Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1918-01-18
SCHOOLS WERE CHOSEN FOR
SEWING TEUTONIC SEED.

The following are portions of Il
sermon delivered by the Rev r. f..
Elmore, pastor of the Walnut Hills
Christian Church, of Cincinnati. Cd.
Mr.. Gilmore is we'll hnevin in Taze.
well, where nc for..2.l. yca:
planting the German languagc in
American elementary schools was part
of the Prussian plan for the domi-
nation of the world, Why we ever
permitted this medication of the lam
guage and ideals of 'Kultur' God on
" knows, but, why, ever after we en-
tered the war, our cities experienced
difficulty il eXtirpating the disease
is easi'y explained on the ground
.he virus had already produced its
deadly effect.
The great national sin of Ger
many is her PrusSianizcd system or
education. Her chief educational
crime is the attempt, first by subtle
propaganda and then by force of the
arms to impose her ideals upon the
world
Inspect German egotism, ambition,
milltarism, autocracy and atrocities.
and in the center Of the filthy web
you will find German education. The
nnho!y Writings of her philosophers
are only am indication of that which
was spoken by her clergy and taught
in her schools.
william II from the moment of
his accession, turned education to his
own ends. terrorizing professors and
teachers and making factories out of
the schools for the crushing of demo-
cratic instincts and the production
of soldiers physically fit for conquest.
German superiority contempt for
other peoples, her barbarous doctrine
that might makes right, her salts
faction with wars of subjugation. are
all products of the curriculum of the
German education.
"Wilhclm's propaganda did not stop
Mt the Prussian border. 1t was passed
out over the whole world, taking the
form IN diabolical diplomacy, espion-
age and intrigue. in lodging German
professors in the universities of the
world, in framing up German-Amer-
lean alliances, in issuing German Ian
guage newspapers, substituting any
other publications, which could be
reached, and in preaching that the
words Made in Germany meant
Made Best
1T is amusing TO recall how the
ante-bellum world looked with child
like wonder upon that colossal hoax,
Made in Germany According to the
Berlin and its emissaries all wares
of worth were made along the Rhine.
They said, and we believed, that no
universities, professors, music, art,
literature, theology, or commerce
were quite so perfect as the German.
Prussians were the efficient folk
"Now the aim Of the civilized world
is to knock once and for all time this
prop of one-sided education out from
under the Prussian propaganda. They
will permit the German people to sit
under their own vine and fig tree,
Hohenzollern products, if they choose,
and TO enjoy the benefits of 'kultur.'
But they will deny Germany the priv
iicge of disturbing the peace of the
world again by the toxin of tyranny
and the tocsn call of war.
"TheS group Of the brave boys who
tore picturse of the German Kaiser
trara Tie walls OF Cincinnati public
schools were philosophers of the best
sort. They merit monument in the
heart OF this great city which gave
them birth and pledged to them the
heritage Of pure democracy"