The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-11-24
MOTTO--'MIGHT MAKES RIGHT
Rernsu.. Civilization Based on
MateriaIistic Philosophy.
1t Is All a Part of the Huns
Plan of Frightfulness.
nv WILLIAM ALLEN WHITE.

speaking soldiers the German sol
diers is called "Fritzie,' ana among
the French he is known as as +b tn9
sBoche" In spite of the faet t hat
during the last six months or a year
a gradually growing distaste has been
manifest to take the German pms
ouer at all, there really Is no Keen
feeling of hatred among the armies OF
The allies toward the German soldier
-s'Fritzie" and the "Boche" are not
terms of opprobriurn, ~.
on the contrary, the English Tom
my is such an amiable chap that ire
cuently before he is sent 10 tne
trenches, Just as he is given his post
graduate work in the European tram
ing camp, after his course is completed
In England. they trim him OH WIN
hate sermon, reeounting the dreadIul
things done by the Germans, to Keep
tho English soldier on his toes in the
fight No such sermon is needed Tor
the French, nor for the Canadians,
nor the Australians, nor for the New
zealanders. They have their own prl-
waite grievances.
The Canadians have seen their own
men crucified. One hesitates to be-
ueve this But men of undoubted
veracity vouch for the story. II is
not true that the Canadian prisoners
were crusified and lifted over the
trenches on their crosses. But no
one who talks personally to tht scores
of living men who have seen the
spectacle can doubt them when they
declare that they came upon two or
their comrades nailed to opposite sides
of a double barn door in Northern
France, after a German retreat. and
that one poor man was still dyingl
Tortured French Girls.
Nor can one question the varacity
of the French doctor who declares
ne saw this during the early days OF
the war: A German troop with
machine gun battery occupied one end
of a street in a French village. The
houses rising from the narrow street
were stone houses, and to dlsIodge the
machine guns it would be necessary 10
charge down a stone canyon. The
battery with fifty men could stand
against a division of infantry or cav
airy. without heavy artillery. The
Germans held the lines approaching
the town The only way open to them
was down the stone canyOn-to GER
tain death The French came up,
saw the machine guns and stopped:
The Germans bantered them, dared
them to come on, called them cow
ards. hooted and jeered at them. To
give the order to go forward was to
wipe out the regiment. The French
paused, waiting for reinforcements.
But to get the French to charge upon
the machine guns the Germans went
into the houses behind their lines.
brought out group of French girls,
built a fire and tortured the girls for
half an hour burning some of them
TO death before their countrymens
eyes. while the Germans jeered. The
colonel who had to stand that
rather than condemn his men to death
was given medal for bravery by
his country. 1t was one of the braV-
est deeds of the war
But as a result OF it the French
chasseurs have a continental reputa-
ton for the small number of German
IN
TRANS went into battle with the Ital-
lans carrying great clubs-iron-
spiked at the end-with which they
killed the wounded in the trenches.
There can be no doubt of the fact
that the deliberate Turkish massacre
of half million Arm enians was with
official German consent and approval
before and after the deed.
German Prisoners Well Treated.
Yet. barring the colonial troops of
the English and the French ehasseurs,
one who travels up and down the
western front of the allies finds no
talk of hatred for the German SOL
der. Indeed, the English Tommies
are prone to fraterniZe with German
prisoners too much. The Canadians
are kind to prisoners once they come
behind the lines of the Allies and no
one ever heard of a French chas-
seur lifting a hand against German
In prison camp-if he obeyed the reg
ulations. And so far as that goes the
German is generally glad enough to
be- a prisoner and does his work well.
In France one sees him swinging
along in goose-step going to his work
In the morning or coming home at
uiEht-a soldierIy, well set up man,
generally marching in squads, some
times in troops and never heavily
guarded. Those handsome fellows are
Of the old draft-men captured in the
FIST two years of the war.
The draft today is a scrubbier lot
r.. marches poorly; it doesn't do a
good days work-not because it is
5ocile enough, but the work isn't in
IL Yet this draft, composed of the
Hndsturm, and the boys and the de-
fsctives, is treated decently by the
ellies, and in spite of the bitterness of
the people back of the firing line for
Ehe Hun, even the imprisoned Hun
hres well. The resentment of the
allies against the Hun is not against
fhe German soldiers, tho as agents of
German officialdom German soldiers
have done all the awful deeds which
have turned civilization away from
Germany in revolving horror. In
Europe at least men draw a mark
between Germany and the German
soldiers. The Germans are the Huns"
The German soldier is "Fritzie' or
1.-THE Boche"! And neither term car
rfes poison with it.
How They Hate Germany.
But how Europe does hate Ger
manyl-not merely the kaiser; not
pven merely the Hohenzoilerns; not
even the junkers alone, but Germany
all Germany. the docile, stupid, hyp-
Noticed Germany that celebrated the
sinking of the Lusitania, that en-
dorsed the submarine. that stands for
the enslavement of captive French
and Belgian civilians, that applauded
the rape of Belgium. that has backed
up every atrocity of the war lords for
three years. That Germany is the
Hun whose name is anathema all
over the civilized world. Therefore