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Show KULTUB MORAL PRECEPTS FOR KAISER1ZED COPYBOOKS George Ade wrote the following as a "holiday message to our young fighting fight-ing men." He contributes it to the National Security League's campaign of; patriotism through education. We must win the big war or else revise all moral codes, rewrite all proverbs and adopt a brand new set of rules to govern conduct.. W8 have accepted certain time-honored time-honored adages as self-evident truths. We found them in our early copybooks copy-books and we grew upon them and repeated them so often that naturally we came to think that they could be relied upon. , Then Germany came along with an intensely modern variety.' of ethics bearing the label of Kultur. The new medicine Is not taken Internally In-ternally or rubbed on as a liniment, but you h.ave it shot into you by a large, gun. . Unless we refuse to take the treatment, treat-ment, everything that . we ever believed be-lieved in will be overruled, discarded and thrown . intq the alley. If Germany is not licked to a standstill stand-still we might as well begin to memorize mem-orize and humbly accept the' following follow-ing . Dishonesty is the best policy. Be as mean as a skunk and you will be happy -Blessed are the child-murderers, for they shall inherit the earth. Be sure you are right handy with firearms, then go ahead. An evil reputation la better than riches. Truth crushed to earth will not rise again if the crushing is done in a superior su-perior and efficient manner. Re virtuous and you will be miserable. miser-able. Thrice armed is he who goes around picking quarrels. Mlpht makes right. Hell on earth and hatred for all men. Do unto others as you suspect that they might do unto you if they ever got to be as disreputable as you are. God helps the man that helps himself him-self to his neighbor's house and his fields and his unprotected women. Those don't sound right, do they? The old ones that we learned first of all are not yet out of date. Suppose we don't revise them. |
