Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-09-26


and children have to be killed in this
way: 1t would be terrible II the
English came here and dropped bombs
uoWn on u.s." they say. But they ex-
cuse 1t ALI on the grounds that the
war must be finished, and that, nc
matter what means are taken to
bring about this consummation, they
are justified by the end sought for.
There again one meets that peculiar
turn OF the German mind, that, nj
though n thing is wrong, 1T iS ex-
eusable when done for German profit
The people would hold big rejOic-
lngs when the reports of a successful
zeppelin raid would be sent through
the empire. But, mingled with these
retoicings, the women would pity the
women and children who had to die.
DON'T HEAR OF oUTRAGEs.
1t was the same way with the
J-ooats, when they torpedoed defense
less vessels, although II is hard to
make the Germans believe that the
vessels were defenseless. They think
most OF the torpedoed vessels carried
guns. And, as regards the news dis
patches, telling how Germans fired
on the lifeboats of sinking vessels
how they stripped English and Bel
slan sailors and left them to drown
these things the German people never
hear. l have heard of them only
since I have been home,
can safely say, from my own OBJ
serVation that the great mass of Ger
man people are kept in ignorance
or much of the friEhtfulness which
tho Germans have deliberately prac-
ticed.
The people, the ordinary people I
net, mean, seemed to take to heart
moro the destruction of towns than
human beings. They can be more
people l heard more than once, but
the beautiful buildings, the pictures,
tne art works never can be restored" 1"
The Germans worship art. They nre
an artistic people in many ways, as
the world knows. And the German
people hnve grieved over the de.truc-
tion of the wonderful cathedrnIs, the
beautiful o1d-wOrld towns, and mar-
nihccnt buildings In belgium and
Northern France.
Mingled with their grief is a selfish
sorrow as well, for Germany hoped
10 nave all these towns and buildings
herself. And the German eye ever is
open to the money paid by tourists
to see these works of art.
have heard Germans even COM
pare those beautiful buildings. now
wrecks, with buildings in their own
empire. How bad we would feel. /"
woman said to me one day, 'If our
AoLSOi PaldSo WOulO De destroyed"
THINK AMERICA MONEY MAD.
really think that the heart of Ger
many would break IL anything han
pened to that wonderful building.
That is another thing about Amer
lea in which they show their con-
tempt-our newness. "America-it has
no buildings, no towns, everything Is
dirt and rubbish" they will say. Even
the Germans who have been here.
take back no word of praise for us
They must acknowledge our mills. our
industries, but they will not give us
any credit for having a soul for art
over here. 'Money-money, that is ali
the Americans think Of" they saw.
could have stood the anger against
Americans, but the sneers and slurs
hung at my country sometimes were
more than I could bear.
1 remember one time, after the
United States entered the war, a Ger
man girl friend q had few) invited
me to tea.
will there be any other Germans
there?" asked.
Yes" she said.
We'll, I told her, you had better
let them know 1 am coming"
She called them up, and every one
of the German girls refused to come
because an American girl was coming
to. OF course, 1 stayed away SO as not
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