The spectator., 1918-09-06
WASHINGTON YARNS AGAINST MISGUIDED
 UPIIMI5TIG VIEW
ERRONEOUS REPORTS THAT ARE cALCUl ATEO To INSPIRE OVER CONFIDENCE ARE SOURCE
 OF GREAT DANGER.
ClRCULATION AIDS GERMANS
War News of Late Is Most Enoourss. ing, but End Of Struggle
 Not ia Sight.

Misguided optimism the belief that the war is practically over and that soon the American soldiery will bs 6attering at the very gates of Berlin. forms the basis s0r an authoritative warning from Washington This opti- mism Is frausht Wita great danger, and Is froWned upon 5y everybody of ina- Portanoe al lAs national capital.
 Tt is no time J9 ak ot the war bs- ing over, sad 6g armys chief of staff. BoaattuI and oyer-opumistts prophecies are reeardsd n government circles as not 0atg foolish, but danger. GUS. We are. bu just getting into the war, saya an author atiYs writer in the New York Times, and t Is only within the last lew weeks that We nave put enough men at Haa battle front to rem der notable asssszHuce.
 As RI instance af tne wrong kind of optimism $ cigea be action of a large man ufacturer iD JAe Middle West on & recent visit to Washington. He took with htm his plans for enIaFging the output ot ais plant. and was so conf. dent thaf sna would end next spring lEaz h. actually making bis plana ag eaa oasis
 He was ara#rz I85aL He did not realize taag Bleadlug his Ideas among Us emp.}.s and the citizens of his community. @aere he was recog- nized as 8 leader. gHat he was doing that which 4pt,a receive the wartn oomnendatlor of the German propa, gandlsts
 Misleading Headlines.
 Official @e-hs#zteu condemns pre- mature esteela.-4- oi the end of ths war, while t. la# aHa tune approving the appreciation 9a fae people of the glorious as@s HHa Is authentic At Kentucky celebration the news was that the sbass aa4 been licked A neN spapaE caEz5a b. headlines that 100000 Hans asa been trapped
 The information was. of curse CT. foneousa and the real truth that while VI tory ot notc had been won. 1t did not mean the end ol the war
 The popular estimate that l,00O. 900 Americans added to the Allied forces would ena lat ate has proven wrong Later l. vas calculated that 5000. 900 would do the j4a Nou the estimate Is 5000 000. and | 4ay go higher
 T think tdera 0aaId be nothing more harmful s-5a= ..-d States Senator Harry , Nea ol Indiana to the Az lied cause thau for American people to get the ideu tbs, because of the sue cesses of the last few weeks the begin ming Of the end .u sight
 Senator Ne# appreciated to the ut teTmoat the splendid achievements of the Americans French and English, but there Is no Indication that the de- eisiSe battle nas been fought.
 He recalled th- fact that four years ago, when the Germans were at the harne, they were driven back quite as precipitately as hey were this time, and Yet tour years later the work mad all to De done over again.
 Situation ls Hopeful
 Tt is for us .a f.eL he says. that. ns matter bov auy times this may happen. tho .or-s- ot the Allies will continue their resistance and their att tack, and that there shall never be & ietup until there complete Allied victory, whether Kun is twice or a dozen tlmes a tse Marne before that end Is reached
 T don beLevs D. can come that r again But 1t aat do to feel for & moment thag he aakening
 Senator New believes the war will bs won ou the western front He be- lieves 1t Is a mHlary impossibiity for the Allies ever to establish an east. ern battle front Russia cannot be depended on
 He poinss out Chat in the great Ger man offensive of March 2l the Ger. mans .ook more than l0O.000 prisoners and 1000 guns and that 1t is more than possible that Germany lost more heavily this time because of over-con- fidence on account of their success in drives previous to the last one.
 While hoidn2 10 the idea that we are going 10 win he says, I've must at the same ume provide all that is necessary to make successful finish Of the thiu The German army can and will fight tor a long time on the defense. II Il should be defeated soon- CT than we expect, so much the bet ter"
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