Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1918-05-18
War Correspondent Declares
Even Neutral Countries Feel
1t More Than We.
MUST MAKE EVERY SACRIFICE
To Win This War the American Peo-
pie Must Awaken to Full ReaIlza.
tion Of All II Means and All
II Demands.

Chicago.--"We do not know that we
are at war. Five thousand miles away
our troops are moving into battle. In
q million American homes the casualty
lists are watched with anxious eyes,
Tears and anguish and heartbreaks are
the price we must pay to write head
line of Victory" declared Oswald II.
Schuette, for three years war cores
pondent of the Chicago News with the
armies of the Central powers, In an adj
dress before the Press club of Chicago.
"a year ago we unfurled the battle
flags Of the republic, We pledged our
selves to the greatest sacrifice this
greatest OF world wars might demand.
The American people are ready to
make that sacrifice. But so far we do
not know over here what war really
Is. | have come out of three years In
that inferno. All Europe is aflame.
1t knows 1t is In the war. Even neu-
trail countries such as Switzerland feel
1t hundredfold more than we. There
economy and conservation is no longer
a master of preachment, Of voluntary
sacrifice. 1t is a matter of enforced
necessity, of grim compulslon. They
are not saving food to feed someone
else. They are saving because they
have too little themselves. And In the
warning countries, there is war in every
breath. War is tragic reality for
them. They do not need flags in the
streets to remind them of the war
and you see few flags over there. War
portions out their meager ratlons. War
is their cook. War allots the comforts
of their daily life, and the proportions
are small Luxuries are gone. War
stalks through their streets with the
soldiers in uniform. Wars shadow Is
behind the mothers who pray in the
churches that their boys may be saved.
I'VE hardly know these things. We
are revealing in luxury, and call II war
economy. We think we are saving, |
yet / have seen more food wasted in
the two weeks since landed In New |
York than in the three years of my
war experiences.
Il do not say this as complaint. /!
i say 1t as warning. We must learn
quickly the great lessons Of this war.
For every day we wait now will cost /
us two later on. If we wait long
enough they will cost us weeks. To
win this war, we must awaken TO a
full realization Of all it means and all
II demands. We must be in 1t, not one
million strong, but one hundred mil
lions strong. We must make economy
not fad or principle, but sacrl-
fee.
Five weeks ago, was in General
Pershlng's headquarters In France, and
saw our soldiers march out to unknown
destinles In the trenches. Proudly
they marched, knowing that they car
ried with them the hearts and the pray
ers OF our great nation. Now 1t is up
to us to show them that we are behind
them. And we will do so.
Don't be misled by any false tale
that our enemy Is collapsing. that Ger
many Is on the verge OF revolution.
that her army Is ready to mutiny, that
her people are starving We have be-
iieved too many such reports In the
year that has past Germany is not
starving. She has been mighty hun
cry for three years. But Germany
knows that she is In the war. |