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Show WE GO IN SOON. It is generally believed that General Pershing is upon tho eve of taking over part of the French line and hurling hurl-ing his forces against the Hun at the earliest opportunity. It is possible the American army is being moved into the danger zone at this time, for casualties in action have been reported without any details being given. A statement attributed to President Wilson says that there will be many more American soldiers in France in June than was anticipated, and this adds to the expectation ex-pectation that we are about to take the final plunge into tho war. The call for o0,000 additional nurses by the Red Cross the other day was another indication that the time was about ripe for our overseas force to begin fighting. fight-ing. With the certainty that our brave boys aro about to make the supreme sacrifice for their country, the least we can do here at home is to bend all our energies in the direction of doing our share to win the war. The insane asylums are full of men and women who imagine themselves to be what they are not, and there are others not yet under restraint who spend their timo telling how they would do things, without offering to help those who have the most important matters in charge and upon whose shoulders will fall the blamo if anything goes wrong. It has trrken some months to make the necessary preparations for active participation in the battles on the front in France, and some who should and probably do know better, have indulged indul-ged in- sneers because our men were not pushed in before they were thoroughly thor-oughly trained for the work before them. Had this been done these same critics would have been loud in condemnation con-demnation and shed crocodile tears when the casualty lists were published. Now that the time is at hand when some of the American soldiers must go down to death, it is to be hoped those who have so far spent their time in fault-finding will do something of value to aid tho government and stow away their egotism until peace returns, when the patriotic and loss obstrusive people of the country have more time to laugh at. them. According to tho latest reports from the front the "weather has moderated and there is renewed activitj' all along the line. If there is an early spring in Franco the Germans may launch an offensive of-fensive at any moment for the purpose of attempting to break through before we can send over enough troops to make such an achievement impossible. Such a movement would literally force Pershing to join with the French in the work of repelling the invaders. It is possible, too, that .Field Marshal Haig will anticipate tho Teutons and launch an attack. But no matter which side begins an offensive, there is little chance that the deadlock on the western west-ern front will be broken until the divisions di-visions now in training in tho United States cross the Atlantic and take thejr places in tho line. The men now under General Pershing are probably as good as any soldiers in the world, and we have no fear of a disaster to our arms, but there is stiff work -ahead and we have a premonition that the Germans who made light of the United States as a military power will soon find out that they made a bad guess. |