The Greeneville daily sun. (Greeneville, Tenn.) 1918-1920, 1918-06-28
Why the War Is Prolonged.

These Americans who have always underestmated the
boche and overesmated themselves making their
usual mistake by exaggeratng the Importance Of the
Italian victory over the Ausrans along the Pave "Ger
many is about ready to throw up the spOneg and "Au
tra will collapse within month";" are some of the opin
ions expressed The natural result of these sangune but
baseless hopes is the sackenng of American effort in
many directions
There is not the slightest evidence that Austra's army
lis demoraized as a result of it's That army
bers probably over 100000 actively in service with
large reserve The defeat of part of the army doubt
less known in Austrian forces in the mountains but il
need not be expected that the soldiers win exhibit much
if any impairment of morale because of the The
Germanized army of Austria is not permitted to indulge
in individual whims IL gets such news is allotted tc
it by its masters It's thinking is carefully provided be-
forehand.
1t is idle for any one in allied countries to base predc
tons of victory upon single battle single cam
paign These are not days in which brilliant generals
personally command compact armies and stake the fate
of kingdom upon a single encounter. This war is q
struggle involving all mankind directly and indirectly, the
question at issue being the right of to them
selves Some of the nations fighting with every av
able weapon at their command down to the labor of in
fans All the others drifting more and into
condition of permanent warfare engaging all their facu
ties and resources.
Mankind perhaps would have been free if Russia had
fulfilled the hopes of its allies The appearance of the
United States on the western 'front.' with evermenacng
Russian army in the east would have brought Germany
terms She would not have had the redoubled forces
which were hurled against the western allies in March and
which are again about to be sent into the furnace But
Russia fell partly through treachery and partly through
German intrigue and military prOwess Germanys army
Of intrigue and propaganda in Russia numbers $780,
600 men, all under expert direction and animated by the
zealousness of rapacty and greed The assimilation of
Russia now rapidly in process does not mean the mmi-
nen collapse of Germany an enforced appeal for
on the allies terms Germany may ask for peace but its
appeal will be merely to deceive the allies and probably
there will be portion of the people of allied countries
who will be deceived The gulibiy of peacefully
inclined individuals seems to be impervous to the buffet
ngs of experience.
Austria admittedly is in bad shape But Austria is not
an organized Independent government in which public
opinion can sway the rulers It's policy made up by
Hohenzoern and his military advisers Austria could not
make separate peace matter how ardenty Emperor
Karl should desire it. He wrote letter along those lines
not long ago, and was compelled to apologize to his
master and disavow the sentiments he had so honestly
pressed. s@ sas@ @
If the allies wish Austria to dsntegrate and hang like
corpse upon Germanys neck let them get busy and TO-
ment the revolution which the oppressed peoples of Aus
ra are trying to organize Hohenzolern does not need
the people of Austria in his plans The shell called Aus
tra- Hungary the obedience which the Teutons and Mag
of the Hapshurg empire yield to the dynasty and the
services of the corrupt Hapsburg court ring are all that
Germany needs in order to force the whole of Austria
Hungary to do its bidding Thus woffhs of the empire
is made to dominate threefths Of the 50OO0OO0 per-
sons in the empire nearly 3OOOOOOO are ant-German
and proally They cannot throw off Hohenzollern and
Hapsburg unless they have help in abundant
not with diotic nadequacy but with the assured mo-
mentum and penetrating force of Germanys army of m
trigue in Russia.
Sklful propaganda in Austria accomplish as much
as 100000 American soldiers at the front Where is
originality daring and skill that will go into Austria and
turn that rotten empire upside down? Americans ought
to furnish large proportion of the allied army of propa
ganda. Surely the allies should not any longer hermit
ermany to monopolize system that has given her
greater success than her army-Wa Washington Post