Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1919-01-27

wanted feast he would read somo
of those speeches over And think.
! what big man I am He said that
now he will sell the whole lot for
a dollar and 4 half. God pity the
man who tries to carry canned stuff
! over into this world. Can you per-
nit me TO say that l am not unmind-
! full of that fact that we did win
the war;" Every last one Of the
people in the United States went over
the top in everything. What were
some Of the things we must have
to win the war" We must have
unity. President Wilson said, I'VE
will never win the war unless we
get unity behind it All kinds of
! voices were heard One man. j big
man. said no matter what they do.
we ought not to fight. One man
pleaded with Mr.. Smith to change
! his idea, saying if the Germans are
going TO put in submarines. tell our
ships to stay at home. Then there
was the fellow with the funnel full
Of blood going over the country cry
ing war. war. We had our 81 varie-
ties of voices. But at the signing Of
the armistice. of the hundred
million people in our country SO
million were loyal and the other two
million were under the table out Of
sight
When the story of the war is writ
ten. MIR. Smith continued. Hoover's
name will be about rs high as any
name quoted in the war. Besides
F., orr country. he taught the French
and the time may come when the
French will have d memorial telling
that Hoover saved them. We re-
member the food saving First there
was the fifty-fifty bread: couldn't
get a piece of sugar bigger than
\ that illustrating with one of his fin
gers) to put in our coffee, butter was
almost impossible to get. When the
! armistice was signed we had wheat
! enough to feed our country and the
entente countries for the next six
months if we never raised another
bushel. The chairman Of the sugar
board for the government was COM
planning that they couldn't find
; enough ware houses in which to
store the sugar which was pouring
\ in from all places: at the signing Of
! the armistce there was 100000 tons
p; of pork ready to be sent across. even
| the pigs were getting into the war.
+ 1t was said. if we win this war 1t
must be by money. SO the economi-
\ cal man said raise money. Liberty
! Loans were put through. Reel off
! billion dollars. just like that--{a
characteristic snap of his fingers).
Let no cheap man indict men Of
money in the United States. No
higher token Of patriotism in the
world was shown than in Wall Street.
They paid taxes until their income
was gone. A man of wealth Of New
! York said. Men of New York II it
takes the last dollar we are going to
J win this war" Then we must have
! man power. was the next need to win
the war. Mr.. Smith recalled that
night when Balfour spoke at the
BiItmore.
! He said that We ,Americat have
stood by them with prestige. with
money and food and then that they
wanted man power. Mr.. Smith said
trembling Englishman left the people
and walked to the window. looked out
over the lighted city and stretching
out his arms. cried. "Oh, America.
hurry up with your men, There he
, Balfour) had limited that they could
/ not hold out through 1918. Mr..
! Smith said that he went to his home
J that night and thought that war is
/ 5000 miles away. our boys are I'M
trained. He had once said in peace
times. that OF our army was landed in
! France we would have to send a dep
u1y sheriff to notify them that cur
army had arrived. it was SO small.
Eut in September. 1918. three hun
! dred thousand of our soldiers 4 month
! were being sent across and we never
lost ono with our conveys. Another
man said We will lose the war if we
don't uphold our morality. Why
did Russia break down? She did
break down once because Of lack of
guns and ammunition. We supplied
! her. Then she broke down again,
but did We send her morale and NOR
ality. for that was what poor Russia
needed. Then our wonderful Y. NJ. e.
A.. Red Cross, Knights Of Columbus
and the like stepped in. There were
drives The nation never wavered.
but sent millions for this work. Mr..
Smith said that he rode in an auto
mobile for 1900 miles in The battle
fields of France. The Y. NJ. G. A.
said to the soldiers your morale shall
not break down.
. Oar army is called the temperance
army. No army has come out of
the war with such Il high physical
rating as the United. States army.
You know what we did in the battle
! field Our boys were not trained in
war but rather around the hearth
stones Of peace. One army officer
told of seeing our men charge the
bags stuffed with straw and pause
just before sticking their bayonet in
! for fear there might be real man
; inside the bag, at practice. 1t is hard
! to take the boy from the farm to
! war. But they showed what they
could do when they went into the
| fight and they made good on the
! battlefield.
! will you misunderstood me-" said
Mr.. Smith. If ] say I'm worried?"
! He said he was not peSSimiSt. One
of Wilson'S fourteen points was this
war must he prosecuted until there
! is an enduring peace. Mr.. Smith said
! he would never saw again that We