The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1919-02-15

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blood and iron. the advance guard OF
his efficiency IN everything ne built.
On the esplanade the French retdrn -
commemoratcd by simple, satisfying
symbol.
From a commanding eminence the
equestrian statues OF William !, con-
Queror Of Gee. surveyed the country
side, looking menacingly out toward
france, ana when the french came
back they overturned the statue and
on Its pedestal put plaster monu-
ment OF q Poilu. squat-bodied, thick
legged. broad shouldered soldier OF
Verdun, and beneath It wrote this
iesend: IN les g. We BOT EN-.
c. mnch J for Met- an ths. ,rA,erial
side. One must see it to understand
it. There is nothing quite like it in
Europe or the rest OF the world. It
was bit of Oldest France when the
German took 1t. He surrounded it
with his monuments. he weighed it
with his chains. Two civilizations.
two ideas. two races cry out against
each other at every turn.
Strasbourg was city Of its own
sort. neither French nor German, TAX
en- by arms first, but won to France
In long decades OF occupation. married
by her own consent to France after
the Revolution, but Alsatian always.
possessed OF her own soul and retain
ing it. Metz was French or nothing,
and the burden OF Its agony is written
in every corner.
Streets are overlooking with blue
clad soldiers, French bugles sound In
streets, on the forts far above, along
the hills toward France. the tricolor
flies. The German packed his tro-
phies of Gravelotte to carry home, but
his departure was too rapid, and they
remain penind.
Many Germans Ieft.
He has left behind him thousands
of Germans. who linger to attest their
as,r =. ha,aa r.oh and r-ou.,
whare tbay r.ad - strnt and dorni-
49,. ~. s4,,I .aot;r =, oarna.
n,h;., a.. rar,, nj, aoa haolr
,',;.,s a. a~4 40. ~ ,,oa :. Iatar 80
40 rL,v +hraa+or n,,nisbnant ~ faII
mon those neon,e who Welcomed the
Erench
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- ,,iot,,ra - rnnrasant a. sans.
thar ~ o,,o,vhera =, Me-. - the
tarr;h,a a,,,I th;n1 tha+ tas ,,,st van,
ishad which ;s b.rdIv oona hevond
The ne.r h;i1s what for naar,v fftv
vaors arornd ord crushed ond mnt;-
lated nonnments and tennles the
sn;rit which wos IN noorunants tom.
Mes a,d h,,r,an ha;ngs
Metz with ali ;ts Trench so,d;ers !.
,,ka a nr;soner emero;np from, dun-
Iight liberty Freedom C1vi,ization
as we know it. has begun again. but it
goes heavy footed still with sense
of chains only YESTERDAY removed.
o.. ,.=m.,
Down IN Paris find my American,
associates beginning to talk. they say
the German organization Iunctloned
even IN us maj Stage OF olssoiutlon'
German oroer sun prevails on the Al
sace-Lorralne raliWays' WINE II
france all IS CONFUSION. Inc German
nao way ABOUT MIN; ne was mas
ter or organization; you feel the In
stinctive American appreciation Of it.
But In Metz, the other side leaps to
your sight.
Einclent, yes; master OF macn1nes,
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efficiency he made only enemies and
misery. Up on the plateau by Grave
lotte there stands pathetic Russian
prison camp. Thousands of forsaken
Russians lived and labored there,
starved and died. They. too. were adj
ministered by the German machine,
and their bones are scattered over all
the nils. That camp, like the rail-
road station and parks, Is symbol,
monument of German efficiency.
The odd thing about Metz, too. is
that for once-and do not recall that
1t has ever before happened in history
mechanically superior civilization, a
better material organization, has
failed, lost out, had to give place to a
older and less effective order.
Materialism 10 Gross.
The answer is simple. The materi-
alism was too gross, the power too
brutal; it crushed the soul with the
very burden of it's colossal works and
it has failed. France is beginning
again on the middle Moselle, French
spirit, French clvilization-you have
very odd but cumulative sense Of
France itself flowing back to what
was anciently undisputed French soil.
But again and again in Metz l had