Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1919-02-13
Predicts Reforms


Predicts Reforms
Mr.. and B. n. Robinson have re-
ceved the following letter from their
son:
December 10Th, 1918.
Dear Mother: Your letter of Nov.
oath has arrived and also your Xmas
box, for both of which / thank you.
You will know before this letter ar
rives where am for have sent you a
letter and a card. had the pleasure
of spending Xmas in Paris and it was
an enjoyable one as met many OF my
army friends and any number of good
wholesome American girls with the Y.
M. C.. A. and Red Cross, whose duty
there seemed to be to make things as
pleasant and homelike as possible
over the holidays. Had some business
there, however, or | would not have
gone. Got me new uniform which |
have needed for some time, and had
to straighten out my company fund &C
count.
am we'll and comfortably located
here. at Angero. Have plenty to do.
with auto transportation when | want
1t. and am in command of the unit we
have here. Very soon expect to have
to take over several other camps,
which will of course mean increased
work and increased responsibility.
Now have billeting details in AZ
towns in addition to this barracks,
which houses 1900 officers and about
$500 men. Expect to be able to house
and feed between 10000 and $4,000
men and officer" in our area and to
do it you can imagine it means some
hard work.
But the thing that is worrying me
the most now is not my duties here,
but it is the political situation back
home and the great problems that are
to confront us when we all get back
home.
The war is apparently over. The
kings and presidents have all gotten
together at one time or another and
raid their compliments TO each other,
If such foolishness can mean any
thing. They have been decorated and
redecorated by each other and have
pinned their tinsel and bronze upon
the proud chests of their respective
generals and have listened to the loud
acclaim Of the .unthinking populace,
which has been sweet music to their
regal and aristocratic ears and let us
hope now that they will all go back
home where they belong and think
about the things they should think
about and do the things they should
do to solve the great questions OF
equity and justice that must and Will
evolve out of this war.
We who are in the lesser places OF
activity, who have nothing to DO OUT
obey and nothing to say, still have the
faculty of thought left to us, and be
lieve me most of us are thinking
mighty hard, and the time for express
sion is rapidly coming toward US. we
will be heard from one Of these days
in a way that will be anything ou'
pleasing to the ears of some OF our
eminent citizens. The thought OF
what is coming in the next 40 years
staggers me- The war IS 6lnpie
problem to handle in comparison tc
the things we will have to face when
we get back home. The war has moi
solved our national problems, IN fac'
Il has only made them more compii
Gated. The world will not be safe toi
democracy now, for to my notion de
mocracy will have to reform itseil
along truly democratic lines.
There have crept into our govern
mental system things that are so truly
undemocratic that fear the founda
Etions have been weakened. However,
I have faith in our people and the ma
iority OF the two million of us Over
here who have had our eyes opened
and see things as they are and as they
ought to be, and believe We will han
die the situation properly when We ge
home.
The world is to see in the next A.
wears the greatest age that it has eve
Witnessed Kaisers innumerable mus
fall. Whole nations must be reformed
Governmental systems must be reno
waited and reconstructed and all mus
be built along the line that the prin
ciple business of any government mus
be the making OF real men and wonei
out Of its citizenship, who may en-
joy. and deveaope themselves to th'
very best possible. The foundation
must be tae homs and ths fresfas