Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-03-29
GERMANS AND POLES
NOW WANT REVENGE,
DECLARES HARDEN
By H6AxnuLIAN HARDEN.
Germany's Foremost Pubncist.
Special Gable Service to The Journal

hatred and a thirst for revenge is
raging between the Germans a1d the
Poles.
An avengers weapon kills tho cow
ardly murderer Of q miserable peo-
Pile.
The quarrel about Frances occu-
patton Of Germany in regard to re-
parations fans the spirit of the peo-
pie into a consuming fame Of hate.
In the clouded atmosphere of these
events we celebrate the festival Of
the Holy resurrection which prom
ised mankind peace on earth. good
will to men.
The shot fred IN the daytime on
the streets Of Berlin not only killed
Turk Talaat, but 1t also awakened
with a bang the smell OF powder,
and forgotten "reminiscences OF the
sickness under which our continent
has been sufferin g; Of the poison
which must be elected II we are to
Talaat Pash. although he ardently
disputed 1t, was the principal person
responsible for the martyrdom OF
the Armenian people, martyrdSm
which can be understood only by an
Imagination trained in hell.
Official and voluminous documents
have been prepared to prove that the
German government never approved
the disgraceful dealings Of Turks
like Talaat, however. The German
government though we could aot do
therefore 1t tolerated the massacre
of almost a million Armenian Chris
tians-men, women and children, and
the aged and infirm.
War Demanded Silence.
During the war the censorship
80 al this
war morals" demanded that our
people, whose leaders daily called
upon 1.-THE only God" as witness to
the holy justice of their cause, TO
allow that cause to be profaned by
the wholesale murder Of innocent
wished to use it's opportunity to de-
stroy a Christian nation hated by
Islam. The end was counted upon
to justify the means.
Now, twenty-nine months after the
end Of the war, a young Armenian
discovers the residence OF tne Wn1le,
sale murderer. He does more than
the terrorized people Of the Greek
and Roman period who still fed upon
revenge a thousand years after an
untoward event. He does more than
William Tell did for the freedom OF
Switzerland for in order to avenge
his people and his parents, who had
been dragged into misery and death.
he throws away his young life to
tear q guilty leader from the comfort
of a SNUG and enjoyable existence
This young avenging Armenian,
after laying Turk Talaat low, Is no.
only thrown into prison as required
by law, but is cruelty ill-treated on
the streets, while his victim receives
the funeral rites to which a hero or
q benefactor of mankind would be en-
titled. Sympathy ought to be only
ctr n
drove to break the law and encroach
upon the worlds judicature:.
However, our "war morale" still is
deeply embedded in the blood. Who
ever throws a glance eastward from
Berlin sees another example. For al
been fighting for upper Silesia. land
that for the last nine centuries mao
belonged to Poland. Germany has
passionately coveted this land, Tor
besides it's iron and tin it has the
largest zinc production IN Europe
while it's coal treasures are conslu-
cred the most abundant on the lace
of the earth. as we'll as promising
the longest duration.
During the time of greatest dis
tress the past winter, when coal
was missing from the stoves OF the
poor and from important lnoustt tl1a
centers, common sense adVlseo the
protection of economic conditions IN
this important country against col
lapse. Instead, there came the flght
to prepare for the vote demanded by
the Versailles treaty. And 1t was
carried on by the most aoo1nIIna1Ie
means of a predatory war. Murder
terrorism, deception, false promises
and corruption were daily weapons.
The natural consequence was lndI
the profit yielding of industry de-
creased and coal production Tell. d,
Upper Si1esia Speaks.
The inner Silesians, through ma
iority have manifested their VIII TO
live as an independent state OF inc
German republic, and not 10 pelonS
to Poland, whose mlSeraply PAD nldh-
agement, political chaos and searches
for warlike adventures, array p nave
thrown the former Prusslan prov
inces of Posen and West Prussia into
a misery very hard to alleviate.
The Question now is: will the, su-
nreme council of the allies, Whlcn
makes the final decision, give certain
economically Independent. to FOL
and, which already is much too large
a state incapable of managing the
administration of the territory ana
Industries involved? I'LL,
Or will the council, working with
cermaay. which can not dispense
with upper Silesian coal, try to make
conditions in Europe secure by guar
snteeing to upper SiIesians the right
To live? To these upper Sileslans
Germany already had given the pest
of industrial apparatus ana a PTTtb e
feet transportation organlZdlioIl'
fight isn't yet ended. o+;ons
Now. as to the general reparatlons
Question: If two private FACTORIES
We're to leave machine upon whose
production they were dependent, Us Us
renaired for years because they couiH
NOT agree upon the amount Oh rep@Ii
costs one would put the owners u
the factories in a lunatic asylum
Vet the business managers OF pig ma
tions leaving a large territory lyIMs
in ruins for similar reasons are cdtl
Cd Statesmen. The upbulldlng y
northern France is delayed. In easI-
ern Europe the most necessary IN
5rstriaI implements are rustRg. Az
most of the business men OF the ~
worlds do not yet comprenend me
irnortance of these two Things "
their own business interests %
Reconstruction and the union "
Enronean economic states are pre-
iiminary conditions for stapie
world rostrum. Yet TINS IS III Il. w. g.,
HE until the poison of war morals
has passed out of the olooo OIL ZIG
continent. +la ormis-
.ioo tho Easter bells send their warn
ine to speak with a new heart ana
nny tongue. He who fails to heed
tbis warming shows himself deVoldi
Of the humanizing lnnuelce VI