The Mena weekly star., 1919-04-17
LEPER OF HUMAN
 FAMILY STANDS BY
It Is Too Early to Forget What the Hun Did or Might Have Done, and Our Duty Is Not Ended-Pay
 in Ostracism.

Do you remember in the book Ben Hur" how the people shrank away from the lepers crying "Unclean Un- cleanl"
 That cry rings the Bible, i the history of the Old East. The leper must cry out "Uncleanl" when he moved along the highways.
 Germany, the proud and brutal Germany of year ago finds herself now in something of the leper's sta tus. The Hun orgy of blood and rapine, of fire and sword has ended. Germany sowed the wind and she is reaping the whirlwind Decent men stand away from the German. It may be years before any German is per- mitted to forget that,
 When the first squadron of whipped sea-sharks, the submarines of Ger many came into an English port, after the armistice was signed, curious thing happened. After all the for maiities had been completed, one of the German officers offered to shake hands with an English captain.
 The Englishman stepped backward and turned his back on the Hun. He couldn't take the hand of a baby killer, a sea-assassin. Decent men don't fight the way the Hun fought.
 Will Pay in Ostracism.
 How many generations will it be before the hand of civilization will again be extended to the German? A good many possibly.
 Germany will pay in ostracism, in hatred, and in distrust and she will pay in other ways as we'll as in a financial sense. But the Germans have only Germany to blame.
 It is not going to be easy for us to forget that she broke thru all the conventions of civilized warfare. That her soldiers were turned loose to dc their worst wherever they invaded a county. That they ran amuck at Lou. vain, that they plundered Liege, that they devastated ali France. that they destroyed churches, that they plum dered like savages.
 < And no man has ever heard or read in the orders of the old German army of single one of these looters and murderers being punished for the1 crimes. We want to recall all these things. Just recall them and keeT them in your mind while the drive oi the Fifth Loan, the Victory Liberty Loan is on.
 Too Early to Forget.
 They will help to remind you of tho things that America has been spared thanks to our getting into this wal and coming up to the scratch in time to hold the Hun out of Paris and fin ally beat him to his knees.
 It is from the perdition on eartl that the Germans carried into Rus sia, Belgium, France, Serbia and Ru mania, that this country has escaped No man can repress a shudder wher he thinks what the land of the United States has escaped, when he think: what would have inevitably come te pass in America if we had not beater down the Hun.
 When the nation is calling on Amer jeans to take a part of the Fifth Loan the Loan of Liberty and Victory, W, can afford to remember all these things that we know came to pass ir the Old World where the Roche rapeC uneaged for four years. There ism an adult American anywhere in tn, country who should feel free to ignor, the call of this next loan.
 It isn't that we need fear Germany now. But we ought to be willing te come in and help make the future a. safe as the united wisdom of the free nations of the world can make it.