The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1918-04-11
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ever r-to-be -forEotien incident in Ant
werp The boy, began a song. II was
re Deum."
What Is the occasion" asked an
0n)oohsr.
WHAT Don't you know'" he
ssled. Why. Antwerp fell this alter
pona."
70 ne, st that time. a, neutral, II
aelned that the German, to say the
N1st, vctshiped the same God as other
hunoes, In the same fashion as they.
kteok . great deal OF sound inyesii-
Gnejba and careful inquiry to remove
~ inpsession from my mind.
Thers came . time, however, when
] vss sbIe to put my finger on the
M Ming that made the German dit
jSnG; when ! was able to point out |
~ eaacsly the place where the Ger
{ r osaseked off from the rsst Of hu-
'G|3n11p .snd vsal his solitary, way s
8 oos1oh and ostesst from his kind.
Ne Bred n Them.
4 wss . little thing that set me on
~ risht path, In my quest; just
: EerIssn sehoolboy on his way to
6dAsol ooe morning in the suburb, Of
ll1osig. I had remembered him since
~ eeace days before The war He had
Gn6sch6d 70 sturdily TO school, at the
! 2Sel hcur Of eight IN the morning
r Nd planted his solid little legs so
oo11lef-IIke with each marching stride
oh1t II was Q picture that had always
ro11aiaed In my mind. q thing to have
vf)(lea . poem about or to have set
q (Wa b Z painting. There was some
- 20 military In his little figure
tsQk With Germany at war he came 10
~ mind % personification Of the
v1hyi That little fellow was really
: teldief," was . thought that came to
~ sus day In Munich n I saw
eo3hpoay Of German soldiers pass me.
~ was just like these men l see
Rieht there I had put my finger on
s Gosnany's trouble; right there ] had
discovered the difference between Ger
nlans and other folk ] began to take
I 9 interest IN the German schools, as
lnr q ], . foreigner. could do so, II
Uooat far, but Il was far enough. |
~ hat little German schoolboys 60
Z ~ y school didn't carry their lunches
- scheof IN little tin pals, As Amer
~ hooip In strap in the American
laohloa. Indeed not. They carried
4 thGlf lunches and their books in KNAPP
s6fIn On their backs; knapsacks just
y ~ thsir daddies, with the hairy side
4 $500 and with their shoulders drawn
~ b colder fashion, BY the weight
y ekelf 0ols Of learning. They didn't
~ b school; they seemed to march
/ i61coad; little fellows from five years
- impregnated with the idea Of
Started IN Homes.
N b WAS a. plain as daylight what was
heieg done to them in their homes.
1Aeif mothers had prob5bly packed
tkc3f knapsacn for them and started
f1em off to school like little soldiers.
h Al recess time ! saw them, all over
Germany. They didn't play like Amer
len schoolboys, or English, French or
( efItalian schoolboys-tag, pullafay or
Aotk-n-the-rock. Indeed not. The
t6qeher tame out onto the playground
y wlth them. The teacher was man,
hlred by the government. Under his
deserving eye the little German school
M tramped around like soldiers, go
~ through such strange exercises as
~ saw the German athletes perform
4 the Olympic games in Stockholm,
heWn - gymnastics. On the play
1o0nd the military influence reached
-; On the way to school they we're
4 S The military influence Of home
~ iAfluence were they under in
l echoolrooml What we're they
y thsfe BY the man whom the gov.
ant had set over them to be their
Taught Only Kultur.
~ o. Knows exactly. But il wa.
lhlng that helps a German to hi
( = nlta4ia when he might have missed
N ~ tslped bin to use poison ga
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