The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1917-11-22
LETTER REVEALS HEART OF
PRUSSIA.
German Culture Must Sway World,
Schoolgirl Tells Friend.

An amazing revelation of how
German children are taught that the
Prussians are the chosen ones OF the
Lord, destined to rule the world ana
that even Adam and Eve were Pros-
slams, is given in a letter from a
German school girl to a friend in
Switzerland
The letter is printed in the Con-
gressional Record and copied III Cur
rent Events and was sent 70 me
Evening Tribune by Miss Bertha
Smith, principal of Oak Park school.
III is inter esting in that it throws
some light upon the amazing state OF
mind of the German people which
leads them to support and applaud
their emperor ihe letter follows:
s'Frankfolt on Oder. July 20, ~ =:
"My Dear Louise, me 6 contents ON ,l,s
had l not known that your thoughts
of our glorious war resulted from
sheer ignorance.
s.You are in country rendered
effeminate by the influence OF old
fashioned ideas Of liberty, country
which is at least two centuries pc
hind ours. You are in need OF a
good dose of Prussian culture.
"It is evident that you, SWISS
girl, with your French sympathles,
can not understand how my heart,
the heart OF young German 9lIl'
passionately desired this war. speak
ing Of it some years ago, my father =
getting too small for US; we shall
have to go to France again in order
to find more room Is it our fault
il France will not understand that
more money and land are necessary
for us?
soldiers have been very cruel to the
Belgian rabbie, and you speak also
Of the destruction of Rheims, and OF
the burning of villages and towns.
Well, that is war. AS in every other
undertaking, we are past masters IN
the making of war
.'You have a great deal to learn
before you can come up to our stan
dard, and / can assure you that what
has been done so far is a mere bag
atelle compared with what will fol-
low:
GAS matter of fact, there is ~! put
one race worthy Of ruling the Worid,
highest degree of civilization. That
race is ours, the Prussians;. for
though we Germans in general are
the lords of the world, the Prussian
is undoubtendly the lord par excel
lence among the Germans.
them, unfortunately, the Swiss, are
degenerate and of inferior worth.
That is why / have always been so
proud of being true Prusslan.
yesterday, again. our, pastor eN-
planned to lis convincingly that our
first parents, Adam and Eve, were
also Prussian. That is quite easy TO
understand. because the Bible tells
us that the German-God created us
all after his own image. If, then,
all men are descended from Adam
and his wife, it follows that only
Prussians, or at least Germans,
ought to exist in the world, and that
all who push on and prosper ought
to belong to us. You must admit
that that is logic. and that is why
our motto is, God with US, Germany
above everything else
"You know nows why we wished
this war. Is it not shameful that
other nations, who have no right to
existence on the earth, wish to dl-
minish our heritage? We are the
divine fruit and the others are only
weeds. That is why our great en-
peror has decided to put an end ttoo
all these ini,..sstt;ces and to extirpate
the weeds. Do you understand that
now?
II remain, your school friend, ;,
Kate Hamel.'