Staff that other laws have come to stay--laws
superseding those of Attila the Hun. We are fighting to teach the German
people that, free men with brains to think with, they have no right to
hand themselves over body and soul to their rulers to be used as mere
devil's instruments; that if they do so they shall pay the penalty, and
the punishment shall go hard. We are fighting to teach the German Nation
respect for God! Our weapons have got to be hard blows, not hard words.
We are tearing at each other's throats; it has got to be done. It is not
a time for yelping.

Jack Johnson as a boxer I respect. The thing I do not like about him is
his habit of gibing and jeering at his opponent while he is fighting
him. It isn't gentlemanly, and it isn't sporting. The soldiers are
fighting in grim silence. When one of them does talk, it is generally to
express admiration of German bravery. It is our valiant stay-at-homes,
our valiant clamorers for everybody else to enlist but themselves, who
would have us fight like some drunken fish hag, shrieking and spitting
while she claws.

*Incredible Reports of Atrocities.*

Half of these stories of atrocities I do not believe. I remember when I
was living in Germany at the time of the Boer war the German papers were
full of accounts of Tommy Atkins's brutality. He spent his leisure time
in tossing babies on bayonets. There were photographs of him doing it.
Detailed accounts certified by most creditable witnesses. Such lies are
the stock in trade of every tenth-rate journalist, who, careful not to
expose himself to danger, slinks about the byways collecting hearsay. In
every war each side, according to the other, is supposed to take a
fiendish pleasure in firing upon hospitals--containing always a
proportion of their own wounded. An account comes to us from a
correspondent with the Belgian Army. He tells us that toward the end of
the day a regrettable incident occurred. The Germans were taking off
their wounded in motor cars. The Belgian sharpshooters, not noticing the
red flag in the dusk, kept up a running fire, and a large number of the
wounded were killed. Had the incident been the other way about it would
have been cited as a deliberate piece of villainy on the part of the
Germans. According to other accounts, the Germans always go into action
with screens of women and children before them. The explanation, of
course, is that a few poor terrified creatures are rushing along the
roa