The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1918-01-31
WHAT WILL WIN THE WAR

II WHAT WILL WIN THE WAR
WE HAVE BEEN TOLD that will win the war; that
w victory will swing that side of the balance where there
the greatest marhang of wealth. We have been told tat
power that victory will to that side
the largest armies into the conflict We have
likewise told different times and from different sources
Ships that apanes that submarines that big gns and
that food will be the deciding factor
While any one many may like the last straw
bring the great war to close victory depends
te but the morale not of the armed forces at
the 'front.' but Of the civilian population at home The home
people will lose this And that country, rather
league will down to defeat whose home people
first to quit fighting It will be thru the breach in the home
that the forces of the will march to victory
keeping morale of the home people America is at
the disadvantage keeping fighting force the front
battlefeds 5000 miles nearest shores The
war; conflict is all over there
There question about the endurance of the fighting spirit
Of France The armed forces of her traditional
upon her SOIL Her land has been despod the noise
of battle is ears her real is horrible
France will fight and fight until her last able bodied man lies
and her last weakened has made the
flee.
England will continue fight she feels the painful
of the her throat Her island rnged about
by hostile Ships borders bombed enemy apane
lighting front but few hours distant from Shores
people bound together by ties of and blood
But to the people of America the thing
No hostile ships within thousands of miles of their
and invader threatens their country blood reddens their
SOIL their homes and they people
race and blood with traditional emniy toward those with
whom they While the Sadness SORROWS
heartaches will be winged home them there the
awful the naked reality of will stand revealed before
their eyes to goad their spirits fight
The American people today if viewing distant
nado They the of the bacened heavens they
the distant thunder they feel the ears
yonder where that fnneed cloud sweeps leaving
death and destruction it's PATH they realize that friends
haps loved cut down before it's fury they they
will feel the sting of it's outer edges hope full force
OF its shock will them by, and this
ndecson They know they must seek shelter somewhere but
which shall be- the safety storm cellar or the
questionable safety of the house?
Today, view the impending war where are
we planning to safeguard morale fighting spirit
determination and endurancen the house the
Are taking full measure of ability sacrifice to
suffer until the end?
There question morale of the American bows
the firing line The will be found fighting there is life
There question about the majority of the
home people today But the test not yet
continue to knit and fathers hand will give long
the boy they love at the 'front.' but will these
their activities when there longer living flesh blood
at the 'front.' but unmarked soldiers grave Somewhere
France Will these spirits fight after life has been robbed
of its dearest treasures?
Will the fighting spirit those where there
WILL flag, continue to be fighting spirit
when fight want prvation suffering? Will
habaOn of the home Withstand the full fury of the
storm? 1t will that habtaon the cellar hewn out of the
solid rock of 100 will not If that hab
aton bulded the wobb foundation of indifference to-
ward those things those Influences those elements which
tc weaken 100 per cent Amercanism
The German, the pacst, the w. W. the capitalist
hate the INSCRIPTIONS ptee the oDector and
England erecting barrier between morale and
may prove serious mpediment in way
tt safety and to victory.
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TRUE CONSCIENTIOUS DIRECTOR
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