McNairy County independent. (Selmer, McNairy County, Tenn.) 1902-1969, 1917-06-22

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was mighty good joke. He also
told of how the German soldiers car
ried off the young French girls, and Of
one old mother who fought desper-
ately to keep her last daughter, who
was screaming and holding on
to her mothers neck. The soldier
finally got exasperated at the poor
old mother and the girl, and struck
the mothers arm with his sword,
laming her so she had to let 60. In
some parts of France all the women
between fourteen and forty have been
carried away to Germany. and the
| Belgians have been treated the same
way, only in Belgium the men also
have been carried away into German
slavery and thousands have died there
under hardships such as our negroes
never had to endure. The number Of
civilians murdered by these helmeted
hsllions in France, Belgium, Servia
and Roumania will never be known
except to God himself.
l read yesterday of the results of
the last raid Of the aerial bomb squad
on London, when, early in this week,
81 innocent people were murdered
and more than 400, mainly women
and children. were desperately wound
ed by dropping bombs ON them from
the sky. The children were gathered
at their lessons, the people were 60
ing about their business as usual,
when all at once far up in the heavy
clouds there was heard a whirring
sound as of great wings, then the
whizz of falling bombs and a thunder
GUS crash and explosion; then the
screams of women and little children
mangled and torn by the cruel metal
fragments of the bursting bombs.
The British aeroplanes got after the
murderous Huns away up in the air
and battle took place nearly mile
above the earth, and the German
"sportsmen" were driven away. 1t
was in the poorer portion of London,
and the money value not SO great;
but the Germans who committed this
vile outrage and others like it will
have to pay for helpless victim Of
their deyilish work. The explosive
used in these bombs is the most
powerful known, and is called TINT,
or trinitro-toluol, a pound Of which
would blow an ordinary house to
pieces. Its gases leave red, green
and purple stains behind, and these
colors were seen on the bodies Of the
victims in London.
German genius, once 80 wonder
fully fine in its operation, has now
degenerated into scientific mania
for destroying human beings and all
human works. This war was Matched
forty years ago. When French and
British scientists like Pastepr, Curie.
Roux, Lister and Ramsey were delving
beneath their electric lights in their
laboratories to learn the secrets Of
nature SO as to prolong life and add
to human knowledge and happiness.
the Teuton philosophers were plan
ming their battle campaigns and per-
fecting the airship, bomb, torpedo,
cannon and submarine to destroy
human life and add to human misery
and to their own internal political
control Of the world. The Germans
are not great inventors. but they are
wonderful improvers especially Of
deadly inventions. saw the original
submerine, the Holland. at Annapolis,
some years ago. The American in
ventor did not dream that his idea
would be prostituted to such murder
GUS ends that it would enable the
Germans to become highwaymen of
the ocean and form the pivotal factor
in the greatest war of all time. 1t is
not my desire to slight or belittle
the wonderful achievements of Rob.
ert Koch in bacteriologY, Virchow in
histology. Haekel in speculative sci
ence or Won Behring in antitoxlns, but
it is safe to say that where German
Scientific men have saved one life
their military men have taken or
ruined dozen.
Now the Aero Club of America
says we should put thouands of aero
planes to work dropping bombs on
the German troops in France and
Belgium and wind the war up in a
hurry, and the Club wants $600,000.-
900 (six hundred millions of dollars
,.ol e.. th,k x,~on,o Marv ol,o