The twice-a-week Twin Falls times. (Twin Falls, Idaho) 1916-1918, 1918-01-17


taken; they are shot down in small
groups. They say naively: we don't
want any unnecessary mouths to feed
Where there is no one to enter com
plant, there Is no Judge Is there
then no power in the world which can
put an end to these murders and res
cue the victims? Where is Chris
tianity? Where is right7 Might is
right.
"A SOLDIER AND A MAN WHO is
NO BARBARIAN
Socialists Oppose System
Many of the Germans, as has been
already indicated, do not believe the
reports of the atrocities committed by
the Belgian civilians and refuse to ac-
cept the system of frightfulness. The
Vorwaerts. the leading socialist paper
which has a very wide circle of read
ers, has opposed the policy of fright
fulness. All honor to Its editors who
have so courageously opposed the pow
erful military authority It's editorial,
entitled "Our Foes" published August
%, 1914, reads as follows:
"What should one say when even
such an organ as the Deutsches Off
zier-Blatt expresses its sympathy with
n demand that the beasts who are
taken as francs-tireurs should not be
killed. but only wounded so that they
may then be left to fate which makes
any help impossibleT Or what should
we say when the Deutsches Ofizler-
Blatt states that a punitive destruc-
ton even of whole regions cannot 'af-
ford full recompense for the bones of a
single murdered Pomeranian grena-
dierp Those are the desires Of blood
thirsty fanatics and we are thoroughly
ashamed of ourselves because 1t Is
possible that there are people among
US who urge such things"
"Bsrbarlsm," Declares Vorwaerts.
On the following day, August "a,
1914, the Vorwaerts returned to the
attack in an editorial Against Bar
barism."
zone might. in the first
place. possibly believe that such a de-
mand for a bloody vengeance against
alleged Belgian outrages1 emanates
from a single disease-racked brain
but it appears that whole groups
among certain classes who represent
German kultur want to indulge in or
gies Of barbarism and to devise a
whole system for the purpose Of or
ganizing "a war of revenge
"What of law and custom Such
thoughts do not stir great nation
Thus in leading article Of the Ber-
liner Neueste Nachrichten, the de-
mand is made that all the authorities
in Brussels-one. the second burgomas-
ter, is generously xcepted-should be
Immediately seized and subjected to
trial In order to expiate the wrongs
which. according to fragmentary and
highly uncertain reports, were said to
have been committed by the people.
They demand that the captured city
should Immediately pay a fine of 500,
100000 marks that all stores of the
conquered territory be requisitloned
without paying the inhabitants single
penny for them"
Vorwaerts in Protest.
Three years later, August 20. 1917,
the Vorwaerts quoted the following
passage from the Deutsche Tageszei-
tung:
1--WE have a ring of politicians who
hold that might makes right (Macht-
politiker) who despise the forces of
the inner life and believe that they
must eliminate all ethical points of
view from foreign and social
politics. For them, Germany of the
present and Of the future is the coun-
try of the Krupps and Borsigs, of the
Zeppelins and the U-boats. Any idea
/ Of a connection between politics and
morals is rejected and any reference
/ to the right of a moral method of con-
sideration is ridiculed as delusion and
sentimentality."
The German officers were provided
with the forms TO be used In terror
izing the conquered people. The com.
mon soldiers were provided with
phrase books which would enable them
TO impose their will upon the terrified
people. Minister Brand Whitlock in
his report to the state department OF
September II, 1917, writes:
1.-THE German soldiers were provid
ed with phrase books giving alternate
translation in German and French OF
such sentences as:
"'Hands up Ut is the very frs
sentence in the book.)
"'Carry out all the furniture.
az am thirsty. Bring me some beer
gin, rum.
"'You have to supply a barrel Of
wine and a keg Of beer.
"Lead me to the wealthiest inhabi
tants of this village. have orders t
requisltlon several barrels of wine.
"'Show us the way to -. If yoJ
lead us astray, you will be shot"