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WEDNESDAY, MARCH 12, 1919
MENTAL POISON GAS.
Germans grow rebellious under the
“slings and arrows of outrageous
fortune.” The terms of the armistice
and the stern prospects of a peace of
restitution and reparation burn into
their very souls like thermit shells.
Chancellor Ebert, at Weimar, warns
the allies that they must not push the
Germans too far and Professor Hans
Delbrueck declares that Germany will
fight a peace that makes the people
the “wage-slaves of their enemies for
decades.”
Professor .Delbrueck is one of the
last Teutons who should raise his
voice in protest. He is of that profes
sional clan which linked itself with
the Hohenzollern ring to conquer the
world and impose on it Teutonic
"kultur.” The pedants of Germany
falsified history to produce among
the people a state of mind that would
lead on to war and conquest. They
taught the “superior race” doctrine
which drove the Germans mad with
pride. They leagued science with
militarism to provide the new instru
ments of destruction and “frightful
ness” which should gain the victory
in a few months. And after war had
been declared Dr. Delbrueck and most
of the leading educators and theolog
ians in Germany signed a pronuncia
mcnto upholding every argument to
the Berlin government to prove that
the conflict was defective.
These are the men who inoculated
the German race with poisonous
theories which, in the first place, con
vinced them that they had a God
given mission to rule the other races
of the world because all of them had
degenerated and were unfit either to
govern or to disseminate culture and
which, in the second place, hardened
the Germans against the moral ap
peals of humanity and made it pos
sible for them to wage war with a
pitilessness and brutality unequaled
in modern times. **
Let us take the case of Professor
Delbrueck himself. Is not this the
Prnffissor Dplhriippk whn saifl
of Bismarck:
“Blessed be the hand that falsified
the Ems dispatch?” /
The Ems dispatch, in its falsified
form, drove the French into a frenzy
which produced the France-Prussian
•war. The sequel of that conflict was
the cession of Alsace-Lorraine to Ger
many.
Here we have a German professor
who, for many year*, has been calling
down the blessings of heaven upon
•German hypocrisy and falsehood and
who boasted that Alsace-Lorraine was
won with a lie. Listen now to his
polemic against the French, uttered
as if he were a knight of Arthur’s
round table and were about to set out
in search of the Holy Grail. He says:
“Another example: France plainly
indicates that it intends to take away
the German territory of Saarbrucken,
with its coal fields. Saarbrucken has
more than half a million purely Ger
man inhabitants. This territory was
ceded to France through the first
Paris peace of 1814, but only a year
later was given back to Germany in
the second Paris peace. The inhabi
tants had undoubtedly in repeated ap
peals arid petitions, especially in a
great memorial, prayed for ‘liberation
from the French yoke and reunion
with the German fatherland,’ and had
solemnly vowed to do everything they
could tp serve this end. This land
belonged to Germany for a thousand
years, excepting the very brief tem
porary periods of French domination.'
“The problem of nationality is much
clearer and more certain here than in
Alsace-Lorraine. Even it the German
portions of Alsace-Lorraine are given
to France, it . can safely be prophe
sied that a German 'irredenta’ will
spring up there very soon and threat
en the peace of the world.
“That is true to a still greater de
gree in the case when territory like
Saarbrucken, where nothing whatever
that is French exists, is claimed hy
France out of naked greed for power
in opposition to the principle of the
people's right to self-determination.”
Concluding his lofty appeal to those
higher humanities which his gang of
pedants have scorned until now he
laments because the French have bil
leted so many colored troops in the
occupied regions of Germany. We do
not desire to comment on a situation
with which we are unfamiliar, but all
the world knows what the Germans
did in Belgium and northern France.
The unutterable atrocities of the Ger
man soldiery during more than four
years may be traced unerringly back
to pedants of the Delbrueck type. We
might forgive the ignorant peasants
or even the educated lunatics of the
kaiser's army, but how can we forgive
the men who distorted the mental
vision of a whole people, turned their
moral and humanitarian impulses
awry and sent the pride-maddened
“blonde beasts” to slaughter and
slaughtering?
What presumption such a man must
have to don the pious mask of virtue
and sweet tolerance and appeal to the
human reason *he helped debase, to
the human soul which he and his ilk
strove to make Into the image and
likeness of the inhabitants of hell.
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FOR PROTECTION OF CHILDREN.
That better enforcement of the
child-labor and compulsory education
laws throughout the country will be
the result of the intensive drive now
being carried on by 11,000,000 Ameri
can women to return to the schools
children under 16 years of age, is the
confident expectation of officials of
the children’s bureau at Washington.
In a leaflet recently issued by the
bureau in connection with the back
to-the-school drive, attention is called
to the fact that both England and
France have set the United States an
example of unusual efforts in behalf
of education.
The law passed by England in Au
gust, 1918, providing “that all children
shall attend school without exemp
tions or exceptions until the age of 14
years,” demonstrates the importance
attached in that country to the neces
sity of protecting Its youth from work
which interferes with proper school
ing. And the fact that this law was
passed at the close of the fourth year
of the war, when England’s labor
needs were greatest, shows that such
legislation was put upon the statute
books as a direct result of the lesson
taught during these four years of the
irreparable damage done by a too
early withdraway of children from
school.
Just before the outbreak of the war
England's child-labor and school-at
tendance laws had been allowed to
break down. Children were with
drawn from school in large numbers
to work on farms, in mills, and in fac
tories.
With the coming of war this general
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upon the schools, with the result that
hundreds of thousands of children
were thrust prematurely into Industry.
When it was finally realized, however,
that, the work contributed by these
children in fields and factories could
not compare in importance with their
education, steps were at once taken
not only to restore the restrictions
in force before the war, but to raise
the standards for the protection of the
working child.
The result of this new trend of pub
lic opinion was the passage by Parlia
ment of the new education bill, known
as the “Fisher bill!” In addition to
requiring that no child be exempted
from school under 14 years of age, the
local educational authorities are given
the power to prohibit the employment
of a child in an occupation which is
letrimental to its physical develop
ment. The law further provides that
all employed children between the
ages of 14 and 16 years shall attend
school 320 hours per year. For the
first seven years after the law shall
have taken effect this compulsion is
to apply to working children between
14 and 16 years to attend continuation
schools on employers’ time. After that
period children between 16 and 18
years of age will automatically come
under the %et.
This law protects not only the city
child but the rural child as well. In
the United States the rural child has
never enjoyed the protection of child
labor laws.
France also has shown considerable
concern about the training of tpe ris
ing generation. A vocational educa
tion hill is is now pending which will
insure to all pupils some sort of prep
aration for their future career, and
will likewise require of all children
who are past the age at which full
time attendance la compulsory part
time attendance at a continuation
school.
These new educational standards
Salvage of Ships Sunk by German
U-Boat or Some Other Cause
By S. W. STRAUS, Pretident of die American Society for Thrift
One of the most interesting phases of thrift work as related to the
war is the salvage of vessels that have been sunk by the German U-boat or
through some other disastrous cause.
A great arm of the British government is engaged in this work and
ships by the dozens have been hauled up from the depths of sea, their
wounds healed, their cargoes recovered, and their mastheads again deco
rated with one of the unconquered flags of an allied nation.
One great harbor on the other side of the Atlantic today is filled with
salvaged shipping, which, like dead men come back from the tomb, stand
proudly at their docks awaiting the day they shall again set forth on their
missions of warfare against the Hun.
Some of these vessels with their cargoes represent a value of $15,000,
000 and the salvage cost of such wrecks frequently runs no more than
$15,000.
When a cargo is salvaged there is very little waste. Even flour sunk
in the sea can be rescued, for the salt water forms a crust in the flour two
or three inches thick and when this is scraped away the rest of the sack is
as good as new.
Recently a large cargo ship and a tanker collided in a fog off the
coast of England. Oil poured out on the cargo vessel. There was a vast
explosion and flames leaped up. Finally it was possible to start toward
shore with the burning cargo ship. On the way she hit three wandering
mines. They got her into shallow water finally where she burned for days.
Eventually they had to torpedo and sink her to put out the fire. This ship
is now floating again, as good as new. With her cargo she was valued at
$10 ,000,000 and most of her cargo was saved. Moreover, the tanker which
also had been beached and torpedoed after she had blazed for days, was res
cued and restored to normal condition while 10,000 tons of oil were
pumped out of her as she lay in the muddy bottom of the ocean.
The salvage of wrecked ships has developed into a new science. The
British have been making a special study of this work, and as a result ships
that in former days would have been looked on as nothing but a pile of
junk are now saved for future usefulness with a tremendous financial profit
as compared with salvage costs, and with the savings of hundreds of tons
of food.
War is indeed bringing forth strange yet inspiring manifestations of
thrift.
Germany Must Show by Deeds That She
Is Entirely Changed in Spirit
By LORD READING
Germany in the end gave way not because she had
changed her views but because she knew she would be
absolutely beaten. The allied countries should con
tinue to be watchful of Germany and the utterances
of her statesmen.
The Germany which now is anxious to fall in with
the views of our country has yet to show by her actions
and not merely by one day or two days or a year or
two years that the whole spirit of Germany has changed
as we wish it to change before we can ever believe in
our hearts that Germany has changed from what she
was before the war. We must be thoroughly convinced that the events
of the past four years will never be repeated.
When reading the German foreign secretary’s messages regarding the
armistice conditions it should be remembered that the terms of the armi
stice were more gentle and more merciful than would have been the terms
if the war had continued.
Let us continue to be watchful and wary. In peace, as in war, we
must remember what has happened. We must take to our hearts the les
sons of the past.
We do not require revenge; France has not asked for revenge..
What we did wish and what we were determined to have, both in
France and England, and in all the nations associated in the great cause,
was that justice should be meted dut to those who were responsible for the
awful horrors of the last four and one-half years.
Terms of Peace Should Be Arranged
Exclusively by Allied Nations
By CHARLES F. MOORE, in in Article in Official Journal oi Paper fadnrtiy
The terms of peace should be arranged entirely and exclusively by
the allied nations. The enemy should not be permitted to join in the con
ference, but should be required to wait outside the door until invited to
enter and hear sentence passed.
The kaiser should be permanently enjoined from doing business un
der the old firm name and style of “Me und Gott,” thereby depriving him
of the right to impose on civilization by fraudulently representing himself
as being associated with one who has no interest whatever in the business
and no sympathy with its methods.
After the war every article of merchandise manufactured in the Ger
man empire should he conspicuously labeled “Made in Germany” in order
that civilized people may be warned'of its origin and let it alone.
Any controversies hereafter arising with Germany should be settled
by a board of arbitration composed of one American, one Frenchman and
one Englishman. The decision to be final and to be communicated to the
German empire when put in final and permanent form.
The German language should henceforth be like the German rulers,
unspeakable.
which have been set by the English, in this country, if a concerted and
and are now in process of being eata*)- united effort be made in behalf of the
lished by the French, should, in the school child and the working child.
opinion of officials of the bureau, en- -♦
able the people of the United States to The effects of the war are being felt
attack with fresh enthusiasm their here more than they were before,
own problems of child labor and edu- Those income tax returns with their 6
cation. Whatever has been done in per cent tax bring home to many that
England and in France, where the have not felt its effect before that
war’s pressure has been so great, can, war is what General Sheridan said it
they consider, he more than hatched was.—Douglas News.
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