Life — August 22, 1918 — page 17: what you’re looking at

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THE have been killed aplenty, and ravaged and plundered time and again, and all that cipline has done them no permanent good. Because of the shocking delinquency of their natures they are a huge world problem, for which no one seems ready with a solu- tion, All that people agree on is that the indispensable preliminary to im- proving the Germans is to thrash them to a complete standstill. To let up on them presently, and make peace with them hefore they were done, would spoil what prospects they have of be- ing cured. Almost everyone, nowa- days, seems to understand that. Wise and rather tiresome people warn us against peace-offensives, and remind us that Germany, if left in possession of Russia, will have won the war, no mat- puILOING SHIPS | FASTER THAN | BISERMANS CAN, UE FISH ter what she gives up in the west. But everybody with any brains at all must realize that. Everybody must sce at last that, in the great words of our great President, the only way with Germans now is to soak them in the nut, and then soak them some more, After that has been done to a finish, this problem of reforming them can he taken up. But it is an awful prob- lem, for they have shown themselves to be nasty people; erucl, as Dr. Jacks complains; not even house-broker, as all invaded France attests; liars, spies, plunderers, destroyers for destruction’s sake; abu ers of women; tormentors and muré2rers of children, prisoners and the weak. If these were mere epithets they would .go for nothin but they are not epithets, but state- 269 ments based on the open records of the war. Certainly, the Germans ought to get through fighting at earliest conven- ience, and get down to hard work on their real job, which is to contrive some means of becoming decent. Of course their first effort will naturally be to kill off a lot of their recent mas- ters and instructors, but that will he only the beginning. The rest seems a task for missionaries ME: PACE WARBURG thinks that because he was born in Germany and has two brothers who are German opposition 1 subjects, there will retaining him as a member of the Fesl- eral Reserve Board, so, his time being up. he has requested the President not to reappoint him He is a notable banking expert: 1 is services on the Reserve Board have been very valuable to the country, an it seems a pity that he should retire bly true, though, as he It is pre says, that there would be opposition to his reappointment, but it would not he igent opposition, Mr. W. burg, though born a German subject erman, but a Jew. His mind and he deliberately quit an intel is nota is erman, being a German after long considera- tion, States. It is unlucky that he has such and became a voter in these intimate family associations with Ger- man subjects, but that does not im- peach his integrity, or really disqualify him to continue in the place he has filled to so much advantage. Before the Jews from sou Europe began coming to this country astern the great majority of our Jews had many. Would that they come from G had come from somewhere else, for too many of them brought with them German manners, whereas if they had come—say—from England they might have brought English manners, which are more acceptable. Not many of us distinguish, in our observation of eur Jews of German derivation, between the qualities in them that are racial and the external ones that were made in Germany and will doubtless slough off in time if they go on living here. comicbooks.com