Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1918-01-12
CORRESPONDENT TALKS
FRANKLY ON CONDITIONS
.PerShing'S Officers Are Dis
guSted With SIowneSS With
Which Preparations Are Be-
ing Made at Home,
| BY c. G. LYON,
| (Norning journal Reporter Win
| American Army in Erancc.)

high time the American people qu''
fooling themselves about this war!
Personally, I'm not going to to keep
on trying to deceive myself any
longer as to the seriousness and the
bigness of the Job my country has
ahead of it in the next few months
to come.
Dead certain it is there is an awful
Jar in store for the complacent man
back home who sits before his cheery
fire and observes to his wife;
Mother, we can't lose this war.
How can we when congress is spend
ing steen millions of dollars day and
is loaning our allies all they need,
too? Why, it says here in the paper
we have nearly 100000 men in
training for service. Just wait until
we get them over to France. The
kaiser won't last three months!'
Just wait!
Kaiser Isn't Waiting.
Has it ever sunk into the American
mind that perhaps there is one fellow
over here who won't Just watt until
America gets everything in apple-pie
order to strike him?
The kaiser is anything but the "just
wait" kind.
He didn't wait on Serbia or Ru-
mania or Italy, but struck them when
they were least expecting it.
The German game has always been
to smash before the opposition is
ready.
Is America really in this war or is
she just playing as if she were?
Let the swivel chair warriors at
home answer this question:
- nFf ,,,
west does come soon, what part is
America prepared to play in crush
ing it"
Consider the present war situation
in its naked truth.
Even though permanent peace be-
tween Germany and Russia fails, the
fact remains that Germany already
has withdrawn an enormous number
of men from the Russian line and
has sent them into France figuring
that the Russian army. is so badly de-
moralized that it can't become very
Now as to Italy.
The recent German offensive against
Italy forced both Great Britain and
France to rush immense armies to
the Italian sector to stop up holes and
as long as they are held there they
are unavaila BILE for service in France
or Flanders.
Not for a minutes do think the ex-
pected German offensive will break
the allies western line.
What | saw and heard at Verdun,
where the valiant French have ac-
tually Killed more than 100000 Ger
mans, convinces me that the last
ltrnnnh tgy 1,, 4.
gun in his hands before he'll let the
Germans pass.
And there are no more tenacious,
drawer fighters in all the world than
The British, with their wonderful fac
llty for organization and their almost
unlimited munitions.
But If the allies should be able in
he near future, only to stand off the
ierman offensives, instead of coming
oack with a knockout punch that
would put the kaiser out of business,
men the result can mean only one
ming and that is that the struggle
must go on for long, long time.
am but expressing an opinion |
,ften spoken here when l say that
america must speed up and become
IN actual battle line help to the rest !
If the allies.
Every day that America DELAYS or |
bubbles means the loss of more lives |
n the end.
III the war should terminate in a |
ierman victory before America
.hrows her weight into the scales, |
hen We must necessarily hang our
heads in shame for all time to come. |
Speed up, America!
sat the other evening with a |
group of American army officers.
Il see" said one, they're talking
If doubling the daily shifts that are |
working in your shipyards over
lome."
How Officers Feel.
Another officer arose and struck |
he table violently. He was almost |
white with anger.
Double the shifts :" he exploded. !
Great God, man, there are three
shifts in a day. aren't |
hey? Why in hell don't they treble |
he shifts?"
That's the way everybody over here
eels about it.
Two million men training in Amer
ca aren't worth as much as 1000 in |
he trenches in France If they don't |
'ome over and fight while the war
5 on.
Get 'em over here.
The hour is striking in this great
var.
Does America hear it?