The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1918-02-07
THE Big WAR WILL END.
IN 1918
Germany Counts On Over
whelming Our Western Bat
tie Line Before America
Gets Into the Fight--Will
She Do It?
tBx E. C. Branson.l

comes the word from the war capi-
tails.
Germany has moved one and a
half million seasoned soldiers from
the Russian to the western front
where her forces now outnumber
the allied armies by 10000 men.
England and France are girding up
their loins and Tightening up their
belts for the supreme, final struggle,
now-in 1918. They call to Amer
ica for men. They will do without
food, they say, and give us two mil
lion tons of ship space for million
men. They will supply artillery and
ammunition. The critical necessity
is men-by June or July at the very
latest-a million men or more. The
war will be won or lost in 1918, and
time is now the very quintesence of
safety. Time is the stuff that life
and destiny are made of now Who
now wastes time, wins the war for
Germany.
This is the fateful word that is
quietly passed along by the Ameri-
can commission just back from the
war conference in Paris.
And Washington responds. The
railroads pass under government
control. Passenger trains 60 off and
the tracks are cleared for freight.
War service is now the only excuse
for travel, and war supplies the only
business eE manufacture. Nothing
is to be made, sold or used that we
can do without in our homes. The
finger of fate points to food produc-
tioB, ships, airplaRes. war supplies
to supreme effort on our farms and
in our factories, to supreme sacrifice
in our homes-and to a million men,
now Il
- THEAxEAR OF DESTINY
Why? Because the war will end
in 1918-not in 1919. The date we
had set to be on the fighting line is
full year too late, as we now know.
Germany plans to repeat her tri-
umph in Italy. She counts on over
whelming our western battle line be-
fore America gets into the fight.
CAN'T be done? That query is the
question mark of God.
And the answer is, No-=if Amer
ica gets there in timel No-if the
wavering balance of war feels her
weight in time. The fate of the
world now lies-our allies them
selves have said it-in the swift
and heavy hand Of America.
But won or lost, the war will end
in 1918: So comes the word from
the men that best know.
It will end this year because of
exhaustion in men and metal, food
supplies and fighting strength, in
the power of nations to do and dare,
sacrifice and suffer. 1t wi Ill ED this
year because the bodies and brains
of men and the hearts of women in
the countries at war can endure the
strain no longer unless America
intervenes in time
The collapse of national wills and
national resources in weary world
is at hand-unless America gets her
shoulder under the crushing burden
of war.
1t will end in 1918 because it is
humanity impossible to carry the
struggle over into 1919-impossible
for all the countries at War-except
America.
WE CAN WIN IF WE WILL
Our stores of treasure are mex
haustible. What we waste IN Amer
lean homes, rich and poor, is several
times what this war will cost us.
says President Wilson. Our farms
alone produced 21 billions Of wealth
in 1917-this in a single year; and
it overtops our total war expense to
date, in bonds and taxes, by nearly
a billion dollars We. are now Great
ing new wealth, in all productive
enterprises, at the rate OF live and a
half billion dollars a month Or sixty
eight and a half billion dollars a
year, says DR.. Anderson of Harvard.
The surplus income6of the nation
the net profits ready for patriotic
use-is more than one and hall
billions a month or eighteen billions
a year, says MIR. McAdoo.
Yes, our stores Of treasure are IN
exhaustible-and impotent, ii they
cannot be massed against Germany
in time! 1
AS for the national will, to fight :
The soul of America is like a'placld
summer lake. the soul of Europe is
| ke a storm riveH ~sea in winter;
1os have not yet visualized and
realized what this war means, salo
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