The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1918-06-20
AMERICA RElNCARNATE

AMERICA REINCARNATE
If the United States is compelled to invest a
hundred billion dollars in winning the war future
results will justify the act. Il.
Germany has us slated for much heavier
contribution by way of indemnities, in case OF a
victory over the allies but even bringing the con-
ict to our doors or shores, via the Unterseebooten
does not cause the average, normal citizen any
loss of sleep. He is not lodging the German tax
collector yet, even in his dreams.
An army of 100000 men, with the non
combatant forces attendant, an increased navy
and restored mercantile marine will put 7,OOO,-
1000 of our best blood. Drawn and brain-1N
TRAINING. Each year the coming 21ers will ap-
proximate million, who are to be taught how to
become men, first and soldiers if necessary. The
Boy Scout army will soon 60 over the million
mark The work or fight" propaganda will make
habitual workers of habitual strikers.
ri National efficiency, capacity and energy will
be more than doubled N.i r. ......is. =:
T 7 If the war shall last two more years, or the
reconstruction period keep our forces actively en-
ployed- for that period we shall have recovered
from the laxnessl bred by two generations of a
too prosperous people. 4. p.
- Some millions of those who are to father the
coming generation will have first; hand knowledge
of many peoples. Prejudices born Of thousand
fool notions concerning the real character of the
French, British, Italian and dozen other nation
alites, with whose sons they will fight shoulder
to shoulder, will cooperate. The viewpoint in
life will be altered for every man who wears the
khaki. s$ssss s
He will become disillusioned as51to German
kultur and learn that conquest, world domination
for selfish ends is all that actuates the brutal ru-
ers of the Teuton legions They alone are fight
ing for self, while the allies are fighting for right
and equal justice-a world democracy.
A soldier cannot remain self-centered; he be-
comes considerate for others in spite of himself;
on the battle line he sees men as good as him.
sef-or better. The army is a regular suicide
club for conceit and egotism.
The man who comes back safe and unscathed
will never cease to wonder at the miracle, when
he remembers the carnage and slaughter from
which he emerged His life will mean infinitely
more to him.
The developing force of the sort of training
our men and officers are undergoing cannot now
be estimated. Life for these millions Of evolved
men will necessarily be more serious, their activi-
ties more intensive.
The earning and saving capacity of the nation
will be doubled, if not quadrupled It took France
less than decade to recoup the losses of material
wealth after the war of 1901 and matter of
two decades should see America more powerful,
wealthy and progressive on right lines than was
possible had we not entered the war.
This will indeed be the UNITED States of
America and not an aggregation Of states in COM
petition with each other squabbling over the pork
barrel Of legislation
, We shall emerge from this sea of horror and
strife cleaner, stronger, more worthy people and
those glorious martyrs who gave their lives for
the cause of humanity will not have made the
supreme sacrifice in vain.
A world reorganized on peaceful and bene-
6cent lines will never cease chanting it's gratitude
to the American nation that turned the tide of
defeat to victory.
The kaiser is getting a taste of what Yankee
fighters can do, and also forecast of what sew
eral millions of them will do when they come
over. Sstlt rs
| There never was time in all American his
tory when slice of bread meant so much as it
now does-f it is NOT eaten in the millions of
| u. S. homes.
The Germany that year ago refused to
admit America could become factor in the war
is now sending her U-boats clear across the ocean
| to our Atlantic coast We wonder why?