﻿It is said “Allies do not need our soldiers; that our boys would not be a help in retreats.”— 
They have millions of men under arms and it is figures additional millions would not make them run faster. However if you were considering the committing of suicide you would not consult an undertaker for advice—or a gravedigger if he works piecework; or a day worker, for that matter; for one is sure shot “Yes” and the other is sure shot “No”—a tie. 
One cant be too cautious. 
From these indices it would appear some “nations” think colonial rake-offs are worth defending; of paramount importance or imperitive because of their present topheavy social set-up… 
Other “nations,” denied these overseas incomes, consider such rake-offs of great value and are willing to grid their loins and go to the front to do and, if necessary, to die for those emoluments… 
Present war most conclusively proves that the motivating factor is not altruism—its free-chekels. Free Enterprise! Peaceful Penetration! Cheerful Gauging!—Free Lunch? 
Methinks in the ensuing “missundestandings” the free lunch will be cut out and the great men will have to take up the study of work as a solution for hotcakes and maple-syrup. 
World trade? 
Yes, boys and girls, I think we should start feeding our own face instead of trying to ram it down the throats of foreigners in the four corners of the earth—with or without battleships.