The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1918-11-18

Manhood, not machinery, won the
war to purge earth and sea from the
pollution of the Hun and make the
world safe for civilization. The war
was won because civilized Manhood
dares and endures more than any
Savage, no matter how cunningly
armed by minds which have discarded
all moral considerations In their lust
for power. and fears pain and death
less. Manhood that rose triumphant
over the fear of pain and death, and
knows that Freedoms not gift that
tarries long in the hands Of towards"
and not the mere cunning of machine
inventors. won the war.
The truth is worth emphasizing be-
cause the delusion still somewhat per-
sists that the war might have been
won, and to some extent was won, by
marvellous machinery" The machin-
cry was sufficiently marvellous, but all
it's wonders in no way lessened the
need for bare-handed human courage
that dares any suffering to guard the
right and protect the weak, and counts
death as nothing compared with the
triumph of righteous cause.
This deiusion is the mental dregs OF
the theory, SO popular until the great
war came. that mechanical invention
was going to make war so deadly and
terrible that human nature would re-
fuse to face it's dangers, and so war
would be automatically abolished All
those prophecies of pacifisis have
been falsified by the facts Terrible
as were the destructive machines.
Men were found to face them, to defy
hnv % Az <ho
Hun had nearly all of them first, yet
elusive proof that the war. was not
won by machines, but by good, old
fashioned. immortal Manhood.
The Monster Cannon.
Having Systematically prepared for
at least a quarter century for "The
Day." when by sudden attack upon an
unprepared world they might subju-
gate 1t to the sway of their war lords,
the Huns were naturally first in the
field with destructive devices that
might surprise and terrify those who
must be foes Of their plan Of world
rule and world enslavement None of
them was really new: none Of them
was original with the Hun. They were
borrowed devices made bigger and
more powerful, under the delusion
that they would inspire such terror"
that resistance would cease.
The first to appear were the mon
ster cannon that smashed down the
forts of Liege, Of Namur and of Maui
beuge. The only novelty about them
was that well known transport de-
vices had been employed to move
them more rapidly than had been at
tempted before with cannon of such
size. They were the familiar combi-
nation of the gun and the motor car
or railway car. only vastly bigger. 1t
was characteristic of the Hun mind
that it always relied on bigness.
The free nations were surprised by
big Berthas," but never in the least
panic-stricken. They speedily made
cannon just as big, or at least as big
as were practically. useful, and more
of them, and used them more accurate
ly. Before the end of the first year
they were equal in artillery power on
the western front and were prevented
by conditions quite apart from their
mechanical ability from attaining the
superiority OH all fronts that they had
achieved on the western within two
years.
The savage childness of the Hun
confidence in more bigness received
it's browning illustration in the seven
ty-mile common" with which the Huns
blindly fired upon Paris for weeks in
the hope of causing panic that would
bring submission. From every view.
point of military effect the wealth eX.