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HOW GERMANY MAKES WAR (Manufactuers' Record) In the May issue of the National Geographic Magazine Mr. Frederick Walcott gives some facts in regard to the war in which Germany makes war, startling in their horror if we have not already reached a point where nothing that Germany does can startle us. In the course of his article Mr. Walcott says: I went into Belgium to investigate conditions, and while there I had opportunities to talk with the leading German officials. Among others I had a -talk one day with GovernorGeneral von Bissing, who died three or four weeks ago, a man 72 or 73 years old, a man steeped in the "system," born and bred to the hardening of the headt which that philosophy develops. There ought to be some new word coined for the process that a man's heart undergoes when it becomes steeped in that system. I said to him: "Governor, what are you going to do if Engand and France stop giving these people money to purchase food?" 1 He said: "We have got that all worked out and have had it worked out for weeks, because we have ex- j pected this system to break down at any time." He went on to say: "Starvation 1 will grip these people in 30 to 60 days. Starvaation is a compelling ' force, and we would use that force ; to compel the Belgian workingmen, many of them very skilled, to go into i Germany to replace the Germans, so 1 that they could go to the front and '< fight against the English and the i French. "As fast as our railway transportation could carry them, we would transport thousands of others that would be fit for agricultural work across Europe, down into Southeastern Europe, into Mesopotamia, where we ( have huge, splendid irrigation works. ] All that land needs is water and it 1 will blossom like the rose. Kidding the Land of the Weak. "The weak remaining, the old and the young, we would concentrate opposite the fi^ng line, and put firing squads back of them, and force them through that line, so that the English and French could take care of their own people." It was a perfectly simple, direct, frank reasoning. It meant that the German government would use any force in the destruction of any people not its own to further its own ends. I had never thought in such terms. I had read Va nBernhardi and others, but I did not believe them, and the whole point of view was new, but gradually the truth of it all began to dawn upon me. Going from Belgium to Poland, Mr. Walcott tells the story of the loss by the Russians of Lodz and the horrors which followed. On this point he says: l motored aiong inose roaus, me two running toward Petrograd and ' the one toward Moscow. The German , officers and the Poles who were with , me, with whom I consulted, agreed in this estimate, that in about six weeks' time, a year ago last fall, approxi- ' mately 1,000,000 people along that southern road were made homeless by the burning of their dwellings, and of this 1,000,000 people at least 400,000 died in the flight along that one road. "Of the balance approximately half were saved and gathere by the Germans later into refugee camps, and today, according to the Central Relief Committee of Poland, approximately 750,000 of those miserable refugees who escaped with the Russian army are now in Russia, many of them in Siberia, and more dead than alive. Human Bones for Fertilizer. "It is those people whom the committee has been trying to relieve, because nobody has been able to get food or help to Russian Poland prop er, witn tne exception or one under?taking of the Rockefeller Foundation. "As I motored along that road, only a few weeks after that terrible retreat, I began to realize something of what had happened. Both sides of the road were completely lined for the whole 230 miles with mud-covered and rain-soaked clothing. The bones had been cleaned by the ckiws, which are in that country by rountless thousands. It is a rich alluvial country. Three-quarters of the people are agr? culturists and one-quarter industrial. "The Prussians had come along and gathered up the larger bones because they were useful to them as phosphates and fertilizer. The little finger bones and toe bones were still there with the rags of clothing. "The little wicker baby baskets that hold the habv as he swincs hv n rnno or chain from the rafters of the peasant's cottage were there by hundreds upon hundreds. I started counting them for the first mile or two and gave up in despair because there were so many. "We began to investigate the conditions of those who were still alive, those refugees who were homeless. We saw no buildings in that whole 230 miles. Everything had been destroyed; nothing but the bare chimney, black and charred, was standing; no livestock, no farm implements, in all that vast area. "I saw with my own eyes between 50,000 and 60,000 of those refugees who had been gathered together, about a thousand to a building, in rude, hardly weatherproof, barracks hurriedly put up by the Germans. "I took this matter up with the governor-general and asked him what it meant. "He said, 'I do not know; * have to sign so many of those things; but,' he continued, 'go to the governor-gen-"1' eral of the Warsaw district and he will tell you the whole story.' ? "I went there in a rage, and when < he told me that those were the facts, 1 I got up and said: i " 'General, I cannot discuss this i thing with you; it is worse than any- ] thing I ever heard of. I did not sup- ] pose any civilized nation would be 1 guilty of such a thing as this,' and I s started to walk out. ] He said, "Wait a minute; I want to ] explain this thing to you. We do not i look at it as you do. Starvation is a ' great force, and if we can use that to 1 the advantage of the German government we are going to use it. i " 'Furtherwore, this is a rich al- , luvial country. We have wanted it < and needed it for a long time, and if these people die off through starva- i tion, perhaps a lot of German people 1 will overflow into this country and s settle here; and after the war, if we . have to give up Poland, the question ] of the liberty of Poland will be solved i forever because it will be a German j province.' 1 "This deliberate plan of the German military machine to use starva- ] tion in order to destroy the Belgians 1 and Poles with a view to populating 1 these countries with Germans in the ] the German generals stated the case, j as ClUOted bv Mr. Wnlrntt. is sr? inVin- < man that it would seem almost im- < possible to believe that any man on 1 earth could be guilty of deliberately ; making statements of this kind, or i that any government should follow < such a policy, if we had not already ] learned that all of this is in direct 1 keeping with what Germany has been 1 doing since the beginning of the war i and will continue to do until com- 1 pletely conquered. COLUMBIA A CLEAN CITY. | (The Columbia Record) ( We know that there are some very j wise men in this community and we ] dislike to make any statement that ] will be contrary to their way of look- < ing at matters. Yet we must protest 1 against any statement that the segregated district of Columbia should not < go. j This is a matter in which no option ] is left to Columbia. The secretary of war insists upon clean and healthy < moral conditions in all neighborhoods i where the national army is encamped. < Columbia is not a wicked city, nothing ] like Charleston, Pensacola, Memphis ] and other water front cities in the , South. The order has gone out for Charleston and Pensacola to get the s mop and the suds and clean up. 1 Memphis has undertaken on her \ )wn responsibility to get rid of vice i conditions and claims to have done so. ] There is no denying the fact that the i city of Washington has been made a ] moral community, or largely so, by ] the action of her own citizens. j The conspicuous example of Atlanta is pointed out to prove that a city j must have a segregated district?or 11 worse. Admitting that Atlanta did't fail, that proves nothing. Atlanta had such corrupt local politics that a Jim \ Woodward could be elected mayor. ( That is why Atlanta's efforts may ^ have failed. < Just as in former days the liquor ] element controlled Columbia and kept s this city flooded with liquor until 1 Governor Manning came into office. It is not likely that those former law- ( less conditions will return. The people \ of Columbia see the good effects of prohibition, no matter how objection- ] able was the method by which it was ' obtained. Liquor in open sale will 1 never be put upon this community i again. , The vice problem may not be as < easy to handle as the liquor question, | but it can be handled?and it will be. 1 f f Kn nif J - *A ii uiE vnj ui uuiumuia uues nut ao It, the State government will. Governor : Manning has the right, and he would ; assume it, to put metropolitan police ( in Columbia. Should he fail, the fed- < eral government would exercise its rights. < Columbia is not such a dreadfully ; immoral place, by comparison, and it will not require anything but an hon- 1 est and sincere administration of law to keep out an undesirable element. They that are here must go. Others ' must be warned to stay away. < Columbia is not being singled out by Secretaries Baker and Daniels. ] Even a city of the size of Philadel- , phia has been given its orders. We read in^ the North American of July 14 that a condition of immorality , threatened soldiers and spilors in that ' great city, and the government gave the State and the city a certain time ] within which to "clean up" the city. In other words, no matter what ( this or that man says, the policy of the war department is to clean up such conditions and that policy will j be carried out, even if it does hurt 1 the tender feelings of property own- , ers who have leeched themselves into a fatness of dirty dollars, through the lives of poor girls whose souls have gone out into darkness that men might have money. Columbia will be a moral /?; ?? "In all democracies there io one 3 serious defect, and that is the diffi- j culty of arousing the people promptly in cases of emergency to the dangers of the situation. The chief danger confronting us today is the fact that j in this great Republic of 100,000,000 ] population it may be difficult to get ( the people aroused quttfkly enough to enable them to strike the initial blows effectively enough to end this war as i quickly as it ought to he onded and as it can be ended if the right sort or organization can be effected."? William G. McAdoo, Secretary of the Treasury. PARTS JEWS HAVE PLAYED IN GREAT WARS OF WORLD (New York Tribune) It is a foregone conclusion that the Jews as law-abiding citizens furnish- , ed their proportionate quota on regis- 1 tration day; neither does it suffer the i slightest doubt that as good patriots and, in gratitude for having found here a place of safety against the hatred of their brutal enemies, the native and foreign-born Jews were no slackers in subscribing for the liberty loan. But how many of them will appear in khaki, how will they behavo in the trenches, how many will return with the war medal pinned t^their breast ? There is yet insufficient autn\ \ti? material on the part played by th^ Jews in the present war, but the records of the past are known. The Old Testament is fortunately still a very accessible and pretty wel^ known book. Therefore, why wast 1 space and time in proving that th^ judges and kings were valorous waIen riors before the Lord? And who do?sa. not know the story of the Maccabei sa and the desperate defense of Jerusa' em against the powerful legion oJ Vespasin and Titus in the year 70 A(o' D. ? who is not acquainted with tht^ aeroic stand at Bar Kokba, the He*n( brew Garibaldi, and his followers a ^ Bethar 135 A. I).? But probably very few readers will know that the Jews were not only brave soldiers in their )wn country, but that the marital fe/er drove thousands of them to serve as volunteers in the armies of Alexander the Great (356-332 B. C.) and >f the Syrian kings, that Ptolemy I of Egypt (323-309 B. C.) employed them with preference as garrison troops in bis fortified places, thus recognizing, at the same time, their bravery and i Invnltv Ptolemy Philometor (died 145 B. C.) ind his Queen Cleopatra committed their whole kingdom to the two Jewish generals Orias and Dositheus, for they were the only ones in the whole irmy on whom they could implicitly rely. Two other Hebrew generals, Helgias and Ananias, saved the same lueen's throne from the onslaughts of ler own son, Ptolemy Lathyrus. He who desires to read the story in ietail is referred to the wkrks of the famous Judeo-Roman historian, Josephus Flavus (37-95 A. D.) Even Julius Caesar was obliged to speak in terms of high praise of the /alor displayed by the 1,500 Jewish soldiers engaged in his wars against Egypt and Mithridates of Pfcrgamor ^ Herod helped Mark Anthony with five lewish cohorts. But who, unless he made a special " study of the subject, would dream cA ooking for sturdy Jewsih warriors n die Arabia of Mohammed? It a levertheless, a fact that when thl prophet came to Medina he found thl whole country full of Jews ready tiai resist him, arms in hand. He>4WB?** nake of them his allll% fused. '' Under King Alfonso VI of Castiilyf n 1068, more than 40,000 Jews fought^ igainst Yusuf ibn Teshufin at the bat* J le of Zalaka. The famous traveler, Benjamin of\ Tudela (twelfth century), tells of the* ixistence of an independent Jewish I varrigr tribe living in the highlands; >f the Persian province of Khorasan, lumbering many thousand ^families < and living under a Jewish pWnce of! the name of Joseph Amarkala. In the thirty years' war the Jews iefended the city of Prague against the Swedes (1648). l About 100 years later (1742-1743)^ Rabbi Jonthan Eibenschuetz, a famous4' Talmudical scholar, together with the rabbis of the Bohemian capital, ?tood on the walls, encouraging theira coreligionists to defend the city against the attacks of the French army. When, in 1794, the population of Warsaw rose in arms, a whole Jewish regiment, under its own colonel, of the name of Burke, was fighting in the suburb of Praga against the Russian General Suwarow. Jewish sailors in the Dutch navy excelled in courage in the conquest of Brazil. And now, to come to this country^ there was only a handful of them iir the time of the revolutionary war. Buf the names of 46 Jewish soldiers aW known, 24 of them being officers. Colonel Isaac Franks and Colonel Davi^ Salisbury Franks occupy a place o honor in the military history of Ott country. Brigadier General Joseph Bloo? a\ field and eight other Jewish offic^ I distinguished themselves ih the war 1812. The American navy carries on roll of honor the names of Commode Uriah Phillips Levy, Captain Levi 11^ ers and Commander Adolf Marix. * Throughout the Civil war Jew! patriotism and gallantry shone q most brilliantly?7,878 Jews out of ^ total population of 150,000 were fourn on either of the two sides. w BUND PYTHIAN ILU The many friends of J. C. Petty re gret that he is confined at his horm Mr. Petty is known as the blind Pj thian and the members of that ord) ^ feel a deep interest in his welfare. 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