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You VIII Win the War.

You VIII Win the War.
The Saturday Evening Post.
Two great battles against Germany
are being fought--one in France and
one in America. We shall win on
both fronts.
Mr.. Hoover seys that food viii win
tho war.
Mr.. Hurley says that ships will win
the war.
Othor men say that guns. shells.
nirplanes, Thrift stamps or Liberty
bonds will win the war. a large
number hope that the other fellow
will win the war, They are all mis-
taken.
You will win the war.
Just how soon you will depends
solely on how long II will take you
TO get down 10 first principles. TO cut
out your nonsenslcal and nonessen-
tial ideas, TO discard your pea shooter
and pop-g6n notions OF war and to
concentrate yourself and everything
you possess on a one-hunrder-mile
line I'm France.
Someone has pointed with pride to
the fact that Great Britain Is fighting
on 81 fronts HUT this is Mt best
| HbItSSFN HNll, ~ ut-
fensvo measure to safeguard the
British empire Itself The statement
was made to lend force to an argu-
ment that the United States should
divert men and money to Russia. We
hope that this will not be done. I'm
I'll Germany is WHIPPED on the western
front she Is victorious everywhere.
once forced back over the Rhine she
IL beaten everywhere, "
We must not chip away our re-
sources on deuces and busted
straights.
Before you can win in France con-
greSs must get on war basis, II
this one will not you can elect one in
the autumn that will. II Is abso-
lutely in your hands. There is no
need to go into detail about this
congress. II contains many brilliant
and devoted men; and then there are
others. These members are self
muckraked in the Congressional
Record. Look up your senator and
representative in II. Read both the
lines and between the lines.
Congress has passed some admir-
able legislation; and then thete ls the
revenue bill--a war-profits measure
that taxes everything eNcop; war
profits put-the- burdne- -on-wealth
bin that in the clause taxing profes-
sional earnings and salaries final
| s per cent eNempts unearned In
comes, including the So aries OF a
good many congressman.
As means TO help you win the
war the importance OF the fan cleo
! tions cannot he overemphasiZed.
Look the candidates over with the
same close scrutiny that you would
]
Forget their politics and their
speeches. but look to their characters
and their records. There are Just
three things to ask about every can
didate this year; Has he brains, hon
esty and patriotism Every boy ora
tor. every dunderhead, every we'll
meaning ass, every ner-groccry
statesman. every cheap politician,
every talnt-heart returned 70 CON
grcss next fan is going 10 slaughter
the boys in your house, your street
and your town Pork and tariff are
not the issues this year, There is only
one issuc--the war and the lito Of
your hoy,
Before you can win In France the
administration must take n larger
dose-a whole bottle. in fact--of the
medicine that Is recommended to the
the big boss of the armies. II has
already gone long way, but 1t must
go the whole distance TO centralized
land co-ordinated, autocrauC and re-
! sponsible control of our war aCtlNi-
ties under go-better and got-it-dono
executives We want fewer press
Ihgents and moro pressure In Wash-
IinEton.
Before you can win in France YOU
must bury tho hyphen In America,
and along with II few OF the ny
phenates who have been spreading
sedition and plotting destruction.
| And in addition to these there Is an
other breed OF hyphCnates that needs
your attcution-thc ucar-Ame ericanS,
! born and bred hero, often finished
abroad. whose skulls are full OF mush
| or headcheese. These ara the gentry
who, when we propose TO deal
! promptly and properly with a Doc
! tor Muck oppose sentence with gas
! bonn hs OF laChrymnl stuff about there !
| being no nationality IN art" The |
| truth Is that there is no art that il |
| not primarily and fundamentally ma !
! tloual, and even II that were notI
true. America would better endow |
Doctor Muck's art with nationality /
for the period OF the war.
Again, when we try TO suppress
those centers of u-Amoricanlsm
ana German propaganda, the Ger
man-language papers and the teach
ing of German in the schools, the
near Anne cans protests to our busi-
ness men that we must conunue 10
teach this favored lanEuage ir We
would do any business after the war.
and to parents that The cultural value
pf German is SO great that wit thout