The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1915-02-09
AN APPEAL FOR BEL CIC)M
Famous Author Believes Germans Will Guarantee Safety
of Food Supplies Which May Be Donated.


is called military necessity" such
means are not enough, being per
force obstructed by the diInculties OF
the situation
The grim idol Of Militarism must
have its burnt offerings; that pitiless
god Of Battle SO aptly and magniti-
Gently described in Lord Byron's
"Childe Harold"
10! where the Giant on the noun
tain stands,
| His blOodred tresses deep ming in the
sun,
With oeath-shot glowing in his fiery
hands,
And eye that scorcheth all it glares
| upon;
Restless it rolls, now fx'd, and now
| Flashing afar-and at his iron feet
! Destruction covers, to mark what
| deeds are done;
| All join the chase, but few the tri-
umph share,
| The Grave shall bear the chiefeSt
prize away,
And Havoc scarce for JOY can mum
ber their array
Time presses. The wolf of famine Is
| at the Very aoo-~ or- hearts grow
Id with terror and with pity as we
See once pIU.r-I 49,, al, happy Bel
gium a land Of prosperous and hap
py people. shadowed by the fearful
spectres of Hunger and Disease. And
while we do all we can and all we may
| Aep back these menacing destroy
erS Of the innocent, we clasp hands
across the sea with America and look
to her frank and peaceable reason
ableness, her boundless compassion
and benevOlence for wider, more con-
| ~ he
will most assuredly move the German
T administration in Belgium to see tC
the free distribution Of food and tC
guarantee that such distribution shall
. be made for the benefit of the Belgian
. civil population. I believe the Ger.
mans would willingly consent to this
. if they have not already consented
= for it cannot be even to their own ad
!, vantage that disease should be sowI
broadcast in Belgium and the entire
+ | industrial population decimated b.
! famine.
. Germany Has Heart Somewhere.
4 Indeed, as a matter Of fact, Mr.
) Whitlock, the American Minister a
f Brussels, has made definite and Of
= fetal statement to the effect that h
- is satisfied by close investigation OF
= the spot that not an ounce Of FOO
f sent in by the Commission for Re
k lief is being appropriated by the Ger
e mans. 1t should, perhaps, be consid
e cred that Germany has heart some
where. There are natural emotion
1t in the mortal composition Of Ger
d man as we'll as in a Frenchman or
4, Internationally strung, no doub
ID and differently placed-but no man {
1T any nationality whatsoever, is mad
l. solely of "blOOd and iron," accordin
,e to that hackneyed, catch-penn
ID phrase. which seems to have bee
H. ~.
go / am not one Of the many wh
or 'thrilP over the various sensation;
,d reports gotten up by the worlds pres
a. whether such reports amanate frol
nt Great Britain or the wolff Bureau
81 I am as doubtful of statements circ,
lated by British journalism as
- those which are unblushingly "mat
nf in Germany
Each newspaper proprietor has h
III III own axe to grind, and not always do
~ honesty or unsullied patriotism ha'
ne much to do with the grinding. Mo
% % mischief than can be easily calculate
" is caused by irresponsible journals
ne who are allowed to print their Who'll
nc useless and unnecessary person
ch opinions on this great wOrld-cris
he Bismarck was wont to say: "The wi
We dows which our press breaks we shs
DIV have to pay for and often such wi
lat dowS are broken as can only
ur mended by bitter national sufferin
ay When Edward the Seventh ascend
the British throne he had somethi!
ar to say on one occasion OF the ge
tlemen of the Press''-and he e
yer pressed the hope that they would =
,ur their best to foster amity and go
ost will between the British Empire a
ID: other nations.
ess The False RumOrs Spread by t
,rd Press.
,od That the gentlemen" nave not
nd 1accuitted themselves is a sad a
ali cober tact, and in these very days.
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