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Thursday, January 9, 1919
THE AtUANCE HERALD
GERMANY 1ST PAY
Nation Will Never Be Able to
Make Amends for Damage.
FERTILE SOIL IS DESTROYED
Innumerable Unexploded Shells Will
Make Cultivation Precarious
Doubtful If Land Can Ba
Reclaimed.
By WRIQHT A. PATTERSON. I
What must Germany pay for?
That question can be adequately an
swered only when It Is remembered
that Germany started the terrible con
flict In Europe for no teason other
than that of conquest and loot ; start
ed It only to satisfy the selfish ambi
tions of a selfish people for world
domination. That Is being admitted
today by what Is left of the German
nation; it Is admitted by those who
were directly responsible for the war.
v And It is because Germany started
this conflict for no reason other than
that of conquest and loot that Ger
many owes to the world full payment
for all the devastation which the war
has brought, not only in so far as Bhe
can pay now, but In so far as she can
pay for generations yet to come.
Among the many, many sections of
Belgium and northern France that I
personally covered, following closely
on the heels of the retreating Hun
army, was that which lies between
what were the cities of Tpres and
Menln, approximately 20 miles apart.
Here, before the coming of the Invad
ing Boche, was what was considered
the most productive soil of the world,
and the most Intensely cultivated.
Here In a number of farm villages
lived the Belgian peasant families,
happy, thrifty people, each family cul
tivating the small fields which It
owned. No fences separated these
fields, no hedges cut them off from the
end Menln, on both sides of that long,
straight road, I am sure I did not see J
one square foot of soil that was not i
a part of a shell crater. What had ,
once been the richest soil of the ,
world is today but a waste, made so
by the shells that fell upon It be
muse Germany sought world domina
tion. This soil has been destroyed by
countless thousands of shells falling
actually one upon another, each dig
ging deeper Into the earth until the
very subsoil has been turned over and
the land made worthless for cultiva
tion for years to come, if indeed it can
ever be reclaimed.
Unexploded Sheila Burled In Soli.
There lie today on the surface of
this land many thousands of unex
ploded shells, and there are burled In
the soil many, many thousands more,
each one of them a menace to any
farmer who attempts to rut a plow
Into the soil In an effort to reclaim it.
And this land is destroyed, as the
homes weredestroyed, because of Ger
man ambition, of German cruelty, of
German lust, of German wantonness
and German brutality.
Who is to pay for It? Who is to
risk destruction that It may again be
put into condition for cultivation, that
It may serve the purposes of the hu
man race? Shall the peaceful Belgian
peasants, who had no part In the start
ing of this conflict, suffer their loss
without compensation? Shall these
peasants who have endured more than
four long years of homeless agonies,
who have suffered not alone the loss
of homes and land but the loss of
relatives and friends as well, be the
ones to risk destruction in the effort
to again bring these lands back to a
condition where cultivation Is possi
ble? Shall they be blown to bits by
the bursting of these shells,-hidden as
they are beneath the surface of the
ground, when the plow Btrlkes and ex
plodes them? If undisturbed, .those
shells continue to be a menace for
years to come, but who are to risk
their lives In removing them?
Could the American people gener
ally, and especially the American farm
ers, have seen the eights I have seen
As a result of eleven years of care
ful selection and testing, the Univer
sity of Nebrr.ska has developed an
Improved strain of Kherson oats, and
It now has a limited supply of seed
which it is distributing thru the Kx
tenslon Service of the ("Hope of ArH
rulture. As an average In a four-year
lest at the Kxporiment Station this
strain has outyivlded the Original
Kherson oats by 7.8 bushels an acre.
While the men who have been con
ducting the experiments feel rertain
that the starln will yield better than
oats which farmers are now growing,
they are anxious to follow up the test
lug. Hence, they suggest that farmers
purchase ten-bushel lots altho more
or less may me had. They ask that
the oats be sowed to themselves, tho
they should adjoin other oats, and
that they be threshed separately and
a report made of the yield. Pure seed
for another year may also be assured
In this manner. The oats are sold at
$1.15 a bushel, plus cost of sacks and
freight. Orders should be made thru
county agents, or direct to the Arfron
omy Department, University Farm,
Lincoln.
henij may be detected and eliminated
from the flock Trapueste also make
possible placing Into actual practice
the theory of Inheritance of egg pro
duction consists of the use or males
from high egg producing hens to
head breeding (locks from which lay
ers are to be hatched. High egg pro
duction is a sex linked character and
the male In a given mating exerts an
unusual Influence in the transmis
sion tf the character. From a breed,
ing st. iU! point this is most fortunate
since greater improvement Is possible
from the use of one good male than
from n dozen or more females.
The Herald at $1.50 per year Is
a great reading matter bargain.
ADVKHTlSi:
Trapnest records of chicken flocks
show that with the same care and
feed some hens ay no more than fifty
eggs a year while others lay more
than awo hundred, says the Exten
tion Service of the Unlversty of Ne
braska College of Agriculture. Hence,
The constant drop of water wears
away the hardest stone,
The constant gnaw of Towser masti
cates the toughest bone.
The constant wooing lover carries off
the blushing malo
And the constant advertiser Is the
man that gets the trade.
Don't ever think that printer's Ink is
money to the bad.
To help you Jail a roll of kale there's
nothing beats an ad.
You can't fool people always, they've
been a long time born,
And most folks know that man is
slow who tooteth not his orn.
-Exchange.
An officer In a certain regiment Is
an expert gymnast, and teaches his
brother suhaltenals how to walk
across the barracks room on their
hands. While thus engaged one even
ing tho door opened and the colonel
entered th room, stared at the In
erted company, shook his head grave
ly, and departed without uttering a
word. Extra parade duty next morn
ing was tho least punishment expect
ed for this breach of discipline. Some
days passed, however, and, no notice
being taken, it was thought that an
apology should be offered by the instl
gator of these unsnldierly movement
A reference being made to the even
ing, the colonel amaze 1 the Intending
apologist by exclaiming: "Hush, I
would not have anyone know it for
the world. The fact Is I had been
dining out with an old brother officer
and 'pon my life, I had no Idea that
wine could have had such an effect
upon me; but I could have sworn I.
s.iw you all upside
Francisco Argonaut.
down." San
All the news all the time The '
Herald, of course.
SAFE, GENTLE REMEDY
BRINGS SURE RELIEF
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Ground Pulverized by Bursting of Big Shells.
roadways, and the families that culti
vated the fields lived not on the little
farms but in closely built villages of
from 100 to 50b people each.
Devastation Is Complete.
It is hard to realize today that these
villages ever existed, that the land
f.long this long, straight road was ever
cultivated, ever produced foodstuffs
for a people. In fact, it Is hard to
realize today that this was ever an in
habited country.
Of these peaceful villages, the living
places of these farm people, there is
no trace left. There are not even piles
of debris, of broken brick and stone
and lumber, to mark the spots where
they stood. There is no single thing
by which the returning peasants, wear
ily dragging themselves buck to that
hjiot which had been home to them and
to their ancestors for almost countless
generations, can mark the place where
not only their home but their village
had stood.
I have seen old men and women,
wearied by four long years of exile,
stand beside this road -and gaze long
ingly over the devastated landscape,
in an effort to locate some familiar ob
ject that would remind them of the
spot they had known all their lives,
and then turn away with tears on their
cheeks because they could not find
even one small object that woul 1 tell
thenj of the homes, the only homes,
they had known.
It was German ambition, Gcr"irn
cruelty, German lust, German wanton
ness, German brutality, that were the
cause of the destruction of these
homes, of the agonies of a peaceful,
thrifty people.
What can possibly compensate these
people for their loss, for the misery
they have suffered and must still suf
fer, for the homes and the associations
that are gone forever? No, Germany
can never nay ta tall, DQt tne caa con"
rinue to pay and pay and pay until
there bas been bred out of the German
neonle that desire for war. that love
of conquest, that brutality, that it bas
taken centuries, almost, to breed Into
tfrem, and which has resulted In laying
a whole world waste.
In all that 20 miles between Yprea
along this long, straight road between
Ypres and Menln, they would say, as
I say, it is the German who must pay;
it is the Germnn who must risk de
struction In the effort to put this land
again into condition for cultivation.
I believe that one condition of the
pence treaty should be that Germany,
either as one natlon,or proportionately
from the several small nations that
may be formed out of the German em
pire, should call its military classes to
the colors each year as it has done in
the past ; but in place of putting guns
into the hands of these nn.i, und train
ing them for the purposes of war a
war of conquest that It should put
these men Into the territories she has
devastated, to reclaim the soli and to
rebuild the villages, the towns and
cities the Huns have destroyed. Let
these Germans, under guard of Bel
gian troops, take the risk of destruc
tion ; let them guide the plow that may
strike the unexploded shell, and let
Germany pay them the meager wageu
of the German soldier while they are
doing this.
Should Pay and Pay and Pay.
That would be the nearest thing to
an accounting that Germany can ren
der to the world, but she should -pay
all that it is humanly possible for a
people to pay who have so ruthlessly
despoiled the world. Her people should
p :y, and pay, and pay, until they have
buried beyond the shadow of a doubt
tl at war for the purpose of conquest,
for the purpose of loot, for the gratl
ficatlon of selfish ambitions, Is the
most unprofitable business they could
possibly engage in.
And remember that the devastation
to be seen along the road from Yprea
to Menln is but an example of all the
terrible destruction to be found
throughout Belgium and northern
France and Serbia and other countries
that have been overrun by the con
quest-seeking armies of the Boche.
And remember, too, that It is not alone
the devastation that is to be paid for,
but it is the work and the tears and
the economic loss of every nation that
was called Into the struggle to defeat
the selfish purposes of a selfish peo
ple, that the world might be a decent
place In which free men might live.
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Mi', pains In th loin nml lower ah
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