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Ot* UUaiIVi vrun uur jfroad. The worn fin gave the soldierjf throe bonds for his trouble. ' |ptiI , 7..Lrv. ,-- !What “German” FormerlyMeant—Its Meaning' Now.The word “German” used to mean to us. sturdiness; business integrity, j I enterprise, inventive genius, and many other desirable qualifications.But today it means treaty-breaker, Avar-maker on women and children,murder of friends by the score that one enemy may die, profaner of holy things, spy and traitor and other un-; ;desirable and almost unbelievable! jqualifications.Who has made the change in this? The Germans * themselves. No man fand no nation) can so thoroughly jt hange his reputation, except by emi-l, nently deserving the change.If we had been asked five years ago “Are the Germans good people”? we would have promptly answered, “Yes”! Recently we have doubted it and now we* are convinced that they are not.Thus does fate store up for us all \ Hie things we do against others. Not for many generations will the Germans occupy the place in the world’s ! good will that they formerly occu-nicd. In the future, just to say “German” will mean anything but something pleasant.How badly fooled the Germans must he, anyway, to let the kaiser fool them the way lie does. Ho surely must realize that with all the woidd •igainst him and his people, they cannot accomplish anything for them-Ii 1Ives by continuing a losing ......... ;I 1 THe surely knows, even, if no one | 5 mso does, that to continue this fight; : •vainst the whole world, until the j' v/evlrl and himself reaches the limit of 1 ‘■^••durance, only means that the future odds no hone for Germany to regain 'he friendship or the trade of tbf he v now call enemies.—CharlesFranklin Jones.
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Statesville Landmark
Statesville, North Carolina, US
Fri, Aug 02, 1918
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