Life — November 21, 1918 — page 10: what you’re looking at

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HOW YOU FELT WHEN YOU closures named Saxony, Bavaria, Bo- , Poland and Hungary, and a Prus: to the trimmed-down Austria to the south, and Serbia, Rumania and the rest, but no “ Germany.” Empire on Bro. Cram’s map, nor any north, and a There is no German Austro-Hungarian monarchy, He con- siders that the war has abolished those things, or will abolish them, and in mercy to those who were lately their constituent peoples he has removed their from his chart. “Ger- man,” he says, is a branded name that to the end of time can only stand as the incarnation of malignant falsity and obscene bloodthirstiness, aggravated by a kind of devilish ingenuity. No penalty so harsh, he thinks, could be imposed on the people who live in what was lately the German Empire as to leave that name on the map and call its people “Germans.” The world, he says, cannot look forward to a Central Europe as an eternal pariah, ostracized names HEARD THAT NOISE IN THE BUSH IN THE ENEMY'S LINE AND WHAT REALL THE NOISE and outlawed. That would not do. He would have “the fine old qualities of Saxony and Thuringia, of Swabia and Bavaria, of Franconia and the Rhine- land,” escape from under the Prussian ake off the German shame-coat, and under their own names start a new lid, sl life That really od feeling in Bro. Cram, and there is very practical shows g' sense in the suggestion, and at this time of writing it seems to be coming true by bounds. Much as Judas Iscariot eter- nally queered the luck of the till then respectable number 13, so. William Hohenzollern, who found “German” a fairly reputable word, has leit it a name to be endured as a penitent wears the shroud he walks in. It is a dread- ful handicap in this world now to be a German; a handicap socially, morally, politically, ethically ; and it is extremely had business. “ Made in Germany” is a stigma in every market in the world outside of Central Europe. Ger- many is gone as a first-class power, One reads the prediction in a news- paper’s financial column that in twenty five years she will probably rank about as Spain does to-day. More likely she will not rank at all, because she will have sunk, and the pieces of her will have got ashore and set up under their own names to retrieve their wreck and their dishonor. Saxons can swim as Saxons, but as Germans they will sink So the rest, except the Prussian whom the General Court should n allow to change their names. When it is not possible to’ know them by their smell, it should be practicable to know them by their label. That may encour- age them to try to clean up, and mis- sionaries should be sent to help them. And missionaries may help, but in the main the salvation of what was Germany must be won by Germans The Christian world has fetched them loose at vast cost from the malignant domination of Prussia, The rest—most of it—they must do for themselves, li they are to be men again and not for- ever brutes, they must strike out for themselves, must repent and bring forth works meet for repentance. No one can repent for them. Th own hearts must change, and the tokens of the change must be convine- ing. SM. ILLSON says he is living on two meals a day “Where does he get them?” Patriotic Victim: Come ON, BILL, AND GET YOUR TAI. CUT OFF, 1 THINK IT'S ONE OF THOSE NON-ESSENTIALS WE'RE SUPPOSED TO DO WITHOUT. comicbooks.com