The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1917-07-30

~ w '"'NtS tile NOIlu' lnlS udy OF
days,
Strong to uphold the right.
HOW GERMANY MAKES WAR.
Manufacturers Record: In the Ma.
tional Geographic Magazine Frederick
Walcott gives some facts in regard to
the way in which Germany makes war.
startling in their horror il we have not
already reached a point where nothing
that Germany does can startle us. In
the course Of his article Mr.. Walcott
says:
Il went into Belgium to investigate
conditions, and while there I had oppor.
tunities to talk with the leading Ger
man officials Among others I had a
talk ONE day with Governor-G General
Won Bissing. who died several weeks
ago, man 72 or 73 years old, a man
STEPPED in the system born and bred
to the hardening Of the heart which
that philosophy develops There ought
TO be some new word coined for the pro-
cess that a mans heart undergoes when
ii becomes STEPPED in that system.
II said TO him. Governor, what are
you going to do II England and France
stop giving these people money to pur-
chase fOod?'
He said: We have got that all work.
ed out and have had it worked out for
weeks, because We have expected this
system 10 break down at any time
He went on to say: Starvation will
grip these people in thirty to sixty
days. Starvation is a compelling force.
and we would use that force to compel
the Belgian workingmen. many Of them
very skilled. to go into Germany TO re-
place the Germans. so that they could
go to the front and fight against the
English and the French.
"'As fast as our railway transporta.
tion could carry them. we would trans
port thousands Of others that would be
ht for agricultural work across Europe.
down into southeastern Europe. into
Mesopotamia. where we have huge.
splendid irrigation works. All that land
needs is water and il will blossom like
the rose.
Rid of the Weak.
1.-THE weak remaining. the old and
the young. we would concentrate oppo.
site the firing line, and put firing squads
back Of them, and force them through
that line. so that the English and
French could take care Of their own
people"
1t was a perfectly simple, direct,
frank reasoning. II meant that the
German government would use any
force in the destruction Of any people
not its own to further its own ends.
II had never thought in such terms.
had read Won Bernhardi and others,
but did not believe them, and the
whole point OF view was new but grad.
ually the truth of It all began to dawn
upon me"
Going from Belgium to Poland. Mr..
Walcott tells the story Of the loss by
the Russians OF Lodz and the horrors
which followed. On this point he says
"I motored along those roads, the two
running toward Petrograd and the one
toward Moscow. The German officers
and the Poles who were with me, with
whom consulted, agreed in this esti-
mate, that in about six weeks time,
year ago last fall approximately L.
900 900 people along that southern road
were made homeless by the burning OF
their dwellings. and Of this 100000
people. 100000 died in the flight along
that one road.
"Of the balance approximately half
were saved and gathered by the Ger.
mans later into refugee camps. and to-
day, according to the central relief com.
mittee. OF Poland. approximately 75O'
900 OF those miserable refugees who
escaped with the Russian army are now
in Russia. many OF them in Siberia. and
more dead than alive.
Human Bones for Fertilizer.
"It is those people whom the com
mittee has been trying 20 relieve. be
cause nobody has been able 10 set foot
or help 20 Russian Poland proper. with
the exception OF one undertaking OF th'
Rockefeller Foundation.
"As motored along that road. only
few weeks after that terrible retreat
I began to realize something Of wha
had happened. Both sides OF the roa'
were completely lined for the whole
2S0 miles with mud-covered and rain
soaked clothing. The bones had beer
cleaned by the crows. which are In tha
country by the countless thousands