The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1917-11-23
LETTER FROM SCHOOL GIRL
REVEALS HEART OF PRUSSIA

REVEALS HEART OF PRUSSIA.
An amazing revelation of how
German children are taught that the
| Prussians are the chosen ones Of the
world and that even Adam and Eve
were Prussians, is given in a letter
from German school girl to a friend
in Switzerland.
The letter is printed in the Con-
gressional Record and copied in
Current Events and was sent to the
Evening Tribune by Miss Bertha
Smith, principal of Oak Park school.
1t is interesting 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. The letter follows:-
frankfort on Oder, July 20, 1916.
"My Dear Louise: The contents
of your last letter would have hurt
me had l not known that your
thoughts of our glorious war resulted
from sheer ignorance.
"You are in country rendered
effeminate by the influence of old
fashioned ideas Of liberty, a country
which is at leSst two centuries be-
hind ours. You are in need of good
dose of Prussian culture.
at is evident that you, Swiss
girl, with your French sympathies,
can not understand how my heart,
the heart of a young german girl,
passionately desired this war. Speak
ing of it some years ago, my father
said to US: Children, Germany is
getting too small for us, we shall
have to go to France again in order
to find more room. Is it our fault
if France will not understand that
more money and land are necessary
| for US?
"And you reproach us that our
soldiers have been very cruel to the
Belgian rabble, and you speak also
Of the destruction of the Rheims, and
Of the burning of the villages and
| towns. Well, that is war. AS in
every other undertaking, we are past
masters in the making of war.
"You have great deal to learn
before you can come up to our STAN
dard, and l can assure you that what
| has been done so far is a mere
bagatelle compared with what will
| follow.
GAS a matter of fact, there is but
one race worthy of ruling the world,
and which has already attained the
highest degree of civilization. That
race is ours, the Prussians; for
though we Germans in general are
the lords of the world, the Prussians
| are undoubtedly the lord par ex-
| cellence among the Germans.
Gall other nations, and among
them,' unfortunately, the Swiss, are
degenerate and of inferior worth.
That is why l have always been so
proud of being a true Prussian.
Yesterday again our pastor ex-
planned to us convincingly that our
| first parents, Adam and Eve, were
also Prussians. That is quite easy
to understand, because the Bible tells
us that the German-God created us
after his own image. If then, all
men are decended from Adam, and
his wife, it follows that only Prus-
slams, 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 every
thing"
"You know now why we wished
this war; Is it not shameful that
other nations, who have no right to
exist on the earth, wish to diminish
our heritage? We are the divine
fruit and the others are only weeds.
That is why our great emperor has
decided to put an end to all these
injustices and to extirpate the weeds.
Do you understand that now?
al remain your school friend,
"Katie Hamel."