The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1918-07-27

,,ss NO TIME FOR 'oPToaHsM
No sooner does General FSch begin
smashing attaek dmthes Scissons ,.sector
annda4ake prisoners and guns With the eo-
s.sybe,1ffoi' IF hard hittiHR American 6iN'
;aiXng tlixH his movement ID welcomed by
our impression1ilU tptimiBts'h6sthe BE-
I5nniiia of the end 1nr GarrdAlny. The
sl|1le u elstion Uses toA eresendo o. trl.
7t6p6ant faith ia victory. ~ ~ SAID that 3
The French strategist has regained tne
initiative; that he win not lose 1t again;
shat Paris, Amiens and the Channel ports
are safe now; and that:with million AM
,erican troops in the line the Germans
will soon be driven from French territory
It is unfortunate that q CLEAN OF success
turns the heads ofmany Of our people 50,
and that they see in it the growing dawn
of victory and the sunburst Of peace. The
enemy is less imaginative; whatever his
successes are, whatever advantage he OBJ
tains, he continues to plan a military tri-
umph in the west--in the east he consid-
erS1that he has won the war.
No optimism could be more foolish
than the auto-intoxication Of the Ameri-
cans and their allies when German
thrust is parted, "drive" checked or
stopped, in Flanders, Picardy, or the
Champagne. There is reason for citation
when General Foch turns on the foe and
throws him back with heavy casualties
and accommodating losses, as he has done
in this, his first real offensive since he
assumed command of the allied forces on
the western front; nevertheless, his sue
,cess should not be hailed as an assurance
that the worst is over, and that hence
forth the Germans will have to fight de-
4ensive campaign that must end in de-
feat and disaster. The road to victory
will be long and toilsone, however bril-
sliat the strategy Of General Foch, howev-
er valiantly the allied troops acquit them
selves in the field. AS that master Of war
has said, this is struggle between peo-
pies as well as between armies. Itmight
BE just as fatal for the people Of the al
He'd nations to be victims Of overconfi.
dence as for their armies to suffer from
1t. There is little dangerof the latter;
the allied soldier know their foe, they do
not make the mistake of undertaking his
genius for war, his fighting ability. But
there is real danger that the allied peo-
pies and particularly the Americans, will
be deceived by over-confidence to the
point of relaxing their energies when the
situation calls for supreme effort, if a
victory is to be won and democratic
peace secured.
In homely phrase winning a round
and that is just what General Foch has
done in the Scissors sector-may be, and
generally is, a very different thing from
winning fight. In this war Germany
has won most of the rounds so far and
shows few, if any, signs Of waning skill
and strength in the field. It was never
more true that the Allies need all the re-
sources they can command to end the war
in their favor. AS many ships, as many
airplanes, as much artillery and ammuni-
ton as can be constructed and manufac-
tured, and as quickly as possible, is the
urgent, the imperative need Of crisis
whichTwas never more acute. And as for
troops, too many Of them cannot be or
gained and trained, not two millions, but
twice two millions or more. We are
speaking Of Americas contr1bution-our
allies are very near the end Of their re.
sources In man power.
II cannot b6sfepested too often that
Germany designs to recruit vast army