Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1918-08-09
MUST WIN The WAR
Every Effort of Every Citizen
Is Necessary to Back Up
the Yanks Overthere.

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countless wounds rent agape by
the buzzards of the air, by the SER
pents of the sea and by bloodhounds
on land. Regrets are useless, re-
pinings are vain. sWhat might have
heenn has no place in the bloody
present, for "the mill will never grind
with the water that has passed y
What enchains the eyes of humanity
is the future.
There is just one supreme business
which confronts civilized human
beings-to win the war All else can
and must wait. All else weighs not..a
feather in the worlds scales of out
ragged justice. Let us front facts.
With heroism hitherto unknown,
with a courage more dauntless than
ever before painted on hiStory's page
by crimson brush, the Allied forces
have fought on land the maniacal
legions of Hundom, trained for forty
years for their bandit foray. Step by
step, yard by yard and mile by mile,
have been literally washed by waves
of blood. There is not foot of con-
tested soil but that has drunk its fill
of gore pulsing from heroes veins.
But thaS does not win che war! AS
General Foch pithily puts it: "a
purely defensive battle, even we'll
conducted, does not result in q victor
and a vanquished. 1t is simply
game that must be begun over
again" Further he aptly adds: "To
maintain our position is not synony-
nous with being victorious, and even
prepares for defeat" These are
weighty words from the pen of the
ablest defensive strategist in human
history. The best defense can but
prevent annihilalion, and it brings no
victory. Victory by attrition" has
a sonorous sound, but it echoes far
down futurity's roads. Victory by
starvation" sounds alluringly blood
less, but the vast acreage which has
passed into Hun dominion makes
that end but an elusive will-o'-tIle-
wisp.
Let us look at the seven seas. Ger
many's fleet will not give battle.
The vast superiority of the Allied
fleets holds the floating ornaments of
Hundom in leash, embargoes her
commerce and nullifies her feet but
it does no more. 1t is negative,
fruitless and indecisive victory. 1t
prevents, but it does not conquer. 1t
saves the Allies-a most tremendous
result-but il does not annihiIate the
foe.
Beneath the sea, in it's Shiny ooze,
Turk the Hunnish serpents. No de-
vice ridS the seas Of their poison
fangs. They take their tolls. The
amount sucked into the serpent
mSwS varies, but never ceases. De-
spite their ravages, the vast ferriage
of men and supplies continues, and
will continue, but the serpents are
not destroyed. Their fangS are not
drawn nor their venom damned. They
have, as expected, made their Shiny
way hiJher and taken slight toll. In
creasing production Of tonnage multi
Fl S tie submarines, but does not de-
stroy them The serpent is scotched,
not annihilated. Beneath the sea, as
on it's surface, we gain another mega
tive, fruitless and indecisive victory.
The Huns are baked, but we do not
conquer. The serpents breed, hide
and strike again mot VIGOROUSLY,
but necessarily.
On the earth, on the sea and be-
Meath the sea, the Huns cannot con-
quer. But neither have they been
conquered. The warfare of almost
four years comes to stalemate in
the most awful conflict of all time.
Facing facts harm no man, and such
are the facts.
General Foch sums it all up when
he says: Modern warfare, to arrive
at its end and to impose it's will on
the enemy, recognizes only one means
destruction of the enemy's organ
lied forces"
A representative of the French
Government in America but recently
said: eff l may deliver an unofficial
message to America it is, For Heav-
cps sake, send us 10000 aeroplanes
and pilots at once. We can hold the
line, but to defeat the Germans we
must have the mastery of the air."
We believe that is the frozen truth.
Cbpsider it carefully.
.IFrom the outset of the war the
Huns, by the air route, have persist
emily raided London and Paris while
Berlin has sat in as serene safety as
if she were on another planet instead
of the center of the output of carnage
on this planet. Submarines at their
fastest can make but twenty miles
r.