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Show 111 JO (iKHMAX UOGEV The report from Oeneral Pershing's Per-shing's boys on the tiring line in France is thrilling Hie hearts ot Americans and as such as to cause a feeling of the most intense satisfaction satisfac-tion throughout the country. Our boys are proving themselves fully equal to the task before them and have already taken the measure of their foe and are going after him. They are also dissipating the hitherto hith-erto world-wide dread of the German Ger-man bogey, and proving him to be by no means the superman he would have us think him. They are demon-' strafing I hat German defenses can be shattered and German troops routed rout-ed and German discipline thoroughly! disorganized. i And what, after all, is this dread ! German bogey? Nothing but iron j discipline working with thoroughly! plastic material. Given unscrupulous unscrupu-lous leaders fired with the lust of conquest, and a docile and tractable army, the result must Inevitably be a dangerous machine a machine without scruple and without conscience. con-science. But on the other hand it is largely a machine devoid of intelligence intel-ligence and without initiative, save in its leaders. And it is in this latter quality or . lack of quality, that it will meet its Waterloo at the hands of the American Amer-ican army. The American soldier is not merely a cog in a fighting machine. ma-chine. He is also a sentient, pulsing, dinamic human machine in himself, quick to think and trained to act upon his conclusions. Men of this class are to be trusted with the most dangerous and delicate missions. They are not only reliable in the mass, but are thoroughly to be depended de-pended upon as separate human units. un-its. It is the German contempt for all things not German that has helped largely in impressing the nations with a false estimate of German prowess'. This contempt is fast being be-ing unmasked and made to stand out in its true light ignorance. Pershing Per-shing is teaching us that it is by no means the result of superior knowledge, knowl-edge, but rather of arrogance inspired inspir-ed by the belief that German knowledge knowl-edge is of a superior order. Nothing but bullets and shrapnel will shake this arrogance, but these are being manufactured in this country and sent to our boys over there, and they can be trusted to place them where they will do the most good. Germany has stigmatized us as a nation of dollar chasers. Well, we have chased the dollar successfully, and we will show her that we can turn those dollars into bullets for her undoing. Her contempt is the best possible spur to our troops. It is nerving them to show to the world that the great German bogey is but a man after all, and a man who can and will be whipped and well whipped whip-ped before we are through with him. |