Middletown transcript., 1917-09-01
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RICHMOND, IND, AUG. 10. Per-
mission to change the name of East
Germantown, Ind, t. Pershlng mas
lust been received by Frank Glpe,
the postmaster, from the Post-offlce
Department. .
miles east of here, requested the
change on the ground that odlum,
was attached to the name, Implying
it's citizens were Germans.
Bernard Thalheimer to-day applled
to Common Pleas Court No. a, Tor
permission to change his name 10
Talimer. He wished a name less
Germanic.
Mr.. Thalheimer, who lives at the
Clinton Apartments, is following the
lead of his brother-in-law, George
w. Ochs, newspaper publisher and
former editor. Mr.. Ochs has asked =
the court to change his name to
Oakes. "-Erchdnge.
LION. James w. Gerard, late Ambas.
! l sador to Germany, in his "My
Four Years in Germany, is disclosing
to the world her true inwardness. His
revelations which are falling like bomb
shells in the Kaiser's capital, are arous-
ing the liveliest interest, both in Europe
and in all the Americas.
Among other like damaging testimony
he quotes the admission of one of the
Kaiser's Cabinet. uttered in an ungarded
moment, "that Germany does not want
to be deemed an outlaw among the Ma
tions."
Yet because Of her endless brutalities
in the conduct Of this awful war she has
begun; her studied brutalities and saw
age cruelties in utter violation of every
universally recognized right Of individ-
uals and of Nations; her contemptuous
disregard Of all treaty obligations, Ger
many has sunk to that depth Of intamy
1.-THE Outlaw of the Nations y
All the great civilized powers are with
arms resisting her impudent attempt
to impose her autocratic will upon the
world, and more than dozen minor
states are either fighting her or have
broken off all relations, diplomatic and
commercial.
Barbarities and crueties that make
even her half-civilized ally the Turk
blush for shame, have been with studied
persistence, practiced by Germany in
every quarter of the globe against foes
and friends alike, until all the world
loathes and hates her name The list of
the awful things she has been doing all
these years far surpass anything recited
in all the histories of the most barbar-
GUS ages.
German soldiers systematically as
saulting thousands of Belgian and
French women; crucifying civilians, SOL
diers and and even children; wholesale
massacres of unarmed Belgian and
French civilians guilty of no greater
crime than our own-that of defending
their country; chopping off hand or a
foot of prisoners to render them unfit
for further service; bombing una ned
cities; blowing up churches and cathe-
drals; sinking hospital ships and liners
like the Lusitania; poisoning drinking
water and foods; burying prisoners
alive-all these savage deeds and more
Germany is practicing.
Any wonder her very name has be-
become stencil in all the world Any
wonder citizens and towns bearing Ger
man names are ashamed, and are ask
ing the Courts to change them The
pinch and shame of it are at last get
ting thru the thick Teuton;c skin. But
a thousand years will not wipe away the
ineffaceable stains that cover with oblo-
uuy and contempt the German name.
For generations yet to come Germany,
like Lady Macbeth, will be washing
her hands" in a vain effort to clean
them of their deep dyes Of horror and
shame, and crying with Lady Macbeth
"Out damned spot! Out l say!' Aye,
with Macbeth will Germany ask in
despair;
"Will all great Neptune's ocean wash
this blood,
Clean from my hand? No, this my
hand will rather,
The multitudinous seas incarnadlne
Making the green one red."