New Ulm review., 1922-02-22

Jew Ulm Review, New Ulm, Mimi, Wednesday, Febru
war upon the English language neWspa-
pers were positively at seaas to the actual
truth concerning German activities. 1t
is only natural that their opinions should
conform to what they read. The German
side was closed to them The following
|story will illustrate, how these propaganda
lies were originated and to- what extent
they worked 7
lin the war division OF, a. San Fran
cisco museum there was exhibited, among
other things, a bayonet, one side Of which
had been made into saw with deep cut
teeth, while the other side was that Of
regular blade. The Work rnanship on this
weapon was rather crude and quite heavy
for a bayonet, in general unlike real Ger
man manufacture. A sign placed below
the exhibit read: ''.Bayonet Of the Ger
man Army"
While l scrltinized this Intentionally
disfgured instrument, typical young
American stepped up to view this in
strument Of murder with horror, exclaim-
| ing: Nov, just look at that, is it not
barbaric, and more than barbaric!''
4 Had this young man ever been in
Germany he would have at once detected
the crude disagreement
I replied that to me it conveyed only
it's practical use and purpose, and that /
had seen the Frenchmen also use them.s
! In, describing its purpose took pains to
explain to him that this is the bayonet
fused in the Pioneer sections by the work:
linen il the Batalliens whose duty il. is to
build bridges, construct camps and per-
i form such other work. as necessitates the
use of a saw; further adding that such an
instrument as means of defense would
only be used in exceptional cases in the
event that the Workmen are being at
tackled and prevented from performing
i their necessary work. In conclusion
; informed him that the men who handle
these instruments are by no means the
actual warriors.
: But this young man had already
4 formed his own ideas on the subject so
that only reluctantly did he permit my
counter argument, however, convincing, to
shatter the illusions which had already
firmly taken root in his mentality upon
viewing this "optical demonstration" of
SO s'barbaric an instrument of torture"
Lies, such as these, and many others
have appeared almost constantly in Ger
man papers and publications for the pur-
pose of neutralzing their effect and show
ing up their infamous origin and inten-
tions of the English press. After the
entry of the U. S. into the war it was not
even permitted to refute or disprove even
the most open-faced hes against the Ger
mans, claiming that such could only be re-
garded as German Propaganda. Had it
not been that our citizens Of German birth
were already sufficiently informed on the.
ways and means of poisoning the mind
of everybody against the German nation
employed by the English press there
would have been no alternative for many
of us, once the, U. S. had entered the
. war, but. to permit ourselves to also be
poisoned. vEaa .s>sa
4 The English press willfully witholds
much information from the public. It
claims that the injustice of 1871 had to1
|be avenged and once more set right
|((Wl1ilson), but it never says anything about
4 the injustices Eand many unfriendly. acts
committed by the the French il years gone one
fbyi-7$a still areofheing7a co mmitted. To-
wit: They took from the Germans ine1552
| Metz, rTouT and Verdun; in 1648;, proper
| ties Ain Alsacel belonging to the eHaps-
burg dynasty; in 1882, Strassburg, during
times Of peace; in 1725 they took Lor-
raine and in 1918 again Alsace and Lor-
raine, and now they coyet the Rhine
with its beautiful lore, its romance and
stately castles.
TO fully control two languages wi
dnnr rho sc0no Tho (Inrnaan lanp11apn TO-