Bisbee daily review., 1918-04-14
JIMMY DOUGLAS APPEALS TO STATE 10 AWAKE TO WAR ---FORCET SELF

James S. Douglas, who has been in France since early after the United States entered into the war writes the following to the Verde Copper News:
 Paris, March II, 1918. Editor Verde Copper News.
 Jerome:-
 nave just received clippings from your paper, and feel that ought to write and try to wake up my people in Arizona to the fact that our United States is at war with Germany and that it is no time for landlords tD be holdiGg up the people who have to pay rent nor for the people who have to pay rent to be quitting work because they can't get $6.50 a day instead of S6.05. a day.
 Why is it that Germany is able to put up such a terrific fight, Because she is efficient, and her people are efficient, and they get up early in the morning and "fly at it." and do not work al things that are unnecessary for the winning of the war
 That is the reason and the only reason that Germany has placei he: self il. the position where she new is. And yet we do not wish to be driven to war as are the German people by the lords of the German empire? Are we not going to strive to uphold the principle of "our fathers?" And are We not going to prove that a government of the people can actually ex:st ,rith the necessary efficiency so that the nation that believes in such principles cal protect itself against the iuruads of despOt such as the German kaiserE Let me say to you that unless we change our system and control our greed which has been excited by the high prices of wages and material caused by this war, we will be much longer in whipping the Hun than we ought tO be.
 No Doubt of Result.
 I have no doubt how this war is coming out. I know that the allies are going to triumph, but don't think for minute that they are going to do SO easily. And let me assure you that we can only do it by the natural resources and all of the people being mobIlIZed in our own country to sup port our armies in France and the armies of our allies who are actually fighting.
 Life in the trenches of Paris" is no justification for my writing to my own people and roasting them as above, but Brophy, Collins, Solomon, Iy-o, Uafcap,ar and p,vcalf ,vbpn, No,t all know, are not by any means hay ing good time. We are working long hours and are up against mighty hard job, but am glad to say that our department of the American Red Cross is gradually getting into pretty good shape and the whole organization is making progress towards the winning of tbe war.
 If all of you could really appreciate what France has done for the world in this war q have not been to England), and the fight they have really put up. by seeing the hundreds of widows and cripples on the streets every day, l know that everybody at home would work harder and would have a greater appreciation of what those at home must Go in order to bring about, before too many years have gone by, our right as Americans to look a French man or an Englishman in the face and feel that we have done our part and that we are again their equals.
 We. as a nation. have gone through a bitter experience since the com mencsment of the Madero revolution. and we of Arizona have the advantage over those of other parts of the coun- try. in having the knowledge that our sentiment was dulled and our national spirit seriously affected by the riany killings of our citizens that in our frontier states during