BOCHE ENTTILED TO NO
MORE SYMPATHY THAN
ANY OTHER CRIMINAL
Wreck Not Only Cities and Farms Out Blight Lives
of Thousands of Young Girls of Stricken
Cities in Belgium and France
By WRIGHT A. PATTERSON.
When n robber breaks into yob
house and steals that which he ea
carry away and then destroys thn
which he cannot steal, you expect tlia
when caught he will be punished hot
for what he stole and for what he dt
stroyed.
So it is with Germany.
The German army, acting under th
orders of the German government
stole everything it could carry away I
the Invaded sections of Belgium am
Trance, and what it could not carr,
away it destroyed.
I was In the city of Lille very short
ly after the retreating Germans hm
evacuated it. Before the war Llll
had been one of the busiest and mos
prosperous manufacturing towns in al
of Europe. Its great factories, pro
duclng linens, cottons, velvets, ribbon:
und woolen goods, had patrons all ovei
the world, and Its sugar and chemlca
plants supplied much of France wltl
these products.
For four years, during the Gerraor
occupation, the factories of Lille had
been idle. They are idle today, and
they will be idle for many months t*i
come. The reason is that Germany
stole the machinery from all of these
factories, or In the very few cases
where actual theft was not possible or
profitable, they destroyed the machin
ery. The people of Lille told rue that
this theft of machinery had been car
ried to such lengths that the Iluns
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British Official Photograph of an Elaborate Mass of Machinery in a Lille
Linen Mill That Was Completely Wrecked by the Germans.
even invnaea toe norues ox tne people
nnd took from them their sewing ma
chines,
Germans Fathers of Their Babes.
The German army looted this beau
tiful French city of mor. than 200,
000 population. It stole not alone the
machinery from Its factories and Its
homes, but even Its people. French
mothers told me $f how 8,000 young
girls of twenty4wo yenrs of age and
under had been carried away nt one
time. They told me of another time
when more than 10,000 boys of from
fourteen to twenty years of age had
been carried away to Germany. When
1 was In Lille on October 22 It had
very few Inhabitants except old peo
ple or very young children. Among
the few exceptions were girls of from
seventeen to twenty years of age nurs
ing babies, which they told me were
the offspring of Gorman fathers, and
the pathos of the situation of those
young girls is something I shall never
forget.
And this condition at Lille Is the re
sult of German ambition for world
domination, an ambition fostered
among the German people through
yenrs of training, the ambition of a
people whose boast has been that
“might makes right.”
I am sorry to say I have heard peo
ple attempt to excuse this looting of
Lille on the ground that It could be
shown to be n war measure—the need
of Germany for this machinery and
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for tlio labor or tne people deported
1 to Germany. But tliesi> people cannot
1S lind any reasonable excuse for the war
* itself, a war that was started only for
* the selfish purpose of n selfish peo
1 pie.
Shall Germany not pay for this con
dition at Lille? Shall she not pay for
; the machinery that was carted away
5 or destroyed, for the people that were
. deported? Shall she not pay for (he
1 years of Idleness of those factories.
1 for the years of idleness of the cm
J ployees denied the opportunity of prof
itable employment? Shall she not pay
for the markets that have been de
stroyed and which it will take years
to re-establish if it can ever be done?
No, Germany will never be able to
pay for all of it. SI: will never he
able to pay. and -no sum of mom >
could pay for the anguish of those
mothers who were forced to stand
aside and watch their sons and daugh
ters curried away into virtual slavery.
She will never h< id-' 1 to pay for the
anguish, IP-' ••• , d lives, of those
girls with G< main hah - V. wii
nor pay for these things, i at mouej
and work car in some small degree
pay for the wrecked tv, odes and ru
ined business nf the city of Lille, and
through the payment of this money
and labor the p ;c - nf Germany will
learn that might is not right, and that
war for the purpose of gratifying a
selfish ambition is not profitable.
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Why Lille Was Nat Destroyed.
The German retreat from Lille came
near the close of the war when the
; Germans knew they were beaten and
they would have to pay, and fur that
reason the city Itself was not de
{ stroyed. But the fact that it was not
| destroyed Is hut another evidence of
j German selfishness rather than of vir
tue.
There are hundreds of cities and
| towns that have been destroyed after
i being looted as Lille was looted; hun
; dreds of towns where even the mate
rial of which they were built has been
carried away that it might be used in
the construction of fortifications be
hind which the German army might
defend Itself nnd its ill-gotten gains.
I For all of these Germany should pay
now, nnd for generations to come.
No sympathetic pardon board should
sit on Germany's case. No sentiment
alist should have a voice In deciding
her punishment. There Is no more,
If as much, reason for leniency In fix
ing the punishment of Germany than
there would be for leniency in fixing thi
punishment of the ruthless slayer of
your son or your daughter. Germany
must pay all that the present and fu
ture generations can pay, and she will
even then have expiated her crime only
In a small degree.
Any Demand Not Too Great.
I am sure I know the desire of the
American people for fair play In all
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THE HOLY LAND
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THE GRAND MUFTI, HEAD OF f HE MOHAMMEDAN CHURCH (A
WHITE TURBAN), ARRIVES AT AMERICAN RED CROSS HEAD
QUARTERS TO TAKE PART IN THE FORMAL INAUGURATION OF
THE WORK IN PALESTINE.
TO INCREASE RELIEI WORK IN PALESTINE
Red Cross Commissioner Reports Starvation and
Suffering in Holy Land.
/T> III' American Red ('tors Intends'
to administer relief work on a
fur greater scale in Palestine I
than heretofore in order that thou- !
sands of men, women and children in 1
that part of the world may be rescued
from their present suffering. Dr. John
II. I’lnley, Red Cross Commissioner to
Palestine and former Commissioner of
Education for the State of New York,
has cabled that tills additional work is
immediately necessary.
At least one-third of the population
of Lebanon bus died of starvation and
disease, due to lack of nourishment
Many villages are virtually depopulat
ed, and thousands of people are in
need, owing to epidemics, lack of em
ployment and the prohibitive prices of
food.
Families formerly in tlie best of cir
cumstances have been reduced to des
titution. Every one is clamoring for
an opportunity to rehabilitate himself.
Owing to a lack of physicians the con
ditions in many hospitals are deplora
ble. More than ten thousand sick civil
ians have been cared for by the Amer
ican Red Cross during a single month,
and Red Cross automobiles are trans
porting hundreds of ill and wounded
prisoners to hospitals every day. There
are at least ten thousand refugee
things, inducting uie settlement with
Germany. They would not wish to do
the German people an injustice in the
demand fur reparation. As I rode mile
after mile over the devastated fields
of Belgium and northern France, as I
passed through town after town that
had been destroyed because of a mad
craze for loot and world domination,
I felt that could the American people
but see the things I was seeing, they
would feel, as I felt, that any demand
that might be made could not be un
fair. Could they have seen the ruins
of the beautiful cities of Ypres. Ar
mentieres, La P.nssee, Peronne, St.
Quentin, Noyon, Lens and many hun
dreds of others, they, too, would
say with one voice: “Germany must
pay.”
The boche will appeal, and in fact
Is appealing, for th > sympathy of the
world, hut the boche Is entitled to
just the same degree of sympathy that
the world accords to any other crim
inal. We feed and clothe the crim
inal that he may live to expiate ids
crime, and we will feed and clothe the
German people that they may live to
expiate their crime, and that after
they have done that they may again
be entitled to the place in the world’s
civilization that only those who are
cleansed may occupy. Germany is en
titled to nothing more than this, and
this is fair play.
□ m IISH HONDURAS HOT SPOT
I Steam-Heating Plants and Heavy
Overcoats Never in Demand in
That Part of the Earth.
British Honduras keeps its Christ
mas In the shade. From its position,
pretty near to the equator, and wedged
in between Yucatan and Guatemala, it
it is always hot in that country, and
especially so when it is midwinter
with us. It is a land of costly woods,
Innumerable semivarieties of them, and
of lovely flowers. It i* one of the na
| tlve homes of hummingbirds and gor
| geous butterflies, in fact, nature is
! rather more gaudy than neat in that
part of tlie world. English people
settled there from Jamaica as long
ago as In 1057, but it was not until
over a century later that treaty ar
rangements with Spain made their p„.
j sition secure as still inhabitants of the
i British empire. A good deal of the
j country Is marshland but the Coeks
| <'omb mountains which run into Ilon
j <1urns fr°m Guatemala tire In places
I -.000 feet high, and wherever really
dry land is found (lie ground is won
derfully fertile. Mahogany grows
Armenians In and about Damascus and
more than three thousand in the Hau- !
ran district, the cable asserts.
Dr. Finley says the American Bed
Cross workers 'nave been doing every
thing possible to relieve this distress,
but adds that greatly increased help
must come at once. He requires two
additional hospital units immediately.
General Allenby has cabled the British
War office to approve this plan.
Dr. Finley journeyed on foot from
Beersheba to Dan in the wake of the
advancing British forces, and at the
time of sending the cable had Just com
pleted a tour of the Palestine and low
er Syria, passing through Nazareth.
! Tiberius, Tyre, Sidon, Haifa and Bei
rut, reaching the latter place two days
after its occupation by the British
forces.
“America should be the first to help
I in the rehabilitation of the Holy Band.
! which Great Britain and our Allies
have redeemed," deck "es Dr. Finley.
“The first medium of help should be
the American Bed Cross, which makes
no distinction as to race, creed or col
or. Under the trusteeship of those who
recovered this sacred land, which is
j the cradle of three cat religions, the
i civilized world is now given the oppor
! tunity of illustrating Its highest ideals
for humanity.”
tince to perfection; so f.tes the log
wood used for dyeing, also bananas,
plantains and coconuts. The capital,
Belize, is tHe chief port of entry, and
the center of the rubber industry,
which depends upon regularly tenddtl
plantations.
Find more wl ■ at, It came; more
pork, It came; save sugar, It was done.
Sn America ns answered the challenge
of German starvation.
Good will rule* the new world us
fear governed the'old world. Through
sharing food America helps make the
whole world kin.
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