Victory by starvation"
sounds alluringly bloodless, but
the vast rich acreage which has
passed into Hun dominion makes
that end but an elusive will-o'- the
wiSp.
Let us look at the seven seas
Germany's fleet will not give
battle. The vast superiority oi
the Allied fleets holds the float.
ing ornaments of Hundom in
leash, embargoes her commerce
and nullifes her fleet, but it does
no more. 1t is a negative, fruit.
less and indecisive victory. II
prevents, but it does not conquer.
1t saves the Allies "a most tire.
mendous result-but it does moi
annihilate the foe.
Beneath the sea, in its Shiny
ooze, lurk the Hunnish serpents
No divice rids the seas of their
poison fangs. They take their
tolls. The amount sucked into
the serpent's maws varies, but
never ceases. Despite their raw.
ages, the vast ferriage of men anC
supplies continues, and will con.
tinue, but the serpents are not de-
stroyed. Their fangs are not
drawn nor their venom damned
They have, as was expected, made
their Shiny way hither and taker
slight toll. Increasing production
of tonnage nullifies the subma
rines, but does not destroy them
The serpent is scotched, not an
initiated. Beneath the sea, a.
on its surface, we gain anothel
! negative, fruitlesS and indecisiyl