The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1918-03-20


sky and there floating over the city was
a Zeppelin dropping bombs on the city
in which the king and queen and their
children were living Only few weeks
before these children had sat on the
knee of the kaiser They were his
nephews ana neices. AS I looked at the
object that blotted out the sky and
thought of the human beings IN 1t /
was convinced that if they were Ameri-
cans they wouldn't kill women and chill
dren il that fashion"
Antwerp to Paris.
Shepherd took hts audience from Ant
werp before It fall to Paris and told Of
that heroic night when 900 taxicabs
hurried police. fremen and civilians 10
tho defense of Paris and how the ad-
vancing Huns were halted and the CAPT
tai saved or this. he said. the war
correspondents knew nothing that night
but sat unconscious Of It all in a hotel
lobby and talked Of the world series
ana Bryan
The correspondent told of the diff
culties he encountered in trying to
reach scissors on foot. In route he
learned Of the shooting of the mayor
Of a French town because that official
refused under orders of the invading
Germans to levy a tax of $4,000 francs
upon his people.
In my neutral mind" said Shepherd.
Z knew there was nothing in the MILL
tary system Of the allies that permitted
officers Of invading armies to stick-up
and murder civilians ] knew the Ger
man military system must be different
Still ] was inclined TO give them the
benefit Of the doubt Near scissors |
found a town Uttered with empty Hauor
bottles and the walls covered by terri
BILE obscene pictures drawn by the Ger
mans. INCREASED until after the Germans
left If the Germans had remained
there until this day l believe those pic
lures would still confront the women
and children of the town. It began to
appear the German was different kind
Of human being from the rest of US"
Pro-Germans in France
At this point the speaker took occa-
sion to point out an object lesson for
vigilance aginst pro-Germans. He stat
ed that in little French village he
visited. a respected resident with a Ger
man accent had become rich by means
mayor. The mayor had had constructed
two public tea houses on the hillside of
the town. A few days before the Ger
mans reached that town the mayor slip
ped away The Huns tore down the lat
tice work of the tea houses and on the
unusually strong cement floors of those
innocent appearing places planted their
biggest guns and found prepared bases
for big guns in the quarries. Days or
preparation were spared by the thought
ful mayor
Shepherd began to take sides in the
war while at Muenich, he stated last
night. when he saw the endless hordes
Of German soldiers passing like cattle.
u saw that something had been done
to human beings that I didn't believe
could be done" said the correspondent.
Every man looked alike There was
no individuality. They all had the same
hopeless expression. They sang alike
and all their songs were songs of haro-
such as Deutschland uber aIIus. From
Muenich I went to Berlin. The world
was aghast at the way in which the
Germans sent their men in mass forma-
ton to attack. Belgian and French
guuners had told me they had killed
and killed until they were tired of kill
ing and still the Germans came on in
mass
II was in Berlin that Shepherd was
told by a renowned German professor
that German schools were turning out
so many finely educated young men
that she must have places to put them
and was out for conquest. There was
no attempt at that time to conceal the
object Of the war as the German people
thought it already won
Kits Sawdust Trail.
There ] got my first touch of Ger
man kultur." said Shepherd. "There I
hit the pro-ally sawdust trail. There I
saw that what We are fighting for is a
world run more on heart power than
brain power I became pro-ally in Ser
lin. ] then endeavored to ind out Why
the German is more different than the
rest OF us"
Mr. Shepherd then told of his obser-
vations in Germany prior to the war of
how militarism and kultur was taught
in the schools and how this previous
knowledge aided him in determining
what had happened to the people of
that country that they should apparent
" suddenly become war mad. He de-
cided that they had been war mad for
many years. and that it was the method
Of educating the young that made il
possible for the kaiser to get his people
to bomb defenseless cities. sink the
Lusitania and use poisoned gas and
LIQUID fire.
THE only way to get those ideas out
Of heads is TO cut of the heads" he
commented.
The reporter then told how Austria
and Germans other allies have felt the
baneful influence of the Huns and been
prompted to cruelties He told of