The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1917-10-29

! having ho"dwukrd and jnilrcd the for
| "iSu Office and tn" government int"
! :, framing for ;wn years from using IL
! legally ;!l"Ir' most effective weapon.
This. az COURSE. is not so. I always
!, told III" foreign nffi"" the plain. sim
| pic truth. and tho event showed that |
! correctly rrcdi"l-d IN" attitude Of
| America.
our American National game. i"ker.
! has gIy"n us abroad AN unfair r"puta-
tinn We arr. always supposed 10 he
! hluffine. y h""k was published in Cor
/ many about tn" president. called "lres-
! drnt bluff"
! only regret that those high In an-
! thnriiy IN Germany should have pre-
| fcrrcd 10 listen Ia pr1-ti":man rOrr"S-
! pondcntS wh" posed 80 amateur super
ambassadors. rather than !" the author
lied representatives IT America. l"tt
Germany With II clear c"IsCiCnC" and
Ihr kn"wl"drc that | had done every
thing p"SSihl" 10 keep IN" peace
Keeping tile Country Informed
An Ambassador. If ru,!!Sc. docs not
determine IN" r"liry "r Ills own ""un-
Try enc Of his pr.u"ipal duties. 81 not
the principal on" = I" Keep his own
rnunIrv iniurncd---:n know beforehand
iil"d Will do. and think shat mana god
20 Civ" tn" state Department advance
Information Of the moves Of tho rulers
II GirrnHny.
had the SuprorI ri loyal and drrnr-
cd staff Of competent secretaries AMI as
siSIaulS. and both Secretaries Bryan and
Lansing Were" most kind III In" backing
given 10y their very ably organized DE-
partmeul.
sent Secretary Lansing - "Onlid"n-
tiaI letter every week and. of course.
received most valuable hints from him.
Secretary Lansing WAS very successful
IN his taclful handling Or the American
Ambassadors abroad and IN getting them
"a work together as cheerful members
q the same team
Shock ON Returning to America
When returned {" America after liv-
ing for TWO and onc-half years in the
center Of this world calamity everything
seemed petty and small. I was sur
priscd that people could Still seek lit
rlc advantages. still be Hcluatrd Ivy lit
, ;lc i"aluusics and rCVcnrcS. Freed from
the round Of daily work. | felt for the
FIRST time Tho utter horror and useless
ness of nil the misery these i'russian
military alI'ocratS had brought unon the
world and what n reckoning there Will
l,. IN Germany some day when the plain
prup1r realize the truth: when they
learn what base motive aCtuatcd their
rul"rs in Condcmning n whole genera
ton nr the earth 10 war and death!
The Souls Of Ten Million Dead
Is il not shame that the world
sbould have been so disturhed that
peaceful men are compelled to lie out in
, tho mud and Nth in the depth OF raw
winter. shot at and Stormed Al and
shrllcd. waiting for n chance 10 murder
some other inofrensivc fellow creature
Why must the people in old Poland die
nf hunger not finding dogs enough TO
cat in the streets Of l.Grbcrgn The long
limos of broken peasants IN Serbia and
in RumanIa: the population of Belgium
and northern France torn from their
homes To work as slaves for the Ger
mans: the poor prisoners OF war starv-
ing in their huts or working in factor
los and mines: the cries of the old and
tho children. wounded by bombs from
ZeppclinY; the walls Of tho mothers for
their sons: tho very ruStllnR Of the air
rs the souls of. tho ten million dead
sweep TO another world-whY must all
these horrors como upon a fair green
earth where we believed that love and
helm and friendship. genius and science
and commerce and religion and cirIliza-
tion once ruled
Tho very bodies Of those ten million
killed If placed end to end In two lines.
would reach from New York to San
Francisco Think OF travelling this dis
tancr hutwccn 4 double line nf staring
corpsrSt
1t is boacUse in the dark. cold north