The Columbus courier. [volume] (Columbus, Luna County, N.M.) 1911-1920, 1918-02-08
WAR TALKS
By UNCLE DAN
Number Three
How War Methods Have Changed
Everybody Must Help.

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continuing Uncle Dan saidi you
want 70 talk more about the war 90
your Weil' war methods have under
gone many changes aud they are stu
changing. No W wars are fought
aiike. 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 lnven.
ton Of g%unpowder. however, has
changed all this. II has enabled men
TO kill one another at n considerable
distance, and do II wholesale. The
war, n We know II now, Ia n combina-
ton OF chemicals machinery mnthe.
mhucnl calculnuons nnd highly trained
men. Just think OF vi Alrplnnes'
submarines armored tanks. or cnter-
pillars, poison gases, aud curtains OF
IRE are oil used Tor the hrst tint IN
this war; and they are destructive be
yond anything heretofore known.
"The methods followed by the kali
ser and his allies are simply dcyllish'
He must answer In history to the kll'
Ing Of thousands Of innocent women
ana children. He has broken every
international law and every rule OF
warfare; he has bombarded hospitals
and u~ndefended cities, sunk Red Cross
ships on errands Of mercy; he has de-
stroyed cnthedrnls and priceless treas
ures OF art b can never be replaced
ne has made slaves OF ms prisoners
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Gle Dan, with great emphasis our
liberty the SAFETY OF our homes ana
our country ana the security OF .n'
NoI'u uenlanu 'ne spseu' anu .
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How about the herman people
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Herman people were nsppy, .h,llty'
prosperous nhu con'ehteu' ihes h"'o
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suu', ue $3.50,
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" we are 10 WIN we must go lhe lihl''
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shipping ny the uetUnnh suutnh,u
or We may moi DC hple 70 se' ioou "n'
supplies 10 our own men hnu w "ur ".
les' we must hIso put nunuIvu' =,
: thousahus' ahu perhaps miihous' VI
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Food Is the hrst consideration un'
: Gle Dan continued. ~ army can h'lu
J out against hunger. II u been salu
that food VIII win the war thls Is
largely u Hence the importance
or the farm In the war pans OF our
! country
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: In view OF the lnpot'ah,e OF Inr,nins
don't Q thihk' Duhlei, ,ha' ,ne iuIn,
: ers ought TO ne eAehp'eu iiom WI
, serNleeT
/, mo, a thousand times no. said TN
, Gle Dan. striking the table so hard 70
, emphasize his protest that he tipped
over a vase OF flowers we mus
, have no class legislation The duiy !,
serve Is the common duty 81 nli' an'
no class must be relieved OF thls on
lignuca we "n"S''"n OF eAeinp.ol
a must be a personal q u deciued oN
the facts surrounding each ease u