Yerington times. [volume] (Yerington, Nev.) 1907-1932, 1918-11-30
THE CHILDREN WILL
NOT USE THEM

Teachers Association, and is taken
from the editorial section of Popular
Mechanics Magazine:
New York, October 23.-Sever-
al thousand cases OF German
made toys arrived here today
Associated Press.
Toys! For whom?. For the inno-
cents carried down when the "Lusi-
tania" sank? For those ~tear-eyed
Belgian children who stretch forth lit
tie arms from which the hands were
struck off by the swords OF German
girls with pitiful sightless eyes? For
officers? For those French boys and
those whose little bodies rest in the
churchyards Of Italy, that died in pain
from poisoned Hun candy? For those
ether children slowly starved to death
in Poland or massacred in Aremenia'
Toys? Toys made by Huns to
whom innocence and childhood are
but toys to be played with and then
crused and broken? Toys whose very
contact contaminates and leaves upon
the touch OF babyhood invisible clots
of blood? As well bring a deadly SER
pent into the home to spew its venom
on the cradle. Why shall we befoul
and faint the purity OF American child
hood with reminder OF the fiendish
treatment the Huns have gloried in
ever since that fateful August of 1914?
! Can one even look upon a Noah's
| Ark Made in Germany and put from
/ his mind those hundreds of helpless
innocents whose slken locks are
twined with seaweed? Can one hold
a German doll in her arms and forge:
the thousands dead from famine who
once made glad mothers arms? Can
boy find delight in the contortions
Of mechanical Hun clown and forgei
those brave young men who writhed
in agony when crucified on castle
walls by these same Huns' Can a
ball colored with the red OF Huns fail
to suggest the flame from bursting
grenades hurled by arms uplifted in
the attitude OF "kamerad"?
Let tiiOSC WHO NOblh INV itN iNdt
some ghosts into the home to hover
round the Cristmas tree buy German
toys. Ii one would hang the boughs
/ with evil omens, and bid the wall OF
agonized spirits float through the
branches and fan the flickering flame
Of candles. let him buy German toys.
J Let those who can, make merry with
the product OF those very hands which
even at this moment are eagerly filling
shells with poison gases and deadly
flames and hurling them against our
own flesh and blood
And what OF the merchant who for
sordid gain would barter these SOU
venirs Of loathsomc nation and in
suit the loyalty of lisping lips What
could more delight the cunning Hun.
what more quickly bring the sneer-
ing smile to cruel faces, or gladden.
| heartless hearts, or encourage him to
hope that even now we tolearte his
brutality and welcome what he wants
TO SELF If now, when as nation we
are in universal condemnation OF
| Hunism, yet do we hold out our
hands to accept his works, what will
he think and with what measu shall
| he estimate the sincerity OF our expires.
I sions OF repugnance and horror at
what he has done since the sun rose
this morning' What mitigation can
we claim i'll the thought that. America
was not yet overseas when these
trinkets were fashioned? Even while
the gaudy paint was yet fresh upon
these trinkets were Belgian girls be
ing dragged into slavery worse than
! death
We do not lack for toys; toys by
trainloads made in American factories
by hands which are clean; toys also
by carloads made by our ally i'll japan
where childhood is sacred. and love,
not hate, is taught at mothers breasts
Even were there none, far better our
boys an girls should go without than
! find pleasure in the handiwork of a
nation which made public holiday
to celebrate the loss of the "Lusita-
MA and which in these latter days
is stepped in the glory" of monstros-
tiles Could our little men who sac
rifice many childish pleasure to buy
war stamps and contributes pennies to
the Red Cross, aud our little moth
ers who knit 50 patiently with hands
that can barely hold the needles.
would one of these knowingly find
any pleasure in any toy Made in
Germany M
IL II WINDSOR