Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1918-03-19
WAR TALKS
By UNCLE DAN
Number Three
How War Methods Have Changed
Everybody Must Help.
Number Three

Hello, Uncle Dan, Jimmie and
have been waiting for you"
Sorry if have kept you long," said
Uncle Dan. "Your mother has been
telling me how bashful used to be.
She said if girl spoke to me would
blush to my hair roots. Well, I re-
minded her of the time your father
first came to see her and the joke we
played on them, so guess that will
hold her for while"
Continuing, Uncle Dan said: "You
want to talk more about the war, do
you? Well, war methods have under
gone many changes and they are still
changing. No two wars are fought
alike. In early times, the weapons were
stones, clubs, spears, bows and arrows,
swords, etc. IN this kind of warfare,
victory was with the strong right arm.
Men of enormous size and strength
were the great warriors. The inven-
ton Of gunpowder, however, has
changed all this. 1t has enabled men
to kill one another at a considerable
distance, and do it wholesale. The
war, as we know 1t now, is a combina-
ton of chemicals, machinery, mathe-
NAUTICAL calculations and highly trained
men. Just think OF 1t! Airplanes,
submarines, armored tanks, or cater
| pillars, poison gases, and curtains of
| fire are all used for the first time in
this war; and they are destructive be-
yond anything heretofore known.
"The methods followed by the kali
ser and his allies are simply devilish.
| He must answer in history to the kill
ing of thousands of innocent women
and children. He has broken every
( international law and every rule of
/ warfare; he has bombarded hospitals
! and undefended cities, sunk Red Cross
( ships on errands of mercy; he has de-
/ stroA I'd cathedrals and priceless treas
! Tres of art that can never be replaced;
| he has made slaves of his prisoners; ;
he has t. led to get US into war with
Japan; his emmissaries have blown up
our ships, burned our factories and
| fired our forests. He knows no mercy
or honor. The most charitable view
to take of this blood-thirsty tyrant
is that he is crazy.
zone thing is certain" continued Un-
Gle Dan, with great emphasis, sour
liberty, the safety of our homes and
our country, and the security of the
world demand the speedy and abso-
! lutte overthrow of the kaiser and
crushing out once and forever the
reign of PrusSian brutality"
SLOW about the German people"
said Billie.
Uncle Dan replied: ''The splendid
German people were happy, thrifty,
| prosperous and contented. They have
been tricked into war and made to
suffer the fortunes of the damned ;
they have been cruelty and systematic
ally deceived. God grant that the real
facts may get to them, and if they do,
Lord help the kaiserl"
"Of course the allies will win," said
Mrs. Graham.
| Probably So" said Uncle Dan. "But
| IL we are to win, we must go the limit.
We must check the awful destruction to
shipping by the German submarines,
or We may not be able to get food and
| supplies &c our own men and TO our al
lies; we must also put hundreds Of
thousands, and perhaps millions, Of
| first-claSs soldiers in the battle line.
Food is the first consideration IN
Gle Dan continued. mo army can hold
out against hunger. 1t has been said
that food viii win the war, and this Is
largely true. Hence the importance
OF the farm in the war plans Of our
country"