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Show UNCLE SAM'S PART. The chief business of the United ta;es government is to win the war against the central jxtweig in the -h or test time possible. Our allies in Lu rope are animated by the same stern resolve. Therefore it is not surprising surpris-ing that the interallied war council at Paris took steps to co-ordinate the resources re-sources of all the countries enlisted under the banner of democracy. The first engagement of the United Slates under the agreement reached is to send a great army against Germany, France and Great Britain to pla-e all their available ships at the .disposal of the Washington government and to supply sup-ply any deficiencies in arms and equipment. So we may expect that all of the national guard regiments and most of the regulars will be in France and Italy by spring .and that some of the national army divisions will go over during the summer. While it is possible that the situation situa-tion in Russia may compel the central powers to maintain a big army on the eastern front, future "war preparations of the allies have been made without reference to any possible help from the Russians and the cause will be decided on the battlefields of France, Belgium and Italy. If bv any chance the Bol-sheviki Bol-sheviki government at PetrogracI should be overthrown and a real Russian army put into the field against the war lord of central Europe, so much the better. bet-ter. If not, it is up to the United States to make good the deficiency of the Muscovites and put men enough into the field to crush Prussian militarism, and we should not deceive ourselves regarding re-garding the magnitude of the task or delude ourselves with the idea that Germany will submit until her armies have been beaten in the field. The publication of the report of Colonel House may be taken as a warning warn-ing to the people of the United States that the full strength of this country is to be exerted and that nothing will be allowed to stand in tho way of the successful prosecution of the war to the bitter end. Tt may be that we shall incur' heavy losses by land and sea and that, our financial burden will be even greater than estimated, but we shall not flinch from the contest, cost wdiat it may. The main thing is gathering a great army and . furnishing an adequate ade-quate supply of food. There will be no trouble about arms and equipment, and there will be a plentiful supply of munitions without doubt. There are enough single men in the country to fill tho next national army increment unless un-less the exemption boards are entirely too liberal in the matter of granting exemptions to those who have not the manhood to fight for their country, and there are enough eligibles in the other classes to provide for future levies unless un-less the war continues for three or four years, in which case the age limit will have to be both lowered and raised and the young men who have arrived ar-rived at the age of 21 since the passage pas-sage of the selective draft law will be compelled to take their places in the ranks. A long war is not pleasant to contemplate, contem-plate, and one cannot sit down and figure out possible sacrifices of hundreds hun-dreds of thousands of human lives without with-out a shudder, especially when those who are near and dear are in the midst of the conflict, let unless we get into the fight with all our man-power and all . our "resources without delay, there is no telling how long it will be before peace returns to the world, to remain, we hope, for ages. And one great drawback is the lack of merchant vessels, ves-sels, but there is some hope that the work in the shipbuilding yards will be speeded up to such an extent that before be-fore the end of the present year enough ships will have been provided to, enable en-able us to transport our soldiers, supplies sup-plies and munitions across the ocean without any further delay. Just at the p.-e-ent moment hipouildin l is one of our n.o-t important j.roblr:u? and mu-t be solved if our war plans arc be carried out. We have faith in L'hai:-mi L'hai:-mi 11 u rley, wh, a cha ; nnan of the shipping board, has assumed full re- ; spousibility for the failure or success of ; r ,ie govern mc nt 's programme, and w e ; do net see how matters can be helped b c- a n f n rt her in qui ry into the G oe- j thals 'Denman controversy.' It is time; to look forward instead of backward; now that the interallied war council ; has : .greed upon a programme for the j fut'.ne conduct of the war, and we have j been rut in oossession of all the facts. |