Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 44, Number 217, 24 June 1919 — Page 2

?AGE TWO

THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM AND SUN-TELEGRAM, TUESDAY, JUNE 24, 1919. J

LESSONS OF GREAT G0I1FUCT EMPHASIZED BY RICHMOND MAN WHO WAS OVERSEAS

By LIEUT. L. K. FISHBACK

it the termination of any civil

or military dispute or action, one party is always the winner, the other, the loser; thus. In the World War which is drawing to a close, we find one group of nations

.the conquerors, and the op

posing group the conquered. At the close of euch a world-wide conflict, the nations' that have won, as well as the nations that have lost, must, necessarily have learned valuable lessons. If the winners have failed to profit from, these lessons, they have won only a partial victory, and I question very seriously, if the price paid for victory was not ezhorbitant and fear that the real victory has slipped from their grasp. William Lloyd George said in the House of Commons, "The lessons that we are to learn, now that the war is over, are the most vital and valuable part of our victory." The Reasons that Germany has been taught differ in their nature from the lesson? that we or any of the Allies are to learn. Germany today and for tho next fifty years must be taught certain fundamental truths, " while the Allies must acquire knowledge for themselves. Mutt Be Taught. It is a very simple thing indeed, to say that Germany must be taught that

Might does not make Right when

Wrong is the Objective, but it is a far more difficult task to Impart this instruction to them. To do so, it ia

necessary, first of all, to prove to Ger

many that she and her allies were defeated in the Great World War. Such a statement may sound peculiar to

those who were not fortunate enough to go across to France, to have been

"Over There when the Armistice was

signed, and to have seen the German armies go home as conquering heroes. They marched back to the homeland with their gun carriages decorated with flowers, with their bands playing and their flags flying. Now to show

the peculiar German mind, I will add that not only is the above true, but the German people received and welcomed their armies as the victors in the great struggle. What was true in Kovember of last year is true today, for the boys on the Rhine are confronted with this same German frame of mind. They still claim to have been victorious. Germany must be taught that her might was, in reality, her greatest weakness. Weakness, whether in individuals or nations must sometime be overcome. Germany failed to overcome her weakness, and today it is the cause of her defeat. A true analysiB of Germany's might would prove to the most skeptical that it consisted of an Imperial War Ruler, the Kaiser, and a thoroughly military nation which tolerated huge armies and military advisors to their ruler. Germany must be taught that the tolerance of such institutions at home leads to international disputes. Today, instead-of finding Germany a nation of people who admit defeat, and are willing to accept whatever it may cost them, they are the same insolent, arrogant race as they were in former days of victory. It is this attitude that we must change, and change it within thenext generation, of Germany of the future will be a duplication of the Germany of the past The whole thing can be summed up in the words of the Honorable Winston Churchill in the House of Commons, "Brutes they are and brutes they remain." As a result of our participation in the war. the people of this country have learned valuable lessons; I believe the two million boys who were "Over There" learned the most valuable lessons of all. Speaking as one

01 mose tortunate enough to go

across, I want to express it as forcibly

as I can that the first and greatest lesson we boys learned was to appreciate for the first time the capabilities and accomplishments of our own country. To read of occurences from three to

seven thousand miles away, does not

impress one so forcibly as to be an ; care that we do not adopt or use the

alized and appreciated what was go

ing on at home. When Lloyd George sent that famous cable to President Wilson:

"Send every available man at once or the cause of the Allies is lost," we in France, probably for the first time, began to realize the importance of our own country. We of the younger generation had thought of our country as the one discovered by Columbus; as the one which had been victorious in the eause of independence and the great Civil war, and as a country which had, at a late hour entered the great World war. Aside from these great facts, our country meant little more to many of us than a huge political arena. But the time came when all wai changed, for the hour came wjien the Germans struck a mighty blow at the BriUsh armies. The world read the famous cable that transplanted two million trained American soldiers to France. You know the result of the German drive for the channel porta as well as the drive on Paris. Here America came into her own and we boys in France saw the spirit of the Allies march down that endless Hall of Fame and on bended knee pay tribute to the greatness of AmericaFrance, more than any of the rest, worshipped at that shrine and America became the idolized sister to that republic of the! tricolor across the ceas. , America Answer , We who were In France saw England battered and crushed; France attacked, despoiled and devastated gradually giving way to the onslaughts of the enemy; we saw Belgium and Serbia as two peoples with their countries controlled by the Hun; we say Italy stagger' under the mighty blow

dealt her by Austria, and we saw Ru-j

mania a ruined, countryless people.

America answered the call of her war-torn sister nations, and soon we

saw millions or the amea nations clothed and fed. The empty hand of want was filled and the pangs of hunger ceased to gnaw at the very vitals of Europe. We saw the great heart of the American people go out to the starved and half clothed orphans of Belgium and France. We saw countless hospitals spring up as if by magic to relieve the pains and suffering of thousands of shell-torn minds and bodies. America's greatness was recognized all the way from the ports of debarkation to the front line trench across No Man's Land and all the way from the north where the choppy waves of the English Channel rebound In increased frenzy to the south lands where the blue Mediterranean quieted the nerves and cooled the feverish brow of many a mother's dying son. There are certain emotions that words cannot describe. There is no language save the language of appreciation that can describe America's greatness at the present hour. Offer

a starving man food he eats it thanks you and goes hi3 way. Give warmth and clothing to a freezing man, he thanks you for the gift and passes on. A nation of people is hungry and suffering from the cold you feed and clothe them, but there is no language on earth, save the silent language of appreciation, that can describe the emotions that were created by the kindnesses that have been performed. We who were in France saw that look of appreciation which was the outward manifestation of an inward .emotion, on the faces of all the French, and behind all this, we could see the greatness of our own America. America Is Foremost Today, America, as the world will testify, occupies the topmost place among the nations of the earth. We lead, others follow; we advise, the rest consider, and it is the star of America that lights the world's pathway, down which all nations must tread. Yet, in this hour of glorious achievements, dangerous tendencies are certain and must be very carefully guarded. As a young nation, we must take

the amount of power we give to any one man or one institution or one1 branch of our government. Nations have decayed and crumbled because of power being placed unwisely, and America must be on continual watch against the absorption of power and the curtailing of the people's rights and privileges. This has caused the decline and fall of nations in recent times just as surely as it did centu

ries ago, ana it is rar Detter mat a Single individual who has taken too much authority, should pass into oblivion, than for that individual to lessen the glory of our great nation in the eyes of the world powers. Must Learn Lessons We must learn by our experiences 6f today and guard against a duplication of the same in the future. If we fail to do this today we will decline and fall in the future. But if we profit by our short-comings of the present, we shall continue in the fu

ture to be the leaders of all nations and the saviors of mankind. Today there are a quarter of a million boys keeping the watch on the Rhine, and a half million more scattered throughout that sacred land of France. Those are the living sons of a great requbllc, but there are also those in France who sleep today tomorrow and for all time until they answer to their names in that last and final roll call, and meet their commander-in-chief face to face. Theirs was a short life of hardships and perils; of charges and of rushes; a life of pain; a life devoid of glorious welcome home, no grand pro

cessions of bands playing and flags

waving; but theirs tha life where the portals of eternity have opened unto them, and they have entered into that new world where all is peace and

quiet, and the boys, who gave their

lives for us have taken their places In the great flrmanent above and have

entered into that grander and nobler life. . , .... America must arise in the majesty of her might and erect a fitting memorial to those who gave that last full measure of devotion to the cause of humanity.- Let this tribute to. our heroes be a living, growing monument immortalized by the youth of our land who, educated and trained into physical, mental and moral perfection, hand in hand with an undying patriotism, will uplift our already, glorious America higher and still higher until Eternity alone shall reveal the

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eye-witness to that occurence. To see

a train of fifty or one hundred auto trucks pass through your city means very little to those here at home: but if you see those same trucks in France, filled with American soldiers on their way to the front, you begin to realize what was necessary in way of preparation at home before those boys could have been selected, trained, equipped, transported to France, and on their, way to the front. This example is very smal lin itself but it serves its purpose in bringing before the American mind the magnitude of actual accomplishments. Yve who were members of the A. E. F. realized the wonderful preparation at home, for we were eye-witnesses to the marvelous results across the water. The longer the war last-

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