Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1918-04-11


The people of the United States spent the first after
their entry the European war in wasting opportunities for
BY vain
Ktcheners injunction to Briton at the outset to be
ssf that the defeat when the ts woSd
penalty the western front Of their unreasonable and ILL
founded hope Of an up Hsi1s peace ~.
of the adage is always darkest just before the
dawn The philosophy Of this figure applied to national
so bad as to popular indignation Then the people be-
stir themselves and of Improvement Immediately begins
President Wilson has manifested gratifying evidences
Of waking to the real Of our situation not only
ent Of number Of expert aids for Secretary of War Baker
who is Europe promises remedy situation which
Charges that Secretary Of War Baker and other govern
ment officials had engaged in campaign Of wilfu msrepre
ness in an effort to conceal from the public the failure Of the
OF the Aeronautical Society Of America.
According to this report not only has the secretary Of
than impression Of existing Conditions but he
in specific instances of making direct and wu mis-
The charge is further made that to date Liberty
n sxss not S ad that asge number Of the accidents
mcnt faulty machines and poor inspection
The further charge that there is IAN aeronautcal trust
the by pssen of
society, who presided at the meeting.
year by saying that as time went the committee
saw with dsay the issuance of statements by the
ment, which it was compelled to regard untrue.
"A still more threatening feature Of the situation ap
eg the css i
that neither realized the of the which they had
to 40 and IN the by which in such an undertaking
AS familiar with the art and having information
frankly Mortified to find that American avatos the flower
Of the youth Of this country might be sent up ultimately in
Picture the Germans tempatng this sort of situation
in the which was to make the air the western
slider the closing paragraph of President Wilson's eloquent
and patriotic speech in Baltimore:
Of whether right as America conceiyes shall determine
Spouse possible from u.s. force force to the utmost force
selfish dominion down in the dust
which so make up ABILITY force
have the Presidents uterance reduced to it's
has said s that aeropanes shall
there u.s. therefore, but aeropanes shall de-
cde and so on How empty would be such threat in our
Now substitute another weapon force
that shall decide the war; or that ships shall decide
the war By making Of these substituons sub
shutting all fourmen, guns ships and aeropanes-for the
general term Of force, and how little
n s e b ns
German drive on the western front however, to realize
and how criminal has been hardness in throwing our
whole resources into this struggle in order to make
American realization of the nature of the struggle
Immediately confronting is demonstrated right by
the spontaneous and enthusiastic throughout the
United to the appeal for oversubscrpon to the
third Liberty Loan There has been prompt
in other nation. The effect must still further increase
the German regret that America had been forced the
We are at moved by realization of the serious
nature OF the couct facing to promise throw
American troops into the field in Europe instead of waiting
Tor long period Of intensive training this side of the At
lantic America did independence by holding the u
trained coonss until great could be given thorough
technical military training before sending them against the
tried and disciplined troops England AS soon as body
OF men were ready for service in Revolution they
put where they would do the most good
We are complying with the mandates of the best
military minds Of the world by sending troops to France
and not something they will have unearn before being put
into the field against the Prussians.
We speeding the production of ships guns and
all sorts OF munitions of well the construction of
aeropanes In view the moral effects Of the bobardment
OF Paris with long distance it is gratifying to note
that the American