The Hayti herald. (Hayti, Mo.) 1908-1922, 1919-05-29
TOO EARLY FOR HISTORIANS TO
BEGIN THEIR STORIES OF
THE GREAT SRuGGLE.
NEED MUCH CLEANING UP,
Country In Wonderful Condition to
Garry On Reconstruction
Work.

shape, and the armies demobilizinR
and returning to their homes, It may
look like the war is over and oil that
remains to be done is for the historians
TO sit down and begin TO tell the story
Of the struggle.
But there is tremendous amount
Of clearing up still to be done. he
world has just been swept by tre-
mendous tornado, the tornado of the
Great War. Across Europe 1t has left
a wake Of dethroned kings and
smashed governments. There is chaos
from the White Sea to the Adriatic
and from the Ural Mountains to the
English Channel
AS matter Of plain fact, about the
only expense of the war that has real.
ly stopped is the fighting expense, the
cost of sending guns and shells to the
soldiers and of raising and arming and
feeding more armies to keep up our
armed strength. That part of the ex-
pense has stopped, but just about all
the rest Of 1t is going on and will con-
tinue to go on. You can't down a
war machine such as we built for our
selves and straightway stop it's cost
overnight.
There fs a merchant marine to keen
on the seas, If We are to 90 on and
have world markets. There is the lob
OF putting all these soldiers back into
industry. Both these things will take
money and one of the ways the govern.
ment has of getting the money Is to
sell you Victory Notes.
When this loan Is complete and the
last solicitor has turned in his list Of
subscriptions. this country ought TO
aaye money enough to go ahead with
its after-War plans Of rehabilitatins
the sSfdfer. completing the demobili.
xatlon Of the army, looking after the
naval and army appropriations and
programs and seeing to It that we have
an American merchant feet on the
seas.
II We all do our duty In the Victory
Loan this money will be available and
the nation can go on with its great
pians'for prosperity and plenty, as well
as peace, In the years of the future. +
Settle Up to Settle Down.
But before the world can settle down
IN Its new ways or even in its old ways
oI work and quiet, there must be
general reorganization In Eurone
This country cannot turn its back on
hal1-completed job and leave the
european situation in such a condi.
tlon that there might be another cataa.
trophe
IN order to get ahead with the lob
thls country must keep control of it.
ser; 1t must look ahead and II must
nave the money in hand with which IN
get on with the rest of the lob. Wa
nave hardly been touched by the war
Our dead in battle will number very
little more than 10000. Our casualtiea
are very small indeed compared with
those OF France, Italy and England
our man-power has hardly been
touched, Our financial resources have
hardly been tapped.
We are In the best position to a.
nance an aftef-the-war loan OF anv
country In the world. Labor has been
exceptionally well paid during the 1aat
four years and wages have not hequn
10 aecilne IN many Of the industries.
The farmer in America has had a pe-
riod or unexampled high prices and his
prices are still very high.
both labor and the farmer are In a
position to respond strongly to the hsf
loan. They have their years 81 sood
times to look back upon and those
times are not ended as yet.
Capital, too, is IN a fortunate post.
tion to help In handling the victory
Loan. During the first years OF the
struggle all the allied nations were
heavy buyers at high prices. Our own
entrance into the war, while it mate.
rally reduced profits in many linea
greatly increased the volume of bust
ness and gave all manufacturing
plants that got war orders a splendid
chance to make money. Capital is ex.
pected to take an even larger shars of
the victory Loan than Il did OF me
four preceding ones.
1t ought to be easy for us to FIR.
nish the sinews" wherewith to Ne,
on with winning the rest of the war
The back wash" of the struggle has
not caught us and it will never catch
Us II we get In and back UP the goy.
ernment with our money as suceesa.
fully and whole-heartediy as the men
In khaki fought its battles only lew
months ago.