June 7, 1917 
LAND & WATER 
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THURSDAY, JUNE 7. 1917 
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The President of the United States. (Photograph) 
Ameriea and tlie War. (Leader) 
Damn tlie torpedoes ! Go ahead. (Cartoon) 
Anieriea's Military Effort. By Frank H. Symonds 
First Days of \Var. By An (Jnlooker in America 
Organising Fo(j(l Supphcs. By Herbert Hoover 
American and British Democracy. By L. P. Jacks 
Pohcy of tlie War.— IV. By Hilairc Belloc 
America and the Sea War. By Arthur Pollen 
The Nelson Touch. By Admiral Bradley Fiske, U.S.N. 17 
The Genius of Kaemaekers. By Theodore Roosevelt 
Our Tone in Transatlantic Discussion 
Chesterton 
The U.S. Air Policy. By Henry Woodhouse 
Goaks and Humour. By J. C. Squire 
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By G. K. 
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Mr^Baffour at \Vashingtoii''s Tomb. (Photo) 24 
America's Job. (Double Page Cartoon). By Kaemaekers 26 
Feeding Starving Belgium. By Percy Alden, M.P. 28 
Mr. Wilson's War Efficiency. By Norman Hapgood 31 
The Crown of Thorns. By Xenturion 35 
Books to Kead. By Lucian Oldershav. 4^ 
Domestic Economy 44 
Kit and Equipment 49 
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AMERICA AND THE WAR 
IHE great war for righteousness," is Mr. Roosevelt's 
phrase. It is the final sentence of his appreciation 
of the genius of Kaemaekers we are enabled to 
publish to-day ; and it epitomises the American 
outlook, which will grow wider as the weeks go on. It waS 
only after President Wifeon's historic address to Congress 
that pubHc opinion in this country realised in their entirety 
the difficulties which confronted him in persuading the United 
States tp enter " the great war for righteousness " with its 
full strength, physical, intellectual and spiritual. Even now 
there exist across the Atlantic not inconsiderable sections of 
popular sentiment which are apathetic towards the war as a 
whole. As a matter of fact, there is nothing remarkable in 
this circumstance, considering the vast distances that intervene 
between American homes and the battlefields and between 
the sea and the Middle West. " He jests at scars who never 
felt a wound " — he laughs at submarines who has never 
seen or wished to see the sea. Also we have to remember 
that it took many months for the British people to envisage 
the war ; their education was slowly accomplished by 
Zeppelins, raiding cruisers and aeroplanes, and submarines, 
with letters and visits from men in the trenches which by 
degrees penetrated even to every hamlet in these islands. 
More remarkable still, for at least the first eighteen months 
of invasion, there were people in some of the southern pro- 
vinces of France, who used to speak of the war to their fellow- 
countrymen from the North as " your war." So that when 
we learn that outside the Eastern States and certain sections 
of the general community defined by an " Onlooker in 
America" on another page, there is no excessive war en- 
thusiasm in the United States but a good deal of apathy that 
at times deepens into dislike of the President's pohcy. we are 
only facing a condition of affairs perfectly intelligible. 
This condition of things is true only of the individual. As a 
nation the United States has thrown its full force into this 
struggle for righteousness. Already its battleships furrow 
the narrow seas, and its destroyers open a lane of security 
for our food ships. Its stupendous wealth is placed at the 
disposal of the Allies, and the financial future is rendered 
free from harassing doubt. The organisation of its food 
supplies has been taken in hand. And it will not be long 
before the first companies of its armies are training in those 
wonderful schools for war that have been formed in France, 
where every tactic and manoeuvre of the offensive and de- 
fensive are practised until nothing can hapj)cn in the firing 
line to amaze or disconcert an intelligent iighting-man. 'ilie 
practical thoroughness with which war is conducted in F'rance 
will appeal to the American nature, with its instinctive appre- 
ciation of men who " get there," through the practised skill 
that comes of intelligent training. It is barely two months 
since America took up arms, and already she has made her 
power apparent on the sea, and the first signs of it on land 
are visible. There has been no waste of time, but as all the 
fighting nations have found to their cost, Germany among 
them, war cannot be rushed if victory be the goal. 
Victory is the single reason 'why America has thrown her 
lot in with the Allies. As her President has said, she will 
CKcrt all her powers and employ all her resources to bring the 
Government of the German Empire to'terms and end the war. 
These terms, as we know, can only be gained by the shattering 
of Prussian militarism, which is the foundation-stone of the 
autocratic government whose pretensions it is the fixed resolve 
of our Ally to overcome. The German Government has 
proved conclusively she has no real friendship for the United 
States, and the intercepted Note to the German Minister at 
Mexico City, indited before war was declared, is a document 
of treachery that will never be forgotten. The great war 
resembles a burning lake of lava into which, as it spreads, 
mountain peaks topple, adding to the roaring cauldron. 
Such a peak was the United States, and it will only be when 
the battle is quenched and the white-hot ardour withdrawn 
from the molten mass that mankind will understand all the 
changes which have been effected through the blazing up- 
heaval. We firmly believe tliat humanity in the end will be 
purified thereby, tfiat the gold will be largely freed from the 
dross in so far as human governments are concerned, and that 
the fiery maelstrom, as it cools in process of time, will be found 
fruitful ground for the cultivation of noble virtues. 
" Only free peoples can hold their purpose steady and their 
honour steady to the common end, and prefer the interests of 
mankind to any narrow interest of their own." It is this form 
of freedom, so defined by Mr. Wilson, for which all the Allies 
arc fighting, and which they all are of the fixed opinion is 
worth the enormous sacrifices that are'oeing offered up hourly. 
Civilisation itself seems to be in the balance ; but right is 
more precious than peace, and we shall tight for the things 
which we have always carried nearest our hearts — for demo- 
cracy, for the right of those who submit to authority to have a 
voice in their own government, for the rights and hberties of 
small nations, for the universal dominion of right by such a 
concert of free peoples as will bring peace and safety to all 
nations and make the world itself at last free. 
Noble words ! They will endure as long as the English tongue 
lasts. In that speech from which they are taken, the President 
of the United States gave to mankind a new charter of liberty, 
a new gospel of armed freedom. He raised war to a higher 
plane in the mind of man, for though the principles here 
defined had been tacitly accepted by the democratic powers of 
Europe, they were so overlaid with ancient traditions and 
interwoven with inherited rights and jealousies that they could 
only be interpreted into words, which were absolutely free 
from suspicion and above and beyond slander, by the head of 
a Government that had hitherto been careful to stand outside 
the sway of the passions engendered by the horrors of war. 
That speech, now that it is being translated into action, is 
bound to exercise a marvellous influence on the future of the 
world. It will in ages to come be appealed to again and 
again ; it destroys.for ever the cherished illusion that war is 
never justifiable under any circumstances. America gathers 
strength and puts forth her full might to the trumpet- 
call sounded on that April day in the Capitol of Washington. 
It is the death-knell of autocracy ; it heralds the birth of a 
larger freedom for man. Germany is no longer deceived 
regarding the future ; the acts and utterances of her Govern- 
ment testify to the truth of this statement. But victory can 
only come through the complete military defeat of her armies ; 
and no matter how long it may take, most surely it will be 
accomplished. The alliance of America is all the stronger 
in that it is not committed to documents, but has been created 
solely to establish right " which is more .precious than 
peace." There can be no weakening until that object is 
attained, no matter how often the fierce blows of the Allies 
have to be delivered on the defence of the Central Powers. 
