The Carlisle independent., 1919-05-08
The Leopard Can
 Change His Spots
By c. M. MORRISON.

knows the Hun better than any
 one else in the world. That man is Field Marshal Ferdinand Foch, com mander of all the allied armies in Europe. and who repeats that the leopard cannot change its spots.
 We must stay on the Rhine," says Foch. We must doublelock the door" The man who says this is the allied general who was given the well-nigh super-human task of stopping the Huns when they were beating back the allies one little year ago.
 Remember" says he, those TO- 000.000 of Germans will always be menace to us. They are an enviou5 and warlike people. Their character isties are not changed. Fifty years hence they will be what they are to- day. Do not trust the appearances of the moment"
 Those of us who have been telling ourselves that "the war is over" and that maybe "the Germans will settle down pretty soon and go about their business in a peaceful manner" will do well to ponder rather deeply what Marshal Foch says.
 His utterances on the very eve 1f the final action on the peace treaties indicate the dread, the utter distrust of the Huns that is felt by their neighbors.
 The next time," says General Foch. remember that Germany will make no mistake. They will break through into northern France and seize the channel ports as a base of operations against England. They failed the last time because they did not believe Eng. land would como in and when they found she was coming in 1t was too late to change their plans"
 You think" he added, the Ger mans will have no arms for another attack. Ho! Ho! How do you know? By the time you had found out that they had them 1t would be too late" VT THEN the man who has
 N/ spent his life in measuring
 the German power for war. who has studied the very soul and brain of Germany for lifetime, who has given the best that WAS in him in meeting and beating that expected at tack when 1t did come, when man like this utters such warning we may be sure that there is still profound dread of German strength in Europe and that We in America have not as yet done all that we might be called upon to do
 His utterances sound a warning to those Americans who have been in | clined to think lightly of the Fifth | Loan, the Victory Liberty Loan. There are good many of us who seem to think that it does not matter mucn whether or not the Victory Liberty | Loan Is subscribed. That the country will get along someway even should the loan fall short of being subscribed The thoughtful utterance of Marshal | Foch gives us more than hint of | some of the danger that America and | the rest of the world are still facing. It is not a time when We can afford to trife with duty. It is probable that the crisis in the affairs of the free nations of the earth is swiftly ap- preaching. That they might possibly find it necessary to fight, and to fight soon, to preserve their liberties against another Hun-contrived menace that may sweep up out of Central and East e..n Europe.
 Certainly it is a poor time for an American who has been hard worker | in the cause of Americanism, who has bought and fought and served to down the Hun, to quit now when the final action is to be taken toward making and keeping the peace of the earth. rAHE UNITED STATES govern ment needs the funds that are A to be raised by the Victory Lib erty Loan Certainly the request for popular loan would never have been made had the fnanciers of the gov l ernment been able to get through the present crisis without it. Nations are not fond of issuing gigantic loans, either in peace or in war, without talk l ing due thought concerning their ac- tual needs.
 The observations of Marshal Foch put point upon much that has been 1 said and written concerning the actual