New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1918-02-01
america AND HFR
ALLIES need FAITH
AND COURAGE NOW
COLLAPSES IN RUSSIA AND
ITALY HAVE BEEN DIS.
COURAGING AND HAVE
TENDED TO BRING WAR
CLOSER HOME TO US
(New York Tribune)

so AaNS ailhS SoiidpSSo wa
weary, the world faces more wal
There are to be millions more casual
ties.
And, in addition, war is beginning
to invade the smallest details of GU
own lives. What was last year ter
rible, but far away, is now distress
ing and within our gates. The fin,
hours when the first regiments marcel
and men and women are buoyed uJ
by visible evidence of splendid self.
sacrifice have passed by; war is the
most monotonous, least inspirina
business in the world at the front
and at the rear, and the agony and
the monotony. have come.
Not Free From Depression
We have had bitter disappoint-
ments in Russia and Italy. We have
had lesser Establishments nearer
home. Our great effort will be long
delayed; we shall not arrive soon
nor has our national pride been
spared in the revelation of failures
at the very start.
Such being the case, we have been
passing through a period of depres-
sion. In the gloom the enemy takes
on a gigantic form and in the OBJ
security our own res ources and those
Of our allies shrink sadly. The
weak OF heart begin to murmur, the
disloyal and the unstable hasten to
add to the depression of the war.
Bat les Not Easily Won
Yet if one will but face these things,
are they not after all inevitable in
cidents Of war? When has a great
battle for a noble cause been easily
won? Thinking in terms of Ameri-
can history, what was Valley Forge;
what were the long, drab years OF
suffering in the Revolution, with SO
few moments of victory or even near
victory? There are many still alive
to tell of the depression OF 1864,
when Grants army disappeared into
the shadows of the Wilderness and
emerged only at the shambles OF
Cold Harbor.
From Heroic Ancestors
Are we, the IONS and daughters
of the men of 1864, the inheritors of
the traditions of the ragged Contin-
entails, to be shaken before we en-
counter an enemy three thousand
miles away? Are, we, whose an
cestors fought against all the odds
OF the Revolutionary era, 10 be con-
quered in advance of battle by a foe
whose losses we know, whose weak
nesses grow daily more manifest?
No nation ever had to face a strug-
gle with greater odds against it than
Germany today. And when Germany
had numbers, munitions, everything
that preparation and organization
could give her of advantage, she fail
ed at the Marine, at Ypres and Yer
dun. !
The war has been in great measure
transferred from the front to the
rear. Only behind the lines can
Germany win, and behind her own
there is weakness. Often de-
ceived, often misled, one he~sitates
to believe what is true in 1918 be-
cause one wrongly believed it true in
1915.
Must Hold And Win
Whatever happens in this war, the
worst is over. Come what may, we
shall not see another such crisis as
Marine, a crisis like only to those
on French soil the Huns in
and the Saracens in
ooitou were overthrow by Western
civilization under French leadership.
have but to hold to win, to hold
where the line has never yet broken.
National confidence is individual
confidence. The courage of the in
lividual is a valuable element in the
collective confidence of the commu-
lity, the nation. The wal is a con-
lict between civilizations, ideals,
IDEAS. before it is 4 battle between
men. Our armies will not win at the
ront if those who stay behind do
lot give them the moral support
hey need. The spirit Of France
'revailed when the material was
weak at the Marine, at Verdun.
daterials cannot win now against
quail material sources unless the
pirit fails the one and inspires the
Their.
Courage And Endurance Needed
We are living in discomfort, incon-
enience, approximate hardship; but
that Of it? 1t it a test of our cour-
ge, endurance, loyalty; it is a test
+ our spirit; if we fail, the wal is
ost; if we hold, it is won. In fact,
re can now lose an assured victory
My if, like the Russians in Galicia
st spring, we flee the field of VIC
Dry.
This is one of the great crises of
ne war. assuredly. 1t is one of the
reat tests of the spirits o~f'peoples.
he German say his spirit. his me-
rod. his ideal are best because they
re strongest. He a y that his
FATALITIES, his crimes. his offences
civilization are justified be-
ause they weaken the foes and unite
lie friends. But is this truel
All Are In The War
We are all of us at war with Ger
ANY. every man and woman. what
Ter the post or station we hold.
ach must help to victory; each can
d defeat by doubt, by fear, by
esitation, by fixing his eyes be-
ond the battle to be fought. upon
never earned without effort.
1t is a time for courage. for hope.
is a time for eaci. nan to win his
lare of the battle. each woman to
,nquer her part of the field. Wei
e not merely in a military but even
ore in a moral sense the r~eserves
civilization. We are just going
fire. We have to make "the
large that wins the day" Shall
e fail those who have fought. shall
e forsake those who are trying to-
yht. shall we doubt before we have
lredl
John McCorma *. the famous tent
:. is raising 100000 for the Red