Show T IA A nation will c cr be able to make ameruss for damare FERTILE SOIL IS S DESTROYED DESTROY innumerable unexploded shells will make hake cultivation precarious Pre earlou doubtful if land can reclaimed by A patterson EPSON what hat must germany pity fora that question can imn be art answered only when it la Is remembered that germany started the terrible conflict in europe fox no renson reason other than that cf ct conquist cinqui con quiet st suld loot mart start pd ed it only to gallfy the selfish dimill eions of a selfish people tor for world acrid domination stint h being fly y what la is left ox 01 the cerman german nation it Is admitted by those 4 were directly responsible tor for the war mar and it la Is because germany fit arted N this conflict for no reason other than 4 that of conquest and loot that ger naven to the world full iw for till 11 the file defils adon alon which the has hits brought not only in no far its a ha can pay now but in so tar far as he sho can pay for yet to corae come among tho many mai mat y sett sections ions of and northern franc that I 1 personally cohered following closely on the he heels of the retreating atun army was chilt which lies iles between what were ere the cities of ott ypres and alenin approximate SO 20 miles here before khz coming of the invading doatie wae was what wa considered the he most productive wll roll of the world and the most intensely cultivated here la in a of farm villages I 1 lived the belgian Def flan peasant families happy thrifty people ench each family cultivating tiva ting tho the email small field fields which aich it owned oa no fences separated thesy these da no hedges cut them off from the land beside belde this road and gate long 1 oer tho the devastated landscape n nn lin effort to locate some familiar fani obit thit th it would rei itald them of the kt til fit X had bat known nil their lives tit d then turn away anny with ith tear tears on their meks thy could not find en one nc small object that 1 would I aull tell hem fit of the homes the only comee hear had known 4 it was geriann Ger ionn german belty cerman lust german ewton sa so german brutality abat were ete the jaso lm et of tile detraction det ruction of these nies ines of the agonies of a peaceful ful people u but an can possibly compensate cheso ofil for their lose loss for tar the misery miery aey a have suffered and must abill euf Suf pr tor for the homes and the associations wat nrc are gone fore tore er eri no garmany ga many in never pay in lit full ull but she site cru con I t nue liue to pay pity and I 1 iny ny a and pay liny until iw hus been bred 1 out of the german ople that de ire for nr that love i conquest that brutt kilt that it hae has il aikaa n to breed into tm fm f nr or I 1 which ha has I 1 estila d lu ili laying a whole world watte nall that LO miles betheen VJ 1 anil alid vil altya cm a MALs of that lone long a road I 1 nto ure I 1 did not seo see aoe square toot foot of 0 alsol o that was not a vart of a hell ishell crater what had once been tho the richest boll of 0 the orld Is 1 today but a waste loade so by bf the shells that fell upon it be he aube germany bought sought world domination this soil has been des destroyed troed by thousands of nhelly falling t IT ote upon another enc each h die dic ring deeper tatu into the earth until the very subsoil ban been turn over and the larid made worthless tor lor lloa iloa for or years to come it if indeed it cun can ei amerbe er be reclaimed unexploded shells burled buried in soil ull there lie today on the surface of this land many thousands of une c plodded hell 11 and 0 cre are hurled buried in the eoll many many thousand more eich one of thera them a menace to any farma who attempts to put a plot into tho boll soil in an effort to reclaim it and this land Is destroyed aa as the homec mere ere destroyed den troyed because of ger nian mall ambition of german cruelty crupl ty of gennan lust last of bennan wantonness and german brutality inho ift Is to pay par for it who la Is to destruction that it may again 1 be ile put into condition for cultivation that it rony may serse the purposes of the hu man race shall the peaceful belgian gleaso peasants ants who had no part in the starting of this con conflict filet suffer their losa loss without compensation shall these peasants wao have endured nd arel more inure than four long years of home homeless lets agonies R abo vho hnot sulf suffered cred not alone t tt loss of homes hotnes and land but the loss of relatives and friends as mell tie lie ithe ones to risk destruction in the effort to elgain 1 bring 1 thes lands funds buck back to a condition where here cult cultivation hatlon 14 1 ble ahall be aloun to bits by the of these hells shells hidden as they lire tire cenath the surface of the ground when the plow ilow strikes and ex paole them it if d those shells continue to ba a menace fur ur to come but who ho are to risk their lives in removing them could the american people generally 11 ana especially the american fann fam ers have seen the sights I 1 hove have seen 4 Z 4 aoa i ANO ground by bristing Bui sting of big shells jl roadways and the families that rated the fields not on the little durms bu but in 11 built vil villages loges of to people each i 0 00 Is I 1 complete 1 4 it la to hard hurd to realize today that theae these villages Til lages ear existed that the land I lions klong this long loi straight strait ht road N a as ever eer t cultivated mer produced boodt foodstuffs buffs for or a people in fact it la is hard to I 1 realize today that this mas ever an in 41 habited country of these I 1 direful villages the ming of these fein people there Is po trace left there are not even piles plies 1 of alris il ris of brick and mone and lumber to mail moth the spots where T they N 1 no tiling by he the returning pe imants wear lly dredging back to that spot had hen been home to them and to ther an ancestor cestoni il foi fol almost coul ui 1 ae eia f izen erni ion ca 4 gnarl I 1 ho lie plat pla t chero N alere not only their home horlie but their tillage N had stood 4 1 I limp 1 p sein old men and mo f ba b four lonar long years of exile nione long this long straight road between spree pres and wait they would eay say ae an it X say it la Is th ohp german who must pay it Is the th german who must mut risk rink de st tru rution aloa in the effort to put this land again into condition for cultivation I 1 bel believe lele that one condition of the peace treaty should be that germony Ger ninny either ns its one nation or proportionately from the several email small nation nations that may he ile formed out of the german lerman em pire should C 4 its clas clashes Res to the colors each year as it has done in the past but in place of putting gun guns into lito tha tho hands of these men and train ang ng thim for the ps of vat mar v at a bor of conein con qin that it should put theoe mon into te the territories ehe she haa has devastated to retA 1111 1 the boll soil and tind to rebuild the villages the towns and cities we huns hae destroyed let there germans maxis under cuard guard of ml falan troop troops tak the risk of destrie de tion let them guide the plow that may the unexploded shell shelf and let germany pay them the meager tt the german germun soldier while they are del doans a ibis should pay anc ant pay and pay that to I 1 c lia ilia near 0 thins thing to nn an mat germany fler caa nn rn ur to the wc r ld id but he ghe should ply all that it la Is huni humanly anly kolbu pol po ible bU for a to pay tho ho irive at so ruthlessly 1 despoiled des polled the world her ifer people should 1 pay and paty and pay until they liae lear lied beayon I 1 the shadow of a doubt that amr for tho the pur purpose lyse of confluent conf lueit qt tor for the purpose of 0 loot for the ditl 11 cation of clel li Is the rost buil 1 nesi they could poI possibly bly engage in and remember that the denst atlon to bo be wen sern along 1 the th road from front dipre to Is but an example of till 11 the terrible destruction to be found throughout Khoat mcgluin 11 and northern I 1 rance and and other 1 itin mytrle tries that hat t have ben be n by ho me cco quest becking armies of the trill ren ember too that it lit ti not alone the devastation that ie Is to be paid for but it Is the mork and the tear nna and tip the et oni onile jr 1 s of every nation that fig called into the struggle etrue cle to defeat the he th purposes of a people that the world might be a decent place in which free men might lire live |