Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1917-06-20

release to the world the story of ap
palling barbarities perpetrated by the
Germans there-many of them too
horrible to describe from a public
platform, but all of them serving to
show the people here what they
might expect in the event of Hun
invasion of the United States; what
sort of enemy, in fact, it is that we are
fighting; exposing the fiendish dew
iltry which caused thousands of pois-
oned candies, filled with typhus germs,
to be dropped from German aero
planes for Rumanian children to pick
up and eat; the tragic story of how
the Queens little boy, her youngest
picked us one of these poison-laden
sweets in her garden, ate it, sickened
almost at once, lowered between life
and death for weeks and finally died
il her arms, this story was written by
he Queens own pen and sent to a
lady who has recently returned to
New York, and who has the letter with
her now; the shocking story of how
brutal German soldiers forced gen.
tie and refined Rumanian woman to
disrobe in public, and then drove
them in groups through the streets:
the story of Rumania's pitiable plight
today, with disease raging unchecked
for lack of surgeons, physicians and
medical supplies; the blood curdling
details of scores of submarine sink
ings where non-combatant victims
struggling in the water for life were
ruthlessly shot or struck down at
short range; or, when they escaped
that horrible fate, where they were
cast adrift in small boats on the high
seas to die one after the other from
madness and from thirts; and in a diff
ferent category, the thrilling stories
OF those combats in the air which are
taking place every day over the fight
iEg lines in France, stories of courage
and daring, the like of which has
never before been equalled in the wild
est realms of fiction; the countless
stories of noble heroism, of human sac
rifice and suffering for great cause,
which show in their true light the de-
tails of modern warfare, so persist
emily concealed, and so urgently need
&C to stir the peoples pulse and to
make them feel and realize the truth
and the full truth about this gigantic
struggle between might and right on
the one side and might alone on the
other.
Reverse this policy of secrecy, let
the people at home have these and
other true pictures of the war as it
really is, and firmly believe the re-
Spouse would be electrical-the peo-
pie of the United States would rise as
one man to their task, fired with pa
triotic feryor born of full and true
understanding of what this war means
to them and their future, of the indi-
vidGal obligations it imposes upon
those at home as we'll as upon those
who are constantly facing death on the
firing line for the sake of those at
home
And this, it seems to me. is of par
aa-ount importance in view of circum-
stances which exist today, clearly in
dicating that, as this country organ
lies for war quickly or slowly, well or
badly. earnestly or haltingly-so will
the end of the war be soon or long in
coming"
Mr. Burton said that one of the rea-
sons for the strange lethargy" of the
people of the United States was the
policy of a close censorship practiced
by the Entente Allies an dthat this pol
icy already has cost countless thous-
ands of lives and untold treasure"
Il earnestly hope it will not be re-
peated here" said Mr.. Burton. The
public is entitled to all the war news,
except those matters which military
and naval experts judge to be of ac-
tual value to the enemy. Establish a
censorship board of five newspaper
men, with consulting military and ma
val advisers, and proceed upon that
broad and simple basis and there will
be an end to all thos foolish censorship
the public will get the facts
and military secrets unsuitable for
publication will be automatically with
held"
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