Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1914-10-03
The ALLIES VIEW
By Alfred w. Bryce.

Have the leaders OF thought IN Ge"-
many lost their power of statement?
Or are they hampered and betrayed by
the badness of the cause they set them
selves to defend in their attempts to
influence public opinion in this coun-
try? Such appeals as have been ad-
dressed to us by the professors, the
jurists and the public men of Germany
have not succeeded in influencing the
general current of opinion here toward
the belief that Germany had this war
thrust upon her. They denounce Eng
land, impute to that people the vices Of
ingratitude, bad faith, hypocrisy, and
brutal national egotism That was
their first statement. Now it is Rus
sias turn-Russia has given a dang
erous turn to the conflict, nobody but
Russia to blame for the outbreak Of
the war. In their earlier declaration
they said sit is England whose fault
has extended the present war into Z
world war, thereby endangering oar
joint ulture" Then they tell us it is
the "libels our enemies propagate"
which have created a state of mind
when half of the world falls upon
Germanq full of hatred and enby" Ev-
cry we'll informed American knows
that public opinion here has been
formed from the study of historical
sources themselves not upon the basis
of any particular misrepresentation.
The American public opinion can be
changed, but not by the methods of the
German leaders have thus far employ
ed.
Wilhelm II. has a strong and evil
IDENTIFY sincere faith, judging from his
exhortations to his soldiers. For
ward with God" Have faith in God!"I
March. with God!" he tells them. A
cathedral is a house of God, and many
medieval architects provided the
| house of God with towers. In the light
of contemporary German progress,
these must be regarded as military
structures, and are peculiarly BETTING
to the military religiously of the pres
ent. They are destined to perish wher-
ever they happen to be in a country
hostile to German culture and are
within range of the marches with God.
The pithy observations of Captain Won
Falkenhausen, late German military
attache at Toxic, on the destruction OF
Gods house at Rheims by Gods March
ers, show the grave, the fatal impro-
priety of towers in church artichtec-
ture:
High towers and spires have be-
come important factors in modern war
fare. To direct the fire of the howit-
zers and observe the results, observa-
lions must be made from high points
such as towers.
I'm addition, high towers serve as
wireless stations and become formid-
able weapons in the hands of the army
holding them. If the French, as they
admit, have used the city of Rheims as
one of their strongholds in the battle
now raging and have used the spires
of the buildings for observation pur-
poses, the German artillery would haze
been compelled to demolish them"
The French architects seem to have
displayed devlish malignity, an a.
most president Germanphobia. North
ern France is regrettably rich in these
irresistible attractions to the German
artillerists.
Gods house must fall whereve?
Gods Marchers can get at it. The tow.
ers and spires invite attack. Chapel
and clerestory, apse and transept.
shrine, reliquary and treasury, statue
and tomb, carving and picture and
window, apostle and saint, the garner
ed worship of crative centuries: God,
Marchers need to destroy them; and
why not? God directs them. His
Marchers leave Him the crypt