The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1918-04-08

ulu end liQuor
Gsfmons had
ont tkose terrible
~ and In northern
NV lea committed by
nDeoos a Gsrmsns, my con
- ohoi h wNs beastlike
jean sol6lsrs and officers and
1o)llass ~ officers would not
1octed themselves as he had
wns Z different kind Of . hu'
0esnss cssssr . Cheat.
. NuuIch. on the German
Ber ~ battle 4 the Aisne. /
III istes. In t,slins with censor
hoW even the German censor,
1Abiy . gentleman, tried to get
ehoaf ~ American readers
- ~ DO . thing that no Amer:
DettlDh n Mexican censor had
nnnsded OF wen requested.
~ hunith went 10 Berlin
thought . TREMENDOUS story
~. thought that perhap,
Dtoas about the German had
vvuee. had carefully kept. In
o. my mind. the reservation
'oGEAaps The CenL.an wa really
for his III, and the welfare
~vaiesland ; that the war, perhaps
IN forced upon him. To &C.. my
n)ous story | went 10 Prof. Hans
- Of the University Of Berlin, a
oDpisa. q man eminent In the world
Ie11srs and, presumably. a humani.
49, He wasn't = German Official
knew he would tell me the truth
0Dsctsd that the truth might open
1sjea's eyes to the fact that Ger.
really had been attacked and
I'M Into the var.
Oeruss Human Not Yeti
VVksa met Professor Delbfuek IN
sfuiy OF his little home IN Char.
onSura, q suburb OF Berlin, and
uyseif sitting face to face with
eense OF comfort came over me
~. I thought. I have found n
uqnm Who u . gentle human being.
Professor Delbruck that hmeri'
~ puuled about the war. We
Von1ed 10 know the right Of H. why
~ Germany gone into the war; l
{ shali never forget the cold ehills
~ vent up and down my spine a,that
Gnfseat old party rose deliberately IRON
- ehsir, walked TO q corner Of his
cf1iy end returned TO the desk with a
tAp3ful Of mapsl -.
6pensm we're being slaughtered by
- huadreds Of thousands IN those days
: nassed formations; German home,
~ being bsreaved by the scores Of
61asnds between every sunrise and
I had expected that Professor
MEX would express some sympathy
DyCks sufferinss Of the Germans, and
- would ask the sympathy OF the
Ssaies But this was In No
q d 1914, when Germany thought
Victory lay right ahead Of her.
Ne oyspathy From Him.
. word Of sympathy did ! get
~ m; not . single request for the
Of the people Of the United
He didn't tell me. A. ] had ex-
he would. that Germany had been
sn - the var; he didn't say that
GnGmB vss fighting for her life, as
Aeuunns say now. Indeed. he didn't
4hmAAise1ed words he told me that
- - room esough in Germany iol
ouoU1pd6 = 4; acreage enough ant
m.d sescures enough to keep every
csnforfsbIy. But he said. "oul
$3.50 ere 90 fine. and they turn out q
fiseiy educated young men ever,
ost We must have new colonies
Nv business centers Throughout,
~ 0sth where these young men car
CnGBsioe their talents"
IN, with q long. slender finger, HI
fuD1ed out to me on his maps how Ger.
~ Qust have Persia and Syria, ant
.sallroad to Bagdad, and new col
49, b Africa and China, and littl'
s61I16s here and there, and toe holds u
g1Gos peoples countries for centers o
German business. Cermany's war wa
n one land grab
Bet to Conquer World.
Germany had set out to attack tn
voeIdi To take what she wanted, b.
f0goei Her excuse for all the horror
~ I'D committed was that her school
vocp 20 finei
ut then and there, In that old man
~, ] hit the pro-ally sawdust trail.
100 many fine schools have tina
G1ect on q nation I decided TO mysel
~ hereafter I'm going to be in favo
- world that's run less by brai
povef and more by heart power.
Nd ifs just to get that sort OF
VOID established that our Sammies ar
over there Ia France today.
Cheer Up, America.
We ought to cheer up in Amerles tc
~ because the issue is so clear b,
lon ~. We have no weakening doubt
In Bcigians and the French and II
Dfkish and the other allies have co,
e9o1 that bloody trail OF finding o
What kind Of a fellow the German
~ rs.
And this is only one reason for chez
\ I'M up. There are twenty other reason
q hast why the war won't be so hal
for rs, as il has been for those OF OF
Miles who have blared the trail befot
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