FROM A LITHOGRAPH, DRAWN ON THE STONE BY GEORGE BELLOWS 



That Monstrous Thing Called Kultur 



You haven't believed. Because your mind is clean, because you have been 

 surrounded from childhood by an atmosphere of uprightness, and decency, and 

 kindliness, because you hate to see even a dumb brute suffer — you haven't believed. 



You have listened, with a doubting shrug, 

 to the tales of German atrocity — doubting be- 

 cause these tales were so bestial, so revolting 

 that to you they were unthinkable. But you, 

 but Ave, must believe, because they are the truth. 



The official documents of England, of France 

 and of Belgium confirm them — absolutely. 

 More — the half, the worst half has never been 

 told in this clean land of ours, has never been 

 told because unprintable. 



There's a fester spot on this fair world — a 

 spot that has spread from Berlin until it has 

 poisoned all of Germany. And there's just one 



cure — the knife. The poison cannot be 

 dammed up, it must be cut out else this mon- 

 strous thing called Kultur will fasten its hide- 

 ous self on all the world. 



Our boys over there have learned to believe. 

 They are seeing the horror and the pity of it 

 all. They hnov), and knowing, they set their 

 jaws and go over the top with a righteous 

 wrath, a holy anger that carries all before it. 

 We have got to feel this war as they feel it. 

 Have got to believe, and believing, set our 

 jaws and do our part whatever that part may 

 be. Right now it's money, money, money. 



BUY U. S. GOVT. BONDS of the FOURTH LIBERTY LOAN 



This space contributed for the Winning of the War by 

 i, The National Geographic Magazine 



