New Britain herald., 1918-11-20

devotes a number of inform
ing chapters to the function of social
agencies. Traces the various in
sttincts back to a form Of the will
to-poWer. The business of art, edu-
stice; and, when a just peace shall
have been agreed upon, the signature
of the nations will declare the world
Wharf.-The most awful of all wars-at
end.
Germany is whipped. A great
German war-machine, without a
heart, is hors de combat. Germany
had hade over forty years of prep
aration to do wrong: the Allies
without any preparation, but that of
the heart, successfully defended the
right; and right has gloriously
triumphed over German might.
Christians, the world over, thank
God and the victorious nations who
made the living sacrifice which made
the great victory for world-freedom
possible.
But the German people seen to me
not to be sorry for their crime. doubt
that official Germany today regrets
anything but that she failed to accom-
plish her diabolical purpose.
Doubtless Germany is in great need
Of aid; and, constituencies as ever,
she hesitates not boldly to call on
America for the food needed to save
her from starvation. The armistice
terms provide that the Allies supply
Germany with what will meet her
l..>aent need; but, disregarding the
official arrangement made for their
benefit, the Germans boldly make a
al nrio n n
persons here for American sympathy.
If Germany is really starving it
might be we'll for the people, even
before they whine for bread, to con-
slider we'll the first cause of their
present starvation. The suffering the
German people have thus far endured
because of the war, has been self
imposed. Germany, as a nation, drew
the sword against the whole unger-
man world; then, is 1T strange, that
in her case, the Scriptural word
should be proved true, that che that
taketh the sword, shall perish by
the sword %
Germans, wearing spiked helmets,
putting to the sword the innocent, in
the name of war, must ever be con-
sidered murderers; and a nation of
murderers must at least be brought
to justice in accordance with 1neXor-
able law; the law, for whose violation
the Hun imposed suffering not only
on his own people who were guilty,
but upon all the innocents in the
world-and for the maliciously i'm
posed suffering of their innocent
victims the German people must yet
pay the full penalty. SO far Ger
many has only suffered in committing
the crime: she must still suffer for
the malignancy and enormity Of her
offence.
To nv sense Germany cannot be
suffering too much to be grateful for
her salvation from the cause Of her
threatened starvation and her graft |
tude belongs to the Allied world for
their having smashed the German
military monster whom Germans had |
been secretly feeding for years. and
in their own time, let loose upon an
unsuSpeCting world
If the German people have learned !
anything out of the sufferings of war,
why do We not hear a word Of ap-
probation for the coming liberation !;
which the triumph Of right has !
forced upon them? Why not send a !
special word of gratitude to the /
Allies for their terrible Emancipation |
Proclamation which has driven the
Kaiser and his well-preserved family
from the throne of autOcratic power
over them before they appeal to
President and Mrs. Wilson for food
for here self-preservation
The war is over; but the after
math of special duties forced upon
the nations, still apears as an unf1n-
ished problem.
For instance. in ouf own land, the
great necessity of Americanization
stands out boldly since the war. The
fires under the American meltlng-pot
must never agin burn low. No time
must be lost n the purgation of all ,
citizens of everything foreign or I'M
American. There should bA no more
Germans Or citizens of any other !
nationality in this country. An should
prove themselves Americans. No c1t1-
zen should be considered loyal to old
glory unless his citizenship prove that
his heart as we'll as his body is with
US.
The pressure of characterization
must increase, not diminish, with
the postwar reconstruction activities |
In other words: War is not over, but, !
with the cessation of carnal-wea pom |
hostilities, the real war upon alienage |
has only begun; and the Am ericaniza- |
tion of all citizens is the goal to be |
reached through the united efforts of |
all who value rightly the blessings