The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1918-08-29
&deG6hasaNAr Moves
From the New York Times.

n 7 o sooner does General Foch begin a smashing attack in the Scissors sec
" tor and take prisoners and guns with ts cooperation Of hard Uniting
American divisions than his movement is welcomed by our unreasonable
optrmists as the beginning OF the end for Germany The note of citation rises
has regained the initiative; that he will not los. it again; that Paris, Amens
and the channel ports are safe now; and that with a million American troops in
the line the Germans will soon be driven from French territory II is unor
innate that a CLEAN of success turns the heads of many Of our people so, and
that they see init the growing dawn Of victory and the sunburst of peace The
enemy is less imaginative; whatever ks successes are, whatever advantage he
obtains, he continues to plan a military triumph in the west-in the east he con
siderS that he has won the wal.
No optimism could be more foolish than the auto intoxicaton Of Americans
and their allies when a German thrust is pauued, a drive checked or stopped
in Flanders, licardy or the Champagne. There is reason for citation when
General Foch.urns N the foe and throws him back with heavy casualties and
accumulatng losses, as he has done in this his first real offensive since he
assumed comWand Of the allied forces on the western front; nevertheless, his
success should nt be hailed as al assurance that the worst is over and that
IN defeat and disaster The road to victory will be long and toisome, however
brilliant the strategy Of General Foch, however valanny the allied troops ac-
Q~ themselves in the field. As that master of war has said. this is a struggle
between peoples a well as between armies 1t might be Just as fatal for the
hupc of the allied nations to be victims of overconhdcnce as Tor their armies
to suffer from it. There is little danger OF the latter; the allied soldiers know
their foe. they do not make the mistake of undertaking his genius for war, his
fighting ability. But there is a real danger that the allied peoples and partcu-
hry the Americans will be deceived by over-confdencc to the point of relaxing
their energies when the situation calls for a supreme effort, if a victory IS to be
won and a democratic peace secutcd.
In honeB phrase winning a round-and that is Just what General Foh has
done IN the SCISSORS sector-may be- and generally is a very different thing
from winning a 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. II was
never more true that the allies need all the resources they can command to end
the war in their favor. As many ships as many airpancs a much artillery and
ammunition as can be constructed and manufactured and as quickly as possible
IS the urgent, the imperative need of a crisis which ws never mort acute. And as
for troops too many Of them cannot be organized and trained, not two Millions
but twice two millions or more We IRE speaking OF Americas contributions our
allies are very nesr the end of their resources in man power.
in Russia, to match every American soldier with a coerced or corrupubc
Russian.