South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1918-05-12


And soon a child shall clasp my knee
a little child, helpless child
I die when ne is born.
This pathetic plea with the rebuke that
die when God calls. and Marie is reminded
that her duty the duty Of every German woman always
remain home and bear children for the further
glory of God and the kaiser.
God and the lxaiserl Throughout all these verses
this made in Germany partnership is played upon
until sckens you all of Of this
first and greatest German annexation scheme-the an
nexation Of God-but if He their side
clusivey. which hardly probable. it would be
from good to speak OF it so continuously. The
armies cleave the foemans skull with God
by their side. God will them through He viii
bring victory 10 ther banners
1t English rhymster who wrote
What of Heaven wilhelm thinks
Is riddle OF the sphinx:
But a matter much dim
is what Heaven thinks of him
The matter. however. the least bit dim Ger
God has nothing but approval for Wilhelm and
He gories in the partnership.
ONLY GERMAN HAS HOLY CAUSE.
One poet pictures Jesus walking the field
after battle. Gently the savior questions the wound
ed of all nations TO why they have onereed their
lives this orgy. The dying Frenchman admits
that he sought unhOly revenge, the Engshman
simply the paid dog of his masters the Russian
rant dumbly obedient to the lash OF the car. And
then Christ turns TO a German lad whom he distin-
gushes by the address: "Oh. dearest boy" The
alone plead holy cause, and being in that
favorable position he adds request for German vic
then departs with a promise the German boy
that his request shall be granted.
1t appears that "the Father OF all love- who died.
Jesus the Savior crucifed" did make some weak OBJ
lection TO this avalanche German hate. in a
He sought out one viii Vesper and babe him "sns
in hate, but sing in love- Nesper was true Ger
man, and not-abashed. He had his ready:
Fefyning not understand
quickly took my pen in hand.
And wrote: Oh Lord OF Love, hate
Is deep love- and high and great!
tell Thee truly, to eye
Ny hate does all Thy love defyi
And this because o Holy Dove.
My purest love.
Ny fatherland is nigh 10 death.
1 hate all foes TO my dying breath!
Eye to eye then VIII Vesper answered Christ and IL
is assumed that the Savior overwhelmed by the out
burst Of German logic. was content 20 let the whole
matter drop.
thus YOU have the attitude Of the representative
man poets at the when broke the
world. Delighted, they babe goodby TO all the fine and
gentle things Of life: delighted they screamed their
great their steel in the nearest
skull They In the various foes all that was vile
and despcable n world; they INDUCED
hate that has had parallel in history. They gave
the word of command TO GOD. and lined Him up
where just behind the kaiser They God and the
about forward together 10 over
,beIn,ine victory through oceans of deectabe blood
WHAT OF THE FRENCH POETS?
while the German poets were lost and wander
ng in this bog hate fury. what the French
poets thinking what they writing They lifted
their and saw pouring over the northern frontier
those field gray armies a mission OF murder
destruction, filled with unhOy lust and red hot
passion for Their reaction under the cirCum-
stances such might have come TO honest men
anywhere-to our own poets here IN America. for eH-
ample
They let loose no deep bay Of JOY had their
man brethren TO know ceav1ng
skulls crying high heaven their agony.
streams we're running red with human blood. War
seemed o unnatural and unnecessary a relic Of
the dark ages monster born IN dank German forests
They peril what was. a highly organizes
barbarsm a Darbarism with insatiate appetite for
of others more favored. a barbarsrn
that turns 10 war for delight a mariner turns
port and home. thrills the clank armor,
whose pride with the pile Of dead a
barbarsn In short the satisfaction
Of stamping humanity the form and feature n It's
own horrij disagreement.
This barbarsm fed by hate the hate the Ger
man army. as exemplihed little poem bv Emile
Cammaerts. he pictures the home guard OF Louvain
n peace times going shoot a "A sun
day morning. With the coming OF the hour they
roadside cafe. their captain
a friendly glass. The German army is also fond OF
target practice. But they do work sunday
would be a crime on Tuesday. then. dawn
rafting drum AMI band play" they for
shooting grounds grim OF face, for they
their pleasures seriously Their superior guns demand
OF wood. but the more satisfactory o.
flesh and blood which, shot at falls and dies
The thing they need TO draw their dre
Is just 70 hear a wOmans
martyrs groan-
other words they have such tarset the
little English nurse, Edith Caven
is this hate confined 20 the enemy; it courEes
through the blood OF the civilians home Maurice
Allou quotes a letter from German mother her
the front urging MIN 10 slsy. 10 NOV down in