The Sherman Courier (Sherman, Tex.), Vol. 51, No. 211, Ed. 1 Saturday, December 29, 1917 Page: 2 of 8
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That its value and advantages are
appreciated by the Army and Navy is
evidenced by the extent of which it
has been availed. Yesterday’s Cou-
rier carried the statement that up to
the close of business Thursday night
the military and naval division of war
risk had received 194,222 applications
from American fighting men.
These applications represent insur-
ance of $1,665,184,000. The average
amount of insurance applied for per
man is $8574, the maximum permit-
ted by the law being $10,000 and the
minimum being $1000. The American
forces in France were prompt in
availing themselves of the insurance.
General Pershing himself subscribing
to the maximum of $10,000.
It is said that applications continue
to come in at a fast rate, averaging
about $55,000,000 & day. It is be-
lieved that the American Government
insurance baby is the biggest life in-
surance company in the history of the
world. j.
Advertising rates
request.
furnished upon
Entered at the Post Office at Sher-
man, Texas, as second-class matter.
THE GERMAN PEACE OFFER.
The reply of the Central Powers to
the peace proffer of the Bolsheviki
is just about what might have been
expected. The Kaiser again offers
everything and nothing. It is rather
a peace “feeler” than a peace offer.
Germany is willing to make a gen-
eral peace on the basis of “no annex-
ations and no indemnities,” but insists
that all belligerents must pledge the
same policy. It is believed that Ger
many’s object in making this condi-
tion is to try to persuade the Russain
people that only the Allies now stand
in the way of a general peace. The
move stamps itself els a clever bit of
German diplomacy, calculated .to em
barrass the Allies as much as possi
ble.
The Kaiser’s terms apparently con-
cede to Russian demands on all other
peace aims. But they are very indefi
nite and non-committal. As above
said, they offer everything and noth
ing.
Germany insists upon the return of
her colonies, but says nothing of mak-
ing reparation for the ravishment of
Belgium, France and Poland, and this
is the condition which the Allies will
insist upon as basic and fundamental.
Stripped of their disguise, the Kais-
er’s latest bid for peace means that
Alsace-Lorraine, under the Teutonic
plans, could not be liberated; that
Belgium could be given no reparation;
that Trentino would not be redeemed;
that England must evacuate Mesopo-
tamia and Palestine; thht Germany
would be free to establish her Mittel-
Europa and her domination in the
East. It would mean that the Kaiser
would still be free to terrorize civili-
zation with “kultur.” In short, the
latest German bid is not for peace,
but for victory.
Washington regards the offer
largely as “camouflage”, for it still
lacks the essential element demanded
by President Wilson and seconded by
England—elimination, of Hohenzoller-
nism.
While President Wilson’s peace
views practically call for the things
outlined in the Kaiser’s offer, his
chief insistence is upon the elimina-
tion of the present government sys-
tem, upon which no faith can be pla-
ced and with which no bargain can
be made.
Moreover, those of us who work on
morning newspapers and have other
jobs during the dog-watch are fully
aware that Sherman again enjoys the
doubtful distinction this winter of be-
ing “the town ywithout a light.”
The main objection we have to
these northers is that some of them
didn’t happen along last July.
orth is tried. Duty within and ne-
cessity without require that
should treat them. In this
RACY AS TOLD BY THEIR
OWN WRITERS.
(The matter appearing in this col-
umn of The Courier from day to day
\r taken from a compilation issued
t ? the Committee on Public Informa-
tion under the authority of our Gov-
ernment, and it is therefore authen-
tic. The Courier passes it on to its
readers in order that all may read it
and decide for themselves.—The Edi-
tor.)
stand in the way of a mighter one. *
* * When thb little nations clash with
the great and mighty, then their
so we
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AIMS OF TH^ERMAN^ AUTOG- „ ^ peoplftg ^ queat}on have
Germanic blood in their veins, belong
If you didn’t make it a Red Cross
Christmas you can still make it a
Red Cross New Year.
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THANK YOU*
The Sherman Courier wai|pd until
Christmas Day to issue its Christmas
number and it bears evidence of care-
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ful and artistic preparation, such as
was to be expected coming from this
very progressive office. An interest-
ing feature of the number is found in
form of a supplement entitled “The
Jerusalem Herald” supposed to have
been printed before Christ and which
deals with the world’s greatest event
—the birth of the Saviour. The mat-
ter is prepared in modem newspaper
style, just as any ordinary event
would be treated in this day and time;
It also contains supposed gossip of
Vourt circles and various society
items all tending to make the supple-
ment of intense interest. The Cou-
rier is deserving of much praise for
the character of publication it is
furnishing thp people of Sherman and
Grayson county.—Denison Herald.
VERY MUCH OBLIGED.
We have received a great many-
special editions of newspapers from
various sections, but the latest and
most unique is that of the Sherman
SECTION VII.
GERMANY THE RULER OF MID-
DLE EUROPE.
The significance of a middle Eu-
rope as planned by the Germans is
not easy'to grasp. The scheme ap-
pears innocent, but let no one be de-
ceived. If realized, what is there in
the world to oppose this new Roman
Empire? England, with its widely
scattered empire, of whose population
over one-half is in India; the nonmil-
itary Republic of the United States;
Russia divided by internal dissensions
and relatively weakened abroad? Nor
should we be deceived as to the final
purposes concealed in this plan.. Take
its relation to Russia. By the inclu-
sion of Poland, Germany would take
from Russia its principal manufac-
turing sea. By its ability to close the
Dardanelles, Russia’s great outlet, it
would hold a club over Russia’s ex-
port traded Russia is not today and
will not probably for some years be
in. a position to rectify this situation.
And economic dependence is very
likely in these days to lead to politi-
cal dependence as well. The effect
of Middle Europe on the other parts
of Europe can be judged from two
sentences of the most moderate 6f its
advocates, Neumann and Von Liszt:
“Middle Europe will be German at the
core; it will use the German language
in its official communications”; and,
conversely, “Serbia and Montenegro
will have to obey; they will have to
do as they are told.” This is no com-
mercial scheme—it is a world empire
taking shape before our eyes.
“Greater Germany is the goal of the
twentieth century. We shall fill Mid-
dle Europe with an empire of racial
vigor. We shall then be in a positipn
to meet the further duties and de-
mands that are in store for us."
Tannenberg, Goss-Deutschland; Die
Abeit des 420t Jahrhumnderts, 1911, p.
87.
“Only a Germany tha| reaches
from the EmB to the Danube, from
Memel to Trieste, to about the Bug,
can compel peace in Europe without
imposing a lasting burden on her in-
habitants. For only such a Germany
can feed herself, only such a Germany
can defeat France and Russia * * *
Since then, all the world desires
peace, all the world must desire such
a Germany,” etc. m
Lagad^, Deutsche Schriften (1878),
1891, pp. 113-14. Paul de Lagarde
(1827-91), whose real naire was Boet-
ticher, was a theologian and professor
at Gottingen.
therefore by nature in part to us, or
they have none, are therefore alto-
gether alien.
(Germanic is not the same as Ger-
man—it means people who speak a
Teutonic language, as the Dutch,
Danish, Swedish, or English, and who,
as the Pan-Gemans love to think, are
of Teutonic blood. Actually there is
much less of this in the inhabitants
of the smaller Teutonic nations and of
the German Empire itself than the
latter like to acknowledge.)
“2. They are- politically or geogra-
phically in our way, or they are not.
“In the first case it is our double
duty to draw the Germanic blood to
us—a duty “to our selves not to let
this kindred blood be lost, but'to pre-
serve it from further mixture and
treasure it up for the strengthening
of our Germanic stock; and a duty
to the Germanic blood in these peo-
ples itself to free it of obstructive
mixture and let it have a part in the
loftier destinies of a greater Pan-
Germanic Germany.
“If the peoples in question have
nothing Germanic about them, tod
are essentially alien to our culture,
then the second question is in place:
Are they in the way of our expan-
sion or not? If not, let them develop
even as thfeir nature bids them; if
they are, to spare them would be fol-
ly. Those whom we spared would be
a thorn in our flesh which we did not
extract—for the thorn’s sake.”
Idem, pp. 129-130.
“Do not let us forget the civilizing
task which the decrees of Providence
have assigned to us. Just as Prus-
sia was destined to be the nucleus of
Germany, so the regenerated Ger-
many shall be the nucleus of a future
empire of the West. And in order
that no one shall be left in doubt we
proclaim from henceforth that our
continental nation has a right to the
sea, not only to the North Sea, but to
the Mediterranean and the Atlantic.
Hence we intend to absorb one after
another all the proyinces which neigh-
bor on Prussia. We will successively
annex Denmark, Holland, Belgium.
Northern Switzerland, then Trieste
and Venice, finally Northern France,
from the Sambre to the Loire. ThiB
program we fearlessly pronounce. It
is not the work of a madman. The
en pire we intend to found will be no
Utopia. We have ready to hand the
means of founding it and no coalition
n the world can stop us.”
Bronsart von Schellendorf, quoted
by H. A. L. Fisher in the War, its
Causes and Issues, 1914, p. 16. ‘
“The strongest Germanic State on'
the Continent must take over the heg-
emony; the smaller ones must sacri-
Courier, issued Christmas Day, which fice much of their independence and
consisted of 24 pages well filled with
advertising, also two numbers of the
“Jerusalem Herald” which were head-
ed, “Jerusalem, Judea,
Morning, December 26,
Bonham News.
Thursday
4 B. C.”—
Too bad the Kaiser couldn’t have
stayed at the Mannheim station until
*the British airmen began to drop
bombs on it. He would have been
given a taste of the medicine he has
been handing churches and hospitals
for the last three years.
p If Governor Hobby is like most otfi-
er men, he is not disappointed over
his wife’s decision to omit the New
year’s reception at the Mansion this
year. We have yet to see a fellow
who didn’t prefer a smoking jacket to
a dress suit.
CLASSIC.
Van Alstyne excels in one
thing. Its newspaper, had the
longest Christmas editorial of
anything we have ever seen on
the subject. Hurrah for Van Al-
styne.—Whitewright Sun. V
How did itvwind up, Brother Wag-
goner, with the time-honored quota-
tion attributed to the late and illus-
trious Tiny Tim Cratchitt, “God bless
us every one”?
JU&T SO.
The Sherman Daily Courier issued
a special Christmas edition of their
paper this week which is chuck full
of good reading and liberally patron-
ized by the business firms of that
progressive city.—Tom Bean Times.
The marked cordiality with which
«£rt»in of our fellow citizens greet us
as we go about our daily tasks, again
•eminds us that the July primaries
looming up in the distance.
P —-— # V ]
we are as patriotic as
THANKS.
J. D. Dobbins was here Thursday
of last week in the interest of the
Sherman Courier, and called to see
the Leader. Bro. Dobbins said he
met with splendid encouragement
while here, securing several new sub-
it about time we'seribors for the peper. The Courier
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their language as is necessary to the
permanent insurance of a ndw im-
perial unit. V
“The question whether military
force would become requisite is sec-
ondary, but it is essential that the
state which aspires to the hegemony
should have at its disposal sufficient
intellectual, economic, and military
power to reach this end and hold it
fast. Which state would it be? It
can be only the German Empire,
which is now in search of more terri-
tory. No one can doubt it after the
above dissertation on the other great
powers. The moral situation^ how-
ever, is so far favorable to the little
Germanic States that a military, fra-
tricidal attack upon them will not be
*4 all necessary. All depends upon
Germany’s outwining the hegemony
in middle and western Europe by the
subjection of prance and the incorpo-
ration, at the same time or after-
wards, of the German Provinces of
Austria in any form that may suit our
racial purposes. The natural pres-
sure of this new German Empire will
be so great that, willy-nilly, the sur-
rounding little Germanic States will
have to attach themselves to it under
conditions which we set."
Joseph L. Reimer, Ein pangerma-
nisches Deutschland, 1905, pp. US-
120. Reimer is one of the young lib-
eral-imperialists. His fame rests on
this book.
CITATION BY PUBLICATION.
THE STATE OF TEXAS:
In the District Court, January
term, A. D., 1918.
To the Sheriff or any Constable of
Grayson County-Greeting:
You are hereby commanded that
by making publication of this citation
in some newspaper published in the
County of Grayson for four weeks
irevious to the return day hereof,
you summon William Alexander,
whose residence is unknown to be and
appear before the District Court, 15th
Judicial District of Grayson County,
to be holden in and for the County of
Grayson, at the Court House thereof
in Sherman on the First Monday in
January, A. B., 1918, then and there
to answer a petition filed in the said
;ourt en the 6th day of Decembe.
1917, wherein Buena Alexander is
Plaintiff, and William Alexander is
Defendant, the file number of said
suit being 25002 and the nature of
said Plaintiffs demand being in sub-
stance! an action for divorce on the
grounds of non-cohabitation for *
period of more than ten years.
Herein fail not, but have you then
and the||'before said Court, this writ
with yodr return thereon showing
how you have executed the same.
Witness: B. D. Dye, Clerk of the
District Court of Grayson county.
Given under my hand and seal of
said Court, at office in the City of,
Sherman, this the 6th day of Decem-
ber 1917.
\ J B. D. DYE,
Clerk District Court,
Grayson County, Texas
By J. L. Legate, Deputy
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NOTICE TO REGISTRANTS.
If you need assistance in answering
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Board, Room 21 Linx Annex, Sher-
The Great Before
Cjnlstmas Sale
Is over, but we are still offering special prices
in all departments on clothing for the whole family.
Come in and look them over, still lots of win-
ter left and you can save money by buying them
now. You can wear them the rest of this winter
and next too. It’s economy to take advantage of
the bargains we are offering.
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Minton, W. J. The Sherman Courier (Sherman, Tex.), Vol. 51, No. 211, Ed. 1 Saturday, December 29, 1917, newspaper, December 29, 1917; Sherman, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth717573/m1/2/?q=Lamar+University: accessed June 7, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; .