Norwich bulletin., 1918-02-06
Views of the Vigilanses
DIGESTIVE PROCESSES.
By Robert Adser Bowen of The visi-
 iantes.

Even a pro- German has his limits to irrational maliciousness. It is an in- teresting fact that one does not hear much just now of English shirking and lncapacity in the war. of English in- activity and do-nothingness. There was a time not so long ago, when the convex lens admirer of Teutonism and all the exquisite flower of Teutonic Kultur could see, o1 professed to be able to see, England as merely an in-
 efficient buffer on land and sea alike.
 Just how the pro German could even imagine he saw this, only the pro-
 German mentality could be expected to disclose. A few things have hap pened of late that have tinged Ger man arrogance with a slight hue of what would approximate more hum- tle viewpoint in tbe general run of human kind.
 It is a curious and instructive sight to see the German mind exercise its 1 incipient powers of discretion and hu- rniiity. It reminds one very much o' the traditional elephant seating him. self upon a teaeup. There is some thing almost pathetic in witnessing 6 German put curb upon the blatant 1 arrogance of his tongue, The fac that the Anglo Saxon, to say nothing
 of the French and Italians and others
 of our allies, has been able to brins l this about is the measure of the mil itary preponderance gained over the | Teuton in his own chosen field of ma 1 terial efficiency and endeavor. What he has been pleased to call race O. shopkeepers and ledger clerks has Il three years, from the point of abso+ lute unpreparednes3. beaten him a
 his own inherited and serupulousl cultivated prime object of life. Eyel
 the seraphic self -complaceny of tn
 Teuton must feel the qualm of an in
 credllous amazement that such thing
 can be.
 Let us make 8 feeble effort to loo
 at this stupendous discrepancy in h: accounts from the angle of the Ger man supefR1an. A nations. who's God is Juggernaut, whose prophet is l conscienceless negalomaniac, an
 whose great virtues are readily inter changeable for vices which pale tn
 1 exploits of the Huns and Vandal whose legitimate descendants the Teu tons are, finds itself checked in ii carefully matured schemes on ever hand by the pygny races of the hu man kind. Degenerate France. con temptible England, barbarian Russi; the sunny day fighters of Italy, eve heroic little Belgium, and Serbia, an Rumania refuse to be audited accord
 ing to schedule and the forms of ths bookkeeping whose pages are shee1 of dishonor written upon in the bloo of the defenceiess and innocent. IT
 rivers of Europe become rivers {
 blood which spell German defeat--tf
 Marne, the Alsne, the Donajec, tt Somrne, the Piage. Even the ocear , of the world prove too fluid for tf T grasp of Telton supremacy. Inc 2 dentally, there are other considers lions, domestic and international thu E E have arisen to disturb the supermen It is too bad that the German an l. 1 the pro German should be given paui : by these things and made to taE . stock and, perhaps. re-adjust his fort gone conclusions. Several Christina ! es have gone by since the Kaiser "; 2 to have dined in Paris. Certain oth. y nuts have not been cracked and ce, : tain things have cracked that Inat