"That accounts for most of them," agreed Dick.  "Then in addition Germany's combing out her empire to put every available man into service.  She's enslaving the Belgians to work in her factories so that German workmen can be sent into the ranks.  She's calling up mere boys who ought to be at their schoolbooks.  I tell you, boys, Germany's desperate.  She's beginning to realize what a fool she was to bring America into the war, and she's going to try to get a decision before we get a big army over here."