The Parisian. (Paris, Tenn.) 1907-1962, 1919-05-09
Under the Wings u
of the Vulturs
BY C. M. MORRISON.
b-HE Black German Eagle was
the emblem OF the old Germany.

This black shadow of the Hun vul' |
ture had rested over France for 40
years. France knew 1t but the rest
of the world was Indifferent. The
vulture had been across the Vosges
mountains once and he planned to go
again as he had in 1870.
And in 1914 and for many weary
month thereafter It was resting over
the whole world America stood just
as much in the shadow OF the vul-
ture of Prussianism as did the rest
of the earth But we wouldn't believe
ii then. Our professional pacifsts
wouldn't let US understand. They
filed our ears with soft phrases.
Every day the menace came little
nearer and the shadow of the vulture's
wings grew darker. We finally aWoke
but when we did it was too late. We
came In at the eleventh hour. We have
known that since the spring, 1918. An
other month or so of patience would
have made us reach the battlefield too
late.
Had Germany won the war! What a
different America this would be. In.
stead of raising handful of billions
in Victory Loan we would be strain
ing our hearts out to find $4,000, OOU,-
600 in this country with which to pay
our ransom to the Bandits OF the
World.
We would have been the sheep for
the Hun shearing No other nation
had the resources left that we had to
gladden. the heart Of the Hun. We
would have borne the lions share of
the ransom that Germany was ready
to levy on the world.
r<HE United States of America
alone had the money to pay and
a the Huns of Hunland knew It,
With that Teutonic thoroughness that
we used to hear praised SO often and
listen to so innocently before the days
of the war, the Hun had estimated just
about what he could get out of u.s.
He expected to leave us just about
what he had left to Belgium and to
Serbia and to Roumania and that was
nothing.
His extortions would have taken
from us far more than we have spent
in all our Var preparations More
than we would have spent had the war
gone on another year. For the $40,'
000,O00,000 indemnity was by no means
all that the Hun vultures expected to
carry back with them when they set
their black wings for the evil nest In
Hunland.
There were other extortions In mind.
The Hun knew that his factories need.
ed raw materials. What better places
to get them than In American fields.
mines, forests and warehouses? The
Yankee SWINE would have little to
say about the matter. The Hun would
do the saying.
German factories were waiting for
the raw materials that were to be
gouged ont of America. Factories set
up and equipped with machinery stolen
from Belgium and looted from France
were to work up the raw materials
that were to be gathered In America,
freighted across the Atlantic and laid
down at the docks OF Hamburg. The
ships of America and France and Eng,
land, such as were left from the u
boat war would have been set to the
task of carrying.
| ~ ERMANY wanted to get her old
n world trade back and that was
one of the methods she had il
mind. The world would have taken
the goods at the point of German
bayonet
The trade methods were to be very
direct ana definite. Something Of Q
difference in that program today to
what the Hun had planned 1t. Instead
of raising 0.OoO. 900. 900 for the Hun
we are raising $4,000. 000, 000--to draw
Az per cent interest to keep him
where we put him. The Victory LOAF
| takes the place Of the indemnity thai
Germany was ready to levy upon US
Something of difference to be walk
ing up and signing our pledge to take
so many Victory Liberty Bonds rather
than standing and delivering to field
| gray kaiserling who would give us q
sheer with every receipt and no receipt
whatever IL he didn't feel in tht
humor.
But We outguessed the Hun. HI
guessed that we would not get into tnt
war until 1t was too late. We made il
by an eye-lash. We smashed the Ger
man ambitions to dust, stopped the
Hun helped to send him Keeling bacA
ward and stood with the rest of ths
armed world with a bayonet at tn,
breast of Germany when the Hun!
red hands were raised In surrender
There will be no overlooking by Ger
many here, or anywhere else in tn,
world.
The cost9 Well, II will certainl,
not be $4,000. 100000 on top of wha
we had spent in fighting the Hun.
When the final cost Of the struggl,
to America is totalled 1t will be fount
in the neighborhood Of $s0, 000, 00O, 900
If the kaiser had not been beaten /
would have been at least $4,000, 900
900 on top Of what We have spent.