Show MONSTROUS IDEA i. i IN GERMAN MIND i 1 Treachery Murder Barbarity Anything Praiseworthy if for i. i Prussia's Gain Y 1 Abominable System That Must Be Overthrown If the World Is to Be Worth Living In Regardless of the tho Cost T TT TT This I have seen I could not believe It unless I had seen lt It through and through For sev severa several sev sev- era eral weeks I lived with it I i went all about it and back of it Inside and out of It was shown Jj tf to me until me-until until finally I came to realize that the Incredible was t true It is monstrous it Is unthinkable unthinkable un un- thinkable but it exists It Is H ithe i- i the Prussian system F. F. F C. C Wal Wal- t cott cotto 1 foH- foH H H HP P At a conference of field men of the United States food administration held In Washington F. F C. C Walcott pictured conditions ns as he had found them In Inthe Inthe the countries Invaded by German GermanI I arms Mr Walcott ser served d with Mr Hoover er on the Belgium relief reBel commission commission commis commis- sion slon when this nation wn was attemptIng attempt attempt- tag Ing to r feed cd the tar Starving civilian population pop pop- of ot Belgium Poland and northera northern northern north north- ern era ern France In hits hIS address he had pictured such stich conditions as he said he be could not believe unless he lie had seen the tile situation through and through and h had d lived with It for tor weeks He showed these terrible conditions to be bethe bethe bethe the result of ot deliberate plans on the part of ol official Germany and In summing summing summing sum sum- ming up he said 1 Such Is the German mind ns as It was tens disclosed to me in several weeks' weeks contact with officers of ot the staff Treaties are scraps of ot paper I If they hinder binder German alms Treachery Is condoned and praised if It It fans falls In with German Interest Men lands lads countries are German prizes Populations Populations are to be destroyed or enslaved so Germany may gain Women are Germanys Germany's prey children are spoils qt gf war God gave gaye Germany the Hohen- Hohen zollern ollern and together they are destined P to rule Europe and eventually e the world world thus thus reasons the kaiser Coolly deliberately officers of the G German staff start permeated by this monstrous monstrous monstrous mon mon- philosophy discuss the denatIonalization denationalization dena dena- of peoples the destruction destruction destruction tion of ot nations the undoing of ot other civilizations d for Germanys Germany's account In uIn all nIl the world such a n thing has never ne been The human mind has never neter conceived the like Even en among barbarians the thing would be ible The mind can cnn scarcely grasp the fact that these ese things 8 are proposed proposed pro pro- posed find and d done ne by a modern government government government govern govern- ment professedly a Christian government government govern govern- ment In the family of ot civilized na na- na- na This system has got to be rooted out If It It takes everything In the world If It It takes everyone e of ot us this abomination must be overthrown It must be ended or the world Is not worth orth living In No matter how long It takes no matter how much It costs we e must endure to the end with agonized agonized agon ngon- I France with Imperiled Britain I with shattered Belgium with shaken Russia We must hope that Germany will wUl have hare a new birth as ns Russia Russin Is being reborn re re- born We must pray as ns we fight against the evil that Is In Germany that the good which Is In German Germany Tray may somehow prevail We must trust troSt that In the end a Germany really renny great r With the strength of ot a wonderful race may find Its place as ns one of ot the the broth broth- of nations In the new world that Is to be The Ike Tb responsibility res y of ot success or failure rests now upon our shoulders the eyes of ot the world are anxiously watching ng us Are we going to be able to o rise to the emergency throw off oft our Inefficiency and prove pro that democracy Js is s safe ae for Cor the world orld 7 In Tn the above ft Cement ement Mr Walcott Walcott Walcott Wal Wal- cott has a condition that must be changed If It America If it the world Is to remain a fit place to tolIe live lI In And the only way by which this Oils change can be effected Is the detent defeat defeat de de- de- de feat tent of ot German arms In this war Nothing good nothing but evil can come out of ot Germany so long as the German Gennan people are controlled by a military autocracy and the Gorman German people cannot be made mode to realize this until this autocracy Is crushed hed Ther The r pint of ot militarism that has ma made e of ot the Germans a n robber and a n murder de murder nation must be bc utterly t the world Is to remain free Cre and to accomplish push this those of us who cannot fight In France must lend our rt to our men who are fi fighting for tor us |