The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1918-11-07

Al conference of field men of the
United States food administration held
in Washington. +. C. Walcott pictured
conditions as he had found them in
the countries invaded by German
arms. Mr.. Walcott served with Mr.
Hoover on tlle Belgium relief commits
sion when this nation was attempt.
ing to feed the starving civilian pop
ulation of Belgium. Poland ana north
ern France. In his address he had
pictured such conditions as he said Ii,
could not believe unless he had seen
the situation through and through. ana
had lived with ii for weeks. He
showed these terrible conditions to be
the result of deliberate plans on the
part of official Germany, and in sum
ming up he said.
such Is the German mind as il
was disclosed to me in several weeks
contact with officers Of the staff
Treaties are scraps of paper. If they
hinder German aims. 1reachery Is
condoned and praised. If it falls IN
with German interest. Men, lands
countries are German prizes. Popula.
tionS are to be destroyed or cnslaved
50 Germany may gain. Women are
Germany's prey. children are spoils of
war God gave Germany the Hohen-
zollcrn and together they are destined
to rule Europe and. eventually. the
World-thuS reasons the kaiser.
"Coolly Deliberately. officers Of the
German staff, permeated by this mon
strous philosophy, discuss the dena-
tionalization of peoples, the deStruc-
tion of nations, the undoing Of other
civilizations for Germany's account.
"ln all the world such Il thing has
never been. The human mind has
never conceived the like. Even among
harbarians, the thing would be incrcd
ibie. The mind can scarcely grasr
the fact that these things are pro
posed and done by q modern govern
ment profeSsedly a Christian govern
ment in the family of civilized ma
tiOns.
"ThlS system has got to he rooted
out. If 1t takes everything In the
world. If ii takes everyone Of us. this
abomnation must be oycrthrovn. Ii
must be ended or the world is not
worth living in No matter how long
it takes. no matter how much it costs
we must endure TO The end With agon-
lied France, with imperilcd britain
with shattered Belgium, with shaken
Russia.
1--WE must hope that Germany will
have a now birth as Russia is being re
born. We must pray as we fight
GSainSt the evil that is in Germany
that the good which is in Germany
may somehow prevail We must trust
that in the end II Germany really great
with the strength of wonderful race
may find its place as one Of the broth
erhood Of nations in the new world
that is to he
"'rhe responsibility Of success or
failure rests now upon our shoulders
the eyes Of the world are anXiously
watching us. Are we going to be able
To rise TO the emergency throw off our
inel'iciency, and ptcve that democracy
is safe for the world?"
In the above statement Mr.. Wal
colt has described n condition that
must be changed if America. if the
world, is to remain a "ft place to
live in And the only way by which
this change can be effected is the de
feat Of German arms in his war
Nothing good nothing but evil, can
come out of Germany, so long as the
German people are controlled by n
military aut0cracy, and the German
people cannot be made to realize th.>
until this autocracy is crushed The
spirit Of militarism that has made of
the Germans q rCbhpr and Il murder
nation must be utterly crushed if the
world is to remain free. and to accom-
plish this those Of us who cannot fight
in France must lend our support to
our men who are fighting for us.