The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-04-02
HUNS MAP OF AMERICA.
What the Germans Expected to Control
Found in School Book.

Germany has captured all the United
States and part of Canada. The con-
quest and occupation took place 10 years
of the inhabitants The Kaiser at the
time admitted the occupation and sub
lection of this territory and issued maps
for the edifcation of the little Huns in
the public schools of the Fatherland,
whose gullibility left them believing
that the select and rich parts of the
world belonged s'by divine rght'' to the
German people and all the rest was in
habited by swine and heather.
But America has at last come to the
full knowledge of its predicament by ref
erence to page ), map No |, of the Volks-
sehul- Atlas Won c. Diercke public
school atlas) used in the schools of
Germany 10 years ago.
As the youthful Hun struggled through
his geography lesson he became ZEN
lightened" about the world. He knew
Germany, for he had seen the great pomp-
GUS dignity of its Emperor reviewing the
imperial troops. Germany was reality
TO the child But about the rest of the
world. Ball. They were heather and
'lowbrows"
anu tiiOIt the ltdtlleI SdIle 10 page -
of the lesson and then to map No. l. 1t
is titled "Verteilung der Menschenras-
sen" or the division of the human race.
In great staring red ink the pupil was at
once attracted to a vast area covering the
whole OF the United States and almost
half of Canada
And across the whole was written the
word 'Germanen," meaning Germans. To
the north was strip of green designat
ing that there was the home of the ''Nord-
americanisehe Indianer,'' meaning the
North American Indians.
But the skilful art of lying, even in the
lace OF an untruth, because they thought
they could get away with it, led the au-
thorities of Germany to step farther, and
behold, the race that gave to Germany
the first knowledge of telephones and
telegraphs, the submarine and airplane
through American inventions, was trans,
formed into heathens"
Map No. 2 on page 5 shows the West.
ern Hemisphere in another light-that
of the division of religions. Here the
miracle of miracles is being worked. 70,
in heather country German mission.
aries are battling the elements and saw
agery Of hideotis race to plant the i'm
perial and most holy flag of German,
upon its soil and bring Christian en-
lightenment 80 their unholv souls
Across the face of the United State,
and Canada dark shaded places ar,
, shown, with footnote reading, "Gebie
deutscher Heidenmissionen," meanin,
, sphere of influence of German mission
aries to the heather
But most significant of all is the fac
that these are the first maps shown o
countries in the atlas. With the though
of the might of the German Empire. it
J. great extent of territory and its right t.
j whatever it pleases it to have, the pup
/, goes on studying about this great oil
9 world, with Germany the center of al
~ kultur.
:, These maps are significant" said tn
owner of the atlas. "They show the de
: signs of the German race To be tn
: great am was their only thought, an
they already considered, 10 years age
s that America was theirs. They inward
v chuckled to themselves that so man
Germans were welcomed to America, fo
t they were thinking of the day when the
should rise in arms and take the couT
l. try. They had in mind the aftermath {
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