Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-04-12
PPIJSSIAN HORRORS
that MENACE U. S.
Germans, if They Land, Will
Respect Neither Prop
erty Nor People
IRWIN COBB'S WARNING
BY M'LISS

.,,.. wiI, happen to America IL the
.r,.,,ss,an paranoiacs" let loose an expedi-
.I.arv force here was the subject of a
..,,,,d word picture painted by Irwin s.
rNhh the chief speaker at the big Red
Cross rally neio III '"e
This afternoon.
AZ robb who at the beginning of the
NJ uot within the French and the Ger
w. lines and spent three months at the
: s.,,an n,Sm front set the high-water mark
u.. e'n what good reporting should be with the
10, I,s,as he sent back and thereby gained
aruI,s,,t 70 suffix his name with the let
Tue O. R-Americas Greatest Re-
porter. ,,,..,o 49,,
i,.,as be has been accused of being too
h,djv pro-Teuton. His talk this after
~ .Thrice Armed Is He Who Hath His
n'arrel nvv lust" was an emphatic contradic-
tion of those charges
.srbe German war lords are not good
:" he said contemptuousy. Good
spo sp.ts would not have sunk the Lusitania;
s,,,d NOT have ravaged Belgium; would
rot have shot Edith Cavell'
nu,o,ve got to wake up to the fact that
an,t go to Germany and not expect
Germany to go to war with us. as so many
~ 40 not believe in preparedness seem
70 think
CALLS GERMANY LICKED"
"cermany is licked, but she's long way
<-ou being beaten. 1t she SENDS an eX-
redtionary force here you may expect the
same things to happen as did in Belgium
nd France What we regard as patriotism
hacon,es. from the German viewpoint, trea-
SON something to shoot you for. If Bar
bora Frietchie had said TO a Prussian Stone
vii Jackson Shoot, II you must, my gray,
aid head he'd have done it, as a matter
of course. even without her asking him.
II may only be a remote possibilty-this
landing of force here-but IL it comes our
nroperty will be destroyed our women out
raqed For the Germans at the present
fine remind me of huge lunatic asylum
Iet loose It is our duty to help round
them up But we have been sluggards get
ting ready.
Mr.. Cobb described the Hohenzoerns as
the ''Prussian paranoacs' who were lead
ing one of the finest nations in the world
10 destruction.
A PARANOIAC BREED
'erhey cannot last long, however, these
prussian paranoiacs" he said. with
China a republic and with Russia a repub.
lie, It is pot logical that one of the most
cultured and most intelligent nations will
long be satisfied to be ruled by an exponent
Of the divine right"
One of the finest acts the United States
could perform, Mr. Cobb said, would be the
sending of some of our troops abroad. The
moral effect of the American flag over a
few lines of trenches in Flanders with our
soldier boys fighting in those trenches would
be incalculable, he declared.
Mr. Cobb read cablegram just received
by George Horace Lorimer from Lord
Northcliffe instructing the editor of the
Saturday Evening Post to turn over to
the American Red Cross $1,000, which is
being paid for an article Lord Northcliffe is
writing for the Post.
DIR. Charles Hart director of the South
eastern Pennsylvania Chapter of the Ameri-
can Red Cross was chairman of the meet
ing and introduced Mr.. Cobb.
Those holding boxes were:
Mayor and Mrs. Smith, Commander
Payne, representing the army, and family
Commandant Russell. representing the
navy, and wife; Mrs ]. Willis Martin. of
the Emergency A'd Ernest II. Trigg, presi-
dent of the Chamber of Commerce Mrs. L.
T. Stotesbury, Mrs. Reed Morgan, Mrs. Cor.
nelius Stevenson Mrs. Benjamin Rush,
Mrs. Cyrus II. X. Curtis, Mrs. Thomas Pot
ter, Jr.