The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1918-01-01


with one of the major league clubs.
ing your life for wrong: you are deal
ing unfairly with your fellow-men:
you cannot. cannot win
This belief. firm in my mind and
abiding with me, dispels whatever
gloom may now rest over the battle
fields Of Europe.
Accepting any reasons or all rea-
sons that may be given for the failure
of Russia to continue in the fight, We
again have had disclosed to our vision
that two things are essential to a
democracy: education and what Sen
ator Root has so admirably described
as organized self-cousrol." This dis
poses of the Russian situation.
From education and organized self
control proceeds individual initiative.
Each day more and more our young
men are going to France. They are
not mere cogs in a machine of eff
cheney. Every college in America has
it's service flag, and the aggregate of
the stars on these Rags reveals a
mighty army of intelligent, educated,
thinking Americans, who have initia.
tive.
Brains alone will win in the long
run over mere brute force. Brains
plus a clear conscience speeds the
victory.
/ do not minimize the courage of
the German soldier. but men are as
they are, and racial characteristics
will show themselves. Germans will
fight with desperation, shoulder to
shoulder and die WITH courage. but
the individual soldier among them will
not think until tomorrow of the thing
he should have done this morning
The reverse is true Of the Am erican
soldier. He is not bound by prece.
dence -
One Of the greatest of the generals
engaged in this war has told me that
all military tactics from those OF
Alexander down have been abandoned
except the tactics of Stonewall Jack
son; yet military men knew that the
tactics of Stonewall jackson were di
rectly opposed to everything regarded
! as good military strategy. He was
an author of military initiative
Observing in the numerous camps
of the country our young soldiers
drawn from our schools and colleges
and from all walks of life. | have beer
! impressed with the belief that the
ranks of American soldiery on foreign
| soil will contain all the courage anG
! initiative required to do what is to be
F.! done. And as the young Americans
do and dare, no ghost of doubt will be
/ leering at their shoulders and whisper
ing to them in sepulchral tones tina
! they are wrong.
! 1t is up to us who stay at home tC
| determine how long this war will last
We may advance or we may retare
| it's conclusion. Pessimism will retart
! it; optimism will give it mighty on
ward impulsive movement.
! We are not perfect people.
would not minimize our weakness We
never say Good morning to hi:
! Satanic Majesty until he appears. WI
apprehend no danger until it is face
to face with us. We are impatient
/ We do not realize that armies canno
! grow in night. as did Jonah's gourd
/ We forget that there was no army o
! the north until the battle of Antietam
! We wonder why we have not now il
France powerful army, thorough,
drilled and perfectly equipped. w,
are intolerant: we do not brook de
! lays with euuanimity. And yet. w
! have done more in six months than thu
English people did in two and hal
years.
If I had my way 7 would require
every American civilian to repeat eacl
waking hour: Patience, patience
God reigns; the Government at Wash
| ingtcn still lives Men of creates
prominence everywhere, leading mel
of every business and profession. mel
of best training and widest experience
successful men, men of courage AM
devotion, patriotic men--all are bend
ing every energy toward the speed.
and successful prosecution of this wal
Do not throw cold water of criticism
upon the mountain flames OF patriot
ism.
/ regard it as unfortunate that al
election must be held to select Sena
tors from certain States and Repre-
sentatives in Congress from all State
during this year upon which We ar
entering. 1t is difficult for man t
believe that another can be patrio
and at the same time differ from hin
on questions of internal policy. | wis
the coming elections could in som
way be avoided.
Let us take this great cause to tn
innermost recesses of our individual
consciences and let US there examin
it and take a solemn oath, by th
memory of the men who made an
the memory of the men who kept tn
Republic, that, to the utmost OF GU
endeavors. we will lessen the bitter