Ogden Daily Standard | 1917-03-09 | Page 4 | Will the War Bring Good Results?

uu WILL THE WAR BRING GOOD RESULTS? Returning from the scene of war, having served with the German army in France, Belgium and Serbia, Dr. Reinhardt Rruibe, an American surgeon sur-geon of German extraction, says Germany Ger-many cannot be starved into subruis sion and neither side can expect to gain a decisive vistory. Neither can make large advances alone; the lines now occupied. oc-cupied. "Of course, the armies can make slight advances," he declares, "if they are willing to sacrifice a few hundred thousand men for a few miles of territory, but neither side is now willing to make the awful sacrl-tici sacrl-tici of men common to the earlier stages of the war. So, the whole a a checkmated game and practically as the situation now stands must the final peace be drawn." The Missoula Sentinel, commenting ion toe uoctor s views, says: It may be that the surgeon Is right, that no positive decision is possible' However, it is likely to be true that he is expressing the only hope of Germany, Ger-many, that is winning to a draw with her enemies and then defeating them in a race to physical regeneration. As things now stand such an anticlimax Strikes us of America as a world calamity. ca-lamity. It is patent that, after all, the war in Europe is a conflict between autocracy and democracy and for neither side to win, we think, would mean only an armistice a true between be-tween these mighty and irreconcilable forces, bound to clash asuin and again unless victory be decisively democracy's. democ-racy's. However. If may work itself out differently. A military draw may give to Europe a vision, a perspective, a knowledge, an understanding that will serve to bring about the end of kings and czars and emperors and caste; that will cause the final debacle de-bacle of monarchisni, already a tottering totter-ing institution And so, even the awful aw-ful sacrifice, the unutterable suff -r-ine, the limitless misery of the great war will not have been in vain. In the face of war-torn Europe's bloody plight, the brotherhood of man seettfl away a shimmering mirage, an lrridescent dream, a foolish, futile fancy: yet, who knows but I hat, after all, in the reconstruction of the world, the grim struggle may prove itself Indecisive as It may terminate a cruel means to a kindly end?"