Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1917-12-26
WAR PROFITS
CAUSE

OAO6E ONkSESI. ~
The Frankfurter Zeitung publishes
q vigorous leading article on prof
iteering. in connection especially with
army contracts. 1t says that Ger
many thoroughly appreciates the part
played by industry and agriculture in
the war, but that the public has come
to regard the business interests with
a good deal Of contempt, andNis asking
why the owner of a machine factory
should not be required to place, his
establishment and his services at, the
disposal of the country on the same
terms as officers and men giving
theirs. The Frankfurter Zeitung says
that, while the public can only judge
and declarations Of dividends. it lis
obvious that business concerns in Ger
many are making profits of astound-
ing amount. Their owners are writ
ing of sums which will free their
grandchildren from all anxiety. estab-
fishing reserves which already cover
any, possible risks that may occur in
the transition from war to peace and
adopting all kinds Of financial devices
In order to make q show OF decency
the measure Of which has mean
while very greatly d~eteriorated."
AIMS CLOUDY, q
SAYS WORST.
Herr Hans Worst, the Berliner
Tageblatt's expert" on Russia,
writes
Everybody feels and sees that.
whilst German military strength has
been performing exploits which fill
the world with establishment the for
eign policy of the German empire has
shown a painful lack Of leadership.
hath o1 kh~ ~~~> -..Nt~ --S
the effect abroad. The principal
cause Of this failure of our foreign
policy Is, I think, that it does not set
clearly and consistently before itself
the aims that Germany ought to fol-
low in the present war.
1.-THE German people was told that
1t was fighting in self-defense. But
defense Is not an aim at all, since no
body can say when security has been
attained. What was needed vas that
the German people should be shown
how it's future could be secured. Ir-
%resolute sidelong chances at little bits
of C%ourland. Lithuania, OF Poland.
ambiguous phrases about Flanders,
were of as little use as the timid and
half-hearted concessions to the paci-
fist system"
DOG SOLD
IN SAUSAGE.
The following item of news is
translated from the Norddeutscher
Volksstimme, Of Bremerhaven:
AN illicit dog slaughter-house was
Eraided a few days ago by the police
at Warren, Mecklenburg.
1.-THE flesh of hundreds Of dogs,
stolen from their owners, had. it ap-
pears, been manufactured into sau-
sages.
These were labeled Finest pork
sausages,' and had been exclusively
sold for the last few months to Wis.,
itors from Prussia at the rate of SO
cents a pound"
"BLOOD AND
IRON" AGAIN.
Herr Heinrich schaff. a; we'll known
Berlin publicist, writing in the
Taegliche Rundschau, says:
We are presumptuous enough to
believe that we must conqueH oun ans
emies for their wv good and in or
der to bring them to heart-searchins
land determination.
1.-The world must learn that we
Germans not only know how to be
victorious with Goethe and Schiller,
but with blood and iron; and when it
learns this the nations will be brought
closer to vi than by IN inopportune
leagues of goodwill and humanity"
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