| Show MONSTROUS IDEA IN GERMAN MIND treachery murder barbarity anything praiseworthy if for prussian sias gain abominable system that must be overthrown if th the world Is to bo be worth living in regardless of the cost this I 1 have seen I 1 could not k believe it unless I 1 had seen it 4 through and through for sev eral cral weeks I 1 lived with it I 1 A went all about it and back of it 4 inside and out of it was shown 0 ji to me until finally I 1 came came to 06 4 J realize that the incredible was i 14 true it Is monstrous it is un 4 thinkable but it exists it is the prussian system F C wal 5 5 cott 14 T wl ja at a conference of field men of the united states food administration held in washington F C walcott pictured conditions as he had found them in the countries invaded by german arms mr walcott served with air iari 1 hoover on the belgium Delg lura relief commission when this nation was attempting to feed the starving civilian population of belgium poland and northern france la in his address he had pictured such conditions as he said he could not believe unless lie he had seen alio th 0 situation through and through and bad lived with it tor for weeks ne lie showed these terrible conditions to be the result of deliberate plans on the part of official germany and in summing up he said such Is the german mind as it was disclosed to me in several weeks coi contact tact with officers of the staff treaties are scraps of paper if they hinder german aims treachery is condoned and praised it if it falls in with walh german interest men lands countries are germ germin german in prizes populations are to be destroyed or enslaved so germany may gain women are germanys germanas Germ anys prey children are spoils of war god gave germany the and together they are destined to rule europe and eventually the world thus reasons the kalser kaiser coolly deliberately officers of the german staff permeated by thilmon philosophy discuss the denationalization of peoples the destruction of nations the undoing of other civilizations for germanys germanas Germ anys account in all the world such a thin thing has never been the human mind has never conceived the like even among barbarians the thing would be incredible the mind can scarcely grasp the fact that these things are proposed and done by a moden government professedly a christian government in the family of civilized nations tills this system has got to be rooted out it it takes everything in the world it if it takes everyone of us this abomination must be overthrown it must be ended or the world is not worth living in no matter how long it takes no matter liow how much it costs we must endure to the end with ngon agon bcd france with imperiled britain with shattered belgium with shaken russia we must hope that germany will have a new birth as russia is being reborn wo we must pray as we fight against the evil that Is in germany that the good which Is in germany may somehow prevail pr evall we must trust that in the end a germany really great with the strength streng th of a wonderful race amny find its place as one of the brotherhood of nations in the new world that is to be the responsibility of success or or failure rests now upon our shoulders tte tho eyes of the world are anxiously watching us are we going to be able to rise to the alie emergency throw off pur our inefficiency and prove that democracy Is safe tor for the world in the ab above ove statement mr walcott walove has described a condition that must muk be changed if america it if the world is to remain a ht fit place to live in and the only way by which this change can be effected elTe clod is the detent defeat of german arms in this war anvar nothing good nothing but evil can come out of germany so long as the i german people are controlled by a military a ry autocracy au to cracy and the G german era people cannot be ran deto realize ize th this until this autocracy is crum crushed bed the spirit of militarism that has made of the germans a robber and a murder nation must be utterly crushed it if the world is to remain free and to accomplish this those of us who cannot fight in franco france must lend our support to our men who are fighting for us |
