Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1918-11-01
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Every Hour q New Star Of Hope.

ing year when all our optimism, all
cur confidence in the ultimate tr-
umph Of right. all our faith in the
courage, determination and skill OF
the powers arrayed against the
Prussian monster, were required to
prepare a message of hope from the
news Of the day for the anxious ones
in the homes Of Maine and elsewhere
in the field Of the Kennebec Journal.
But those dark, foreboding hours
are a part of history and for many
weeks we have seen small need OF
bolstering the confidence and hope Of
our readers. The foreign news dis
patches and the daily Associated
Press resume have been sufficient,
and called for no I'VE told you so"
from US.
We rejoice with the relatives and
friends who, in the silent hours Of
heart breaking anxiety have fought
rying wounds as deep and lasting as
any received on the firing line. that
the end OF the cruel butchery is at
hand: that in the months of adjust
ment the waiting for loved ones will
not be OF the overhanging disaster
sort.
We know that most of our sons
and brothers and sweethearts are
coming home as strong and clean and
happy as when they went away. We
know that they will have wonderful
tales to relate, and have had expert
ences that will, in very many cases,
change their entire view and course
in life. We know that in the great
Joy OF their coming we shall sweep
the days and months of horror from
our minds and live in the happy
present.
But we turn reverently to the
saddened homes whose sons will not
return, with great desire in our
hearts but feeble words to comfort.
In our pride Of, and gratefulness
toward. ALL the brave men who
flung everything aside for country's
service. we do not lose sight of the
magnitude Of our debt to those who
have paid the supreme price, or do
we forget the sorrow of those bereft
Brighter days are at hand. Every
hour reveals n new star of hope.
Every American home is 100 percent.
optimistic. Every mother and wife
and sweetheart is counting the days
TO the greatest Of all welcomes
when the boys come marching home.
No need today Of our attempting a
message OF cheer to anxious hearts.
Read the bulletins OF Thursday:
All the allied armies on the west
front smashing the enemy back.
Turkey Internationally surrenders.
Austria asking peace terms direct
from Italy which Is with allied help,
crushing the Austrian army into
h.lplessness.
Czecho- Slovaks cut the railway be-
tween Berlin and Vienna.
Entire Turkish army along the
Tisris captured by British forces.
Austro- Hungary expected to sur
render at any moment. Gen. Foch's
armistice terms (not ''note") have
been forwarded to and received in
Berlin.
These brief lines do not BEGIN to
tell the story of the rapidity and
completeness Of the crumbling Of Hun
and Ottoman cussedness before the
powers Of an indignant world.
Germany must follow almost over
night, or the heat Of internal condi-
tons will blow Hohenzollernism of
tho earth before the allies can take
sweet revenge.
The German people along the lower
Rhine are deserving their beautiful
country in panic. expecting the allied
ARMIES to soon dow in upon them.
In word. the beginning Of the
end" 10 getting all mixed up with the
ending OF the end.
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