Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1918-03-15
"JaSt GiUe Us Another
On at Those Germans .

Premier Clemcnceau recently visited the Amer1-
ran sector Of French front to congratulate con-
tingent Of our troops upon the calm courage with
which they resisted and repulsed particularly
formidable German attack. On his return to Paris
The premier was telling the press correspondents
something Of his trip.
1T was a privilege" he said, TO visit the hos
pitaI and talk with the wounded Americans aud ask
what could do for them
What did they say when you put that ques-
tiCn?' he was asked.
Why all they said was. Just give us another
20 at those Germans "
This is the spirit of our boys at the battlefront
the high-hearted fighting spirit that covets nothing
so much as honor, and honors nothing so much as
duty and asks no richer favor than chance TO
grappIe the Huns. Americans at home would not
be Americans IL they proved unresponsive to that
glorious example of their brothers and comrades
over there Day by day one can feel this ma
TONS war pulse beating faster and its spirit Of reso-
luteness and willing sacrifice mounting higher Our
people are visualizing the conflict the intimate
alI-important part of their lives 1t really is They
see their own flesh and blood at grips with German
barbarism; they see the trench lines in France as
a buIwark to their shores and their own homes;
they see with quickening pulse, the need of strk-
ing one hundred million strong. with their utmost
strength and speed.
+ Greater speed ana greater strength We
have yet exerted must be forthcoming if we are to
play our full part at this critical stage of the war
That is the burden OF every recent message from
the other side of the water. A high military au-
thor1ty Of France is quoted saying to a Paris
correspondent of the New York Times concerning
the prospect the Western 'front.'
II appreciate as all France does how much
America has done. But you are people with
out limitations in either conception or execu-
ton You can accomplish the impossible when
you set yourselves to it. Think of your
selves as under an immediate, terrible and
personal menace, as IL a barbarous. cruel in
vasion we're coming to occupy your land as
it has already devastated That is what
it means and you will not be doing your
utmost until you and feel it in those
precise terms"
There is little or no fear of the Huns breaking
through the Allied front in the West for purely de-
fensfve purposes the French and British lines re-
intorced by steadily growing American units,
considered impregnable. But there is grave appre-
heusion that if the enemy hold his own in the
West for, say. year or year and half longer
he will be resping by then large benefits in the
vay of food and other necessaries from his con-
quests in Russia and the Near East, so that the
task Of crushing him will be than ever formi-
dabIe Hence the need of Americas moving with all
uossbIe speed to swing her full decisive strength
into the struggle
In meeting this necessity the Government and
the people OF the United States will be spurred not
only by the wish to foreshorten the war but chiefly
nv an aroused determination to make victory
tain and complete. Every day brings home TO us
a keener realization that IL we do not crush Prus-
sianism once for all. Prussanism inevitably will be
laundering at our gates, threatening our own
hresdes with its black brutality. And every day
brings home TO a fresh feeling Of bride in the
Americans now at the front and in those soon TO
follow from the National army. Their uppermost
and eager wish is get into the fight, to get their
20" al the bestial Hun; for they know that not
until that menace is under foot and stamped out
will their free land and their loved be
II Is the glorious privilege well duty OF every
American, by supporting the Government In It's
war needs and activities to uphold these defenders
OF ours on the firing line Already they in
France BY hundreds Of thousands, and henceforward
their numbers will swell more and more swiftly
They have proved, and will continue to prove
worthy Of their countrys faith and traditions. Let
us at home see to it that we are worthy Of their
courage and sacrifice.