South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1917-11-21
Kaiser Must Go, DR.. Hills Tells Audience

Of white and purple. until each
4 seemed like a friend. dear as that
miraculous picture was 20 Baucis
and Philemon. having az last made
every tree 20 he shapely, their little
world was Invested with affection
and beauty DO YOU remember how
7 that Florentine artist after his days
stint was done. toiled upon his stu
7 do. slowly carving the capitals. col
I lecting a little terre Gotta from Cy-
I prus an old manuscript from
/ Athens, a lovely head Of Apollo from
! Ephesus. and iridescent glass from
I Persia, with q bit OF old Tyrian pur-
I pie lending "a spot OF flame in one
corner, and a little mosaic from
! Thebes colored another. when ne
saw the end was approaching, while
/ on a visit 20 Egypt, asked that he
I might be carried home TO die in the
studio. which he made rich with
| his soul. IN some such way as that
4 the French peasants loved their
/ land and then lost t. One morning
the enemy stood at the gate. The
/ farmer with his pruning knife was
no match for o. German with a ma
I chine gun and regions of France
are like unto a devil world. All the
pears and plum trees have fallen
f over under the stroke Of a German
! axe. and are dead and dry. Here
I and there one sees an occasional
+ tree where a half inch OF bark re-
mains. and sympathizing with the
\ peasants sorrow, the roots have sent
a flood Of sympathetic tears and sap
| out into one little branch, amidst
! the death Of a hundred other boughs
! that famed in May its rose and
| pink OF bloom, then in August gave
/ its red glow IF clustered food. But
as for the rest, il is desolatiOn. Gone
all the beautiful bridges-they have
/ been dynamited Gone all the love
I ly and majestic thirteenth century
/ churches. Gone all the galleries for
\ every city of 5000 people in France
I has its quarterly exhibition of paint
\ ings sert out from Paris, and some
/ of the finest art treasUrers in the
world have persisted. The land has
/ been put back 10 where il was when
\ Julius Caesar described il 1000
years ago-a wild land, and waste.
/ growing up with thOrns and thistles.
| That proclamation on a wall tells
the whole story. Let no building
stand, no vine or tree. Before re
| treating let each we'll b plentifully
! polluted with cOrpses and with creO-
sote The spirit was this. since
we Germans cannot have this land.
mo one else shall Your eyes never
saw a more exquisite bit Of carving
for the corner Of a roof than this Ga
spray Of myrtle leaves, carved i'm
stone). after the Germans had de-
stroyed the cathedral of Arras. Look
at this tirebrand. Every German
/ company Of soldiers carried one au-
tOmObile lorry filled with these fire
brands, with a tank of gasoline
hanging beneath the axles. One OF
the historic chateaus is that Of Avri-
court rich in noble associations OF
history. IL was one of the buildings
specially covered by a clause in the
/ international agreement between
| England. Germany, France. the
\ United states, and all the civilized
nations, safeguarding historic build
/ ings. For many months Il was the
home Of Prince Eitel, the kaiser's
second son.
Prince EiteFs Crime.
Forced 10 retreat, the aged
| French servants, who understood the
electric lighting and the gas plant,
and served Eitel during his occupan-
cy when the judge and jury held
the trial at the ruins of the cha
teau. stated that they heard the
I German officers telling Eitel that
he would disgrace the German name
if he destroyed a building that had
no relation TO war. and could be Of
practically no aid or comfort to the
French army, and he would make
his own name a name OF shame and
contempt, of obloquy and scorn. But
the man would not yield. He
brought in great wagons and moved
TO the freight cars at the station
absolutely every object that was i'm
I the splendid chateau. And, having
/ promised to leave the building unin-
| jured, he stopped his car at the en-
/ trance and exit gates Of the ground,
ran back TO the historic building
with a can Of oil that he had Sc
/ GREETED. filled the asbestos in this
| ball Of perforated iron, ran through
the halls and waited until the flames
| were well i'm progress. and then or
I dered mis- men 10 light the fuse of
dynamite bomb. All the testimony
was taken Immediately afterward
/ from aged servants and from the lit
tie children. and the degeneracy re-
vealed has not been surpassed since
/ the first chapter of Romans was
written on the unnatural crimes OF
\ the ancient world. There are the
/ copies OF the affidavits. In the ruins.
I hard beside the black marble steps I
\ picked up this irebrand with which
\ Prince Eitel assassinated a building
Y that belonged 10 the civilized world.
\ 7 hope to live long enough TO see
/ Germany forced to repay at least
/ one debt, in addition TO ten thousand
! others Conceived by the Gothic
( architects. after 400 years of neglect,
/ the Germans about 1875, completed
/ the cathedral Of Cologne. When this
/ war is over every stone in that
cathedral should be marked. Ger
man prisoners should be made 70
pull those stones apart. German
/ ears be made 10 transport every
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