New Britain Herald Newspaper, April 5, 1918, Page 12

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Beck Calls on People to Realize Situation New peal to York, the An people urgent to April ap- American give up their complacency with respect to authori- of | winning the war and to the telling of the resources | ties ta the greatness change their pokcy people in exaggerated torms of the depreciating the country’s | and strength of the Allies Beck, former adversaries of the was made | | last night general, by James M. in an address | roused to outbursts enthusiasm a of | thousana of | club at their dinner at the “If you tell the people that it is only won’t get results,” “You have got to of Amer Economic Hotel Astor. that we a ques- members the are | bound to win, | tion of time, | declared Mr. Beck. to them, ‘Men backs are to the wall you | sa Now time to go on or go under. " All the speakers, including George | Creel, head of the committee on pub- lic information; S. K. Ratcliffe, for- merly of The Manchester Guardian, and Augustus Thomas, playwright, made pleas for announcing to the peo- ple the truth about the war, all thé reverses of America, and all the vic- tories of its soldiers Mr. Creel said his been pledged through Navy to inform the and honestly of all cldents and disaster “Bear that in mind,”” he said the air is filled with rumors sinking of a transport, the loss thousands of soldi in France, hospitals in Westchester County filled with wounded. Brand them as lies and publish the liar, for the govern- committee has the Army and peonle instantdy casualties, all ac- “when about the of the ment does not suppress such news cr seek to minimize it not have to conceal reverses do not have to fear for of America.” No Mention of This paragraph specch he delivered the copy given to vance, but he made no mention of recent order sent from Secretary of War Baker preted by General March that no further news of ¢ Uties ! should given to the public. Mi reel has lately not been handlin: the casualty list because of dis: greenment with the War Department which took the stand that | identification than the Xilled and wounded should out. In the We becs the do se we courage ing’s Order appearec Creel’s 1 in ad- the by repor in e inter as meaning and no fu names o be his address jeck said that cause of the i more desperate peril than at since the days that preceded Marne, “The the battle “The is today in tine th any allied armie terrible reverse since thc of Charleroi,” he declared terrible and portentous fact that less than a week the German armies have regained all the terri- tory that cost the Allies 300,000 men and four and a half of time in 1916, and they are as noar to the gates of Amiens, a cily of immense strateglc importance as the upper part of Briadway is to the Battery “Jt is believed as a fact that the Germans in the West have mini mum superiority of 600,000 men, and the appalling facf is that the excess of German man power equals the : gregate of any army in authenticate history. “Had America redecemed the of its promises to its brave Hindenburg’'s mighty advance probably have broken down. promised them at least 2 planes. A nation that can 100,000 pleasure cars a year factories should not have real difficulty In rapidl the automobile the air. tunately we have not been ship ten, much less 10,000, to Europe. “No ome can question the good tenttons of our country, but the f is that upon all our foreign policic and war measures cxperience written but one verdict, ‘Too late!’ Who now questions that we should have begun to prepare after the sink ing of the Lusitania’ “We flirted with the Bolsheviki archists in Ru 1 until they filled up the poisoned chalice of black treachery. “We have wonderful plans for ship- | ping, but in the meantime the ton- | 1age of our allies is rapidly decr | ing and the stranglehold of the marine becomes more terrible. “Too late! God grant that when this great ordeal of battle is over and ihe smoke which now obscures our vision is cleared away that we will not find that the honor of our coun- i\ try has been buried almost beyond resurrection and that history n not write as its epitaph, ‘Too ;. Should Xpow the Truth. After saying that Lloyd George and Clemencean believe that people can bear the flght with greater fortitudae when they know the truth, Mr -k | said that in this country, however, it is accepted that all disagreeable truths should be suppressed and that the fighting spirit of the people could only be excited by deluding them with | optimistic delusions. | “For a year past we have been re | galed on mighty armadas of ships he continued, ‘the very hulls of which have not even been fashione have most in months a le: allies, wou 000 turn from it had any i out Unfor able 1o airplanc of in- an- had theis late | Cam) | that it is | mistaker { own H We had developing | on the ways. Industrious pres agents have held up to our excited imagination flights of airplanes, as thick as the autumn leaves of Val- lambrosa, but they exist only in the perfervent imagination of these | agents of publicity. “We have had enough of illusions. Give us the truth, and if the truth be i ey e e o ARTFUL DODGER HAS NO CHANCE Put a few drops on that old touchy corn then lift it out without pain Ouch ! 2! 211 This kind of rough talk will be heard less here in town if people troubled with corns will follow | § the simple advice of this Cincinnati | authority, who claims that a few drops of a drug called freezone when applied to a tender, aching corn stops sorenesss at once, and soon dries up and lifts right without pain. A | delightful surprise awaits a1l who try thi He stance never surrounding ter of cost very d to Iic & MAR? CLOTHES Y Are all wool ga \ ments, which are — only kind you can ford if you want ta practice war - timg economy . ..520 out says w inf freezone is a > ch dries immediately and | tmes or even irritates the sues or skin. A quar- ce of freezone which will little at any drug store, Is sufficient to remove every hard or soft corn or callus from one’s feet. Millions of American women will welec this announcement since the | inauguration of the high heels. | B — A large assort- ment of EMERY SHIRTS $1.50 to 595 00 disagrec obs able 1cles and the sense of mighty tends to weaken our reso- lution to overcome them, then Amer- ica, matter how great its material ! resources may be, is not one of the great nations of the world. “Our people know only as a matter cf intellectual concept that a great war is in progres In an academic spirit th have judged the mighty Sues iny nd have determined Most 1mportant : t our just and that of the NECKWEAR Ferman But America has e el o are showing $1.50 Whe entered the war, “meds. 5()(:, 75c, $1& no olved, cause is just. the countr, assert as this Copyright Hart Sobalner & Mu:s Mr. 1 he made up his mind » any criticism, and only erse word a few weels \ peace talk threat- ened to pars the mind and will of the people, G 3 wing reg results tollowed Theodore Roosevelt and the criticism of congress, | want to say, with a base- ment of spirit, that I was wrong and | that Roosevelt and Lodge were right.” The speaker said that in three things could this country have helped the shipping, airplanes, and rtiller | “Had 17 Leen able rai ck not to m spoke 120 it rd to the splendid the criticism of in this very hall | 1tor Lodge in that Alljos- 000 American fly over the plair of when Hindenburg launched there would have been story to tell” he added. | do mot let us sel think that we have done nation of a hur have done, Let us full year after the not acquitted ouselves have done.. If we tell people that we are bound to hut a question of time, csults. Tell them, vour backs are to is the time to go on or atrplanes to forent name acentl; t a coutd hat a war as the wi you Men the to ve we should won't of erica, wall. Now under We been 2 “hology. we DSy »ing along on a We began the strength of erating our no time for tt g is v depreciating ivers and strength. This self-complacency, for boasting. This is the timie to do or die. This great country will never win its true place until we have taken out of the na- | fional consclousness the spirit of | hragging and boasting that is encour- uged on the baseball field. American artillery men plic their gun on a flat car for transpor ihtmn to their positions on the Aisne | Aisne sector. is one of the first our troops | AMERICAN TROOPS IN FRANCE IN THEIR “PARLOR CAR,” AND ADVANCING THROUGH ENENY’S BARBED above, | ment in thvlrl detach- starting through the entanglements. ican sector lhvmch of “parlor in France show. our soldiers happy car,” and,, below, & on a enemy’s recon barb These phetographs from the Amer-