The Glasgow courier. [volume] (Glasgow, Mont.) 1913-current, 1919-04-25
ton from real support of the war
against Germany.
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The First Liberty loan punctured
that belief. The Second Liberty loan
tore a hole in it. The Third Liberty
loan left it flat. The Fourth Liberty
loan pulled off the rubber from the
wheel, For when even those cities
that the Germans thought their
stronghold, Chicago, st. Louis, Cincin-
natl, "your Milwaukee," as they said
to me, helped to send the loans sky
rocketing, Germany knew that the
people of the United States were solid
against her. She knew that not only
the governmental machinery but the
money and the spirit of the United
States fought her. In the knowledge
that unlimited munitions were coming
to millions of men Germany smashed.
The fear of 1919 ended the war in
1918.
Germany Still Waits.
But, with the armistice signed, Ger
many waits. She must pay the piper,
but payment cannot take forever. Once
before, when Bonaparte conquered her,
she paid, but the old men in whose
homes the army of occupation is quar-
tered today served in an army of oc-
%cupation in France in 1871. The wheel
turns, they tell each other and their
sons and grandsons. eve cannot win
from you," they tell US. "You are too
done, your people may not care what
rich, too rash, too young. But this war
happens. Even now we hear they are
Indifferent. And in fifteen, twenty
years, who knows?" And so they keep
watch there in the Rhine valley, as
they kept watch throughout Germany,
they keep watch throughout Germany
for the barometer that shall tell them
how America feels, the barometer of
the Victory Liberty loan. If that
shall tell them that the people of the
United States no longer care enough
for a just aus to pay with thanks
giving the cost of their victory, then
the fire under the ashes of German
militarism will glow until the day
when it may dare to blaze once more.
We were on the march through
Luxembourg on a November Sunday
when a crowd of us loitered beside the
road, revealing in the quiet and lovely
serenity of the sheltered countryside.
The Second had gone through the
twenty-eighth of May at Chateau
Thierry, through scissors and the Ar
come, through Saint Mihiel and the
Argonne-Meuse. We had charged up
the lookout Mountain slope of
Mount Blanc under the fire Of the
German guns. We had fought in the
last Verdun battle. From March un-
til November we had gone forward
without rest, sometimes going with
out sleep for seventy-two hours. Now,
victorious, in the enemy's country, and
in peace, we rested.
Suddenly a motor car swung around
the turn of a little church. In front
of US it came to a sharp halt. We
sprang to attention as General John
Lejeune, commanding general of the
Second, spoke. who's your ranking
non-commissioned officers"
~ am, sir"
"Why aren't you at services?"
We had not answer. No one had
even thought to CO..
GLOW long have you been in this
division
"Since it was organized, sir"
81 should think that any one who
had gone through what you have, and
come out of it, would want to thank
God"
Come to think of it, we did. With
out a word we went down to the lit
tie church. There, remembering the
men who had started out with US anc
who would not back with US, we gave
our thanks.
Isn't the Victory Liberty loan the
church down the road for the Amer.
lean nation; the chance to thank Goo
for life, for liberty, for peace; the
place Of promise that this peace anc
freedom won by the blood of the mer
who fell in France shall not be for.
feited by our Indifference?
Because | cannot forget the look OF
the faces of boys lying dead OF the
field at Chateau-Thierry, because
cannot forget the bombed hospitals
, and the shattered villages; because
! cannot forget the brave, blithe wound
ed who crowd the homecoming ship:
l am daring to sound this trumpet be
! fore the walls Of Jericho.
: Not for US who have come through
do l ask remembrance; but for thos'
who will not come back do l ask rec
objection of what the war cost. Tha
they may not have died in vain it i
our nations task to watch, even a
the German watches. That the Ger
. man may know that we are not for
, getting, nor faltering in our grea
Y task, it is the first and paramount
duty of the people of the Unite4