Milford chronicle., 1931-12-04

mans in such way, that even Wal
ter Lippmann was forced in the New
York Tribune, to take issue with Mr..
Garrett, and call him down in no
uncertain terms.
''In reading the sputterings of Mr..
Garrett one cannot help remember
ing a sentence which President Hoo
yer used in his last Armistice Day
address: In every country men can
secure public attention, and even a
living, by stirring malignant forces
of fear and hate to their neighbors.
AS a result of these forces the world
is more heavily armed than before
the war But when Mr.. Garrett's
Tigmaroles found favor in the eyes
of the Chemical Foundation, Incor-
porated, and its President, Francis
p. GarVan, to such an extent that
they were gathered into a neat little
brochure of 103 pages, and prefaced
by few precious lines of Mr.. Car
van in which he pokes fun at the
Kahns, the Virgins, the Mitchells,
and the Dernbergs (perhaps mean
ing Wernburg), ct al then Mr..
Garrett achieved what borders on
the ridiculous.
"It is, according to Theodore
Roosevelt, sometimes wise to speak
softly when you carry a big stick,
but Germany has no big stick except
the right to speak. And right alone
commands very low quotation on
the political stockmarket. Soft
speaking of the German side has
been exercised now for thirteen
years. And to what avail? Even in
Germany they are getting sick and
tired of the utter uselessness of
their soft speaking, because they
see that they sell themselves more
and more into bondage the longer
they indulge in soft speaking and in
enc instance that came TO the Am
erican knowledge on November 9Th
in a Paris dispatch to the New
York Times, which said that France
has big plans, and would build a
Sahara railroad and dig ship can
al out of reparations deliveries l
challenge everybody to show me the
paragraph in the Treaty of Versail
les where such a use of German !
reparations finds its. justification.
"If I read the signs of the time !
Alright, the American people arel
awakening very rapidly to the in
sanity as well as the injustice of the
settlements made in Versailles, and !
under the Dawes and the Young
Plans, the endeavor of all CARROTS
and Caravans, ct al. Notwithstanding.
am bold enough to believe that the
American people will recall their
lasting friendship with Germany. +
d.. When Germany Helped Lincoln.
Germany has been the truesti
and most unselfish friend of the
United States since the days of VAL
ley Forge, when General Won Steu-
ben made the American soldiery in.
to an army that could bring about
three years later the surrender of
Lord CORVALLIS at Yorktown, up to
the days of the Civil War when so
German generals stood In the fieldj
on Lincoln's side, and when the
German people in the homeland
bought from Lincoln's special agent
Robert J. walker no less than $780,
100000 American bonds, at time,
when the North was almost forced
to give up the war, in 1863, on ac-
count of depleted war chest. The
of this German finan-
oial help for Lincoln is aptly de-
scribed by Professor w. E. Dodd of
the Chicago University. when he
says, in The Americana:
"'When the war was at its doubt
'ul crisis, President Lincoln sent
Walker as a commissioner of the
Treasury to Europe to borrow mon
~ on the best terms he could. Wal
Ier succeeded beyond expectation,