Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1918-01-03

The old year America abandon its hope of peace and
enter the great war; What the new year be-
That is the question with most minds in this nation
The great and overshadowng standing out conspc-
ousy before the of 1917 recedes into the that
firmly resolves on peace but if negbors persist in making
upon peforc defend ourselves abandon
I 10 s to live the fat Of own n
but better instincts and higher impulses constran to
ing ,.s' world rid ''''' VI ''.' - w ~ ' "''N .'''N
international developments during the just ended
people have undergone complete transformation We
no md effect an ora1n we have iGm
lation We boast more of the magnificent distances"
separating shores or coasts from those of other
The submarine in military and naval significance has
the British Isles when this world conflict began has chain
ed vast fighting fleets to their mornings in safe harbos and
The aeropane has annhlated distance rendered mere
coast defenses obsolete the strategy and modes
made for the nations to get together
possible and institute rules for the navigation of the
aerial regions have sought to define and regulate the
international paths of the sea-
The DEVELOPMENT Of giant explosives in forms capable Of
delivery dozen miles distant by howitzers the
aerial bomb and the undersea decorating proece have driven
@ oer eada OF na1 Wh B
fighting fleets representing billions Of dollars locked in
American and allied mosquito craft singy and in squadrons
have dared hther and hther protecting the
OF friends and now hurting to the depths of the the h
We have seen whole armies taking again to the bosom
OF mother earth and finding in trenches and dugous the
haven of refuge refused them by the ambitious
of steel and concrete that mans ingenuity could
devise
We have the resourcefu and courageous Italians
fighting the mountain heights with the aid Of great boud
While these military and naval Developments have been
in few months of in 1917 served
uonize economic industrial commercial and TRANSFORMATION
systems in our own land We had boosted of the vasness
sa if e of a We had
successful railways system We had found compacency
in the thought that unlimited industrial could
We woke humilated by the discovery that we had to Dor
three after the starting Of war in Europe babe us be pre-
pared for all possible military and naval emergencies We
poweess the demands people for fuel in the
first winter in in which war found us as people
ing born anew as nation. We not only finding
nues for the expression of impulses the
tnents We also being welded into real brotherhood at
home The announcement of the death of American boy
TO the st.
s'Sss ts sa %s hs Erin
ors of the Red White and Blue Above every American home
gehr the blood American boys already she'd and by the
spirit OF that has swept this entire land
pshed for the upf progress in patriotism phan
hropy and practical Christianity Of the American people In
the light of these developments there things one
predict with reasonable certainty the year lust begun
Considering these developments connection with
are to do during 1918.
we know in the first place and above all that not
lighting Germany and Kasersm alone so we shall
not make peace ourselves alone We people
solved to overthrow entrenched mars Other Europeans
may desert the has Russia but fighting
world principle that must prevail at all COST and that
much broader than the for which fought Cuba
as the continent wider than the Pearl of the Antilles
hght Tor the Cubas of Europe well powerful allies
The new year will great American army thronging
to Europe to join forces with French British and Italians
. the year 1918 will great number of aeropanes
to Europe to for the American army spy
he land the enemy and to join carrying the into Ger
many that the German people know by expert
ence some of the horrors and the carnage of home
we'll as its privatons and it's uerngs deterrent from f
ture
The new will combined allied blow struck at Aus
rla Since the Austrian fleet the vulnerable point af
by the entire Teuonc front is safe to that naval
forces poted up at the head of the Adra will be
feel the blow. when Americas machine is fully started
Inc spirit OF John Paul JONES' Perry Lawrence, Farragu
Dewey and other American naval heroes eapng in millions of
hearts will demand that this blow be
ohoef Wemyss its new head the British navy will oin u.s.
The 1913 will Congress and all the administrative
departments in Washington responding the popular de-
mand by Americans everywhere that material
be thrown to the support and equipment of men fighting
our battles for freely have thrown money into
the balance. ' ~