The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1918-10-05
WAR TALKS
By UNCLE DAN
How War Methods Have Changed
Everybody Must Help.
Number Three

ooIfy IL L nave Kept you long, Sald
Uncle Dan. "Your mother has been |
telling me how bashful l used to be.
She said if girl spoke to me would
blush to my hair roots. Well, re-
minded her of the time your father
first came to see her and the joke we
played on them, so I guess that will
hold her for WHILE"
Continuing, Uncle Dan said: "You
want to talk more about the war, do
your Well, war methods have under
gone many changes and they are still
changing. No two wars are fought
alike. 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 inven-
ton of gunpowdef, however, has
changed all this. 1t has enabled men
to kill one another at considerable
distance, and do 1t wholesale. The
war, as we know 1t now, is combina-
ton of chemicals, machinery mathe-
NAUTICAL calculations and highly trained
men. Just think of it! Airplanes,
submarines, armored tanks, or cater
pillars, poison gases, and curtains of
fire are all used for the first time in
this war; and they are destructive be-
yond anything heretofore known.
"The methods followed by the kai-
ser and his allies are simply devilish.
He must answer in history to the kill
ing of thousands of innocent women
and children. He has broken every
international law and every rule of
warfare; he has bombarded hospitals
and undefended cities, sunk Red Cross
ships on errands of mercy; he has de-
tstroyed cathedrals and priceless treas
ures of art that can never be replaced;
| he has made slaves of his prisoners !;
| he has tried to get us into war with
| Japan his emmissaries have blown up
| our ships, burned our factories and
fired our forests. He knows no mercy
or honor. The most charitable view
to take of this blood-thirsty tyrant
is that he is crazy.
"One thing is certain" continued I'm
/ Gle Dan, with great emphasis, "Our
liberty, the safety of our homes and
our country, and the security of the
world demand the speedy and abso-
lutte overthrow of the kaiser and
crushing out once and forever the
reign of Prussian brutality"
sE5ow about the German people,
! said Billie,
Bad replied GF,he splendid
! German people were happy, thrifty
prosI rous and contented. They have
BEEN tricked into war and made tC
suffer the tortures of the damned
they have been cruelty and systematic
ally deceived. God grant that the rea
facts may get to them, and If they do
Lord help the kaiser"
"Of course the allies will win" sale
Mrs. Graham.
Probably so," said Uncle Dan. "Bu
IL we are to win, we must go the limit
We must check the awful destruction tt
shipping by the German submarines
or we may not be able to get food ant
supplies to our own men and to our al
lies; we must also put hundreds o
thousands, and perhaps millions, o
first-class soldiers in the battle line.
| food is the first consideration On
Gle Dan continued. "No army can holt
out against hunger. 1t has been salt
that food will win the war, and this /
largely true. Hence the importanc
of the farm in the war plans of gu
| country
| Mrs. Graham interrupted by saying
'In view of the Importance of farming
don't you think, Daniel, that the farm
ers ought to be exempted from wa
service?"
mo, thousand times no" said On
Gle Dan, striking the table SO hard t
emphasize his protest that he tippe
over vase of flowers. I'VE mus
have no class legislation. The duty t
serve Is the common duty of all, an
no class must be relieved of this OF
legation. The question of exemptio
, must be personal one and decided b
the facts surrounding each case. !
no other way can we have squar
deal, and to insure this, it is the dut
Of congress to pass immediately tn
Chamberlain bill, or some such meas
ure, which is fair to all classes.
would settle all these questions an
do it fairly. Safety now and safet
hereafter demands such Legislation
and let me suggest that you and yor
friends get busy with your congress
man and senator's and urge them
prompt action.
cit is time for us to realize that "
are not living In fools paradise
that this great country of ours CO..
J oceans of blood and treasure and it
only due to the loyalty, sacrifice an
service of our forefathers that we hay
country, and it Is our highest dut
] to preserve 1t unimpaired and pass
on to posterity, no matter what Il
: cost may be. Our citizenship and the
, ancestors came from all parts of Il
world to make this country hon
9 and enjoy its blessings and opport