The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1917-04-24
MEN THAT DON'T PLAY TaE
GAME.

NN4Ay Win Will w Aafe DioA&&4
is not the Germany OF Hsins and
Goeth and Hseekel and Beethoven /.
not the Germany that gave Us steu-
ben in the Revolutionary war, and
Siegel and Schurs in the civil wsF:
not The Germany Of the sentimental,
ehiyaireus Iovsble ssxoa, or YET Of
the music loving. home loving, Bavs.
rian: not the Germany that YES the
birthplace OF the kindly, honorsbie,
Industrious. patriotic Germaa spsak-
ing neighbor roand the eornsf from
you-but the fanatical, tyranniesi
power mad. blood and iron Prus,
sianized Germany OF Bismarck aad
Won Bernhard. OF the Grown Prince
and the Junkers-that passionate
Prussianized Germany which for forty
years through the instrumentality OF
it's ruling classes-,not necessarily
has boen jealousy striving to per
vert every native ounce of it's scien-
tific and it's inventive and ito creative
genius out of the paths OF progress
and civilization and to join It into the
grooves Of the greatest autocrstic
machine, the greatest organism for
killing off human beings, tho great
est engine OF misbegotten and misdi-
rected efficiency that was ever Gre
ated In the world, says irwin 8. Cobb,
in The Saturday Evening Post. Be-
cause we have an admiration for one
of those two Germanys ls no more
reason why We should abate our indtg-
nation and our detestation for the
other Germany than that becauss =
man loves chsory blaze upon his
hearthstone he should refuse to Ashs
a forest fire.
We have got 10 rememher anothsf
thing. IL our oversee observations OF
this war abroad have taught us any.
thing, they should have taught us
that the GermaR army and when !
say army. mean in this case, noe
its men. but It's officers, since in the
German army the officers are essen
TALLY the brain and the power and
the motive force directing the IN
blindly obedient mass he~
meath thcm--that the German army
is not an army OF good sportsmsn.
And that, take It, 10 an evcn more
important consideration upon. tha acid
of battle than IL is upon the athletic
field AS tho saying goes, the Ger.
mans don't play the game. II is a.
TO imagine German ef-
ficers going in for baseball or foot
ball or cricket as II is to imagine
American volunteers marching the
goose step.
The Germans are net an outdoor
race; they are not siven to playing
outdoor sports and abiding by ths
rules of those sports, as Engiishnaen
and as Americans are. And in war
that biggest OF all outdoor games lit
stands proved against them that they
do not play according TO the rules.
except they be rules OF their own
making. The German Is q greedy
winner and he is bad loser, Coed
sportsmen would not have broken
Belgium into bloody bits because Bel
gium stood between them and their
goal; good sportsmen would not have
sung the Hymn of Hate or made ''Gott
Strafe England" their battle cry;
good sportsmen would not have shot
Edith Cavell or sunk the Lusitania.
Good sportsmen would not have pack
ed the helpless men and boys OF a
conquered and PROSTATE land oft as
eantives into an enforced servitude.
worse than African slavery: would
not wantonly have wanted La Fare
and Chauny and Ham. and hundred
other French towns. as they did last
month. for no conceivable reason,
than that they must surrender these
towns back into the hand OF the
enemy: would not, while ostensihB
at peace with us. have plettea to de-
stroy our Industrial plants and 60