Five million men in France! The nation which for more than a century has sought only to be left alone in the West with its freedom, has roused to the call for help from its sister democracies on the Eastern side of the globe and is pouring across the Atlantic a mighty stream of men and arms, a stream so great that history offers nothing in comparison.
German military autocracy, which sought to supplant the "Liberty, Equality and Justice" of France with its horrible "will to power" under the doctrine that "might is right" has already found that Right has hidden sources of power for self-protection.
The unwelcoms lesson of American valor, learned by Germany at Canton, Chateau Thierry, and since at a score of other fierce battles, has shown the Hun an inkling of the mightiness of right.
AMERICAN VALOR AWAKENS HUN
For every man on the battle line, the rudiments of military tactics tell us, ten men must be behind. Not all of the five million Americans between the Channel ports and the Rhine next year will be in the battle line. But we at home may justly consider that all of France is our battle line. We must see that for every man in France, giving his utmost efforts daily, ready to give his life, ten men at home are stripping their daily lives of every non-essential effort, dropping every task that does not help to win the war. 