The Cordova daily times., 1919-01-29
WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 29, 1919.
WHAT THE WORLD ESCAPED.

What the world escaped by it's con ouest of German military depositsm 1t finds new reasons daily to be thank ful for.
 The league Of nations will not bring mankind surcease of injustice. for no political device can wholly transform the soul of man. No political arrange ment can stamp out disease, crime or vice, though laws may help the weak and shaCkle the criminal and vicious. But the very fact that the world statesmen are now engaged in forInu- latinc q concert of powers instead or meeting to prepare the world TOT triumphant militarlsm should inspire us with thankfuncss for some of the things we have escaped.
 That k q fantastic. and yet We m2Re TO doubt q perfectly veraciouS story. which comes to us out of res cu,d Belgium concerning the after math ol German military domina- tiOn.
 The good women of Belgium, who suffered and sacrificed and endured immeasurable wrong during four years of their country's seryitude, are catching and shaving the heads of those loose women who were the riot ous companions of the Hun officers throughout Belgium and northern France and even in the electriclight- ed anl s'eam-heated dugouts near the firing lines With shavcn patcs these daZed dcvotees of a system that IS gone. of lowd altars ovcrthrown, are sinking toward the border in the wak. of those proud and arrogant militarsts who attitudinized before their white slaves as conquerors of trc world That world under their rule, was to be q saturnalia of Gilded vice As in Babylon and Nincreh and imperial Rome militarism was 10 en- ti:'on. liCcntious caste demanding all tn. spo ial privileges oI sensual ism while the millions dradg"d and slayed for their kaiser and for tacm.
 And we can imagine the deyout kaiser. rearing twin alters to Wotan and Christ. piOusly preaching Sunday morning sermons as of old 10 thank lis "Gott" that the world had been purified by German Kultur The "taid Cmprors. quite as devout and even more strict. would have presided over Fl social realm which would have dis Graccd Cleopatra or A%grIpina the Younger IL would hay" been a world of hyrocrisy which would have made IFS laugh until We wept and weep until we laughed again.
 Civilization would have taken its fashions and its customs from Berlin iCn as the older civilization turned io Rome for an cXemplar. Every wher, the idle rich would have vied to mimic the unspcLkahlc camarillas of Germany, such camarillas Editor Harden unmasked a few years before thn war in dehnace of the emperor and the military caste
 In many respects the world will go on i'll very much the same way as It did before the war. but had the mill tarism of the Germans triumphed we would have reverted to the customs of Nero and Tiberius, Europe would have led the procession, but our own land, producing thousands of sybar ties rocking with wealth, would have fallen in line.
 Another feature of German domina tion in Belgium shows to What siav ish depths the world would haV sunk. Seeking to control the land b, dividing 1t against itself, the Hun fogtcred d faction Of Belgian traitor who came to be known as "Atkivits,
 All who were willing to crook tn
 pregnant hinges of the knee thi
 thrift might follow fawning," were s'
 aside by the invaders for substanti'
 rewards. The more the "Atkivists
 fawned, fattered and truckled u
 more they received of largesse. TT