Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-04-05
|DANISH PROFESSOR
BARES KULTURE
Gleason Throws New Light on
Atrocities; Epic of Belgium
Relief in "War Bread"
(BY MAXWELL ALEY)

new Ork, April 4.-Ine most SEN
sational attack on German Kultur
since "J'Accuse." is found in "Hurrah
and Hallelujah!" a book by a Danish
professor, DR.. j. p. Bang, which has
Just appeared here in an English
translation.
DR.. Bang uses few arguments of his
own-he merely quotes German lead
ers to show that they are responsible
for Germany's dreams of world do
minion, her ideas of ruthlessn ess
which have turned the neutral world
against her, and her present physical
and moral plight. The quotations he
gives from HIerman poets, prophets
professors and preachers, from the
time of the early nineteenth century
down to the hate-inspired present, are
staggering when one considers their
full meaning.
When DIR. Bang quotes a German
pastors paraphrase. on the Lords
Prayer in which God is asked to For
give in merciful long-suffering each
bullet and each blow which misses it's
mark" the madness appears to have
reached the climax.
War Diary Revelations
What America has done in the war,
and what she should have done fur
nish Arthur Gleason with the theme
for the first part of his new book,
Our Part in the Great War" but in
terest will be equally aroused over the
second section which tells of visits
through the devastated districts and
stories of the peasants, and the third
which tells what German soldiers
themselves have written in their let
ters and diaries of the war. Mr.. Glea-
son, one of our correspondents whose
reliability is beyond question, was
given the exclusive privilege of access
to the English and French collections
OF war diaries taken from German
soldiers captured and slain, and what
these narratives reveal of frightful-
ness and atrocities adds new chapter
to the grim chronicle of the conflict.
book that is of particular inter-
est just now is Madeline u. Doty's
Short Rations," for if any one thing
in the present war situation holds the
attention of neutrals and belligerents
alike, it is the question of Germany's
food supply. Miss Doty has been in
Germany twice since war broke out
first in 1915, and again in the clos
ing months of 1916. A lone American
woman. she went adventuring through
the beleaguered country in the inter
ests of peace, and though beset, by
spies. saw and learned many things
which a man might have missed. Re
cause of the food shortage, she pre-
diets revolution, and out of revolu-
ton, peace.
In some fashion, unknown to either
the publishers or Miss Doty, an ad-
vance copy of "Short Rations" reach
ed Germany recently, where it was
very bitterly received. A cable dis
patch says that the Cologne Gazette
speaks of Miss Doty as "the snoop-
ing Madeline" and concludes "Evi-
IDENTIFY we should always supervise
most vigorously American women who
travel amongst U.S."
Story of Belgian Relief
The forced withdrawal of the Amer
lean Commission for Relief in Bel
gium lends special interest to Edward
Eyre Hunts book, War Bread"-
an epic of splendid achievement. Mr..
Hunt, after a series of thrilling war
adventures, landed i'll Antwerp Just
before the bonn mbardment and fall, and
later, when relief work was organ
lied, was made American delegate for
the Antwerp district. In "War Bread"
he gives the story of the Commissions
organization, it's difficulties, and its
accomplishments. 1t is a story to make
every American thrill with pride over,
what Hoover and his helpers succeed
ed in doing. Hunt, like most of those
helpers, was little more than a boy.
His book is not Just another war
book" but a human document of Bel
gian reconstruction in which are set
down the facts about the feeding,
clothing, housing and employment of
the Belgian people, and his own i'm
pressions and observations.
Great Britain's Part
We have all heard people ask what
has England done in this war?" or
say That she is "muddling through"
and letting France bear the hrunt.
PAUL d. Cravath, an American corpo-
ration lawyer. gives us a very differ
ent version of her share in> the con-
hict in Great Britain's Part" He had
an unusual chance to see the work of
the British army from the business
end, and he describes its organization
from general headquarters through