The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1919-07-29
SCISSORS AND PASTE.
\ Misplaced Sympathy.
News and Courier) =.

just as we'll to recolleet that never has
| Germany admitted crime or professcd
contrition.
! The world is filed with loose
thinking and people are often misled
| by false sympathy. By all means
keep the record clear.
The Inauguration of the German
at the German nations amazing
achievements. This is still being cir
culated.
| This bubble has been pricked. The
/ sight of one man. armed to the teeth,
/ overawing ten unarmed men. going
about their business. is not partic-
ularly wonderful; nor is the man a
superman. He merely had the ad-
vantage of being armed. Germany
was the only armed nation in Europe
and had been planning an attack on
! the liberties Of the world for forty
years. Every plan was cut and dried;
and yet every plan failed. Was this
amazing? 1t certainly was. but
/
The Scientific American. our lead
! ing journal of science. has repeatedly
pointed out the deficiencies of Ger
man men Of science. Take the case
of poisoned gas. They had plenty of
time and abundant opportunity. but
were so inefficient in their applica-
! tion that the Allied nations escaped
and prepared against it. If the Ger
mans had been really efficient gas
would have won the war in a few
weeks when the gas mask was not In
| use.
The case was similar with regard to
the submarine. With an effort un-
suspected by their foes the Germans
launched an unrestricted submarine
warfare, with ruthless disregard of
all the rules of war as practiced by
the sicilized nations of the globe; and
yet it failed.
They prepared an invasion OF Eng
1 land by airship and aeroplane. when
the means of combating such warfare
did not exist. This also failed
Their general staff, trained to the
+ limit. went down before the strategy
of Foch They were badly outgen-
! eralled, beaten at their own game,
which they thought they knew.
All this spells anything but effici-
enCy. 1t is an ignorant man who
/ fails to see that Germany, with every
IH., i IL
to accomplish any end sought.
The next poisoned dart in the Ger
man quier is hatred Of England. They
will find some sOlace in losing the
world against England.
Whatever England may have been
N thespast, and we have had our diff
ferences with that nation. twice re-
sultinG in war. her record in the pree-
cnt war il altogether to her credit
She has emerged from il strong and
with the certainty of rehabilitation.
The BRUSH cmirc is strong. go
ing, concern. and. like all successful
men and nations. has raised up a host
OF enemies. But with ali this. Eng
land has presented spectacle. which.
for sheer moral grandeur. has no par
a.Icl in modern history.
Her loosely strung possessions
Iirdlcd the globe. 1t seemed that
they would break apart at the FIRST
opportunity. Well the opportunity
came when she was engaged in a life
and death struggle with Germany,
Austria, and their allies The beset
lion roared for his cubs. if one may
be permitted a mixed figure. The
roar was answered from CCanCada to
South Africa and from the Cape OF
Hindostan. and the islands OF the sea
White men. brown men. black men,
swarmed to the rescue. and laid down
their lives freely on many a battle
field. They came, they stayed, they
won.
The war has left its problems It's
hcart-burningu its desires which can
not all be . .atifed; hut there Is not
the slightest taint of disloyalty In a
nation or in a tribe that shared in
the glory of Britain
An adequate reply TO the German
snarl against England may be found
in Macaulay's classic summing UP or
Barcrc:
The nation which has combined
beyond all example and all hope the
blessings of liberty with those OF or
der, might we'll be an object Of aver
sion to one who had been false alike
To the cause of order and the cause