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Show MAJOR CLYDE SMITH OF OODEN GIVES "JACK" UTHEFIEIO AN ANSWER TO HIS MANY SLURS I Editor ngden Standard. Ogden. t j pear Sir I'pon nv return jTj r,-,r. D A RuwHI fMterdJ Ration was ealM to an srtlcfc SB-L,nnr SB-L,nnr m the fKdcn Examiner under 2?7, of S'Pt written by a Mr Lit-ufleW Lit-ufleW of this city; It swmn that Mr. tjtUeflrld w fit to dip faia pen in rro! and take the Ordfn Standard . r orely to task for our BfVOer -nd nrif. maintaining that we aiclm and abcttinir OUi rmemlei jg efforts to escape a Just pen- IrtT for tin ir crlm I cannot behove 'hat an Intelligent d'DR public 1? In any war In t In sitht r Mr Littli t opinion of the German people as a vbofo bUl ' ,nrr" he- hi attack n Americanism, which In ? rttly does no' associate with humanl- irianl?m I presume U will ho ncce-. ry f"r ,n rnat' ome explanation of my portion ,n r'n'' no fin' impowlb'- within the narrow eon 1 iines of his Intellect, to f:nd room for aytiunc other than "Hatred." a thing l for which ho heartily eondemns the Htm In nil OWU letter. I am extremely foitv that a few rflDarks to you to the effect that mi . n faon'oV Cloee association with the Ger-0HD5 Ger-0HD5 In ,hr: b"rne had led rm- to ' :f conclusion that they were not so yejj different from the ponernl run if rjpan bt la should have resulted in i the teniMtlon bc-mc brought agates! nr paper of "Hun propagandlsm A "That my "lafemont 10 the effort that: pirv of 'he f.troritie? which wp read jrlor to our entrance Into the war has : ines hen disproven. should have re-f fulted in the direct charge of Pro-Ger-BiEism being brought against you; ! tbat my statement to the effect, that ; the Germans were the only nation in Europe which apparently gave us', credit for accomplishing anything in; (l war and that those who were our allies were now treating us more as enemies than as friends should ba..-,, broupbt forth such a tirade from a , aaD who if he spent anv time in Eu- i ' ' I j rope among the common people an the soldlera of oor own and the allied nations, known that what I av largely tnje I prentime that my attitude toward the Germans daring the six months 1 spent In the front lines against theii soldiery was as bitter as the bitterest of Mr Llttlefleld's Invectives; I used I often to think of oor chief executive- remark to the effect that we were not flghtinc the German people and won der where ho eot his authority fcr ;such a statement; at that time, during dur-ing the heat and turmoil of batt'e, there was no room in my heart for any sentiment other than loathinz and j horror for all thlncs German; to me they were all tarred with the same j brush and the mere mention of anv thine German was enough to cause an j acute and abldinp nau-ra Following the sfgnlnc of the Armistice Armis-tice came orders to Join the army of occupation and I shall, never forget the feelings such as announcement caused in the hearts of the men. I don't really know what wo expected to find In Germany, but wo were ai; convinced that we had been ordered to report to the first station outside of hell and (hat we could look for all kinds of treachery', double-dealing and chicanery. We reached Coblenz on the 13th of December; at that time the only troops In the city ahead of us was one battalion bat-talion of the aSth infantry sent the-.' to police the city; on the 1 t h . I stood in my window in a German home and watched a long column of our troops enter the city on their way over he Rhine to occupy the territory assigned as; the German husband, au electtit ll engineer, and his wife stood beside me, absolutely astounded at the flood of Americans; they had been told that there were only 70.000 Americans m Kurope and this was the first intima-'lon intima-'lon they had that they had been deceived; de-ceived; he showed me a paper under iate of November 3rd which" stated ' that everywhere on the western front j the German lino were holdlne end that fbo situation was entirely satisfactory' satisfac-tory' to the high command, and you jknow what was happening to the west ern front on November 3rd. This wis' the first direct information I had received re-ceived that the German people as a' whole were being deceived as to the j (actual state of affairs I found out' afterwards that they had received onlv such Information a,s a guilty, fear-ridden government cared or dared to give them; that a tissue of lies and ilabrie of falsifications had been bull: up calculated to keep them in ignor-lance ignor-lance of the true state of affairs; that I they had been told and fulh b lit I that the Americans killed all pri on ers; this I know to be a fact, for at one time in the Argonne 1 had an old 1 German prisoner beg me to kill him and spare bis son. who was also a prisoner, because he was the last of five sons and would be the sole support sup-port of his mother It was almost impossible im-possible to convince tho prisoner that 1 1 ho Americans did not make a practice ot killing prisoners, and that no young girl would be safe jn the occupied territory ter-ritory It was ten days or two week Utter we entered Coblenz before the German girls began appearing on the streets. Between the 1st of January and th 20th of July I hud every opportunit to meet the German in his home and see his family life. 1 did a great de.il of operative work in the German hospital hos-pital at Coblenz becauee age of German doctors, and there was thrown into intimate uuui.! Germans from every walk of life mJ in every characteristic, save only that of an insane belief in military superiority. superior-ity. I found him about as the average human being. With the German government, Its rulers, ihe military regime, its system of education, its fabric of lies and de-celt de-celt practiced upon its own people as well as upon the world at large, 1 have no traffic. No one denied that they conducted a barb. irons warfare and that they com-m'tted com-m'tted many atrocities, but when we attempt to fasten the crime of deliber Ul luuruer upon seventy millions of people it is well to examine into the facts of the case before the verdic"' is pronounced When I am told that some twenty million mothers condom-the condom-the crime of child murder and the rape of innocent women r want 6ome proof other than the bare word of a man who writes evidently without first-hand information. in-formation. I found the German mother to be about the same as the general round of mothers the world over, loving lov-ing her child and home and conducting herself about as any mother would She did not impress me as a woman who could or would smile at the dead body of an innocent cnlld or applaud the violation of a girl. From a knowledge of the common ivpe of German, gained through seven months' close association with his home life. I am of the opinion that had the general public known the truth about atrocities being carried on by their military leaders, they would have protested against their continuance; continu-ance; whether they would have done anything further I do not know, for they had and have a wholesome fear of their government You will n iu' tub"" what happened to Maximilian Hardin who discovered some of the facta in the case and attempted to publish them throughout German The whole nation struck me as Ke-ing Ke-ing comprised of a people gone wrong through vicious teachingB, but capable! of being brought Into the light of hu man progres by a proper ay atom of cd- J ucatlon. The world cannot afford toi lose Germany with. Its 70 million of people and we cannot hope to accom plish anything If we fail to see even a possibility of their r generation through proper handling. If we are to ;hem only through eyes of hate, aa does Mr. LlttlefiHd. then let us organize or-ganize a system of extermination and rid the world once and for all of a people peo-ple so steeped In vfce and so saturated saturat-ed with vile degeneracy that there is no hope of regeneration. There should be no place In the world's economy for such a people. This, you will understand. Is simply my own private opinion developed through association, and I have no desire de-sire to force It upon anyone. If Mr Littlefield has had a better opportu nity to study the question than I have had. it o highly probable that his analysis an-alysis of the situation is more accu rate than mine. I havt been accused of b ing tin-American tin-American and of remaining in Germany Ger-many because of the rate of exchange on German marks If being somewhat of a humanitarian is being un-American, then I pleade guilty, but I always thought that "Americanism"' and "hu in.tnitarism" were -ynonomous ten s As to the charge of remaining In Ger many because of the rate of exchange on German marks, I can afford to smile, since, if Mr. Littlefield knows anything about conditions in Germany, Ger-many, he knows that every soldier there lost money every month through tne steady dropping of the value of the mark. Just a few more words before I close to refresh the memory of Mr. Little field who has evidently forgotten certain cer-tain things that occurred prior to our entrance into the -var. Does he rc ill the story published broadcast about Ihff Iflflfinfl T'.elclan rhilHr, n ivi Vi ilicir I right bands cut off at the instigation ol the German government In order to unfit them for military service? Does jhe remember the story of the hundreds of Innocent children impaled upon German bayonets? Let him write to 'the Red Cross and find out how many of these children have been discovered i in Belgium since tho signing of the ' armistice. If he is desirous of finding ut how we stand with the people who are our I allies, let him read the speech of Sir Douglas Jlalg-made before the En. parliament and countaithe number ol times Sir Douglas make mention of America's participation In the war Let hlra ask the war department why it was necessary to stop all leave prlvi leges to Italy this spring and why it was necessary for the commanding officer of-ficer at the port of Brest to deny the American soldiers leaYC tovisit the city after dark, where thoy would come in contact with the French sol dlery, and why It is now necessary for the French government to publish a pamphlet which It proposes to distribute distrib-ute to all returned American soldiers in order to "explain away" a certnin unpleasantness which has arisen. In closing, let me state that. Insofar ao I personally am concerned, .he incl dent is closed. I do not latter myai II with the beli that the public cares one whoop what I think one way or an other, and I do not propose to inflio my opinion upon it. If I am wrong fn mixing a bit of the "milk of human kindness' in the porridge pf Vjatred ' cooked by the late war, then I alone . ball Mill, r th.-n-lui If Mr Littlefield feels that his opinion carries weight with the public at lar. he will doubt k1 S less desire to continue the discussion. Htjl n uhl'l. . .-rii I nun th" nintter ovet U fl to you. Personally. I hate nothing mor I (Signed) DR. CLYDE T SMITH. Bl Major M. C . V. 8. Armv 00 W |