Show we do not know what war means war correspondent declares even neutral Coun countries trie s fe feel el it more than wo we MUST MAKE EVERY SACRIFICE to win this war the american poo peo pie pl must awaken to full neallia neall za tion of all it means and all it demands demand Clif chicago eago we do not know that wo we tire ore at war five thousand miles away avay our troops ore are moving into battle in a million american bounes the casualty lints are watched witla anxious eyes tears find anguish ard and heartbreaks heart breaks are tho the price wo we must pay to write a head line hue of victory declared oswald P r schultte tte for three years war correspondent of the chicago news with the armies of the central powers in an nd lid dress before the press iress club of chicago A year ago we MO unfurled the battle flags of the republic wo we pledged ourselves to the greatest sacrifice sacr lOce this greatest of world wars warn might demand tho the Ameri american crin people are ready to make that sacrifice nut but so BO far we do not cot know over cicro what war really Is IB I 1 have come out of oc three years in that inferno all europe la Is aflame it knows known it Is in in the war ar ewen neu aral countries such na as switzerland feel it a hundredfold more than we thero there economy and conservation Is tie no longer a master of preachment of voluntary sacrifice it Is a matter of enforced necessity of grim compulsion they tire not saying saving food to feed someone elso they aro are saving because they have too little themselves and in the warring countries there Is in war nr th in every breath war Is a tragic reality for them they to 1 not need nags flags in the streets to remind thein of the war rind you see bev few flags over there war portions out their menger meager rations war Is their cook war allots the comforts of their dally daily life and the proportions are small luxuries aro are gone war stalks through their streets with tile tho soldiers in uniform wars shadow li Is behind the mothers who pray in tho ilia churches that their boys may lie be saved wo we hardly know those these things we are re velling in luxury and call it war economy wo we think we oro are saving yet c I 1 have seen more food wasted in tho the two weeks since I 1 landed in new york than lian in tile three years yeara of my war experiences 1 I do not say any tills this as an 11 camp complaint aint I 1 say may it as a warning naming we must I 1 learn earn quickly tho the great lessons of tills this war for every day ye we wait now will cost us two later on if wo we wait long elou enough 9 h they will cost us weeks to win this war we must awaken to a full realization of all it betins and all it demands wo we must bo be in it not ono one million strong but one hundred millions strong we must make boako economy not a tad fad or a principle but a sacrifice I 1 a 0 weeks ago I 1 wits was in general i liend headquarters quarters to in france and i v our soldiers out to unknown destinies in the trenches proudly they marched knowing that they carried with them the hearts and the prayers of our great nation now it Is up lip to us to show them that wo we are behind them and we will do so I 1 dont bo be misled by any false talo tale aitt our enemy Is collapsing that germany Is on the verge of revolution that lier army Is ready to mutiny that tier people anro stanli ig wo we have bo be lieveld too ninny many such reports in ilia he year car that tills has past germany is not starving she ima has been mighty hungry for or three years but germany knows that she la Is in the war ivar ono one egg in three weeke sh shortly artly after the break of ill 11 plo matic relations a year ago when I 1 berlin for the dally daily news naive still in I 1 was v ri 4 in an Atile american rican colleague tho the berlin representative of the lie associated press presa contracted pneumonia it wua was a critical case the ih physicians ysl clans said they e could ti ld cure ur e t the ti e an pneumonia e ti t i hut but they bald n 1 d tl lie e p patient at i e allt w would 0 u 1 d never recover the berlin tood food rations they said ald would not permit that PlIt patients lents suet such as lie they say invariably died that was the penalty or of war for it takesi takes eggs and butter and milk and other unknown luxuries to bring a man back from the grave at that tilney time the bertin berlin egg eg irti tion aris about one every three weeks L every very three weeks by the calendar a coupon on tile the egg card would be villi validated dated to entitle the holder to purchase one egg from the grocer with whom his nnnie had been registered Often the groceries did not have hava eggs enough to flit even tills this scanty order but wo we sent out an appeal to every available american to lieff wo we mobilized every egg in tho the american colony lit in berlin wo we gathered nil all the butter wo we could find wo we naked asked no questions when alien there seemed somo some doubt as to the strictness with which tile the ono one egg very every three weeks regulation hall had been obeyed but tills patient had three delicious ome lettes a jay day for three weeks no one also in nit nil tile the central powers not the kalser nor had reveled in any such luxury of eggs in three years of 0 war but it saved tits his life it was waa the tho the eggs no not t the physicians that did it |