Arizona republican., 1918-08-02
The Fifth Year

We have started the fifth year of the great war It has far only settled proved one thing the narrow limitations of human foresight. It was big thing for the wisest living August l. 1914, to grasp. No could the flames woud envelope the whole world. If had had time to speculate before the conflagration broke out should have said that such a was impossible. Many of believed that the who controlled the worlds money could draw the purse strings. and there would be The money kings of the world did not want But the money kings were not sconsuted-they were levied upon. conscripted they were given no opportunity to protest They merely ordered to pay and pay and pay.
 The of such magnitude that students were sure that itself out. It could last year The destruction of resources would bring it to end very shortly Germany and France and Great Britain would soon be swept of man. power There would be nothing left but the hordes sof Russia
 Germany anyhow must succumb for want of food and materials the creation of munitions surrounded it by iron ring. The war could not last. France also being bled white There would soon be Frenchmen Great Britain isolated must also perish for lack of food Our students was gloomy Military experts more accurate After the war had been in progress year Kitchener declared it to be a three year war
 The first who really able to measure the situation Roger w. abson, the statistician who said two years ago that it would not be a war of exhaustion; it would last until other had been crushed; there reason why it might not continue for five ten years. Since others have discovered that might drag another Thirty Years War After all the wild reckless guesses we have made do not think that humanity qualified to speak authoritatively for the future. We have never grasped the perspective and are no more competent to do
 There must though. be an end of all things and there must be end of the Every day brings to it. Germany will be crushed when enough force has been marshalled for that complishment. We are marshaling that force at the present rate of than million a year. say nothing of such additions allies can make. Ger many. it is estimated, within itself increase it's lnan power at the rate of 100000 a year and that fate must steadily decrease It must. therefore to meet growing forces of the allies mobilize man. power outside itselfand its allies, say the nf Russia that still remain
 We have been in the war only little more than year. but in that short time have seen how the Impossible may be accomplished. A year ago we asould have believed that outlay of thirty billions pf dollars year. no part of which would return 10 would mean national financial ruin; that year industry would be paralyzed, and in another year it would be dead. Now can see that we can throw away another thirty billions without fatal re- suts and that we can keep indefinitely doing this shng. We have been wasting or unnecessarily con- suming more than thirty billions year. We have been piling up unnecded accumuations
 What have latterly found out France Great Britain and Germany had already learned
 We hear much of weariness of the war but that Is said rather loosely. If any should be weary tf the war; that nation would be France but France Is not under the continual weight of four grue ing years The war is inconvenience to the whole world and afflction to great part of the world but it has not yet become such intolerable weight as to break down the spirit of any nations yet engaged in it.
 The allies are appalled, at the loss the waste the slaughter but they conceive of an end of it that would be more appalling. Prussansm feels the steady drain of it. but slow is preferable to extinction and oblivion.
 Circumstances may bring the war to an end in year, in a month, but there is no man living who can foresee any such circumstance