Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1917-08-10
Truth With The Bark On.

York contains this large heaVV
chunk of raw, green truth about
this war with the bark on. The
man who wrote it is a newspaper
man who was graduated to his
present position from one Of the
best executive newspaper Jobs ~
New York. lie has recently
spent several months in the West
and he is now in the Fast. He
knows his America and ho knows
our German friends. His letter
follows:
1T is time we realized that
there is only one task to which
civilization should give its atten-
ton. that is, the defeat of Ger
many. All else is Of minor inn
portance. This war can end IN
only one of two WAYS: 1t can end
with a German victory, which
will mean the enslavement of civ
iIization and the destruction of
liberty and happiness. Such an
end can come at any time, The
only other possible end of the war
will come about two years from
that day when all the rest Of the
world realizes that it is fighting
an entire nation Of war mad ia
natics, and that it can win the
war only by lending every effort
to it.
1--WE are fond of saying that
Germany Goes not understand
the method Of thought Of other
peoples. | am Just realizing that
we do not understand the German
method Of thought. We fire
fault with their methods anC
think by SO doing We can persu
ade them to change their meth.
DDS. We know that German,
spent forty years building up {;
war machine. We have deIudeC
ourselves into the belief that The
machine was merely a physica
machine, whereas; as much a.
anything else, it is a human anC
mental machine. Every man
woman and child in Germany has
been educated to and for thisWar.
Germany exists today much
like a beleaguered garrison. II
has the advantage Of an mex
haustible supply Of water, a rea-
sonably ineXhaustible supply of
food and afull supply of all other
essentials. The Germans, almost
to an individual, believe in the
divine right of the kaiser. We
do not hold that belief, and We
try, through our newspapers. to
argue the Germans out Of their
belief. | heard a German frau
lein say:
"'You Americans do not be-
lieve that YOU can win this war,
do you? God won't let you win
it."
This woman has lived inAmer-
lea for twenty years and has had
every opportunity to enlighten
her mind, She was asked wheth-
er she really believes that the
kaiser rules by divine right. To
this she responded:
"All Germans believe that the
kaiser is God. They believe that
God gives him right, and that
makes him, 50 long as he is on
earth, a port Of God. This swhy
the Germans cannot lose this
war"
I'VE are hoping against hope
that a revolution may take place
in Germany. There is going tC
be no revolution. Down to the
youngest thinking child Germany
is in this war. | Go not believe
there is any individual enterprise
now being conducted in Germany
which does not connect itself di.
rectly with the war. heGermar
women would 60 into the trenches
if by so dong they could advance
their cause. The German Womcr
rejoice over the destruction OF
the lives of the women and chill
dren of non-combatants in Eng.
land.
1--WE know the nation isat war
We do not realize that we are al
all war, The idler is a menace
and a criminal, An idle acre i.
criminal. 1t is your duty and i
is my duty to teach i~nceSsantl,
the fact that every American
must give his time, his though
and himself to this war;"
Red Cross Notes.