The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1919-05-27
WAR DREAM LINCERS
In GERMAN MINDS
ARMY CHAPLAIN SAYS PEOPLE
UNREPENTANT, AND FEARS
JOB ONLY HALF DONE.

Doubt as to the insurance against
war provided by the league of ma
lions and the peace treaty were ex-
pressed by ministers who preached
Sunday on the results of. the war,
says the New York Times.
An unrepentant Germany likely to
attempt to repeat her old course,
secret war-breeding diplomacy under
a set of new names, and threatening
divisions among the allies were al
legged dangers dwelt upon in several
pulpits.
Major Henry Russell Talbot, senior
chaplain of the 7th army corps, who
served year and a half as chap
lain with the French, joined the
American army on our entrance into
the war and saw his last service with
the army of occupation, preached at
the Episcopal Church of Heavenly
Rest, of which the Rev. Dr. Herbert
Shipman, senior chaplain of the 1st
army, is the rector.
81 came home sick at heart" he
said. eve set out to do a definite
thing, and we have not finished the
job. You and l may have done our
little part, but we have passed the
completion of the task to our chill
dren and our grandchildren. l may
be mistaken, but I believe that a
people fight not with arms but with
morale, and the German morale has
not been really broken. 1t has been
simply stopped for the time being"
Major Talbot said the German peo-
pie had not lost the spirit which caus-
ed them to break out in a war of con-
quest in 1914. He took it for grant
ed that Germany would speedily and
easily resume her place in the world
He said he had found food in the oc-
cupled parts of Germany more plenti-
full and cheaper than in France.
Sees Man Power in Future.
''The second thing which impressed
me-" he said, twas the great multi
tude of children. There seemed to
be thousand of them, and plenty of
men, too, who crowded the streets
men unnamed and looking as fit as
our own.
''Thirdly, I was struck by the atti-
tude of the German people toward
US. 1t was saccharine, sickeningly
friendly.
zone German said to me: 4 know
many of our people are not well-dis-
posed toward Americans, but wait un-
til our republic is firmly established.
Then we will join hands with Ameri-
ca, and both of us will fight France
and England Think of 1.-THE first
reaction of the German, after four
years of horror, is take it up again"
Decries League of Nations.
DIR. John Haynes Holmes, at the
| Church of the Messiah, said:
whether the international organ
ization set forth in the Paris covenant
is a good or a bad thing, it is i'm
portant for the sake of honesty that
we should recognize it for what it is.
1t is not league of nations at all.
1t is simply an alliance of those par
tlcular nations which were victorious
in the war against Germany.
at is what Clemenceau has said
he wanted all along, namely, a new
balance of power, to safeguard the
political and military interests of the
allies. 1t is a perpetuation of that
same old system of international d.
plomacy which has wrecked Europe
dozen times in the past and will do SC
again"
The Rev. DR.. Robert Watson, who
preached at the Second Presbyterian
church, said:
To-day, with the war won, there is
less accord among the allies than dur
peace winning the war has brought
peace, winning the war has brought
disagreements. l protest against any
compromise that cannot settle things
SO that there will be no wars ever
again in the world"
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