The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-02-06
WAR ECHOES

sArno Dosch in the Worlds Work: To the east of Chambry's few houses runs a bad byroad. : Where this byroad joins the highway at the end of hun dred yards is walled-in graveyard, one wall running at right angles to the road and facing the open fields. This wall is pocked with bullet holes except where the larger loopholes were knocked through it from within.
 Just as it stands the wall should be preserved. It proved to be one of France S stoutest defences. Before 1t was fought one of the first terrific combats of the battle of the Marne. Against it the Ger man army broke. It had been hurled across Belgium and nearly 150 miles into France, to be stopped and routed before this cemetery wall.
 As a cemetery wal 1t is useless now, anyway. The graves outside are almost as thick as within, and they extend to the far side of the plateau. Behind the wall the immortelles were still lying all awry as they had been knocked in haste of combat. Before 1t the fresh graves had been dug among blood-red poppies.
 In every direction, and as far as we could see for a mile, there were graves, some unmarked, which were evidently filled by blonde men in dirty gray uni forms, others marked with rude crosses, and by that we know they contained dark CT men in badly fitting long blue coats and red trousers. The crosses were made by tying two sticks together with cord. The winter will rot the cord. and by spring German and French graves will be alike unmarked.
 Cleveland Plain Dealer: Representa- tive Bartholdt and his associates are doing Germany no good, and they are doing themselves much harm, by their pro-German propaganda.
 When they threaten to carry Germany's case to the polls and make the German cause an issue in American politics, they are playing with dynamite The Ameri- can people will not tolerate a campaign of alienism and the chief sufferers will be the so-called German-Americans who promote it.
 Germany is the only country engaged in this war which has officially under- taken to direct American opinion. It Is the only belligerent which maintains a lobby in the United States to incite pub lie sentiment against other belligerents with whom we are friendly. The only foreign element in this country which is assaiing the President of the United States and seeking to control the gov ernment of the United States is the Ger man element, and that sort of thing can be easily overdone.
 When the representatives of German American socities publicly pledge them selves in effect to oppose all cano.~- -es for office who will not sacrifice American interests to German interests, they are straining American patience to the break ing point. They introduce international passions and prejudices into our politics. /It is a pity that Carl Schurz is not alive to preach little wholesome con- mon sense to German-Americans who lave succumbed to the German propa- ganda and who are following such blind leaders as Representative Bartholdt. He could have told them that when they undertake to organize political party in the United States on foreign senti- ment they are inviting reprisals that are not likely to cease when a treaty of peace is signed.
 The American people will not indefin- itely submit to alien meddling in their domestic affairs. They will not counte- nance the sacrifice of American to foreign interests. They will not allow the peace and security of the United States to be jeopardized by a foreign propaganda for the benefit of foreign nation that is involved in a world war If MT Bartholdt and his associates do not understand this, we are sorry for them. because they are piling up tr01ble for themselves.