Life — September 7, 1916 — page 12: what you’re looking at

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“EERE The Poor, Disreputable War LL the leading war makers seem to be ashamed of the war. “I didn’t do it,” says the Kaiser; “I'm not so much to blame as people think” —which probably is true.“ Every- hody knows we did not begin this war,” declares Count Tizna, the Hun- garian premier, which exactly con- tradicts the best information. Count Reventlow and General Bernhardi will be the next to speak up and disown the Great Calamity. One even reads that Germans at the front resent the wide diffusion of the idea that Ger- mans have been inhumane and brutal. “We know,” says one of them, “that we are called Huns and barbarians. I can say it has not softened our feel- ings any, nor will it.” One detects the impression that the war has not brought the credit that was expected Alas for this poor war! only two years old, and so ugly and disfigured that no one wants to father it. It was not so with Germany’s three previous wars. Bismarck was the father of all three of them, and proud of his get, as Germany was proud of him. Statues a-plenty stand now in his honor. But the intolerable anguish and disrepute of this present war has reached back even to Bismarck. His statues seem to blush. The bully is fading out of the very bronze that shapes him, Too bad! Too bad! A war from which so much was hoped, such glory, such booty, has turned out a crushing disappointment. Said the “high Ger- man officer” who resented being called a Hun: The more the world howls for our destruction the harder we will fight, and the last Englishman will have to face the last German, We are Signs of the Millennium CiEDREN Are Perfectly Welcome in These Apart- ments. All Trains on Time. Sitting Room Only. If You Don’t Like the Show, Your Moncey Will Be Refunded at the Box Office Tipping Is Strictly Forbidden in This Hotel. No More Men Wanted for the U S. Army. It Ranks First as It Stands. John Smith, Hurrah! Dealer in First Class Husbands, neither Huns nor barbarians, and if severe measures were resorted to by us they were the outcome of the most serious military necessity Sad words and vain! The sack of Louvain; the destruction of Rheims cathedral; the murder of thousands of Belgian non-combatants; the rape of Belgian women by the hundreds; the sinking of the Lusitania—“ serious military necessity” an excuse for such crimes and innumerable others? No, High Officer; not on your lifg If you back such details of the game of war then you must expect to be rated as a Hun and a barbarian. Very likely you are neither, and perhaps you are an honest gentleman. But if you are, how can such as you be separated from the Germans whose brutality cal- culated and compelled the horrors in Belgium? It is not the English, nor This Attractive Penitentiary for Sale. The Municipal Movie— Admission Free. The Management of This Café Will Be Responsible for All Lost Coats, etc. Notice! __ Fifty Dollars Reward for Information ing to the Arrest of Any Child-Labor Employer. The People's Oil Company, Successor to The Standard Oil, Municipal Recreation Rooms for Mothers. The Millennium Publishing Co., Purchasers of Rejected Manuscripts. THE MOOSE CALL