“HAMMER HIS FACE OFF”

Manawatu Herald, Volume XL, Issue 1832, 28 May 1918, Page 3

“HAMMER HIS FACE OFF”

AN AMERICAN PASTOR’S WAY WITH THE HUN.

“When I stand before the judgment seat of the Almighty I want to be able to look my God in the face and tell him that I hit the Germans, at least one good wallop before I shuffled off.”

Such was the declaration made by the Rev. Dr, Charles A. Eaton, of the Madison Avenue Church, in an address to five hundred employees of the Submarine Boat Company at Fort Newark, New Jersey, according to the Paris edition of the Chicago Tribune.

“Why should we worry about the Germans if you men stick to your job six days a week the way the men do over in the trenches?” said Dr. Eaton. “Germans? I say'to hell with the Germans!”

“If you men had only been assembled a little,sooner! Just think of it. Italy needing 250,000 tons of coal to keep her municipal plants running, and finally having to close them because this great, big, broadshouldered country didn’t have guts enough to build ships to carry that coal over there!

“You fellows are doing a work here as important as the work of the men in the trenches, and you’ve got to realise it. You are going to get a lot of spies here. They’ll creep in. If ever you come-across a man with a bomb, don’t say to him, ‘Come outside, brother, and let us pray.’ Don’t slap him on the wrist. Truss him up, take him out on the meadows, place his damned bomb On his chest, and then stand off a few feet and watch him get blown to hell, where he belongs, with the Kaiser. 9

“Treat a German propagandist the same way. Hammer his face off. You have ropes here, and steel girders. Use them!”