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PALESTINE DAILY HERALD, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 28, 1917.
IS IS PRESIDENT
OUTSIDE PALE
OF^ HUMANITY
Frightfulness Taught by German
Leaders Belongs to Age of
Barbarism.
(Special to The Herald.)
Washington, D. C., Dec. 28.—
Woodrow Wilson, president of
the United States, to whose lot
has fallen the task of guiding the
destinies of the nation through
ore of the most critical periods
in its history, quietly observed
fc' sixty-first birthday anniver-
v as" today. The only indication
t! ct the executive has passed an-
other milestone was the scores
of greetings received from friends
in many parts of the world. Among
those sending greetings were the
rulers of the European nations
allied with the United States in
the war, together with many of
the foremost citizens of France,
England and Italy.
So far as outward appearances go,
the president shows little effects of
..the tremendous strain under which
he has labored the past year. In
health and spirit he appears to be
many years younger than 61. His
hair is much grayer than when he
first entered the White House, but
he still stands erect and his face has
taken on a ruddier hue, due largely
to his habit of taking a certain
amount of outdoor exercise every
day.
Until his election to the governor-
ship of New Jersey ten years ago the
life of Woodrow Wi.son was compar-
atively uneventful. He was born in
Staunton, Va., of Scotch-Irish parent-
age. His father, the Rev. Joseph
Rttggles Wilson, was a Presbyterian
minister. The son prepared for col-
lage at private schools in Augusta.
6a., and Columbia, S. C., and studied
tor several months during his early
Mr. Wilson’s most enthusiastic friends
thought he would be elected. This
was before he took the stump, but
his work as a speaker was so effec-
tive that he rapidly obtained a large
following. He was elected to the
governorship, serving from 1911 until
hs became president of the United
States in 1912.
The president has been twice lur-
ried. His first -wife was Miss Ellen
Louise Axson of Savannah, Ga. The
first Mrs. Wilson died in the White
House on Aug. 6, 1914. On Dec. 18,
1915, President Wilson marired Mrs.
Edith Bolling Galt, daughter of the
late William H. Bolling of Virginia,
and widow of Nbrman Galt of Wash-
ington.
SOLEMN PLEDGE MERE WORDS
Kaiser's Statesmen Had No Intention
of Keeping Faith With Their
Agreement on International Law
—Horrors Told by Diaries.
graduated from Princeton with the
degree of Bachelor of Arts, and later
took up the study of law at the Uni-
versity of Virginia. He displayed a
fondness for sociological and politi-
cal problems at an early age. He
practiced law for three years in At-
lanta, but found the profession not to
his liking and gave it up to become
a teacher.
J^e then took up the study of his-
tory and politics at Johns Hopkins,
his fourth university. While there
he completed writing ^his “Congres-
sional Government,” a work he had
•started in Atlanta. This was the be-
ginning of his active literary efforts
as an interpreter of modern sociologi-
cal and political problems and insti-
tutions.
In 1885 he became associate pro-
fessor of history and political econo-
my at Bryn Mawr College, serving
in that capacity until 1888, when he
was called to the chair of history
aad political economy at Wesleyan
University. Two years later he re-
turned to Princeton as professor of
jurisprudence and in 1902 became
president of the institution.
In the same year he published his
“A History of the American People.”
He had, In the meanwhile, also writ-
ten other books, notably “The Con-
stitutional History of the United
States,” “The State," and “A Life of
George Washington.”
Mr. Wilson’s first appearance as a
candidate for public office was made
at the 1907 session of the New Jersey
legislature, when he opposed John
F. Dryden’s re-election as senator.
Although he was not a candidate him-
self, he received sixteen votes. Three
years later he received the demo-
cratic nomination for governor of
New Jersey.
New Jersey had been under repub-
lican rule for fifteen years, and only
Iowa City Honors
Men With Colors
(Special to The Herala.)
Iowa City, Iowa, Dec. 28.—Measur-
ing seven by thirteen feet, a service
flag with 669 stars now hangs be-
tween the pillars of the old capitol
here, as a tribute to the men of the
student body and faculty of the Uni-
versity of Iowa who have entered
war service.
The flag was presented by the in-
ter iraternity council and was made
by volunteer seamstresses from the
home economics department.
Prof. C. A. Cumming, head of the
art department, designed the flag,
and he has made an indelible ink
etamp with which to imprint addi-
tional stars. The blue stars are
spread uniformly over the white
field, room being left for the addition
of more stars.
The 669 stars in the flag represent
the known contribution of the univer-
sity of men in active service. If
stars w7ere placed for all men and
women in any kind of war work, at
home or abroad, the number of stars
would be close to one thousand.
Great Meeting of
Scientists Today
(Special to The Herald.}
Pittburgh, Pa., Dec. 28.—More than
one thousand prominent scientists,
members of the American Association
for the Advancement of Science and
i:s numerous affiliated scientific or-
I i.anizations, have gathered in Pitts-
burgh for the association's seventieth
annual meeting, the sessions of which
will continue throughout the next
four days.
The various branches of the asso-
ciation will consider such subjects as
economics, mathematics, botany, med-
icine and education at daily joint
meetings with the affiliated societies
interested in those branches of
science.
While many of the tbplcs of dis-
cussion will be of especial value*only
to the attending scientists, an address
to be delivered at the opening session
in Carnegie Hall tonight by Dr.
Charles R. Van Hise, president of the
University of Wisconsin and the re-
tiring president of the association,
will receive general atttentlon. Dr.
Van Hise has selected as his subject,
“The Economic Effects of the World
War in the United States.”
War Aims and Peace Policies.
(Special to The Herald.)
i^ondon, Dec. 28.—A conference of
various sections of the British labor
movement met in I>ondon today to
discuss a program of war aims and
peace policies. The program will be
submitted to a general convention of
the labor party which is to be held
next month.
Too much sweet stuff puts the stom-
ach out of order. A dose of Prickly
Ash Bitters corrects the trouble, re-
stores appetite and good digestion.
Price $1.25 per bottle J D. Smull®n
& Co., special agents. Adv.
In giving to the American people
the knowledge of German inhuman-
ity in Belgium, says a pamphlet is-
sued by the committee on public in-
formation, the evidence is drawn
mainly from German and American
sources. The German sources in-
clude official proclamations and
other official utterances, letters and
diaries of German soldiers, and quo-
tations from German newspapers.
The ‘‘Buies for Field Service” of the
German army advises each soldier
to keep such a diary while on active
service.
In the wars waged in ancient times
it was taken for grunted that con-
quered peoples might be either killed,
tortured, or held as slaves; that their
property would be taken and that their
lands would be devastated. “Vae vlc-
tls !—woe to the conquered !” For two
centuries or more there has been a
steady advance In introducing ideas of
humanity and especially in confining
the evils of warfare to the combatants.
The ideal seemed to have become so
thoroughly established as a part of in-
ternational law that the powers at The
Hague thought it sufficient merely to
state the general principles in Article
XLVI of the regulations: “Family hon-
ors and rights, the lives of persons
and private property, as well as re-
ligious convictions and practice, must
be respected. Private property cannot
be confiscated.” Germany, in common
with the other powers, solemnly
pledged her faith to keep this article,
but her military leaders had no inten-
tion of doing so. They had been
trained in the ideas voiced by Gen. von
Hartmann 40 years ago: “Terrorism
is seen to be a relatively gentle pro-
cedure, useful to keep the masses ol
the people in a state of obedience.’
This had been Bismarck’s policy, too
According to Moritz Busch, Bismark’s
biographer, Bismarck, exasperated by
the French resistance, which was stil ^ ,
continuing in January, 1871, said:
“If in the territory which we deoupy^WW^
we cannot supply everything for out
troops, from time to time we shall send
a flying column into the localities
which are recalcitrant. We shall shoot
wide areas of Belgium and France in
which not a penny’s worth of wanton
destruction had been permitted to oc-
cur, in which the ripe pears hung un-
touched upon the garden walls; and I
saw other* wide areas where scarcely
one stone had been left to stand upon
another; where the fields were rav-
aged ; where the male villagers had
been shot in squads; where the miser-
able survivors had been left to den in
holes, like wild beasts.”
Even Soldiers Horrified.
Some German soldiers, we are glad
to see, showed their horror at the foul
deeds committed in Belgium.
“The inhabitants have fled in the vil-
lage. It was horrible. There was clot-
ted blood on all the beards, and what
faces one saw7, terrible to behold! The
dead, 60 in all, were at once buried.
Among them were many old women,
some old men, and a half-delivered
woman, awful to see; three children
had clasped each other, and died thus.
The altar and the vaults of the church
are shattered. They had a telephone
there to communicate with the enemy.
This morning, September 2. all the sur-
vivors were expelled, and I saw four
little boys carrying a cradle, with a
baby five or six months old in it, on
two sticks. All this was terrible to
see. Shot after shot! Thunderbolt
after thunderbolt! Everything is given
over to pillage; fowls and the rest all
killed. I saw a mother, too, with her
two children; one had a great wound
on the head and had lost an eye.”
(From the diary of Lance Corporal
Paul Splelman of the Ersatz, first bri-
gade of Infantry of the Guard.)
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“ In the night the inhabitants
of Liege became mutinous. Forty per-
sons were shot and 15 houses demol-
ished, 10 soldiers shot. The sights here
make you cry. *
“On the 23rd of August everything
quiet. The inhabitants have so far
given in. Seventy students were shot,
200 kept prisoners. Inhabitants re-
turning to Liege.
“August 24. At noon with 36 men on
sentry duty. Sentry duty is A 1, no post
allocated to me. Our occupation, apart
from bathing, is eating and drinking.
We live like God In Belgium.” (From
the diary of Joh. van der Schoot, re-
servist of the Tenth company. Thirty-
ninth reserve infantry regiment, Sev-
enth reserve army corps.)
"Behaved Like Vandals."
“August 17. In the afternoon I had
a look at the little chateau belonging
to one of the king's secretaries (not at
home). Our men had behaved like
regular vandals. They had looted the
cellar first, and then they had turned
their attention to the bedrooms and
thrown things about all over the place.
They had even made fruitless efforts
to smash the safe open. Everyftiing
was topsy-turvy—magnificent furni-
ture, silk, and even china. That’s what
happens when the men are allowed to
[uisition for themselves. Ljmi sure
must have taken away a neap <$f
useless stuff simply for thje pleasure of
looting.”
“August 6th crossed frontier. Inhab-
itants on border very good to us and
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ference noticeable.
pened a few times, the Inhabitants will
finally come to their senses.”
Horrors Told in Soldiers’ Diaries.
.The frightfulness taught by the Ger-
man leaders held full sway in Belgium.
This is best seen in the entries in the
diaries of the individual German sol-
diers.
“During the night of August 15-10
Engineer Gr-gave the alarm in the j
town of Vise. Every one was shot or
taken prisoner, and the houses were
burnt. The prisoners were made to
march and keep up with the troops.”
(From the diary of noncommissioned
officer Reinhold Koehn of the Second
battalion o i engineers, Third army
corps.)
“A horrible bath of blood. The whole
village burnt, the French thrown into
the blazing houses, civilians with the
rest.” (From the diary of Private
Hassemer of the Eighth army corps.)
“In the night of August 18-19 the vil-
lage of Saint-^Jnurice was punished
for having fired on German soldiers by
being burnt to the ground by the Ger-
man trqops (two regiments, the
Twelfth lundwehr and the Seven-
teenth.) The village was surrounded,
inen posted about a yard from one an-
other, att that no one could get out.
Then the Uhlans set fire to It, house
by house. Neither man. woman, nor
child could escape; only the greater
part of the live stock we carried off,
as that conld be used. Anyone who
ventured to come out was shot down.
All the Inhabitants left In the village
were burnt with the houses.” (From
the diary of Private Karl Scheufele of
rhe Third Bavarian regiment and land-
wehr Infantry.)
“At ten o’clock In the evening the
first battalion of the One hundred and
Seventy-eighth marched down the steep
incline into the burning village to the
burning village to the north of Dinant.
A terrific spectacle of ghastly beauty.
At the entrance to the village lay about
fifty dead civilians, shot for having
fired up< 7 our troops from ambush. In
rhe course of the night many others
were also shot, so that we counted over
200. Women and children, lamp in
hand, were forced to look on at the
horrible scene. We ate our rice later
in the inidst of the corpses, for we had
had.nothing since morning. When we
searched the houses we found plenty
of wine and spirit, but no eatabies.
<’aptain Huraann was drunk.” (This
ast phrase in shorthand.) (FroTn the
iiary of Private Philipp of the One
Iundred and Seventy-eighth regiment
if infantry, Twelfth army corps.)
Writing from Belgium in 1916 Irvin
S. Cobb said :
“Briefly what I saw was this: I saw
"August 23rd, Sunday (between Bir-
nal and Dinant, village of Disonge).
At 11 o’clock the order comes to ad-
vance after the artillery has thorough-
up prepared the ground ahead. The
Pioneers and Infantry regiment 178
w7ere marching in front of us. Near
a small village the latter were fired on
by the inhabitants. About 220 inhab-
itants were shot and the village was
burnt—artillery is continuously shoot-
ing—the village lies in a large ravine.
Just now, six o’clock in the afternoon,
the crossing of the Maas begins near
Dinant ... All villages, chateaux,
and houses are burnt down during this
night. It was a beautiful sight to see
the fires all round us in the distance.
“August 24.—In every village one
finds only heaps of ruins and many
dead.” From the diary of Matbern,
Fourth company, Eleventh Juger bat-
talion, Marburg.)
All Male Inhabitants Shot.
“A shell burst near the Eleventh
company, and wounded seven men,
three very severely. At five o’clock we
were ordered by the officer in com-
mand of the regiment to shoot all the
male inhabitants of Nomeny, because
the population was foolishly attempt-
ing to stay the advance of the German
troops by force of arms. We broke Into
the houses, and seized all who resisted,
in order to execute them according to
martial law. The houses which had
not been already destroyed by the
French artillery and oar own were set
on fire by us, so that nearly the whole
town was reduced to ashes. It Is a ter-
rible sight when helpless women and
children, utterly destitute, are herded
together and driven into France.”
(From the diary of Private Fischer.
Eighth Bavarian regiment of infantry,
Thirty-third reserve division.)
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When the American Association for
the Advancement of Science meets in
seventieth annual session in Pitts-
burgh today the gathering will be
opened with an address by Dr. Charles
R. Van Hise, the retiring president.
Dr. Van Hise occupies a foremost
place among American educators.
Since 1903 he has been president of
the University of Wisconsin. He is
a native of Wisconsin and a graduate
of the university of which he is now
the head. He has made a specialty
of geology and for a number of years
wag professor of that ^branch of
science at Wisconsin University be-
fore he became presidenL He has
lectured before many scientific socie-
ties and institutions of learning and
is the author of a number of text-
books that are accepted as standards
by the leading colleges.
held here. The dispaly is divided
; into 985 poultry and 808 pigeon
j classes. A total of $30,000 in cash
I prizes will be distributed among the
! winning exhibitors.
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WESTERN WOMAN KNITS
WHILE “RIDING HERD."
Poultry Show in Gotham.
(Special to The Hera,a.)
New York, Dec. 28.—The stars of
featherdon went on parade in Madi-
son Square Garden today at the open-
ing of the twenty-ninth annual New
York Poultry and Pigeon Show. The
directors of the show this year pro-
pose to make a special effort to arouse
a greater degree of public interest
in poultry and poultry raising, as a
step toward the solution of the food
supply problem. In many respects the
exhibition is the best of its kind ever
Denver, Colo., Dec. 2.—We’ve been
introduced to the divorce court knit*
ter, the street car knitter, the wo-
man who knits in church, at the thea-
tre, and the class of high school boys
who knit instead of playing football.
Now comes Mrs. H. M. Shu!
worth of Snowanass, Coin* with
very dernier ori in knitting fashions.
Mrs. Shuttleworth lives 10 miles
from the railway station, on a cattle
ranch, and rides in horseback three
times -weekly for her mail. She
mounts her faithful cowpony, heads
him for the postoffice, opens her
knitting bag, and by the time she
gets there, a sweater for Some shiv-
ering Sammy is well started. Some-
times she “rides herd,” too, since a
lot of the cowboys have enlisted, and
she alw-ays takes the knitting para-
phernalia along and knocks off a few
stitches while rounding up the stray-
ing bovines.
The most energetic workers fee!
lazy and low-spirited at times. This
condition is caused by impurities in
the stomach, liver and bowels, which
should be goKen rid of before they
bring on a sick spell. A few doses of
Prickly Ash Bitters cleanses the sys-
tem and sends new life and vigor to
every part of the body. Price $1.25
per bottle. J. D Smullen & Co., spec-
ial agents. Adv.
Too Many Servants in Britain.
Duncan Miller asked the minister of
national service, says the London
Times, whether his attention has been
called to the number of advertisements
for servants in households of one, two
or three persons, where seven to ten
Indoor servants are already kept, and
whether he proposes to limit the num-
ber of indoor servants employed in
each household. The minister of na-
tional service replied that he had al-
ready pointed out how essential it is,
in the national interest, that no per-
son should employ more servants than
ore absolutely necessary. The min-
ister trusts that the awakened con-
sciences of those who have In this
respect failed to appreciate tin ir duty
will provide an immediate and suffi-
cient remedy. If not, he will tell hi*
plan in the general statement on ina:
power.
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