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Show I General Pershing Says ! "We Are at War" ! In the stirring days of 1917-18 America had confidence ! in her commander in France, General John J. Pershing, and ! he fully demonstrated that he was worthy of that confidence, i General Pershing now says the nation is again at war in which the enemies allied against us are more insidious but not less dangerous than those our troops faced in Europe. He says: j "PeTvasive self-seeking and corruption, which the chosen j officers of the law seem powerless to suppress; the sinister J growth of the underworld, whose tentacles reach out to touch all of us; the ever increasing extravagance of government; ! and mysterious paralysis of our economic system these are I the, enemies which now confront us." I What can America do t combat such enemies? I General Pershing, the man who planned our battles in j France, who directed our campaigns, who led our troops to ! victory, has given his attention to this new war in which the j nation is engaged. He has given careful consideration to the causes that have produced such a wax, to the conditions that have given1 the present national enemies a temporary advan-! advan-! tage, and with military precision he has planned a campaign j for all American citizens in our struggle against our present day enemies the gangster, the racketeer, the crooked j politician. I We have secured newspaper publication rights on this j important message from General Pershing, a message written i by General Pershing. It is a valuable, an important, an intensely in-tensely interesting document, and will appear as two articles in these columns, the first one in next week's issue. We could not offer to our readers anything of greater importance or of greater interest. We want everyone to read these two articles, and think and talk about General Pershing'3 plan of campaign. |