The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, August 28, 1918, Page 8

‘HUN POETS FAlL , the leading and the representative . and foams most freely at the lips. + take of the war, of course the German EIGHT BISMARCK DAILY TRIBUNE “WAR GUESSES Kaiser’s Writers Prove to Be; Very Poor Prophets. THINK IN TRUE KULTUR VEIN Forecast Only Short and Merry War, at End of Which Great German Hosts Will Be Conquerors of the World. By EARL DERR BIGGERS. (From the-Committee on Public Informa- tion, Washington, D. C.) Speaking of Germ: 1g who is not these duys?--a celebrated French poet, Jean Aicard, has hit upon a rather neat and happy figure of speech, In a Jong and eloquent poem about the war, after he has described how the Ger- man horde, coming “forward with God” as they put it, swept down on Paris, and has pictured them baffled and beaten by the miracle of the Marne, he further recalls how—“hav- ing prepared themselves in France a| terrier’s hole”—they Intrenched themseives therein, defeated, driven, hurled Back by the sword of France and scorned by all the world. i And then what happened? Let Ai- card tell it: "There, in their filthy holes, their natural habitat, ‘As lives the hunted boar, the crouching soldiers sat; And, as a putrid poot exhales an evil smell, They poured their poiscns forth straight from the maw of bell, Defiled the blue of heaven and made the virgin air A party to the crime they perpetrated there. The choking gas that rose, mephitic, from their holes, Was very like the breath and odor of their souls, The odor of their souls! The pres- ent writer must confess that this simile s es him as a remarkably fit und appropriate one, Today we know only too well the odor of their souls, and we are deter- mined to send our men over to those holes in France, to disinfect them with’ the only serviceable antise bayonet and the bullet. thut keeps that odor strong in our nos- trils will be of help in the salvation of our country, since it will keep us tirm in our determination to do or die. So one is inclined to féel that Prof. H. C. Grumbine of Clark, university, who has recently translated into very. reudable English the war poetry of France and Germany, has done this country a patriotie service. Professor Grumbine knows that nowhere are the ideals of a nation more clearly re- vealed than in its literature, and he adds that literature in its purest form | is poetry. So he has gone to the poets | of the two countries to discover what Was in their minds in the early days of the war. With an ardent desire to be fair, he hus not chosen verses which | prove any particular point for him, but has sought to confine himself to bards. In Germany such men as Su- dermann, Lissauer, and Herzog; in France, Boutrel and Aicard, the for- mer a laureate and the latter a mem- ber of the French academy. And hav- ing translated the verses of these men he has drawn some logical and illu- minating conclusions regarding the German god and the French god, the German soul and the soul of the French, Grumbine’s Deductions. Let us glance for a moment over Professor Grumbine’s shoulder at the translations he has made; then briefly Jet us consider his conclusions. If the matter strikes you, dear reader, as academic and—dread word—literary, be assured that it will not be treated here in either academic or literary fashion. Professor. Grumbine opens the door for you, and you wander with him through that dark hinterland—the German mind; he leads you on to the heights where the French thinker sits. When, much to the surprise’ of everybody in Germany, war was de- clared the German soldier immediate- ly rushed to his locker, where every- thing was ready for him, including a canteen filled with fresh water. Simul- taneously the German poet rushed to his fountain pen whichy-God and the kaiser forgot nothing—was also filled, not with water, but with a venomous liquid that flowed red, like blood. This war has reminded us that it is not the man who fights in the field who is the true master of hate and bitterness; it is the highly educated and cultured thinker at home who screams loudest If the German poets had been for a Moment at a loss as to what view to government would have set them right. (There was that naive newspaper in Munich which at the start pleaded pathetically for the government to “take charge of public opinion.”) One could fancy some such advertisement in the Berlin papers: “German poets will call at the Wilhelmstrasse be tween two and four on Thursday to secure their points of view on the war.” However, it is improbable the German poets needed any instruction They thought about the war just what the kaiser wanted them to think, what he and his kind had been training the whole German nation, poets included, for 40 years, to think. They greeied the catastrophe with a mighty ery, a cry partly of hate for Germany’s ene mies, partly of joy that now at lasi Germany's hour had struck. Wrote pe nnn OOOO Yiknow - LICKIN THRIET STAMPS, HELPS GIVE TH’ HUNS {'temptible foe. thus one enthusiastic German bard: ‘Hurrah! Hip,- hurrah! Away with all labor! It 1s war! Bloody war! Get your rife and saber! This hip-hurrah greeting for bloody war was characteristic of most of the early war poetry. The poets, unfortu- nately, were not prophets. The blood whtch they viewed in prospect was to flow mostly from the bodies of the con- Germany, marching with God, was invincible, A short wir and a merry one, and at the end the world! If they could have foreseen then the long and weary road ahead, the hip-hurrah note might have been monster feels for those who stand in | his way. Where God Stands, One looks in vain in this output of German poetry for a note of’ abhor- rence of war, a’ question as to whether or not this is God’s way for settling disputes, There is no question as to where God stands, he rides on the Ger- man shells, directs the Zeppelin,. greets | joyously the submarine, chuckles with delight that his chosen people have in| their hands the weapons whereby toj impose their will—which is his will— on the world. More of this peculiar German god anon, Through this wel- ter of harsh German poctry runs only great German hosts conquerors of the | Such was the picture that itisptrea the’ frenzied poets, the gentlemen of the pen. A soul-satisfying, delectable picture of German steel deep in the foeman’s skull, while rich, delicious ; blood was everywhere, England With the Allies, While they were in the midst of gory composition, their eyes in a fine frenzy ‘rolling, England entered the war on the side of the allies. This was dis- tinctly verboten, and it upset the Ger- man plan horribly. England was to stand aside until Russia and France were annihilated, and then be wiped out in her turn, Anyone who has ever , been in Germany knows the fury of a mingled even more freely with the | German whose system is upset, Imme- | venom and hate the balked and beaten | diately the mad poets grew madder yet, and the recipient of all their pol- soned darts was poor old England. The anger of a German when things , are going as he wished is not a pretty. thing, but the anger of the same man to make God tremble. In this dark hour when all Germany’ was sputtering with a fury.so terrible it seemed words could not be found to |express it, Herr Ernst Lissauer came forward and earned the nation’s grati- tude by penning his famous,.“Hymn of Hate.” In our country we.are all familiar with this dainty little thing, which ends: 4) So, what care we for French of Russ? a roar of delight in German strength, a | great satisfied sigh that now at last | the world is to feel that strength. | afterthought, there is a bit of camou-! flage as to who started the war. Be-' fore going on to picture the downfall | of the enemy one bard pauses to re- mark: War! War! Awake! The French’ have | crossed the Rhine, | And Cossacks swarin upon our eastern | These obvious lics are not dwelt on, however. expected anybody to. believe them. They were just thrown in’as a sop to the diplomats at the Wilhelmstrasse. Public opinion, which had been taken charge of by the authorities, was “ver- boten” to forget these things. And it was added, in faint voice here and there: “We did not wish this war.” One is reminded, by way of aside, of the excellent Australian cartoon which pletured the kaiser sitting, head in hands, in the company of the crown prince. “I did not want this war.” “No,” says the crown prince in a lucid moment, “it was quite a different war you wanted, wasn’t ii, papa?” But coming back to the poets, it may be said that while at rare intervals they remembered to make a note of the fact thatgthe war was ‘a complete and unpleas#fit surprise to Germany, their whole attitude was that now that it had come, they were delighted. They dreamed of blood, they sang of it, At last the weapons Germany had been fondling so long were to find a mark. Rudolf Herzog wrote a dainty little thing, urging the soldiers on—he was evidently somewhere in the rear him- self—and the refrain of each. verse ran: ' ‘What though the earth of hell be full, Our steel shall cleave the foeman’s skull, Established 1870 For close to 50 years this store has w And other Stan: and Retail Field, Schlick Visitors and cordially invites your visit to its 1918 Exposition of quality Merchandise at worth while prices. STEINWAY IVERS aud POND Wholesale Victrolas W. J. Dyer & Bro. "dir Wabuna ss Will Welcome You And places at your disposal every convenience a modern store can provide. Dry Goods = Women’s Shoes'= Carpets » Men’s Furnishings We ask you to use freely the many public service conveniences of this great Saint Paul institution It's a shot for a shot when they shoot at us, ‘ We fight our battles with bronze and steel It’s you we hate with a lasting hate— Nor will we abate one tittle of hate— Hate by water and hate by land, Hate of the head and hate of the hand. Hate of artisan, hate of king, Hate which seventy millions fling; One love they know, one hate they know, ‘They know but one, one only foe: England! Little Ernst, groping around in the madhouse, seems to have found words 8 . that pretty well express his meaning. ! Frobably’not_even’ the. post, | In fact, he seems to have put across in RUSSIA NS SIGN | fairly effective shape the idea that the | ; Germans don’t care much for the Eng- | lish, whichever way you look at it.| But if he hated before,-what must | Russian plenipotentiaries on Tuesday have been his fury at the reception his | signed three treaties supplementary to outbreak got in England? Instead of | the Brest-Litovsk treaties, supplement- 1 cowering in fear, a laugh went up from | ing the treaty of peace das well as a the British isles that was heard round | financial agreement and dealing with the ‘world. The Tommies in the trenches, treated to a German con- cert, shouted across; “Sing us a comic | when things are going wrong is enough: — song—sing us the *Ymn of Hi; it is recorded in’ Boyd Cable's “Be- tween the,.Lines’’ that »Cockney. regi- | ments, to while away idle hours, have been known to sing'varlations: ‘ Hyte of the 'eart and hyte of the ‘and | "Oo do we hyte to bet the band: Hingland! Which Js very cruel of them, and en- tirely beyond the comprehension of the reging foe, | auy'W. 5.8 | HUNS COLONIZE RUSSIAN SOIL Courland Property Surrendered i | | to Germans | | (By Newspaper Enterprise Ass'n.) Stogkhoi,;Sweden, Aug. 27.—The | Germans have tompleted an immense ‘bargain’ with pro-German Russians in Courland for a thorough and profit- able German colonization of the coun- try. In. the summer of 1915, when Ger- iman armies invaded Courland, the jlarge landowners agreed to surrender |to Germany one-third of their proper. ties as the price of their “liberation.” The Germans have .now made good \their bargain, agreeing to pay pre-war prices for. the land. | Every estate-owner in Courland who | jowns more than 890 acres is obliged Here and there, as though by way of | And when we stop we shall see you kneel! |to sell one-third of his land to a so- tealled “Courland Land Company.” The | German authorities will settle on the (land either German subjects of their own choosing or Germans.-who, were i former residents of Courland. !" Inspired articles in the» German {press represent that what remains of | Courland will’ protif’sd mitch bY’ the | HUN colonization that the, concealea annexation is a positive gift. i BUY We See NEW HUN TREATY «Copenhagen, Aug... 28.—German and treaties of law. 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