The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1918-06-20
dwelling the Truth


"My -Four Years in Germany the
most realistic and greatest motion picture,
depicting scenes and incidents in Germany
that were the direct cause of this great world
war now being enacted, ever produced was
shown on our Auditorium screen last Tues
day evening, June IL. Before the first scene
was flashed Warden Reed stepped on the
stage and explained that the inmates were
privileged to view this wonderful production
through the generosity of Mr.. Morris
Abrams who has the exclusive rights for
the picture in this state, and Mr.. F. w.
Boil, manager of the Majestic theatre in
Saltwater, where the picture was then being
shown.
based on Ambassador Gerard's book, "My
Four Years in Germany" and gives an ac-
count, from one who was in a position that
brought him in constant contact with the
chief actors of this terrible tragedy, of the
underlying causes and events that plunged
the world into war that is almost a catas-
trophe to the human race. Some of the
scenes depicting German atrocities were so
revolving to the senses as to cause one to
hardly credit the evidence of his eyes, es-
pecially when one stops to consider that up
to the opening of this war Germany was
looked upon as one of the most enlightened
of nations. Scene after scene was flashed
showing the depths to which the German
nation has decended to crafty its thirs, for
blood. The horrible treatment of prisoners,
both military and civilian, the enslavement
of the Belgians, the numbering of the young,
the aged, the cripples and invalids. and the
violation of virtue are all too narrowing to
the feelings to even contemplate. And
their blood lust not being satisfied with these
atrocities they shoot down their own soldiers
in cold blood who became incapacitated
for any further military duty. Perhaps the
most heart-rending scene was that of the
meeting between Ambassador Gerard and
the French girl who had been torn from
her home in northern France and brought
20 Germany to work as a slave on the farms.
The poor girl, when Mi. Gerard said he
was an American, threw herself in his arms
and wept in her anguish as she poured forth
the tale of the calamity that had overtaken
her and her people and the unspeakable
horrors they had come through. The girl
represented France, throwing herself into
the arms of America, asking for succor and
relief from the barbarian hordes inundating
her fair land, despoiling her cities and
grinding her people under the heel of
tyranny.
From the pictures, and without question
they represent the facts, this whole atrocious
war can be laid at the door of one man
the Kaiser. His whole life, ever since he
has been emperor, has been directed toward
one end-War! He is responsible for its be-
ginning and the German nation for standing
by him in causing all the misery to the once
prosperous nations OF Europe.
President Wilson, who has witnessed the
play, says: ''Let the American public see
this picture and Kaiserism will be wiped
from the face of the earth; this picture will
live as long as there is an American public
But if the enthusiasm evoked by the in
mate audience when the marching soldiery
of America, Great Britain, France and
from nearly every nation on earth passed in
review on the screen is any criterion, the
old system of absolutism is fast drawing to
close, and safe prediction can be made
that the silly fool of a crown prince will
never wear the imperial diadem, or if he
should, he will only be allowed to wear it
by suferance of the people, and not by
''DivIne right as his half-crazy father
fondly believes. B.