Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1918-10-21
AS 1T MIGHT BE.

beast of prey, the blond beast lust
fllly rowing in search of loot and vic
tory"
Then we can easily comprehend
that no permanent peace can be hop
ed for, that is not founded squarely on
the absolute destruction of Germany's
god, which is Might Also the ways
of peace must provide for the reed
ucation of every individual German
by some form of personal restitution
until the worship of the Blond Beast
is purged from his creed.
The individual German (not merely
the ruIers) must learn that might
does not make right, that the war
lords cannot order an Almighty abouut
or suspend the ten commandments
that being a decent member of the
human race is paramount to being
loyal to any government, that culture
involves a gentleness which is not
weakness but is Numerically oppos-
ed to Kultur, that a scrap of paper
is well worth dying for if it repre-
sents honor, and thousands of other
like things down to the everyday code
that a good sport is no squealing
welcher and surrender is not a legi-
innate means to knife your enemy in
the back.
Today the German mind-the mind
of the ordinary German individual has
no comprehension of these things. His
answer is Germany over all, or mil
itary necessity" or THE Fatherland
can do no wrong" or THE spread OF
Kultur," or 1T is best for me, my
SELF or My religion is made in Der"
lin" Among other things, he must
be painstakingly, slowly, thoroughly
taught that religion is no more made
in Berlin than the white fame of hero
ism is manufactured in drug fac
tory, but descends upon the humble
worshipper at the altar of self-sacrl>
fee. The race of Huns must be re-
educated from the cradle up.
Failing that, you may be sure civ
ilization will have to fight it again,
for if the Blond Beast, however whip
ped, can stink away to the lair he has
today in the mind of the German peo-
pie, he will come baek-arld next time
will make no mistake in the manner
OF ms COIuluS.
How can this regeneration be ac-
complished Mere money iDdemnities
only foster bitterness for years by
their blind burden of taxation. The
countries that have been devastated
have a right to such poor restora-
ton as can now Be made and Ameri-
ca has the power and the duty of
seeing that it is made. Let the work
of compensation be personal and in
dividually instructiv2 to the German
and let it be carried out in all posi-
BILE kindness under the direction Of
an International Allied Board as an
educational programme, not as a re-
venge.
To secure this Germany must be
taken under Allied military control
for at least a year, and all the ma
chinery, farm equipment, household
utensils and works of art looted from
the other countries should be search
ed out and returned, and all the de-
stroyed works Of art and learning
should be as far as possible replaced
from the German store Certainly the
greatest step toward true repentance
is to make good the theft.
Meanwhile every member Of the
German military machine from the
private up should be compelled under
military guard to give his own SER
vice in the devastated countries for
a term increasing progressively with
his military rank, to the work Of re-