Life — June 28, 1917 — page 15: what you’re looking at

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“LIFE- Why We Need to Win > of the stories that go around s that Secretary McAdoo is pro- 1. People who believe all they so be it is against the present inistration, will even tell you that \doo took Bernstorfi’s money. y believe a lot of other things to hh these. when you enquire of adminis- ion authorities, they tell you that the men in the Cabinet Mr. Me- wo is, and has been from the first, 1ost rampageous and irrepressible -Ally. He would get into the war; ould have the German world- vation plan frustrated. Mr. McAdoo made a Liberty Bond ech in New York on June 5th; it twice, to large audien It < not at all pro-German cither time. Hc said there was only one dangerous litary autocracy in the world, and that was the autocracy of the German Kaiser. He said that Germany must dejunkerized and democratized if he world is to be made safe. He said it we had fooled ourselves much too with the notion that our country from all marauders from ause they had three thou- sand miles of water to cross to get to He thought the i much impaired as a rampart of free- dom. Let the Allies once be beaten, he said, and the Germans would be over here with diving boats and flying machines and make the Atlantic seem like a mere puddle. If Germany once beat France and England, and took their ships and added them to her own, she would come here, Mr. McAdoo said, and put the iron heel of con- queror on our shores. And then what does anyone suppose she would charge to go away? Computing with Belgium in mind, perhaps, Mr. McAdoo thought we might have to pay half the esti- mated wealth of the country to get from her a quit-claim deed of the United States. That would be half of five hundred billion dollars, and Mr. McAdoo, who professes to know about money, assured both his audiences that it would be a lot to pay. He urged everybody to buck up and help the government help the Allies while we had allies to help. He was sure we would save expense in the end by so doing. He is for having us put our money and our credit into Liberty Bonds, put our sons, if we have them, into the army and navy, help our daughters in every kind of war work, and in all particulars realize the war and get our backs into it. Now he ma anguine about Sur we | CAN’ Teo Suont WBA eyEsicnT Poor Tee SWEAR LUNGS, = WEAK HEART WEAK DIGESTION UNDER WEIGHT FALLEN ARCHES 7 USE| PENLIST NOW] MEN WANTED | us ARMY MAVY MARINES HON RS, POOR HEALTH FOR THE ALLIES what the Germans could do to us if they once had the French and English conquered, but he is right enough in his ideas of what they would want to do and what they would probably try to do. If the robber band that is now in control of Germany ever has the Power to capture Boston and New York and Philadelphia and Baltimore, of course they will do it, and they will repeat in those cities their proceedin in Brussels and Antwerp and Rheims and Lille. about the Prussians. There is no false modesty They know that they deserve to possess what anybody has that is worth taking, and so far their powers permit they take it. We may not be they will do to us because we may not believe they will ever have the power propose to fraid of what to pinch us, but it is easy believing that they will do all Mr. McAdoo says, if they can, and it is easy to realize that the first duty of every man, woman and child of us this summer is to fix things so they can't. We don't half realize, even now, that we are in a war, and that it is our war. We think too much about saving France and not half enough about helping France save us. We are ab- solutely compromised with the Ger- mans. From the start we have helped. to beat them. It is absolutely neces- sary for our future comfort that they comichooks .com