Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1918-08-22

Practically every instrument could
be readily made by any OF our plier
manufacturers and the orders are
running into such quantities that
they will be stamped out as are
American-made pliers. In the days
to come will those American sur
geons who are seeing and caring for
the thousands Of victims OF Hun
atrocities ever permit themselves TO
forget sufficiently to purchase a sur
gical instrument made in Germany?
Never! The memory of those doc
tors and nurses who lost their lives
in the Llandovery Castle murder cry
in protest even against the thought.
The Germans may ship their instru-
ments over here without indentifying
marks? Not il true Americans are
In the purchasing department. Is
Germany's surgical instrument bust
ness dead in America? Mr.. Buyer.
it's up to you.
Say, loyal American, how would
you have liked to have your wife in
the town of Gembloux when it was
captured by the Germans? Scores
Of innocent people were butchered
there. The raping of women and
young girls was common and con-
tinuous. One young woman was out
ragged by several soldiers, stripped
naked and fastened to the door Of
her own home by a cutlass driven
thru her chest with sufficient force
to hold the body to the heavy panels.
Her breasts were brutally cut off
and with her head hanging. and her
hair flying in the wind, the body Of
that poor young martyr stiffened in
death. Horrible, yes, more hideOus
than the Indian massacres that
caused our pioneers to shudder in
the early days of the West. Brutal
and beastly. You may well thank
God that your loved ones were not in
Gembloux.
Before the war we imported an
nually millions of dollars worth of
kitchen enameled ware from Germa-
ny and Austria. These utensils were
used in the kitchens of American
homes. There was probably some of
the same ware in the kitchen back OF
that blood-stained door in Gembloux
Before the war American manufac-
turers had made great strides in the
manufacture of enalheled wares
Their goods were favorably known in
every state in the Union, yet in al
most every American town there was
q line of heavy-coated colored wares
and of white enameled wares tina,
came from the Central Powers. The
blockade against their shippins
quickly broke these foreign made
stocks and the odds and ends were
cleared up with special sales. Com
plete lines of enameled wares made
in our factories have replaced them
VIII German and Austrian enameleC
wares so on to our shelves agar
when the Kaiser and his Prussiar
war maniacs are whipped? Will We
swallow the story that all the Ger
mans were forced into these atroci
ties with absolute proof that the Ba
varians worked single handed and il
apparent glee at many of these he'll
lish outrages? 1t would seem that 6
good American would starve rather
than foul his lips with food from 6
German utensil. That's the way II
looks. but after all it's up to one
single class OF Americans, ovel
whose doors are lettered the bis
word. BUYER.
Postal cards. We have used mil
lions of them to say brief hello tC
the folks at home when we ARE or
the road. Postal card holiday greet
ings, postal birthday congratulations
postal cards that could be writer
quickly and mailed with ease wher
pleasure or business, magnet-like
speeded the use we made Of our time
For the past three years postal card.
have frequently told brief stories 81
direct in their wording that the full
shock OF their horror equalled or ex
celled those kilograms from the Wal
Department which are bringins
home to us the price we are payin,
for democracy.
Imagine a postal card telling thai
your son had lost his third finger
deliberately cut from his hand thai
a Hun might become possessed of thu
ring he wore.
Picture the postal that told you o.
the burning of the lunatic asylum al
Ohourg. Belgium, and Of the frightfu
death of the 200 insane women who
were being cared for in that institu
\ ton.
Read the postal that might truth
fully tell of that French woman eigh
ty years OF age who was raped al
Lahoussoye.
Another mail and the postal tells
Of the women and children at Mons
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