Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 16, Number 224, Decatur, Adams County, 24 September 1918 — Page 2

ft GREAT BATTLE The Most Colossal of All Time Raging from New York to Jordan River SAYS WILLIAM SIMMS Allies Hold Whip and Will Win in 1919—War Will be Won in France. > (United Press Service) (By William Philip Simms. Unit 'd Press Staff Correspondent) Paris. Sept. 24 (Special to. Daily Democrat I ’the most colossal bat Jo of all time is now i.'-.;;ng the Rattle line stretching fr< in New York to the otb'-r side of the hank.', of Jordan Perhaps the intensity is varyfti. but it will not stop until the Bocne are beaten erery where The allies hold the whip and and events seem brewing for the cbmparBtjvely near future. Still every allied officer and ntr.n today is mort emphatic that there never was a time when the allies neede more to keep their. eyes wide open and never more need to be strong, than now Critics disagree on minor poin s but are in accord regarding the thtpnc s—that a decisive moment is api;rba< .1 Ing. They do not mean that this will' be tomorrow, next week, or ne.vt month; hut certainly in 1919. they can see an allied victory, providing the allies do not spare, their utmost effort. afloat and ashore, fighters and civilians alike. Indications point toward a grand finale The Americans. French and British are pinning the Prussian UfelW and tighter against tie With a mightier effoi" ‘in perspective; the T'-hoats are defeated on the sea. General March announcing that one and three-quar-ter millions of Americans are now in France and Italy- The Balkans are aflame again while General Allenby's cavalry gallops the Turks off the field of Armageddon. But the real field in Armageddon is in northern France, where the titantic armies are opposing tor the final get-away. The Bulgarian debacle is big tn possibilities and the routof the Turks may have important reprecussions elsewhere, hut the fate of the allies will he decided between New York and Switzerland firtut. by keeping the seas clear and teeming, and last, by cracking the Hindenburg line and marching on Berlin. The front is all one from New York to Jordan but the war ultima ely will be won or lost in Pram•<•. - * *'■*’ u '■ A LITTLE WANT AD NOW AND THEN. WILL ALWAYS HELP THE MOST PROSPEROUS OF

;' WHOLE NATION AT WAR: ? :i NOT ONLY SOLDIERS ? ■' S ; ‘ By C. H. Martin, Major Gen. U. ■ < S. Army, Commanding Camp <j • i Grant. Illinois. -g • i * [ The Fourth Liberty Loan £ ' ' should again forcibly remind £ . t everybody that the whole nation « ,•' Is in the war. and not merely £ -t"the men in uniform. j [ We are team-mates in a £ ■l mighty game; a game which « J has been developing for cen- £ -« turies. The contending teams g it are Autocracy and Democracy, £ 'J and life is the stake for which t they are playing. We are now £ at the very climax of that age- £ -1 long struggle. -g J Your part on she team re- £ • t quires a devotion and disinter- v ested forgetfulness of self as £ -« complete ami unflagging as you v 't expect from the men in uni'l form. No one can do his duty on £ \ any team who measures bls .j duty by any other standard than • ■ his entire abilities. It cannot be ,j '! measured by comparisons with £ <t the performances of others. I Do not think that the front, 'j ■t only, is the war; the front Is a ■> J part of the team. I like to think 4 ■! that it is a part of sufficient itn- I • t portance to engage your en“J thusiastlc interest aid support, x . i The anxiety with which you i wait for good ndws from the ■’ . x front, is of the same variety as r that which the front waits for £ ■ i good news from the back. Any ■ t '[ especially good plays on any '[ • i part of the team strengthens the « 4J heart of every member of the team. j ~ i It is your play now; oversub- : % scribe this loan cheerfully and ; S yrlth enthu'siaw- . « X3et Into the gamft r £

■ n ■ /f?i\ A ~ IMMrar > L w i \ y. f «'rrxSSSr l ;? .• \ : '4 B v /IX WxWf )■ /ii—' ‘ ■- • -' IxXrW/-- w s ~ \ ; j Dollars that Fight By SENATOR HENRY CABOT LODGE ''■ ' ■ I The war will be won by men and ships, by guns must come one-third from taxes and two-thirds and airplanes. To raise armies and supply them, from loans. The success of the Fourth Loan, to build the navy and support it, and to furnish like those that preceded it is, therefore, absoships and transport, we must have money in lutely necessary. We must work with the large amounts. The expenditures of the Gov- highest speed, as if the war was to end in six ernment for the ensuing year are estimated months. We must prepare in every direction, at $24,000,000,000, a sum which baffles the as if it was to last for years. Speed and prep- * ’imagination *to XconceivE x< Tfiat vSsf amount “~*arauon are both "expensive."’' 4 **'' *** | ■ Without the Loans We Cannot Have Either We are fighting to secure a just, righteous and lasting peace. must not be left in Germany’s hands. That would mean For a complete peace we must have a complete victory. It another war. Poland must be free. Slav republics must be must not be a peace of bargain or negotiation. No peace established to bar the way between Germany and the East, which satisfies Germany can ever satisfy us. No peace that Serbia and Roumania must be redeemed. All these things are leaves Germany in a position to renew the war against us will essential. Nothing will bring them but complete victory be worth having. It will be far from sufficient to gam all our and a peace dictated by us and our allies. It is a conflict objects on the Western front—Belgiurn Alsace-Lorraine, Italia of ideas. It is the principle of evil arrayed against the principle Irredenta. The President with wisdom and foresight and great of good. It is the battle of freedom and civilization against force expressed his determination to redeem Russia. Russia barbarism and tyranny. We must win and we shall win. We Cannot Win Without Money, and, Therefore, These Loans Are Vital, and.the Country Should Rally in All Its Strength and Subscribe and Oversubscribe the Fourth Loan *>r I Buy Bonds to Your Utmost! I * 5 " - ' This Space Contributed so Winning the War bp LJt>erty Loan Committee Through the Adams Counlv Council of Defense

I DECATL’R DAILY DEMOCRAT TI'ESDAY, SEPTEMBER 21. 1918