The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1918-05-31
Patience and Patriotism,

"Nhy doesn't Foch attack in force? "Wh!
cant we carry the war into Germany? why
don't we drive the Germans out Of Flanders"
''What ON earth is going to become of us?
The W. r. says the Los Angeles Times, will en'
when it is over. That may be Delphic prophecy
but it IS the only sensible and patriotic predctot
that people should heed When war broke, II. G
Wells. who had the greatest following Of any lit
crarv man as a prophet, said "thrcc months
and wrote articles to prove it, Mr.. Wells, ate
renewing his guess generously from time to time
has come the opinion that the war will enc
when Germany is beaten and that God Onh
knows when that will be- Till the time comes
patience! The patience that is PATRIOTISM
The war must go on. 1t is the first duty o
American patriotism to shout to the ears OF on
leaders Flight ou--hght on and on Lo, we ar
with YOU always!
And the question OF why Foch does not COM
on with his grand offensive is one for mllitar!
experts rather than those of us behind the battl
lines wholly IMMERSED in the multitudinOus lnfiu
cnccs and considerations that bear upon the Judge
mcnt OF the generals Those most competent t.
have an opinion confident that FOCh knows hi
work. that his judgement is dependable, and tina
he is Nc dawdling tmd soldier was shown a
the battle {" the Marine, where he made victor.
ovcrW hcmmy by the dazzling temerity Of attack
ing with his center after his right and left wing
were routed.
Euch h;~ aid that he strike a COunter-bloV
in 1910 if \merica gives him two million soldiers
and that at all costs he will guard Paris and pro
tect the heart of France that he will not swerv
from his plan. even if it be necessary to saCrihC
the channel ports. And he is right This worl
war revo Olives around Paris 1t boast to kee
4 dinner engagement there that led the Kaiser t
storm Belgium. Foch's job is to make sure, frs
Oi ALL that the defense line OF Paris cannot b
overmastered
William Howard Taft says that it will take hv
million american soldiers fighting in 1920 nc
1910, to win the war Other leaders of observa
ton and information have their opinions and ter
tatvely hazard guesses. But the main thing
that the must go on, and that the America
people must be patient. For patience today
SYNONYMOUS with the best patriotism. Patienc
today, patience tomorrow. patience in all tn
dreary tOmorrows Of long, long war. The war
OF our past American history have been compare
lively short. We were accustomed to think of til
Civil War as one of almost interminable duration
the Mexican and Spanish wars, by their brienes
spoiled our perspective of mind.
As vet America, though generous has mad
comparatively little sacrifice in this war. Our dea
are still numbered by the hundreds instead OF tn
hundreds Of thousands Our cities have been ire
from attack, land is unsulled except by tn
occasional footprint OF spy. SO Impotence woul
i'll become in the face of EnglandS bulldO
grimness. OF Belgiums tenacious desperation
Frances unshakabIe fortitude Perhaps if we. tC
had been under the kaiser's hoof or stared up
is bomb raining Ieppclins or seen quite
run blood we would not have wars ending
much on our lips, but would speak more often
>ictory-cume when it may
But America is not weak-hearted nor IS Anne
can impatiencc more than superficial. All alOr
we have rather hall expected that the war won
be over before we had to throw our full wegl
into it. But the full weight is needed. The drea
OF an early peace is a delusion, fostered and nou
shed by I'russan generals who wish to create II
very Impotence and discomfort that comes fro
expecting and not finding peace. America IS in
this to help win it; and to the end her gun
her men, her money and her food will be give
generously and SCIENTIFICALLY. America will stuff
all things endure all things, deprive herself Of {
things, TO THE END. She will eat soggy bres
and IIUovcrize checrfully. She will go broke
she has to. She viii back up the President al
congress to the limit She will not grumble at II
food administration and will take her orders fro
the departments without a murmur. Her hghtll
patience is up, and it shall know no ending NJ
shadow OF turning. No government ever had Wi
II or Dehlnd II more unlhed, reSolute, loyal al
patient press and people, Germany must and W
be crushed. "No quarter, said the Kaiser to BE
GUM; and ne is answered by the echo Of his ON
words. There shall be quarter and no resPi
for Germany until she crumbeS her sword bro
en-, her mailed fist mangled and helpless as II
withered left arm OF the monarch who loosen'
the dogs of war upon mankind
s. S. -
4 EIIo correspondent advances the suggest,
that the school teacher, GOrepO their "unearnct