The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1918-06-05
SCHRECKLLCHKEIT.

q ECREThRY DANIELS theory that the U-boat
raid or his SIDE OF he Atlantic was an effort to work
up pISl.c cpnon to the poiat Of demanding that the
American fleet he brought home for The protection Of the
coase commerce ard the coa.t has been quite generally
accepted. Tk2 raid therefore jg-t part Of chreek-
-lSEk bu. HE bit no.e advanced Its form than the
long ra-1e en- vk,ch bombing Paris in that really had
a definite purpose while the political cannon bangs away
rather bndy IL an cfo., to break down the morale of
whole city but rat quite where expects the break
to s'cr.
We confess that tbs frght!uns bushes, has Interested
almost faionaleI since FIRST reared It's ugly head in
the shoeiing down Of old men and women in Belgium vii
lagos We have watched it expand through the various
stages Of bonbardng defenseless English coast towns,
bombing cities at night sinking unarmed Atlantic liners
until has reached absolutely unsupported level Of base
ness and depraWty In Rumania and Russia. We cannot
help thinking that the would rot have happened it this
yellow streak Of savagery had not existed and strongly
suspect that it will be this and not pressure from the out
side. which will not only wipe out the Teuonie idea Of
world dominion but actually reduce the Teutonic strain
to negligible quality in Europe, unless miracle Of
racial regeneration happens.
Il is going to be next to impossible now that the govern
mt for purposes Of its has loosened the elements
IN the people for long season Of practically unrestricted
license to gel them after their protraeted debauch Of
morality 10 the Of civilization. They
quite likely to employ their talents for doing evil upon
each other with results which in the end will either sup
press the savage Prussan influence bonn Of the Tartar
blood that flows in their veins and permit the true Teutons
70 eze themselves lead to the eventual extinction Of
the race as political power
Il easy account for the frghtfulness instinct The
earliest accounts Of the Huns make mention Of the fact that
they remarkably noisy IN attack and that one Of he
cardinal ideas Of what in that day passed for strategy was
to create terror in the mind Of the adversary The Pus-
san intellect has supply refused to grow throughout all
these centuries SINCE and IN the past half century has
brought the other Germans down to its own level. But
what they possibly hope to accomplish this day with
the tactics Of Atta? That the question which puzzles
Practically every effort to terronze the people with whom
The Central powers are at war has ended in complete fail
Not nfrequendy it has worked to the marked dsad-
vantage Of its perpetrators as 10 the air raids upon Eng.
land, the murder Of Edith Cave and Captain Fryat.
which aided materially in raising the British volunteer
amy Yet they go on with to the point Of casing whole
Russian villages simply because the simple minded peasants
resist when the German soldey appear to rob them Of he
food hey need to keep from starving One can at least
smile ndulsenty the statement that Chinese doctors
Of the native school fight the devil Of sickness by beating