The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1918-02-19
DREAMING
WHILE ALLIES TOTTER
Europe STAGGERING is MES
SAGE OF DOCTOR TAYLOR,
SPECIAL ENVOY.
MAN WHO ACCOMPANIED HOUSE
OPENLY ADMITS DIRE STRAITS

: csrman Strike Is Camoufage, and
Allies Line Bending Near Break
inc Point" He Asserts. America
Must Help Immediately.
PHILADELPHIA, Pa.-Dr. Alon-
20 Taylor, speaking for the federal
administration and the allies in one
If the most remarkable addresses of
the war here last night, bitterly ridi-
nled all war optimism, ripped
through the veil of official silence
and declared most of Europe beaten
to its knees and predicted the Amer
lean nation on war rations before
summer.
Doctor Taylor's Adde'S was like a
holt from the blue. 1t was delivered
to glittering assemblage at the
Stotesbury home, 1925 Walnut street.
4 1t cut and scared as it was intended
to do. Doctor Taylor, from the deeps
4 of his official knowl edge-he was
with Colonel House in Paris and now
\ is one of the most powerful of the
silent men in the Washington admin
istration-pictured the German
strikes as mere camoufage created
for the occasion, the British and the
French beaten to a standstill; the
& allies morale in worse shape than
the morale of Germany; the strick-
en- and frightened eyes of most of
Europe turned our way, aching for
signs of help, and America, reck-
less, wasteful, uninformed and still
mready for the stupendous shocks
which she must bear before the con-
Aict is ended.
LOOK LONGINGLY TO U. S.
You would not recognize Europe
now, Doctor Taylor said to a society
audience that sat chilled and fasci-
hated in the Stotesbury ballroom. All
braces of the old hauteur has gone
From the usual British attitude to-
{ ward America. The British, like the
French and the Italians, look to US
as the world used to look for the
Messiah when life had grown to be
horror. Every official American"
Doctor Taylor said, "every naval Of
Ulcer, every cabinet officer should go
to Europe if only for a day, because
at distance of 5000 miles you can
pot know what is going on, you can
nOt see the flicker of fear in their
eyes. There has been no serious
krlke in Germany. There will be no
revolution in Germany. Six months
Rgo-and you never heard of it on
y THIS side of the water-there were
disturbances on the English docks ten
times more perilous to the allied
cause than the recent strikes in Ber-
In Germany will not collapse. Ger
many Is as cool now and as method
lcal if not quite as assured as she
ever was.
The strikes in Germany were eth
er trivial disturbances or else they
were deliberately arranged by the
s government. Europe is dazed, mis-
led by false hopes. The German
1Tmly believes that half of London
has been laid waste by Zeppelins.
Inc average Englishman believes
mat people are dropping dead from
Farvation in Berlin.
ALLIES LINE NEAR BREAKING.
The trumps in the game-almost
oil the trumps have been played by
I germany. The German line of resist
tAce is bending, of course, but so is
We me of the allies-and the allies
1e SHOWS the most dangerous curve,
nearest to breaking. This is the
gTuthful and the scientific analysis.
we nave done much but we must do
more unless we wish to lose. 1t will
NV do for US to deceive ourselves
lOW as the allies have been deceiving
@Tch other and even their own people.
ley made mistakes and they took
lungs as they came, but they have
'u some time at least to make up
WI It, The difference of our pres
eN position is this-that we-have-
o[had-time- make mistakes. If we
make the mistakes that the allies
i4ye made we lose-and if we lose
Ls , rest of the world will go down
nth us!"
# Doctor Taylor's address came as a
saendous shock at meeting of So
,eF folk called by Mrs. Stotesbury
consider the conservation of food
the homes of the well-to-do. The
naiysls which Doctor Taylor pre-
sated of the problems involved was
@Inng, He made it evident that so
~ with all our conservation propa-
~lua we have conserved very little
~ the simple reason that the work
~ In who have suddenly found them
yves with immensely increased
sseS are at the present time the
s vs' lavish MASTERS in the land. They
o ave- bought and wasted at the rate
;merly set by the idle rich. "In
country as it is abroad" said
~ g'G I Taylor, 'the highly paid arti-
mas manifested an instructive re-
j siIenGe to the accumulation of cap
rc ~, lie spends all he earns, and