French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1916-1919, 1918-06-06

know that the German likes and ad.
mires war. For years German mill
tary writers and educators have been
advocating and preaching the neces-
sity of war, not only on armies, but
on the civilian population as well. An
influential German paper has said
"War is the noblest and hottest eX-
preston of human activity" War is
the chief German industry; it is the
German religion. A German pastor
declared: "We go forth to war as
Christians; with God we go about our
this" A German historian wrote
"The ideals of perpetual peace is not
only impossible but immoral as we'll"
eve shall have peace as a means to
new wars he wrote, land the short
er the peace the better" The Ger
man officers and troops today are VIC
tins of military education that has
sneered at chivalry, and has systemat-
warfare to achieve military success,
whose responsibility rests upon the
| government and military authorities,
who have made the rules n directed
their enforcement. The milk of hu-
man kindness is foreign to the heart
of the German officer; he thinks only
in terms of "blood and iron"
The following letter from a Ger
I man school girl to her Swiss school
chum is timely and conclusive:
| Ny Dear Louise
The contents of your letter would
have hurt me, had l not known that
your thoughts of glorious war re-
suited from sheer ignorance. 1t is
evident that you, a Swiss girl, with
your French sympathies cannot un-
derstand how my heart, the heart Of
a young German girl, desired the war.
Speaking of it years ago, my father
said to US: Children, Germany is
getting too small for US; we shall
have to go to France again in order
to find more room" Is it u fault
if France will not understand that
more land and money is necessary for
US? There is but n rage that is
worthy of ruling the world, and
which has already attained the high
est degree of civilization. That race
is ours. The Prussians are the Lords
par excellence among the Germans,
all othr nations, degenerate and in
ferior worth. That is why ! have al
ways been so proud of being a true
! Prussian. Is it not shameful that
other nations, who have no right to
exist on earth, wish to diminish our
heritage! We are the divine fruit,
the others are only weeds. That is
why our great Emperor has decided
to put an end to all these injustices
and extirpate the weeds"
| l remain your school friend,
KATIE HAMMEL.
July 20, 1916.
1t is but just that this country
avail herself of every means and use
every weapon possible to shatter that
swollen, detestable German egOtism
and arrogance. 1t we're better that
not only the German race, but the
entire human race, disappear from
the face of the earth in one final af-
frmation of mans will to freedom
than to drag on in Prussian chains
"From chains we beat the sword that
made US free;
The swords we beat to scythes and
reaped our gains;
Let scythes be swords again, or men
shall see
Their metal forged anew to make us
chains"
In Sept, 1917, a German editorial
said: "The ideal of the minority COT
the reichstag), in regard to foreign
| affairs, is German world domination
and German peace which, by the
sword, shall require the submission OF
the whole world to German dictation.'
German autocracy is building dikes
against the food, and may hold it of