Arizona republican., 1918-11-27
SW0RK
|NPRESENT WAR
HAS JUST BEGUN
DR.. Wilbur, Stanford Uni
versity President, At Con
ference In City Yesterday
Told Of Nations To Be Fed

With twenty million tons of food
stuffs yet to be furnished the allied
nations and the peoples released frcn.
the German yoke, to say nothing of
handling the food situation in Ger
many and Austria, the work u the
American people in this war has only
begun" declared DR.. Ray Lyman Will
bur, president of Stanford University,
in speaking before a state conference
Of conservation leaders held at the
School Administration building yes
terday.
This conference which was opened
by George II. Smalley, executive sec
rotary, was called by Federal Food
Administrator Timothy A. Riordan for
the purpose of discussing plans for the
observance of World Relief Week,
which was to have been held during
the first week in December. Owing
to the epidemic, it was thought best
to defer action until the first week
in January or possibly later date.
The vital need of continued con-
servation to clean up the program I'M
dertaken by America in the interests
of liberty and democracy. was set
forth in vivid manner by the speaker
whose every word indivated that he
was fully familiar with every phase of
the worlds food problems.
Found We Could Fight
I'VE Americans went into the war
late said Dr. Wilbur, too late to
suit a good many. The war was won
not by America so much as by Eng
land, France and Italy, when they
found out that America could actually
furnish reserves in men and food, when
they found out that the American SOL
dierS were not boy scouts or not in
clined to do the Bull Run trick over
again"
Discussing the causes which led to
the downfall of Germany, the speaker
said: The Germans are smarter
than we, for they know when they are
licked. 1t is characteristic of the An
glo Saxon and French nations, not to
know when they are licked. The Ger
mans knew that if we could get into
Odessa their last hope was gone, for
they had built strongly on the hope
of men and foodstuffs from Russia.
| When the German people realized that
we had accomplished this feat they
egg -shelled' and this was the real
cause of their defeat. It was not due
to military disaster, for their great
military machine was admirably
managed.
Our Work Just Begun
/ Our work in this war has only be-
| gun. Through our president we said
that We would have peace only with
the German people, and insisted that
| Germany become a democracy. The
| world today is in a terrible state and we
can only establish democracy if we
can get the people to do certain defin-
| tie things
THE history of nations discloses
that the human animal has always
done a certain amount of migrating.
Under civilization this has been large
ly overcome by transportation. Before
the war there was such a balance of
! foodstuffs on hand that famine was
unknown, except in China and at times
in India War brought changes. Sub
marines drew definite barriers across
the channels of trade and unless they
had been kept down, France and Italy
would have crumbled. America helped
by stopping waste and subduing the
submarines, thereby helping to build
up the strength of the fighters.
Germany expected to win the war
last June. 1t knew that Russia was
out of the war and that three and a
half million veterans had lain down
their arms. Germany knew how fast
We were building ships; it knew the
exact period in which we would have
fewer ships and it planned to strike
the master blow before we could gel
into action.
Germany almost won the war but
Germany did not calculate on certain
things. 1t did not realize that with &
normal surplus of 100000 bushels
of wheat we could furnish 100000
bushels, because the people responded
to the appeal for conservation.
1--WE got the food and we got the
ships. We multiplied our ships by
cutting down the time of the turn
around in port to about one-third Of
that ordinarily required We were able
to accomplish this because men of the
best type surrounded the government
and by their patriotic service pu1
through this remarkable program.
I'VE can look back to the period be-
fore the war with great humility, fol
America at that time was,reaping I'M
precedented profits in the selling Of
food and ammunitions. We were ac-
tually shocked at a blacklist prepared
by Great Britain, giving the names Of
American concerns dealing with Ger
mans. With our entry into the war we
prepared a blacklist that put England's
to shame. 1t really was n blacklist
and no one thought anything of it
That only shows it took US a long time
to grasp the issues of this war. They
were just as plain when Belgium was
violated as they are now. When thu
Lusitania went down, we blinked anC
stood for it, and it was not until Ger
many prescribed certain water lane.
for our ships and demanded that they
be painted in certain way, that W,
went to war.
Time Now to Clean Up
Continuing the speaker pointed ou
that America went into this war will
high ideals for liberty and democracy
and that these issues cannot BE ma
terialized without the backing of tn,
American people. Unless stability can
be established on the other sid
and the people there given a fresl
start. actual peace cannot be estab
lished, he declared. and added:
The war game is over and we hav,
done our shouting. We must now sta,
on the job and clean up after the game
otherwise we are not going to live VI
to the ideals personified by our presi
dent y No such opportunity was eve
faced by any nation-an opportunit,
TO heal the wounds of civilization |
We can do it we will have ,eterna
thanks of the nations: if we fail w
hasten the day of the great debacl
that is to come
The speaker sounded note of warn
ing as to the spread Of bolshevism, a
revealed by recent utterances of form
er Emperor Charles of Austria, and O
! nf he