Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1919-05-08

You think" he added the Ger
mans will have no arms for another
attack! EIo! Ho. How do you know?
BY the time you had found out that
they had them it would be too late"
Tx x THEN the man who has
: NM spent his life in measuring
V the German power for war,
who has studied the very soul and
brain Of Germany for a lifetime, who
has given the best that was in him IN
meeting and beating that expected at
tack when it did come when a man
like this utters such warning we may
,be sure that there is still a 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 Slany of as who seem to
think that it does moi matter mucn
whether or noa 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 a hint of
some OF the danger that America and
the rest of the world are still facing
ii is not time when we can afford
TO tribe with duty. 1t 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-contriveG menace that
may sweep up out of Central and East
eTn Europe.
Certainly it is a poor time fer an
American who has been a 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.
f~g-\ HE UNITED STATES govern.
: ment needs the funds that are
~ to be raised by the Victory Lib
Ierty Loan Certainly the request for
"a popular loan would never have been
made had the fnancieTs Of the gov
'enment been able to get through the
present crisis without it. Nations are
mot fond of issuing gigantic loans,
either in peace or in war, without TAX
ing due thought concerning their &C.
'tual needs.
The observations of Marshal Foch
put a point upon much that has been
said and written concerning the actual
lending Of the war and the possibilities
of its blazing out again within a few
years. 1t is evident that the man who
smashed the Huns is under few il
Illusions concerning the German charac.
ter. Studying them for lifetime and
observing their conduct during the
war, he has formed the conclusion
that they are a menace and they can
not be trusted.
And-whateyer may be the individ
ual opinion of the Hun here in Ameci-
!ca, it is plain that his neighbors in
Europe are by no means willing to
trust him yet. Nor viii they be for q
good many generations. At first hann
they have seen the Hun as a crucider Of
captured soldiers. as a murderer oil
women. as a sea-assassin, a rapist and
q baby killer.
Here in the United States we should !
at least retain our keen interest, lnan.
cial as well as historical, in the war
and what it might have meant and still
may mean to us. It is too soon to as.
sert that it is all over, and that We
can turn our back on Europe, forget
the war and lot somebody else buy
the bonds. These Victory Liberty
Notes are necessary to the main,
tenance of the government that helped
beat the Hun back across the Rhine
and they are needed right now tc
strengthen America whether that
strength is to be used in peace or In
war.