Show GERMAN BRUTALITY A german officer said laid to his canadian captor we haye have fought lon on the square we have tight right on our tide side might is right it if we invaded ru an enemy country A a foreign country it is right to devastate ruin tape rape outrage i mutilate destroy if 11 there comes in the path of the army a donkey a baby an apple tree such must be rt removed moved the donkey we can use use that the mhd baby what of that it it is thrown at the bayonet point it it has an arm tro taken off a leg or an eye why that Is all right such will terrify the enemy destroy his moral make our victory easier the appletree apple Aree tree it might beat bear fruit aid the enemy glee gie hm him food help him to pay off his bis indemnity therefore it must be destroyed utterly anything to in win i is s his sell self confessed motto he frankly says so it has been ingrained into him from childhood and become Der perfectly factly natural As a boy in school he be has had different training from the american and the englishman one of the causes of their different di Berent attitudes is lu in that schoolboy training A popular writer of boys books has given us a theory that thai explains ins and accounts for the germans lack of spirit of fair play and of what we call chi chivalry vilty he says that the reason the germans bomb hospitals attack red cross ships and all such things is that in their boyhood they had no national games or sports that instill into their heir boys a sense of honesty square dealing and fair play their gymnastic and athletic training is 19 simply to make them good soldiers crt having no such sports they have no books such as the american bouw h halt half black winning his V X andice and the ret est increasingly the schoolboy of america and england is taught to be a good sport to play fair to win honestly and lose gamely he has no use far for the fellow who wins by crooked means ot or a yellow streak in the game the fellow felion mhd plays foul and cheats on the football field will not play air in busi ness or at in was the du system of the geiman universities has developed a swashbuckler type a brutal domineering the athletic fields of the Anglo Saxons have encouraged fair play good sportsman sportsmanship ship and chivalry let the american schoolboys of today to day and tomorrow see to it they ply play the game fair hit the line hard as ex president roosevelt slid said and as our boys in france ate are doing but play fair ex |