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Show The Crucial Year By Herbert Kaufman STUDY the news from Russia. She may yet wear a spiked helmet. Germany still hopes to teach Ivan, the goosestep. God help us should Muscovy refresh the ebbing strength of Germany. Poverty and anarchy, are fast disintegrating that bewildered empire. Never thoroughly nationalized, Berlin's diplomats and Judases are shrewdly dissipating the slight -sense of mutual obligation obliga-tion which opportunist leaders have left. Each counter revolution increase befuddlement; famine and terrorism rage from the Baltic to the Black sea; the moujlk is hungry and ragged and resourcelesa. 1 1 I His imagination is in his belly, not his head. Freedom has i I proved to be a rainbow without a treasure pot at the end. "fe. Empty peasant larders will fill Prussia's depleted ranks If we don't smash through to the Rhine IN TIME. We must strike so hard and so continuously, that Wilhelm's armies are shattered before the steppe hordes can be seduced and exploited. Believe in the worst and do your best. The past four years have taught us to prepare for weirder surprises than this contingency. The odds are against it, but the Hun has been besting the odd? . from the' outset. There's one thing though he can't beat and that's the united effort of the American people, unremittingly devoted to victory. If the early successes of our troops breed overassurance; if self interest insinuates that the government is overestimating its requirements; if premature confidence suggests that It's all over but the shouting and that your services or your subscription to the fourth Liberty loan won't affect the outcome", there's no tellinj how long we'll be at it or who will wear khaki. ' The number of men we send abroad will be determined solely by' the number of guns and shells and tanks and airplanes we crowd through in the next few months; by the number of ships we can build to rush them over and the number of helpers we can get for the shipbuilders and munitions plants. All of us can't engage In direct war tasks; civil activities require the bulk of the nation. You may have an honorable excuse for continuing at : wanted occupation, but you can't cleanly evade money duty. The bonds you personally buy won't help nearly so much a-the a-the bonds you don't purchase will hurt. ' , One slacker dollar encourages another every recrean em- j boldens a neighbor to hang back and hold cut. i We won't have an overwhelming army in France we can't j transport it and protect it en route we can't support it with battle planes and ordnance and "whippets" we can't ration it i we can't finance our allies we can't succor their families we - can't complete the heroic work so auspiciously begun at the I Marne, if all the people in these United States are not always steeled to save and sacrifice and suffer for the grjr of the republic and the might of laws. Keep your eye on Russia and your hand fn'vour pocket; 1918-19 is the crucial year. Copyright, by Hrbi-t Kaufman. Oft Britain and all h.r right,, r rvrf |