Show 1 I t V. V O GERMAN R Nf Sit down for Cor a moment Take your our pencil and paper Take the average size of a ship Take the average number number number num num- ber of people that are on a ship when sailing Take the tons of food and supplies that the average ship carries N Now w look at the tho list of neutral neutral neutral neu neu- ships that the Germans have de strayed Figure how long It would take for this vast squadron to pass passa a given point figure the cities that It H would take to hold the people figure figure fig fig- I ure the months the food destroyed would feed the starving children It would save In Europe Then stop to think that every everyone one of at these ships were on peaceful missions I You will conclude that the German I under the kaiser have outclassed Nero Ne Ne- ro They have done that which no other nation In all history has been cruel enough to do Take the Red RedCross RedCross RedCross Cross ships the hospital al ships the I food ships the fishing ships and think of or the manner in which they have lave been From this list of or ships given in inthis inthis this issue turn your mind to the thel they I l land td Think of or Belgum and the terror terror terror ter ter- that was spread there Think of ot the cruelty that would take a baby and nail it to a barn door beside the drying skin of of a sheep and write a word of at derision under neath No wonder that even the unspeakable Turk whose name has been a synonym synonym synonym syn syn- for cruelty cries aloud that the Germans are shocking their people people peo pee pie with cruelty Think of the tho thousands sands of women and children In the helpless Invaded I France and their fate An eye witness witness witness wit wit- ness says that the German army has hasI I left a terrible trail of moral filth be be- hind One man returns after three years ears o of heroic service on t the e front He has home lOm leave he is going to see i his wife and daughter one word tells 1 the tragic story at the gate of that home The Hun I Is there In n all the world a man so dead as not to be aroused to terrible anger at the Indescribable outrages Xo nation In all the world has been so cruel Nero was kind in comparison compari compari- son Spain was a benefactor to Cuba and the Philippines Napoleon was a much to be desired master when brought Into comparison with this I twentieth century relic of the most I barbaric age the world has ever ex ex- Against such we are sending our boys They should be sent as the knights of old with our blessing They Ther should be sent with the knowledge that theirs Is a glorious cause That from the blood drenched soil oil of the battle field shall spring I the beautiful Illy lily of humane freedom i I |