Show GERMANY MUST s PAY Boche Bache Entitled to No NoMore More Sympathy Sympathy Sympathy Sym Sym- pathy Than Any Criminal WRECKED CITIES AND VES Many Girls In Lille LillI Are Mothers of Babes Whose Fathers Are Germans Ger Ger- mans PunIshment mans Punishment Cannot Be Too Severe By WRIGHT A. A PATTERSON When a n robber breaks into your house and steals that which he can carry away and then destroys that which he cannot steal you expect that when caught he will be punished both for what he stole and for what he de de- de- de So It Is with Germany The German army acting under the orders of the German government stole ever everything it could carr carry away awny In Inthe Inthe inthe the Invaded sections of Belgium and France and what It could not carry away awn It destroyed I was in the city of Lille LiUe very shortly short short- ly after the retreating Germans had evacuated It Before Defore the war Lille LiUe had been one of the busiest and most prosperous manufacturing towns In all of Europe Its great factories producing producing producIng pro pro- linens cottons velvets ribbons and woolen goods had patrons all nIl over overtime the time world and its sugar and chemical plants much of France with these products For four tour years during the German occupation the factories of Lille had been Idle The They are arc idle today and the they will be idle for ma many y months to come The reason is that Germany stole the machinery from nIl all of these factories or In the ver very few cases where actual theft was not possible or profitable they destroyed the machin machin- ery The people of Lille LiUe told me that this theft of machinery had been carried carried carried car car- ried to such lengths that the Huns even eyen invaded the homes of the people and took from them their sewing ma ma- chines Germans Fathers of Their Babes The Time German army array looted this beautiful beautiful beautiful beau beau- French city of more than population It stole not alone the time machinery from Its factories and Its homes but even eyen Its people veople French mothers told me of how young girls of two twenty years of age and under had been carried away at nt one r 7 i g r z p Western Ne r v. v t i w r rv v British Official Photograph of an Elaborate Mass of Machinery In a Lille Linen Mill That Was Completely Wrecked by the Germans time They told me of another time when more than boys of from fourteen to twenty years ears of age had been carried away awny to Germany When I was in Lille LUte on October 22 It had very ery few Inhabitants except old people peo peo- pie or very young children Among the few exceptions were girls of from seventeen to twenty years of age nursIng nursing nursing nurs nurs- ing babies which they told me were the offspring of German fathers and the pathos of the situation of those young girls is something I shall never forget And this condition at nt Lille Is s the result result re re- re- re sult suit of German ambition for world domination an ambition fostered among the German people through years of oC training the ambition of a people whose boast has been that might makes right I am sorry to say I have heard people people people peo peo- attempt to excuse this looting of Lille on the ground that It could be shown to be a n war measure the sure the need of ot Germany for this machinery and for Cor the labor of ot the people deported to Germany But these people cannot find any uny reasonable excuse for tor the war Itself a war that was started only for forthe forthe forthe the selfish purpose of a selfish pee pea pie Shall Germany not pay for this condition condition con con- at Lille Ulle Shall she not pay for forthe forthe forthe the machinery that Olat was carted away awny or destroyed for the people that were deported Shall she not pay for the years of Idleness of these factories for the years ears of ot Idleness of ot the employees em- em em employees m- m denied the opportunity of ot profItable profitable profitable prof prof- employment ment Shall she not pay for tor the markets that have been destroyed destroyed destroyed de de- de- de and which It will take years to re-establish re If It It can ever be done No o Germany will never neter be able to pay for all nU of It She will never neer be beable beable beable able to pay and no sum sumo of money could pay for the anguish of those mothers who rho were forced to stand aside and watch their sons and daughters daugh daugh- tens tel'S carried away Into virtual slavery She will never be able to pay for tor the time anguish the wrecked lives of ot those girls with German babies Money Muncy wIll will not pay for these things but mone money and work worl can in some small deb degree ee pay for the wrecked factories and rimmed ruined ru rim- ined med business of or the city of ot Lille and through the Uw payment of ot this money and und labor the time people of df t Germany will learn that might Is not right and that war for the purpose of gratifying a n selfish ambition Is not profitable j I Why Lille Was Not Destroyed The German retreat from Lille came near the close cloe of the war when tho Germans knew they were beaten and I they would have to pay pad and for that reason the city Its itself il was no not de I But the fact that it was not destroyed is but another evidence of ot German selfishness rather than of vir vIr- vir- vir tue There are hundreds of ot cities and towns that have been destroyed after i being looted as ns Lille was looted hundreds hundreds hun hun- I of towns where even the material material material mate mate- rial of which they were built has been carried away that it might be used In Inthe inthe I the construction of fortifications behind behind be be- hind which the time German army might defend itself and its Ill gotten gains For all nn of these Germany should pay now and for generations to come No sympathetic sj pardon board should sit on Germanys Germany's s case No sentimentalist sentimentalist sentimentalist sentiment sentiment- alist should have a voice in deciding her punishment There Is no more if as much reason for leniency In fixIng fixing fixing fix fix- ing the punishment of Germany than I there would be for leniency In fixing the punishment of the ruthless slayer of ot your son or your daughter Germany must pay all that the present and future future future fu fu- ture generations can pay and she will even then have expiated her crime only in a small small- degree Any Demand Not Too Great I am sure I know the desire of the American people fd fair fall play In all things timings Including the settlement with Germany They would not wish to do dothe dothe dothe the German people an Injustice In the tho demand for reparation As I rode mile after mile mlle over the devastated fields of Belgium and northern France as I passed through town after town that had hind been destroyed because of a n mad craze for loot and world domination I I felt that could the American people I but see the things I was seeing they would feel as I felt that any demand that might be made could not be un un- fair Could they have seen the ruins of the tho beautiful cities of Ypres Ar- Ar La Bassee Peronne St. St Quentin No Noyon on Lens and many hunI hundreds hundreds hun hun- I of others they too would say with one voice Germany must pay The Time boche will appeal and In fact Is appealing for the sympathy of or orthe the world but the boche Is entitled to just the same degree of sympathy that the world accords to any other crim crim- inal We Ve feed and clothe the criminal criminal crim crim- inal that he lie may live to expiate his crime and we will feed teed and clothe the German people that they may live to expiate their crime and that after they have done that they may again ag be entitled to the place in the worlds world's civilization that only those who are cleansed may occupy Germany Is entitled entitled entitled en en- titled to nothing more than this and this Is s fair fall play |