Show VARIOUS CROPS CROPS we are talking about our crops here in america they also have crops in europe which they talk about but there is one crop they have over there and which seems to conc concern ern them most and which they talk about in a different way to what the american people do that crop in germany which is most talked about and which is to be gathered annually is the crop of boys of them which come to the age of fifteen or sixteen this vast army of germanas germanys Germ anys childhood this beautiful host hoh of boys are called to the colors to go to the front nat not to fight and get back home with honors but to die like sheep or ca cattle atle in a shambles if any country on the globe were sending a million and a quarter of sh beep or cattle or hogs to a useless and utterly wasteful death each year the rest of f th the countries would rise up in rebellion rebellion and demand that sue such h waste cease immediately but it seem to matter about the waste of boys humanity as at present constituted w will ill not do anything to save these boys instead of allowing them to live and grow into a fine arid and useful manhood they slaughter th them em and their flesh for the birds ana ani beasts on the hillsides hill sides or decay in the terrible trenches I 1 I 1 th the terrors of this war can never be told nor even imagined and yet the neutral countries stand by without protest |