Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1919-01-19
manhood, NOT, MACHINERY,
/. .P ] Rect EARTH AND SEAS
Civilized Mind Conqncrs That Of
Cunningness and Wanton
Savagery.
GREATEST HUMAN couaAGs
During Forty Yca.stof Preparation
Germany Had Devised implements
Calculated to Terrify Every Ma
ton on tho. Globe. ~

manhood. not maehlneryst won tho
n Mat 10 fo purge earth ma ana n sSa fr4m ths
world safe. for civilization. The war
was won because civilized manhood
age, no matter how c1nningiy armed
by minds which have discarded all
moral considerations In their lust for
Manhood that rose triumphant over
NE fear of pain and death. and know
long In hands of towards" and not the
mere cunning or machine Inventors.
The truth is worth emphasizing be-
cause the delusion still somewhat per-
sists that the war might have been
sof efyen' Ths MGeh
cry was sufficiently marvellous. but all
It's wonders in no, way lessencd tho
need for barc-handed human courage
that dares any suffering 10 guard the
right and protect the weak. and counts
death as nothing compared with the
triumph of q righteous cause. stst
MONSTER CANNON PLANNED
no SCARE EVERY NATION
Having systematically prepared for
AZ least a quarter century for The
an unprepared world they might sub
ousntc IT, TO the sway OF their war
9rdT the held 1 w,,n wsss stnraE qsst
WIo mis-, be toss q their 6lon 'o Of
Of them was original with the Hun,
They we're borrowed devices made big
fusion that they would inspire such
"tgrror" that resistance would cease.
Of Liege, OF Namur e and d'o of Aianbeu u C.
The only novelty about them was that
wcll-known transport devices had been
than had been attempted before Viii,
familiar combination of the gun and md
tho motor car or railway car. only
vastly bigger. It was Characteristic OF
the Hun mind that 1t always relied on
The savage chldishness OF the Hun
browning Illustration in the seventy.
mile cannon" with which the Huns
blindly fred upon Paris for weeks In
bring submission. From every view
point OF military cnec, the wealth
might just as well have been sunk in
the sea. They delayed the defeat OF
the Hun not day.
'TIIE SWEARING SUBMARINEr
FAIR SAMPLE Of CUNNING.
Next came the boastcd- .U-boats"
Again there was no novelty Under
water Fighting had been known since
priineyal man first thus surprised his
zoe. The submarine was not only in
vented, hut made practical outside OF
hh,uniand. The Hun merely made !,
regard for ali the rules OF the game
OF sea warfare to which Germany. as
supposedly civilized nation, had SOL
EMMY sworn o6serya nee.
AS factor In the supply and trans-
port problem the U-boat was a very
Wonderful things wc.e done toward
oea,ing /, down "a ship-bulld!ag in
ship, repairing. In aqaptini; the n!ctiiods
or the fisherman TO it's Destruction in
barring II out OF certain waters bv
miles Of steel nets anu in barring /,
IN ny obs;rueting It's ~sy out, ape BY
heepins vast iloti;ias OF light and
swift craft always on the watch FOR i,
whs ~, :, one new mechanical Invention
The depth bomb" contributed Nv an
American. British aviator made the
discovery that Submarines mo ar ,tar.
could DC located by ayInEEover tbs
water some hundreds OF feet up in
ZEPPELIN AND THE AIRpLASE
RAIN DEATH AMI RJrIy
d,:Mioost wonderfui feats had bsen pre-
uicted Tor aircraft by the prochets %
the end OF war through mechanicai IN.
vention making war too terrific fnr