Trench and camp., 1918-09-19
CHATEAU TTfIERRY VICTORY
WORTH PRICE, SAYS STIMSON
Head of 31st F. A. and Former Secretary of
WarMakes Great Appeal in Baltimore
for Fourth Liberty Loan.

The Sun. Baltimore, says of Col.
Stimson's speech in the interest of the
fourth liberty loan delivered Tuesday
In Baltimore:
The Importance of this work-the
Importance Of doing it in such a man
ner as to show the Huns that we are
in earnest, and that we take no stock
in lying proposals for Confidential"
peace parleys from the enemy-was
made clear in thrilling address by
Col. Henry Lewis Stimson, who is in
command Of the 31st Field Artillery at
Camp Meade after a period of service
at the front in France, and who was
Secretary of War in the cabinet OF
President Taft. His speech was re-
ceived with marked enthusiasm, and
although Col. Stimson spoke with con-
siderable Restraint, touching lightly
that came under his notice in France.
what he did say made deep and vivid
impression.
He referred to the checking Of the
German advance last Juno as the
greatest event of the war, and when
he spoke of the French and British
soldiers it was with the highest praise
for their courage and dOggedneSS In
sticking 1t out for four long and
weary years and holding the lines for
into the fight they wanted this coun..
try to prepare thoroughly for what
was ahead of it, not to be hurried as
they had to be, but to come equipped
and ready to stick it out to the end:
He referred to the forces arrayed
against the Huns as "our allies" and
declared they were the nations that
saved Americas national life.
A Price Worth Paying.
Success, he said, was increasing
every day; things were getting better
and brighter, and things were coming
our way with increasing sureness; but
he cautioned his hearers and every
body else against the mistaken belief
that the war was nearly done. 1t had
only begun, he said. And he warned
also against the thought that things
were going too slowly; that we ought
to cut through and be done with 1t.
That thought, that belief acted upon,
he declared, would be the thing for
which the boche would fervent1y pray.
In attempting such thing we would
be playing right into his hand. He
spoke of the inspiring manner in
which the Americans fought at Sois-
sons, and the heavy toll of American
losses as the price which had to be
sons salient. 1T was a price worth
paying for the turn of the tide" he
said, "but the way to Berlin is too
darned long to pay such price for
every foot of the way" And his hear
ers cheered him.
ture Of the American soldier in France,
and IL was the picture of those same
young men Baltimore knew before they
put on the khaki They had not
changed in any essential particular.
There they were in France, as they had
been at home, generous. courteous,
thoughtful, adapting themselves to cir.
cumstances making themselves at home
wherever they might happen to be, con-
Sfderate Of the rights and opinions Of
others, fitting themselves into the life
Of the communities in which they might
be billeted, actually identifying them
selves with the home life Of tho people,
helping them in their gardens and with
their tasks about their homes and shops
and little farms, showing the French
new 'kinks'' and easier methods Of do
ing familiar things, playing with the
children and making friends with every
body, Just as any decent, well meaning
American country boy or city chap, feel
ing himself as good as anybody on earth,
would do anywhere he might happen to
said Col Stimson; ''they have feeling
for him different from that they have
for the soldier of any other nation"
Yank Is Terrible Foe.
That was the home side of the
American soldier. But when he went
. up to the front and saw on every hand
the evidence of boche frightfulness
and treachery and wanton ruin and
brutality ''he is turned into an in
strument of steel. The very things
that make him the admiration of the
French. people while he is in their
homes are the things which make his
nature revolt at the work of the Huns.
and fiIl him with q righteous hatred
that makes him terrible foe. And
verify believe that from the things
that our men have seen at the front
they have already grown to hate the
boche worse than the British hate
him"
He closed by urging his hearers not
to Overestimah the success that the
Americans have had, not to lose their
heads and think the war would soon
be won, for 1t was likely to be long