New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1918-07-19
MILLION HAVE
GONE OVER WITH
HELPO ALLIES
New York Tribune)

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Nevertheless we are constrained
to say that we are all more in dan
ger of overpraising our part than O.
failing to appreciate it, We are ii
danger, besides! of claiming toe
much We shall try to speak oul
reservations gently.
From the statement made by the
Secretary Of War to the President
and by the President published at
the White House Tuesday, the i'm
preston is easily derived that WE
have sent an ARMY. Of million
men to fight OH what Mr.. Baker ha:
called the frontier of democracy
That is not exactly the case.
A million American soldiers have
been sent overseas. 1t is not fair to
say that We sent them. Mr.. Baker
does not say that we sent them. He
says only that they have sailed
from the ports of this country" But
he makes no mention of the British
assistance. without which the per-
formance would have been quite inn
possible.
Nor is it exact TO think that we
have sent an army of million men,
Mr. Baker does not say that. He
says only that more than a million
soldiers" have gone Butt again
there is nothing 10 qualify the i'm
preston upon the casual mind that
what WE have sent is an ARMY of
million men, thereby confirming
the Bryan idea OF Americans spring
ing out Of the confusion of unpre-
paredness into a sudden and mirac-
ulous fighting machine.
Men Above All Else
The facts are that when the Ger
man drive started the Allies called
upon America for men in very great
haste. many more than we had been
sending-men above everything else,
men above food or ammunition.
They would find the ships to take
them in, feed them il necessary. and
undertake to complete their training
and equipment. America respond
ed. The men were. Forthcoming
The British diverted ships from the
carriage of food and ammunition
and loaded them with men instead.
Troops had priority over anything
else. 1t was great risk; England
might have to go hungry But the
was tragic. Six-tenths
of all the American soldiers that
have gone went in April May and
June, at an average rate OF 1900 a
day, and very little else was going
at all When it is impcratively nee
essary for the British ships to re-
turn to the carriage of food, the rate
at which men go will suddenly fall.
1t Was Allied Achievement
We recite the facts for the sake Of
the record What is today acclaim
ed an American achievement was an
Allied achievement, and this may be
said without belittling at all our ex-
act share therein.
Let us defer the pleasure of self
What we have done is
nothing to boast Of IF our Allies
are astonished, as the correspond
ents report. it is only because they
too little Thus in their
astonishment there is for US tinge
Of humiliation.
The war has touched us but light
ly as yet.
Premature Sense Of Insecurity
We have just decided not to widen
the age limits OF the Graft, because,
for one reason, men above thirty
should not have a premature sense
Of insecurity. But Great Britain,
with less than half aur population,
raised 100000 men the first year by
and Is now combing
the Essential" industries, even farm
ing. for fighting men up to fifty.
Out of all the males in England,
from the cradle to the grave" writes
our. correspondent, P. w. Wilson.
'one out of every four is or has
been fighting Germany, either on
land or sea"
Must Accomplish Much More
This country is only at the point
Of great beginnings. What it has
achieved is intrinsically large, and
too easily beguiles the feelings into
a sense of satisfaction which ought
not to be encouraged Let us put
that emotion away and ask ourselves
two questions:
Are we sure we shall win the war
by the efforts we. are making?
Are we doing all we CAM
The answer is No to both of them.
No one can say what the victory will
cost. Every one knows we are not
doing our most. Ana this is the
Fourth of July