Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1915-02-20
THINGS WE DON'T SEE.

The most significant incidents Of
The great war are not always told
under the biggest headlines. cable
from Amsterdam says the govern
mcnt probably viii send 100000
Germans who have means sufficient
10 maintain themselves and who are
not eligible To service in the military,
out Of the country 10 remain during
The continuance 81 the war IN order
TO relieve the food situation. Another
brief cable dispatch that came re-
Gently from liernr was Of deep sig
niflcanoe. II stated that more than
100 commercial aud political organi-
cations In Austria Hungary have Just
sent protest 10 the minister OF the
interior because The press Is not per-
mitied 90 discuss the serious economic
situation Of The dual monarchy
The kaiser IN Telegram 10 his
chancellor. telling of The recent vic
tory of the Germans over the RUS
SLAMS. says;
My 10y was tempered by the sight
of that one time 40 flourshing region
which for long weeks has been IN the
hands Of nm enemy without human
fcollnsa The enemy has In senseless
fury destroyed during his flight al
most the last house cur benutiful
MaMfian country " wilderness.
what cannot be replaced has been
lost but I know myself To be one with
every German when | solemnly prom
Ike thnt everything within human
mower shall be done to create anew
fresh life from the ruins
In other words, East Prussia, q
year ago was garden spot Of the Ger
man empire has been made by the
car IA the kaiser made Belgium.
= "a Crouch writer --anes.-. remarked
that this world IL made up Of fthe
things We see. and the things we cont
sec, and the things we don't see nc
the things that count" Never was
this more applicable than 90 the
present war. Dispatches tell of events
az the front. but what Of conditions
~ the rear, out Of range Of the how
iizersg
For, when the day of reckoning
comes. II Is the internal situation,
not the trench business. that viii de-
termine the dag and the stInulations
81 peace. Not how far will the guns
shoot, but how long will the people
stand the starving
We have intimations In the press
reports OF threatened labor riots in
England. Turkey IL worse than bank
rupt. japan Is bcEnniug 10 show her
true colors hy demanding equal
standing In spheres OF British mflu-
ence In China. Already an influential
newspaper Ia Hamburg Inns had the
temerity 10 call attention TO 'the
sacrifices that are being made for the
emperor and the English soyereigns
have taken steps 60 stop the bitter
yatires in the British press on the
kaiser, because II Is noted that after
all Engmnd's royal family Is also OF
German descent The satire was get
ting too near home, Just as, when a
man came 10 David claiming thai he
hal killed David's enemy. Saul, Da-
via exclaimed IN horror How vast
thou not afraid to stretch forth thine
hand 10 destroy the Lords annoint-
odg" And David called one of the
Young men. and said, "tio near, and
fali upon him. And he smote him that
he died" David was one of the Lords
Amounted, as was Saul,
When the press censorships are
r,ised when the cables that have
bean cut are spliced. when the people,
ana not the warmakers, have their
saS what truths shall we learnt Not
until then can accurate history begin
~ be written Indeed, it may be that
only the next generation win set the
unyarnishcd facts.