The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1919-06-18

founded as a national capitol for us
today he could speak that word into
the receiver Of his telephone and the
next minute it would ring out in far
away Japan, on The wild expanse oil
the desert, in the far.flung isles OF
the Pacific, on the snow frsught
winds of bleak Siberia, wherever
the airman had out his receiver to
take it, and the ear at the phone
thousands and thousands of miles
away might hear and recognize the
voice of Americas first soldier and
statesman! And all thai through
space, nothing but bald miles OF
expanse!
An automobile, just a plain, every
day automobile, might be show for
General Washington. What would he
think Of the big army truck? What
sort Of warfare would he credit US
with conducting were he to see one
Of our great long range fourteen-inch
naval rifles hurting charge as
IL did in the operations which cut
the Steilung lines for the Germans?
These Travelled on railroad trucks
How would he look upon the navies
thai whiten the seas? What would be
say Of the submarine and the depth
bomb and the great wireless range
the admirals have for directing their
ships? What would he say of the
armored tank and the machine gun. -
the poison gas and the air bOmbs?
Let us call in Attila, Caesar, Alex
ander and Napoleon and take them
with Washington al the Kaiser's in
vtation to witness the undoing Of
modern nations in modern battle
along the Flanders front in April,
1918! Let us take these military
chieftains of ancient days later along
that front from the coast of Belgium
all the way 10 the mountain borders
of Switzerland TO watch the fortune
Of modern battle. No tongue can
tell,--no word describe 1.-THE hor-
rors of that warfare! That's what
great men said about il when they
viewed it,
Is there any one to say Washington
V ould nor-@have first repafrf our OBJ
legation to France as we did for him
q hundred and fifty years afterwards?
When our arms had established
Frances safety, do you believe
Washington would have come away
without settling the thing for all
me? If we have read that man as
history has presented his greatness,
foreign entanglements" would be
tie last thing on his mind in day
Ike this. One of his first acts would
lie to smite the political enemy at
ONE and silence him. He next
would he the securing of permanent
world peace, il that--were possible.
The Germans have declared the
eace terms unacceptable. though
they forced the beginning of a world
,onflagration more horrible than
mankind has ever known in any age
e. time The AustMans have de-
Jared the peace terms unacceptable,
although they were the German ac-
completes In the hughest crime ever
lferpetrated Ana the republican
majority in the United States senate
as likewise declared the peace terms
unacceptable even before they saw
he completed ana approved docu
ment!
Washington would declare these
Senators, one by one, unworthy OF
american citizenship He would
throw away his warning of other
lays, beware OF foreign entangle
aents' as an expression now obsolete
that stood in the way of a just
nd permanent world order. AS we
ee it that would be Washington
nodelnized, the great leader abreast
f the times, as he was when he was
he Father OF his country,
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