South Bend News-Times, Volume 36, Number 47, South Bend, St. Joseph County, 16 February 1919 — Page 26

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ONLY sXVTAT STTXSVAVTM IN NORTHERN INDIANA. Mhd In SoTJtf) Iri4 urcond clets matt-r. G R. SUMMnn. Pridnl. J- M. FTEPHKN50N. mblühor. JOHN TIKNRT EUVHR. Editor. SOUTH BEND NEWS-TIMES SUNDAY. EDITORIAL PAGE Staffle Ojlet, Pucdty tlx mit; with morniafr r mlng dillj tlocs, 15 cents wefklj or 17 per yr la adran-. I!TrM !j -r-rler; 14 by mill la firtt and s-ond ron 5 tTcn1 -..ad -r.

BILLS TO PROMOTE LEGALIZED GRAFT IN CITIES AND COUNTY AND STATE OFFICIAL CIRCLES FOIi consummate, unmitigated gall, commend us to that of th "city fathers" of Indiana cities of the second :lass including South Bend- just now indulging an t"rt to have a law parsed by the fcUtassembly, providing for a lot of new otticea for municipal operation, and boosting the salaries of those that wc already have, nil th- way from twenty-five to a hundred percent. It is an attempt at pi aft; unadulterated, legalized 'raft and there is no other name for it. Here the tax-payers of the city are being soaked M.IO en every hundred dollars of their asserted holding now. with the prospects of it being $ next year, for city. county, school and state management but v hat (are the municipal officers, it seems, if the rate i.ors up to $101. SO? They were anxious enough to set the offices; oh, yes! They knew what their salaries wre to be when they took them. Here in South Bend they have been robbing the track .separation fund, and every other fund within .ach, to pay claries that they are already getting, and Pres't Elliott of the board of works told us at the Ersklne complimentary dinner the other night, that ihoy Intend to grab more, but we hardly thought he meant aft r any such fashion as this. let the drift: .Mayor Carson, under the law, would have his salary rai.-ed from $3.000 to $,000 a year. Controller Swygart. from $ 2.300 to 4,000; his deputy, from ?1.800 to JS.öoO. with provision for an extra clerk at n.soo. City Clerk llilim-ki wants to ascend from $2,000 to .:.C00 and jump his deputy from $1,000 to 2,Z0O. City Atty. sdicU thinks his salary should be $4.000 instead of $2,000 and that h- should have an assistant at $2.500, with the privilege of employing as much . more legal brains as lie wants or needs. The bill would increase City J ml ere Gilmer's salary from $2.800. at which it was recently exorbitantly put by $300, to $3,300. .Members of the board of works. Messrs. Elliott, Deliaveti and Kostiser, are itching for $2.500 a year apiece, tu succeed their present $1.800, while Messrs. Smith. I.oone and Kizer want $i'"0 a year ach, in the stead ..f thdr present totally unearned $400. Councilman want an increase of $100 a year probaldy as compensation for their frequent transfers of fund and then there is provision for huge increases for engineers, the clerk of the board of works, and pretty much everybody down the like, rendering new rlerkships possible, and apparently calculating to make uve that no on', shall huvo any excuse to grumble. Add to this another bill, boosting the salaries of county officer?, as for instance to pay the auditor S 10.000 a year instead of $7.300, and the man who foot the bill at the tax collector's window, ought to begin t wunder pretty soon, well what the top notch valu of living in a civilized community Is going to run to. Some of these ohdeers perhaps deserve slight ineases of compensation in return for their services, but almost none of them, anything like the bills pro-xld-for. The fact that some democratic ofhee holder? .ire in on it, perhaps because it must be a general law. and their support is needed to avoid opposition, does not lessen the culpability of the undertaking in the bast. These bill" converted into law will be legalized robbery and nothing else. Scarce a man in the whole aggregation, in South Bend in particular, and probably in i he other second class cities as well, could get the salaries being provided for them, at any private business iidt-r the un. It ouMis to u that it is about tune for the people v ho pay the bills to be heard from. St. Joseph county's .; b gation in the assembly snould be Hooded with let- . is a:.d telegiams a mile deep, protesting against mon-tro-ity. . Imb ed, the people might do wor.se thvo-.igh th- Chamber of Commerce or somev her-, to send a lo'dvi-t down there to represent them m Ut.ii..,s t, i,- riveted officials are not representing then,.-in a sxstein that seems to be permeating the ::ire stat-. Sta k. d b: G-'W Goodrich, there is a legislative ; n.b n-;. t. inciea-e the number of public officials, and ,,oV. salaries in the matter of state officials as well ,t. the couuli s and cities. Under pretense of chain :. u.ning the .-o-oalhd "shoit ballot." an effort is being .cade to haw ---v. ral state othces transferred from the . lectorate to tin appointive power by the governor, and .-i neatly eer im.-' increased salaries are provided for. ;.nd an increased number of deputies. For political machine building no letter scheme could be invented. All along the line there seems to be a disposition to fatten the purses of o:hVe holders, and make them more asiiy accessible for large campaign assessments. A wry clever indirect way of taxing the people, in -iate. county and cit. to support a political party. Say whit else you may of e-Gov. Ralston, and his administration, he never increase, I salari'-s. or office-holders. ..nd he left the state without a dollar of debt, after oaying running expense and $L'.0v0.o00 of obligations left to lu predecossor. Is the only benefit that the mcple are to have from thai, to be a siege of legalized political graft to be indulged in by the successors to his iime? It looks that way. BLASTING AT THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS. yONÜUKSS is kind. With publication of the tentative draft i f the League of Nations constitution, senators and representatives seem to have been so tak- . n aback that such a document should come out. after they had be n told by anti-administration correspondents lhat all was chaos on the subject that they detided for the moment to think it over. Most of them will think a long time before they discover what it means without being told, but you may ;oon expect a vitrolic explosion from others, careless of what it means, but determined to take the largest possible political advantage of it. The anii-adiuinitratlonists arc undoubtedly -whetting their knives with which to scalp the presiJent when he arrives back home, and, he is coming; coming to tell t.s i.rst hand, no doubt, :i lot of things that score of those cheap politicians never dreamed of. Indeed, yes. there is soon to be an explosion. The stillness of a day is as that which precedes a storm, and Iii purpose? Weil, il is to provoke the old Question at

home and abroad, whether in view of the noisy hostility bound to be shown, the senate will ever ratify the treaty being worked out in Paris and the League oZ Nations In particular the answer to which is easy. The 5enate will do with that document Just what it did with the bill appropriating $100,000,000 to keep the liberated people of Europe from starving, and just as it has done with a dozen and one other bills incident in the war. with reference to which there has been a lot of hilarious oratory without telling effect. Th senate debated that food bill for six solid days. Senatorial remarks inspired by it. filled 230 column of the Congressional Itecord, not counting 13 columns of statistlas furnished by Sen. La Toilette on the union scale of wages and hours in the North Atlantic states for asbestos workers, composition roofers, bollermakers, helpers and other persons, and the American cost of production of steel ingots six fett long, two feet wide and 1 1-2 feet thick, and weighing four gross tons. There were many columns touching on amendments concerning soldiers' overcoats and the bonus that should be paid them on discharge. There was an eloquent speech on the providential fog that intervened to blind the Germans and save Paris last April. There, were thousands of words about American shipyards building ships for foreigners; about the government guaranteo of the price of wheat; about Herbert Hoover's house in London; about the wages of ordinary labor in America today; about whether or not the United States entered the war to make the world safe for democracy; about the profits of the Chicago packers; about the evils of bolshevism; about a murder case in California; about Russia's connection with our Civil war; about the statue of Frederick the Great in front of the War college at Washington. and many other matters vitally connected in the senatorial mind with the subject before the senate. IJut the senate did pass that bill! Wen the statesmen at Paris finally complete that peace ireaty, and it is submitted to the United States senate, the senate will undoubtedly fill many times 239 columns with more or less germane remarks. And then provided the treaty is worked out along the admirable lines already Indicated, or most any other, the senate will ratify the treaty. If it doesn't, about as many Americans as there were dollars in that food bill will want to know the reason why. and they'll find out.

WHY MILK COSTS MORE. There are 2,750,000 more dairy cows in this country now than there were at the beginning of the war. That helps to explain the price of milk. Of course, to the unlnstructed mind it would seem that with more cows milk would be cheaper. But no, no indeed! It costs more to keep all those cows than it did to keep fewer, and so it is necessary to charge more for the milk. You can't seo it? Well, neither can anybody else. The country will now be treated to an exhaustive and exhausting discussion as to the precise percentage of alcohol that makes a beverage "Intoxicating." New Jersey has strong reasons for opposing prohibition, and the strongest of these is applejack.

Coming! Another Whisky Rebellion? ND so we are to have another "Whisky Rebellion," saith the brewers and distillers, and the dispatches tell us that its incipiency is at hand. Under the

A leadership of Gen. John Barleycorn, the trades a. ... . t !.; r- . i

uunou prumoiuon emorccmeni, even 10 uie exiem or a general srxiKe. Officials of organized labor in New York city, and I. W. W. leaders not only in New York city, but in Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Louis, San Francisco, and elsewhere, are said to be considering the same step. Similar action is being talked of in various other industrial centers, threatening the mining industries and shipbuilding communities in particular. Coal cars from Pennsylvania mines are found bearing placards that flount the slogan: "No beer, no coal!" The motto of the men participating in this protest is: "No beer, no work!" It is inscribed on buttons designated ns "Liberty buttons," which are being spread broadcast. Perish the thought that the brewers and distillers are having anything to do with it; originating the movement, perhaps paying the bills. They raised that six million dollars for charitable purposes; of course not, for any such propaganda as this! Their warning against bolshevikism appears to have been a wish that was "father of the thought." America knows full well the valiant part that Gen. Barleycorn has always played in defiance of law, the promotion of strike violence, and in the encouragement of anarchy, nihilism, dissolution and destruction. At the head of his vast army of thirst-crazed victims, a million of whom have died annually slain by the taking of their own "liquid fire," he has wept around the world, after a manner that marks the Hun a "boy scout" movement in comparison, leaving death, destruction, sorrow, broken hearts, ruined homes, withered brains, prostituted womanhood, social disease, idiotic youths, polufced politics, bad government, everywhere in his wake. The question is, Mr. Worldngman, and Mr. Whoever-You-Are, are you going to align yourself with Gen. John Barleycorn, in this battle of life, or do you prefer the leadership of that greatest friend to man the world ever had; the soul-inspiring, joy-producing Nazarene; the kindly, charitable, man-helping Gallilean; that heaven-commissioned general, whose spirit knows no conqueror the Lowly Son of God? 3c jc f 5)2 AMERICA has had "whisky rebellions" before. Pres't George Washington had one to cope with. The ancestors of those Pennsylvania coal miners tried that game on Uncle Sam, a century and a quarter ago. It was in defiance of the very first step on the part of the United States to bring the traffic under control of the government The rebels tarred and feathered the collectors of customs and sympathizers with the regulatory law were ridden on rails and driven from their homes. At Parkinson's Ferry, the hosts of Gen. Barleycorn, a veritable mob of bums and drunken hoodlums, met fifteen thousand militiamen sent out by Commander-in-Chief Washington under Gen. Henry Lee, and about one exchange of cold lead resulted in a complete rout for the "insurrectionists," several hundred of whom were taken prisoners, "all that was left of them" their leaders being convicted of treason, a very appropriate ijigma to attach to such enemies of the common weal. But it only served to drive the bibacious John under cover and for eighty years he played another-type of game. People still living remember the exposure and scandal over whisky combinations between distillers, brewers, rectifiers, revenue collectors, and certain members of Pres't Grant's cabinet. The "whisky ring" had defrauded the government out of millions of dollars, back through more than a half century of administrations, rewarding parties, punishing parties, entrenching officials and ruining officials, according as they served the ring's interests. Poor Benjamin Helm Brostow, secretary of the treasury, was driven back to private life for trying to break up the combination and in part succeeding. The "ring" was broken, and the "diamond settings" sent to prison, but the remnants soon gathered themselves together, and the old work resumed up to the present, though with much greater caution with respect to defrauding the federal government. It is these remnants that met in Chicago recently and appropriated six million dollars with which to defi prohibition, in defense of their last stand; yes, defi it by promoting general strikes, encouraging lawlessness, threatening bolshevikism determined upon niining more homes, wrecking more lives, damning more souls. :jc 4: PERHAPS the American public will hear a lot more of this kind of talk; such as hails from Essex, New York, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Chicago, Milwaukee, SL Louis, and other points of incipient bolshevikism, but it will not make any difference in the outcome. The federal prohibition amendment is ratified. It will not be unratified, nor will the "dry" law passed by congress be annulled, by any such device as general strikes, no matter whether they are the voluntary expression of industrial sentiment or a thin disguise for liquor interest activity. And it does not seem likely that the trade unions will go very far with it. The American workman has never ben inclined to identify his citizenship rights with the right to drink beer. That is attested by the fact that most of the United States is already beerless, as a result of the "dry" votes of the working people themselves, and there will not be any general "class revolt" against federal prohibition, for the very good reason that whatever ils faults or virttjes, it is essentially democratic. The millionaire is being deprived of his beer also his whisky and wine just as surely as the manual laborer. It in hardly more of a deprivation in one case thin in the other. If there is any strike employers and employes might logically strike together. It is equality before the law that confronts everyone in this prohibition movement, same as in every other American movement, when it finally gets to the statute books. If there are any distinctions, it is social perversion, and the stigma of a perverted public sentiment, that is responsible in the enforcement, and not in th enactment, and the traffic will be crushed in time, just as the "whisky rebellion" of 1794 and the "whisky ring" of 1874 were crushed, by force of arms and prison bars, if necessary and by popular education and willing acquiescence, if possible. Gen. John Barleycorn may think as Hindenburg thought when he began his advance of March 21st that he has everything to gain and nothing to lose by the performance, but Hindenburg did lose several hundred thousand more men, and Germany several millions more of treasure, and those who loyal to the cup, still choose to cheer their hero on, might do well to "take a lesson from the fig tree while the branches are yet green."

Metz Tells the Story of Alsace-Lorraine By Frank h. Simond The Thing That Germany is, and Has Done to The World Is Symbolized in This Lorraine Town

0 PA1;IS. Teb. 12. 1319. At the moment when the peace conference is dealing with theories of world reconstruction, with the ushering in of a new world, it has been my good fortune, through the courtesy of the Trench government, to see the old world being restored, not in theory but in fact, in Alsace-Lorraine, and particularly in Metz. I have seen older civilization, latin culture, reoccupying territory lost half a century ago, returning to its monuments still undestroyed. There, and not in Paris or in London, one must look to se3 the effect of the recent world decision. And in Metz even more than in any devastated area or on any contested battlefield and I have seen most of them one feels the magnitude of the thing that wa. yesterday, the German empire on the march, and may be the German republic on the march tomorrow. In Lille, in Doual, in cities recently relinquished after four years of occupation, signs of the German occupation are everywhere. There is the consciousness of a great and malign spirit recently exercised, but after all Us stay was brief, and French life, French spirit, is rapidly reasserting Itself. But in Metz it Is different. It is rather like an arm. long bound, restrained in a plaster cast; the familiar difficulty of first movements, the excruciating pain, the uncertainty of control all are to be seen in this Lorraine town. Metz is a living part of France again today, but it is yet suffering from long restraint. "It life reopens, but with great difficulties. Yet It is not the material Fide of the German occupation that one must first observe. Here 50 years ago was a little city as French as Tours or Orleans, a 'garrison town with a history going back to Roman times, with forts dating from Vau ban. In Its population thero was not a German and there had not beon for centuries. In 1870 Metz was a sleepy little French town, politically and economically nothing, militarily Important, because, like Verdun, it covered the road to the heart of France. Out of this calm Metz waked in 1870 for those terrible days when Bozaine blundered and one of the finest armies France ever possessed was thrown away, or rather permitted to die of inajiitlon; and then the German came pouring in by all roads, north ind south, west and cast, and bringing with him his familiar "Green Map," and learned professors with their musty documents to prove that Metz was German, while the soldier came to enforce argument with the guns upon Paris. AY HAT JIUX MEANT TO DO TO ALL OF US. And now, after half a century, the story of German occupation lies open to the travoler. More than this, there is disclosed clear and unmistakable evidence of what the German meant to do to all of us in time, perhaps still means to do, for in Metz as nowhere else in all his conquered lands the German expressed his soul, or his lack of soul; his materialism, his doctrine of mechanical efficiency. Poor, half-strangled, totally suppressed, Metz is just beginning to peer out from the darkness of 50 years of German domination, to supply enduring evidence of what the German means. If you would understand him altogether, so to Mets. The whole story is there. And this is the story as you will find it. Remember Metz of 1S70, a little French town huddled about its charming cathedral, leaning on the banks of its Moselle canals, picturesque, quaint, Insanitary, impregnable to progress or to the new doctrine of efficiency, beautiful alike in site, in surroundings, beautiful itself as all French provincial towns are, but beautiful with the spirit and atmosphere which came up in remote times from the Mediterranean. Now, by contrast, the traveler who comes to Metz finds this: First of all, he arrives at the railroad statiom which, to the American, will suggest St. Louis or Kanas City, the union station of any one of our great council of Essex Co., N. J., representing 45,000 r . i tt

American eitle?, stretching blco.k on block in towerin,? and colossal ugliness, a station adequate for the needs of a city of half a million inhabitants bestowed upon a town of little more than 50,00 0. And mile on mile, in all directions, behind the facade of a structure done In the familiar armory arehite-cture of the latter period of Grover Cleveland or earlier peTlod of William McKinley, stretch endless tracks and structures, all colossal, and a vast creation surmoointed by a statue of Roland, bearing the personal features o? recent German governor. From the station one comes into a broad avenue leading in all directions, an avenu? flanked by still other colossal buildings, hotels, post office, banks, all in the same heavy beetle-brown, impressively ugly style we know as modern German. But each building, each broad avenue, hideous in itself, Ls an unmistakable monument to German efficiency, and the totality of effect is unescapable. It is as if the German had resolved that the mass of buildings should as a chorus exclaim to the visitor, "Damn you, stop! Yo-u must pee that Metz is German, that Germany is greater than everything else." MI7TZ LS MOST IlKFTAVTLY GOLMAX. I do not know any words that I can use to give the eftect, the startling, almost terrifying completeness of this first effect. Neither Hamburg nor Berlin nor Munich would seem half as defiantly German as Metz seemed from the railroad quarters, seemed from the region of the new town, where the German had threwn down the walls of Vaubon, levelled bridges, erwept off all familiar landmarks, and erected monument after monument to the great German god of efficiency. To bo sun; the Frenchman has come back even in these regions. In a most dreadfully impressive avenue with its rown of goose-stepping German mansions, until recently the home of German generals and colonels on the retired list who came to Metz to grow old amidst proud reminders of conquest by sword and by stone, in this avenue which yesterday bore the name of Kaier Wilhelm II, derived from a statue now disappeared, the French have hung a sign, "Avenue Marshal Foch.' But the touch of irony is slight. One feels rather soiry for the marshal in such a strange street. But across the square France begins again. One plunger into familiar, narrow winding street, set around with the architecture of Verdun or Toul, sights and even smells of France. I know of no more sudden shock for a mile from the station to the monument Germany, nothing but Germany then of a sudden one crosses a frontier, as impressive as the canyon between Mentone and Italy. Following these narrow, winding s'treets one arrives in a moment in the main place, and above one in all its delicate and graceful tracery rises the Metz cathedral, as beautiful in little as any cathedral in all France, and as French as Rheims was or Amiens remains, and there in an instant is the con-trast--the railroad station with its towering and flaunting ugliness, the German quarters with their spacious hideoueness, and at the other end of Metz cathedral, in Its typically French square, with all the charm, the simplicity, the inconsequence, the appeal to the senses which are reached by the beautiful as contrasted with the challenge, th brusque, imperious, dominating past of the German world behind. I wish I could make clear how much of all the story of the German Idea, the German purpose, is revealed, forced upon one by a simple promenade from the Metz depot to tho Metz cathedral. The story of the German conquest of Lorraine Ls all written there. Y'ou can see, feel, hear; when the German came he said, "I will take this wretched little provincial French town, and I will make it a world city. 1 will give it avenues and parks and public buildings. I will bring It material prosperity and miserable inhabitants; these inferior and

workmen, has adopted a resolution to resist to the

creatures will worship m? through rn' And year after year you can mark üus pp-gres. i you tell the ae of an oak by its circb-.-. Tlw mnc.i inhabitants crept back further and further into thheart of their old town, rallied about the lathedral an a broken regiment rallies about it.s colors. Gennari magnificence left the French heart coM. Gerrran buibiint;s drovo the French structures from lie face of tb earth. German officers crowded French nu n .tnd won.en into the streets, the city grnw and f!ourihvl, b .t the German nevtr came at the heart of French, Yes, year by year the French disappeared. Tho oM died and their boJ;s and the l.or.ts of their anceio were borne across the frontier to be b:rbu in trench soil, young men. a they reached the military a'e. flel across the frontier to wear the French uniform. Thenwere 50.000 French in Metz when the German, oune; there were less than 2 fx when he left, .umI jrar by yen i ierman officers, professors, soldiers and merchants flowed into Metz. They walked its streets with tho abiding sense of bing conquerors and each yfvir 0:1 the anniversary of the bittba of 1S70 the town w.n flagged and filled with Germans, come to celebrate tL--conquest. Beyond the city on hills toward France where pro.ii battles were fought the Germain filled the fields with monuments; the earth fairly groaned .ander the b :rJfi of lions and tigers and princes and i nerls. all t-vti-mony to the superior German grratnos, ich monument, like buildings on the square. Instinct with th" true German spirit of essential ugliness and ur.deniihb efficiency. "We are a superior race." This een th German grraves on the battlefield seem to tkuuou" forth. Kveu the more the Geriivms did. they beiran the u'of restoring the cathedral, and on the portal they pl.trtd tfgures of the prophets, and one his the fare of William the Second, although it purports to Le .t representition of the prophet Daniel. Tins restb-ss desire to express their might, their pride, finds no more hi;niücant expression than in this restoration of the a:iei :.i cathedral, restoration expressed in the ieatur s of thkaiser; and the French returning have so far s; an I this fitatue. contenting themselves with only chaiTiir. r its hands. It is a pretty jest, ami yet one f els the enduring strength of the Genua it thir.c. which d fi--. humor, wit. common sense, lies, superior to all our western standards. SUl'HllME ACHIKVKMr.XT IS MIGHTY KSPLAXADi:. But perhaps the supreme German achievement i the mighty esplanade they constructed aIor.- the haul. of the Moselle, an avenue with something of the nificence of Riverside Drive, lined with statues of their heroes, bearing the portentous name i.f Merownuuiu Avenue, and providing the conquerors with an oj pmtunity to look out toward the forts wni-h they h.- i constructed to watch over the conquered lind. F"' all in all, everywhere, one has a sense of tnis g rm;-n determination to express his conquest, his K'i" 1 ' blood and iron, the advance guard of his efficiency 1 a everything he built. On the esplanade the Fren.-h r -turn is commemorated by a simple, satisf;.;::g s:r.b '. From a commanding eminence the equestrian tat:. -of William I, conquerer of Gez, surveyed the countr -side, looking menacingly out toward France, and then the French came back they overturned the statue ai d on its pedestal put a plaster monument of a Foilu, t. squat-bodied, thick-legged, broad-shouldered s ldi r of Verdun, and beneath it r.rote this legend, "un b s a" ("We've got 'em."). fco much for Metz on the material side. Or.r see it to understand it. There is nothing quite like r. in Europe or the rest of the world. It v '-s a bit of oh -est France when the German took it. He urrouno--L it with his monuments, he weighed it -with his eliiii.-. Two civilization?, two Ideas, two races cry tmt -.ii'. each other at every turn. Strasbourg was a city of i: own sort, neither French nor German, taken by ar.n first, but wor. to France in long decide of ovcupatioi.. married by her own consent to France after the Revolution, but alsatian always, possessed of her own s ..i and retaining lt. Metz was French or nothing, and th;burden of its agony is written in every cormr. MASTER OF MACHINES, maiu:h or LLMIMIIX. Down in Faris I find my American a.oei tUs beginning to talk. They fsay tho German organisation functioned even in its tinal stage of dissolution, Germ.iu order still prevails on the Alsace-Ior.-aire railwa -while in France all is confusion. The German had .. way about him; he was a master of organization; . : feel the instinctive American appreciation of it 1 IPil in Metz the other side leapa to your sight. Kthcien-. yes; master of machines, yt-s; but with all his maohin h and his efficiency he made only enemies and m:s-r. . Up on the plat eau by Gravelotte there .stands a pathetic Russian prison camp. Thousands of for.ik. ;. Russians lived and labored there, starred ar.l di- I They, too, were administered ry the Grman machine, and their bones are scattered over ail the hilN. Tl.-.i camp, like the railroad station and park.-, is a s". n -o!. a. monument of German eiPciency. The odd thing about M-tz, too, ;s that for once ,ti ; I do not recall that it has ever before happened in history a mechanically superior civilization, a Letter material organization, has failed, lost out, had to zi- pi to an older and less effective order. The nn-;w-r simple. The materialism was too gross, the power tbrutal; it crushed the soul with the vfry burden of it colossal works and it has failed. Frar.ee is be'.nnir. again on the middle Moselle. French .-pint. in-'i civilization you have a very odd but c-.imuiati.e .-! of France itself flowing back to whit wa- ;i:: :':,)y undisputed French soil. can n:i;i what thi: GERMAN MENACE VA Hut a?ain and a'-ain in Metz I had th if f h..t it was only in such circumstances that, in; An- r i compatriots, like my f elf. could feel ao-.r.it. ly v. hat rd German menace was which threatened tii of u- v. ;t ,i material organization and spiritual death, with adn rably organized towns and city bloc': - and ; arks wh: h. while taking away our western traditi' n-: f 1; .m;. .-ought to reconcile ur not gently but .d".n.:!y by thvery size of its construction and the .": power of i: machines. You can se how the soul of this hub: Fret:- h to a was crushed out jurt as were the Uu.-.-im r,r.-;.rj u. on the hill. You mu?t be German, or die; there v. i -no room for anyone else. The same -p;rit stirred h ; in 1R70, flamed all over Belsrium and Northern IVancin 1M4; but in Mtz you felt you h id r-surr- ted th-. German strain;. som of the things whi:h lately terrorised the world were conceived here. Hr the German for 00 years gloried in the power to tytvintz -. a'c-e P'rcute; his material atrocitl of the war .;e the natural evolution of hi spiritual a'ni- :ib - of 1 udf a century. What h did to the s, ;1 of Mes;n ho ,o 1 to the body of citizens of Louain ..nd to a s.vrc -f French cities. Meantime and it is my f na! intpre-ion l-'-ite -now :iTid cold, hardiip of f-od arid trur.sport.-iti'-::. one has a sense of spring In Metz, .t i--n-e of th tegir.ning of a new a"- n; there u -r snib s on hati-'rd faces, there were everywhere j igr.s ot d- h er .it: ; paxt of Franco had joyously, completely r turned t- 1. l .- trie. statues of the German v'.-.pe.-or ..nd !.:- marshal uro srone from thdr pedestals. the no lo::g- r i.ke l hatefully into France, which vjrwwd 1 k 7 e ; n :! cortrary, now after his long vigvl, he stii; :.c : ..i-.-ly eastward towards Germany, and th- poilu on hs l -".h emplacement sets his face toward h.s father! n d and seems to be calling back long departed tib-s to "Fays Messm," no longer w?th the mournful -"(juand Meme" of the past, the watchword of hope in d-feat, but wih the new meae "On JL- s A' "V' Got 'Em."

inefficient work."