The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1918-11-30
TOYS MADE IN GERMANY.
An Appeal Made for Boycott on Such
Articles.
New York, Oct. 23.-Seyeral thou

New York, Oct. %. Several thou
sand cases of German made toys ar
rived here to-day.--Associate Press.
Toys! For whom? For the innocents
carried down when the Lusitania sank
For those tear-eyed Belgian children who
stretch forth little arms from which the
hands were struck off by the swords OF
German ofIicersf For those French boys
and girls with pitiful sightless eyes For
those whose little bodies rest in the
churchyards of Italy, that died in pain
from poisoned Hun candyf For those
other children slowly starved to death in
Poland or massacred in Armenia?
Toys2 Toys made by Huns to whom
innocence and childhood are but toys to
be played with and then crushed and
broken? Toys whose very contact con
teammates and leaves upon the touch Of
babyhood invisible clots of blood? AS
we'll bring deadly serpent into the
home to spew its venom on the cradle
Why shall we befoul and faint the purity
of American childhood with a reminder
of the fendish treatment the Huns have
gloried in ever since that fateful August
Vi 1Dlt AdU UltE tNflt lObh utlOA u
Noah's ark Made in Germany" and put
from his mind those hundreds of helpless
innocents whose silken locks are twined
with seaweed! Can one hold German
doll in her arms and forget the thou
sands dead from famine who once made
glad mothers arms? Can boy find
delight in the contortions of a mechani.
cal Hun clown and forget those brave
young men who writhed in agony when
crucifed ON castle walls by these same
Huns? Can ball eolored with the red
of Huns failed to suggest the flame from
bursting grenades hurled by arms uplift-
ed in the attitude of "kamerad"?
Let those who would invite fearsome
ghosts into the home to hover around the
Christmas tree buy German toys. If one
would bang the boughs with evil omens,
and bid the wall of agonized spirits float
through the branches and fan the flicker
ing flame of candles, let him buy German
toys. Let those who can, make merry
with the product of those very hands
which even at this moment are eagerly
filling shells with poison gases and dead
ly flames and hurting them against our
own flesh and blood
And what of the merchant who for
sordid gain would barter these souvenirs
Of loathsome nation and insult the
loyalty Of lisping lips What could more
delight the cunning Hun, what more
quickly bring the sneering smile to cruel
faces, or gladden. heartless hearts, or
encourage him to hope that even now
we tolerate his brutality and welcome
what he wants TO sell? If now, when as
d nation we are in universal eondemna-
ton Of Hunism, yet do we hold out our
hands to accept his works, what will he
think and with what measure shall he
estimate the sincerity of our expressions
Of repugnance and horror at what he has
done since the sun rose this morning
What mitigation can we claim in the
thought that America was not yet over.
seas when these trinkets were fashioned /
Even while the gaudy paint was YET
fresh upon these trinkets were Belgian
girls being dragged into slavery worse
than death.
We do not lack for toys; toys by train.
loads made in American factories, by
hands which are clean; toys also by car
loads made by our ally in Japan, where
childhood Is sacred and love, not hate, il
taught at mothers breasts. Even were
there none, far better our boys and girl:
should 60 without than find pleasure il
the handiwork of nation which made a
public holiday to celebrate the loss of the
Lusitania, and which in these latter DAYS
is stepped in the glory" Of monstrosi
ties. Could our little men who sacrifice
many a childish pleasure to buy wal
stamps and contribute pennies to tht
Red Cross, and our little mothers wht
knit so patiently with hands that car
barely hold the needles, would one O
these knowingly find any pleasure in any
toy Made in Germany" I'll. II. Wind
sor in Popular Mechanics Magazine.