Arizona republican., 1918-04-08

a clean life campaign. They propose ! to stamp out venereal disease that in | capacitates men for labor and imperils the health of others.
 Pershing said fine thing not long | ago: If 1 win no other victory I hope | to win for my men moral victory.
 Dr. Winfield Scott Hall of North ! western university says that in the first year of the war hundreds of thousands of soldiers and sailors were retired for a short or long period from the trenches or from training because of venereal disease. He says, If those hundreds of thousands could have been
 hurled. trained, equipped and muni-
 toned at the Teuton line the history of war would have been vastly different.
 Who knows but it might have been
 won for freedom before now. But the | insiduous menace from behind the | lines, proved to be the most effective | ally of the Huns
 At one time there were 1.500, 900 of
 men in the British and French armies | that were incapacitated for service by
 venereal disease. The United States 1 government did one of the greatest
 things to win this war when it decided
 that the American soldier must be
 moral and clean.
 | A
 the sorrow that was breaking her heart
 said: My lieutenant went away a year
 ago so stalwart, so well trained, so
 fine. There were two or three months
 of intensive training behind the lines;
 then the trenches. He came back a l few weeks ago-a wreck. It wasn't l Boche bullet that stopped him; it was
 an inspeakable. destroying disease of
 the blood. Of course. l can never mar
 ry him. Oh! if only he had died in
 action!"
 There must be the conservation of
 ideals. The German general Non Lieb
 says: We must recognize only one principle that might is right, and must
 know neither sentiment nor considera-
 ton of humanity Take these words of Harden, editor of Die Zukunft:
 Not as weak -willed blunderers have
 we undertaken the risk of this war. We
 wanted it." Prussianism mad with the
 lust for power challenges the world to
 mortal combat.
 | Otto H. Kahn, a German American, says that in the last thirty years a
 new course has been adopted in Ger
 many. There has come materialism
 and covetousness and irreligion and a
 veritable lunacy of power worship
 Then he says: There finally came day when the tempter took the Prus sian and Prussianized rulers up high mountain and showed them all the riches and power of the world. Showed them the great countries and capitals
 of the earth teeming with peaceful
 labor-Brussels, Paris, London, aye,
 and New York, and told them, Look
 at these. Use your power ruthlessly
 and they are yours And those rulers did not say: Get thee behind me. T 1T Snf and we will follow thee.' And follow him they did, and brought upon the green earth the red ruin of he'll In John Wesleys day there were men
 who taught the damnation of those
 who died in infancy. John Wesley got into warm discussions with them and one time said: Your God is my devil" And when I hear the German
 kaiser saying: Onward with God: "On me the Spirit of God has descend-
 ed;" Tit is God who is giving us the
 victory" and I remember the cruel
 brutal, internal deeds committed by his
 men. I say: "The kaisers god is my
 devil.'
 We must win this war; What ln-
 spring incidents come to us from here
 and there. You may have heard of the .. young British soldier who came home
 with an empty sleeve. Soon the people
 were talking about his having lost an
 arm, but he corrected them saving !:
 q did not lose it, I GAVE it." l read Ensign Casilis' book not long ago. He
 was a French student missionary VOL l unteer and was killed on the Marne. His dying prayer was that ne mlenl ! rid his heart of all hate ard rancor even while he fought. And you recall that Edith Cavells dying wish was that she might harbor no resentment 3 toward those who slew her. I Coningsby Dawson whose father . heard preach in London and later ln [ Chicago, says in his book, Carry On we've been carried up to the cavalry of the world, where it is expedien'
 that a few men should suffer tha = all the generations to come may b, = better.
 V If my hands do anything re T spectable, remember it is your hand e that are doing it.
 e ITO have surrendered to an i'm = perative self denial brings a peac l. which self seeking never brought. n The world which sits behind tn ,,e lines, buys extra specials of tn |, daily papers and eats three squar ,o meals a day, will never know wha this other world has endured for it
 safety, for no man of this othe in world will ever have the vocabular oi in which to tell.
 V War is, I think, utterly destruc lo tive. It doesn't even create courag
 lit only finds it in the soul of ae man.
 ol We lay down our lives that th ie future generations may be good an .s kind, and so we can contemplai ,e oblivion with quiet eyes"
 is Here is a letter from a son at tf " front to his mother:
 "The most beautiful letter sh nv ever read:
 d T have plenty of clothes to kee ed me warm. When it is cold 1 wear tf n- little black jersey over my under ry shirt, and then my gray wool shir no then my army shirt on top, so yo k see I'm not likely to freeze. I'll ar re preciate the sweater when I get Id "It is sure comical to see thes a. lads roll out in the A. M., still an of sore from head to foot. We do nt st drill Friday or Saturday afternoon ID nor Sundays, so we get chance l. clean up and rest up. And by tf n- way, I went to the Y. M. c. A. whi ng in Chattanooga and had a fine h'
 shower bath, and it sure felt goo % We have a fine bunch of men for ol nc officers, and I like them very muc ad Everything is as clean as a pin; I ad mother need fear for her boy in suC au surroundings as I have seen so ia 'l- We have very good grub, thoue an nloi, and if is well balanced diet eti