The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1918-03-11
GERMAN LIES AND GERMAN LIARS
BY Porter Emerson Browne.

When the Germans let loose upon thu
world their poison gas and their liquit
fire, the world, aghast, thought that thu
end had been reached.
II had not. FoA since that time have
these same Germans found, and brought
TO use, even a still more lethal weapon
weapon alike as yelled as it is deadly
as noxious as it is effective, and quite in
keeping with the absolute negation OF
ethics, or morals, of decency, of human
ity that has marked Germany's warfare
from the Belgian atrocities down to the
present date.
And this new weapon is lies.
Throughout this country, as well as
throughout the countries of the allies,
! Germany has flung her serried lines of
4 German liars All kinds of lies they tell,
/ and in all kinds of ways, from the AZ
oentimeter lie that no one believes down
! to the dumdum lie that makes little
hole going in and a big one coming out,
and the chlorine lie that you don't even
know is lie until you find that you are
overcome TO a point where some friend
has to give you the restorative of truth
There is the direct lie, and the ricochet.
There is the nitroglycerine lie that ex-
plodes itself when it hits; and the time
fuse lie that doesn't go off for week or
SO. There are lies on the land, in the air,
on the sea and under the sea.
And all these lies, effective and ineffec-
tive, big and little, are directed against
each of the allied nations TO confuse, to
distract, to puzzle, to delay, them in the
successful prosecution of the war
'The life of an aviator is only 80 hours
In the air"
And there are aviators who have been
flying for three years!
"The navy is rotten with diseased"
Maybe SOL But you must admit that
when it comes to sinking submarines
they do pretty we'll for bunch of in
valids.
THE camps are hotbeds OF immoral !
ity!'
A lie on the face of it. If there were
the inclination, there is neither the place |
nor the opportunity.
This is not Americas war.
Whose war is it to defend the rights of |
America and Americans against subma
rines at sea, and plots on land to present |
Texas. New Mexico and Arizona to Mex |
icoy To say nothing of blowing up Amer
lean ships in American harbors, and |
American factories in American citiess
"All Germany wants is just peaceN
That's all! A Just peace that will give
her Poland, Belgium, Alsaee- Lorraine,
Austria Hungary, Turkey, Bulgaria, Ser.
bia, Rumania, control of the Baltic and
The Black seas and ports on the Mediter
ranean A inst peace in which she can
% ordinate her new possessions prepare
tory to taking another wallop at the rest
IF the world! As her own people have
already announced that it is her inten-
ion to do
England is making her colonies do all
he fighting"
England lost 10000 member entire
tanding army--in the first few months
# the war. And she is now holding the
biggest part of the western front and
ending troops to Italy besidesl
"The Germans would never try TO con-
uer America.
Take the English navy away for few
weeks and see. Germany has announced
er dream of world power. If America
snt in the world, where is it?
These are few of the type A lies.
vi Tue obhti ~ pcs hiS WIG VhVNhS'
Germany is unbeatable; so why go
ganst herr We viii never get troops
. Europe in time. We can't equip our
oldiers. We can't feed our soldiers. Ger
lany never intends to attack us here; so
It's keep our troops at home to defend
$ when she does. If we must choose
lachine gun for our army, let us pick
ne that isn't invented yet. We must
ave free speech; it is better to have II
eople talking than doing things. II
Germany undermined Russia with lies