The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1918-04-11


sleeping, blameIess Antwerp; TO fire
on liieboats departing from q sinking
ship. II was, something that eauseA
him 10 put his kaiser above his own
lie. above the welfare OF his home
and his loved ones. II you catch a
boy young enough YOU can teach him
almost anything you wish before he
Is twelve years old; put Il into his
mind so firmly that all the fact and
truth. all the persuasion and logic In
the world cannot remove H. There
you have the German soldier OF today
and the German citizen. Taken when
he Is young and helpless, filled with
the ideas that German militarism and
German kaiserism wish him 10 have,
he Is helplesily militafistie. His isn't
a physical slavery alone n is mental
slavery His beliefs are unspeAkable.
Russians Are .whitsr"
Ou,wardly a smiling human being
like the uu Of US, he has IDEAS
tucked away In his head that the rest
OF humanity cannot grasp. Because OF
these ideas he will permit his old
mother back IN Berlin TO die OF NAL
nutrition because the government de-
eides that all milk and other dietary
food il 10 20 10 the babies; because
Of these ideas he will rest content on
the firing line while his wife and
children back at home are suffering
for food and fuel and clothing; be.
cause OF these IDEAS he will permit his
sisters and his daughters 20 be sub
jected 10 that dvyillsh system which
allows women 10 become Officially
pregnant" 30 that new soldiers can be
upreared 10 fight Tor the military sys-
tenn incidentally, the Russian soldier
was a whittier" man than this ho left
the front line trenches and went back
home not because he was driven back
BY the Germans, but because affairs
went wrong back home and he learned
that his wife and e ildren needed him
Believes Divine Right Of Kaiser.
Because OF these ideas he will con
duct himself a. II the kaiser we're the
supreme being on earth II is not for
home that he will fight; primarily u
is not for the iatherland. In his school
he is taught that these are not
ts supreme things in life. The SUI
preme ihing-so that male pedagogue
teaches him In his early formative
days-is the kaiser Without a smile,
without a question OF doubt. a grad
uate Of the German elementary school
and OF the German universities, too,
for that matter-listens and applauds
when the kaiser afironts human COM
mon sense by such remarks as he
made al Koenigsberg in his speech OF
August Is, 1910:
"Here my grandfather, BY his
own right, set the Prussian crown
upon his head, once more distinctly
emphasizing the Tact that II vas
accorded him BY the will Of God
alone and not by parliament or by
any assemblage Of the people or
BY popular VOTE. and that he thus
LOOKED upon himsslf 40 the chosen
instrument Of heaven, and, a.
such, performed his duties ~
regent and sovereign. Looking
upon myseif a. the instrument Of
the Lord without regard for daily
opinions and intentions, l 20 my
way"
In the German sehoolhouse such
things we're taught. In the German
schoolhouse were laid the real prepara
tions for this world war, The German
schooIhouse, all these years, has beei
a black, secret lodge, In contrast will
the little "red sehoolhouse' OF thu
American people.
| found il impossible, In Germany
10 believe that the allies were not a
war with the. German people, The ideas
that we're put, into the heads OF thu
helpless little German schoolbys car
be removed from their heads In onl,
one way-by cutting of the heads, b,
reducing the number Of such heads Il
an actual physical minority. Ideas pu'
into q head during the mature years
OF that head may be removed by per.
suasion OF logic; ideas put into a head
before il is twelve years can be re-
moved only with the removal OF the
head. Our fight therefore, is actual,
with the German people, because we ar,
determined to remove from the world
the idea which had been instilled ir
them from their earliest days,
what Russia Feared.
| A Russian censor said to me ir
Peuograd: -
Il had an excellent friend In Ger
many when went to school there; M
was my closest friend. Every time
passed through Berlin / used to spent
several day, with him. We both useC
to worry about the days when wa
might eotne in Europe One evening
while we're were dining my German
friend said to me:
/" Vladimir, don't let's worry abou
the war any more. II any trouble
comes between Russia and Germany WI
will surely arbitrate the matter
Yes, but who will be the arbi
traitor between such huge nationsr
asked.
Why, the kaiser said the German
friend. | looked at him to see II h,
was joking. He wasn't He was II
dead earnest. | moved back from tn
table, kicking over my chair, and wen
away from him, never to see him again
II had known him for years, and
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