vn :uu w FRANCE SENDS ONE OF HER FIGHTING PRIESTS Father Souris of the cìlocese of Paris recently arrived in this country wlth the permanent French commls sion. To use his own words, he is bere to "talk to Americans from a re- Ugious standpoint of view regarding thls world catastrophe, and teli them of the spirlt of the men today In the trenches." Father Souris wears every decorution in the power of France to glve for bravery and devo tlon to country, and In additlon he bears the scars of wounds received in many battles. THIGHTFULNESS' BY BRITON IN LAUSANNE y Ripe Tornato Bombardment flouted a "Gott Strafe Eng-__ land" Couple. The latest tale of frightfulness comes from Lausanne. In one of the tnost fashionable restaurant» recently ali the tables were occupied except two small ones not far from each other, when a man and a woman, un xnlstakably German, entered. The woman wore a light wrap, but when she had seated herself at one of the tables she removed it and it was seen that she wore on her espansive bosom an enormous brooch wlth the Inscrip tion In brilliants, "Gott Strafe Eng land." A few moments later an English paan, accompanled by a countrywom an, seated himself at the other table. The inscription on the brooch imme diately attracted tlieir attention, and Indignation. Sendlng for a head wait !er, the Englishman said to hlm that such a vlolatlon of good taste in a neu tral country was an insult that could ,not be borne. He told the Walter to Inform the German that the ordlnary "Civlllties would suggest that the brooch worn by hls companlon should be taken off. The head waiter had little stomach tfor such a job, and feebly demurred, Svhereupon the Englishman rose and In excellent French addressed the Ger mans. In a clear voice he repeated *what he had said to the head waiter, but, except for a supercilious shrug of the shoulders, the Germans gave no <evidence that they had heard his re jmarks, although everyone else in the .restaurant understood what he had said and looked their sympathy. The Englishrvin, without showing «ny signs of anger, reseated himself, plcked up a menu and gave his order to the waiter. When the soup was served the waiter also brought on a platter a dozen large ripe tomatoes, Svhich were placed on the table. The j Englishman and hls companion, after flnishing their soup, dellberately plck •ed up the tomatoes and ralned upon the two Germans the ripe vegetables, splattering their faces and breasts •with the soft, juicy contents. The applause and laughter of the other diners appraised the objects of this novel form of reprisal that they could find no support or sympathy and they fled from the restaurant in great precipitation. "Let them go," an nounced the Englishman. "I will pay their bill." GIRL IS BANK PRESIDENT Heads Cleveland Institution Wlth 850 Depositors. Fannie Koehlman, seventeen, is president of a bank at Cleveland. The bank has 850 depositors and a capital of $155.58. The depositors are members of the Council Educational Alliance, who save their money to buy Libtrty loan bonds, vacations and Christmas pres ents. The deposits carne in pennies. Some persons literally bave "only a cent to their names." VIVID SIORY OF ; TRENCH STORMING Writer Describes Happiness After It Is Ali Over. TENSE AS MEN AWAIT WORD Anxious and Nervous Men Try to Coiv ceal Their Real Feelings While Walt ing for the Order to Go Forward, by Telllng Funny Stories—Waiting the Worst Part. Henri Barbussi, well-known French writer, has written a graphlé" account of the storming of a German trench in which he took part. In gripplng lan guage he describes the torture of wait ing for the signal to advance, of run nlng out in the open against terriflc fire, and of the happiness of the men when they find each other safe after "going through hell." "It is evenlng in the Champagne," writes Henri Barbusse. "The men are waiting in the dugouts of the first line trenches, wondering when the order to charge against the enemy will be given. They are anxious and nervous, but try to conceal their real feelings by telling funny stories and laughing heartily. They know that in the next moment they may be facing death, but there is always hope. They have been spared before, perhaps they may be spared again. A voice is heard in the neigh boring trench. " 'Llsten,' said one of the men. 'Didn't you hear? The alarm was i sounded!' "'Alarm? Are you crazy?' "Just then a shadow appears in the opening in the dugout and somebody cries : 'To arms !' Roar of Guns Frightful. "Quiet prevails. We have ali become dumb. We get up and stretch our weary bones and go out into the trench. The roar of the guns is frightful. One man looks at the other; no word is spoken, but the eyes teli everything. We are ready; some of the men are sitting quietly in the mud, others are resting their arms on their rifles. I study the pale, deeply llned faces of these men. They are not soldiers, but slmply human belngs. They are not adventurers or warriors. They are peasantfe and workmen in uniform, i and were not made for slaughter. They are awaiting the order to die. "Each one of them knows what it means ; he knows that he is to expose his head, hls breast, his stomach and arms and legs to rifle balls, to shrapnel and to the bayonet. They are a quiet, peaceful lot —not bandits or barba rlans or savages looking for another's , blood. I can see that they are tor tured by the suspense, that they are In anguish, that they are wondering whether they will live through this terrible night. No one who has not seen men ready for a charge can appreciate what it means. "They stili wait. It seems llke an eternity. The suh has set and a weird darkness is creeping over the sad land scape. Then rain falls in torrents to add to the grewsome picture an at mosphere of tragedy. "There is more tiine spent in wait ing and then hand grenades are pass ed around to the men. Each man re ceives two. Then the order 'Forward !' is heard, and we know that it is now our tura. "We spring out of the trench and into the darkness. We expect to be greeted by a deadly fire, but, strange, I the thunder of the guns suddenly ceases. "Don't use your hand grenades un til the last minute," shouts our cap tain. Bullets Whistle Past. "Just then a curtain of fire rises be fore us and the bullets begin whlstllng past our ears. We are running for ward now. Shells are burstlng ali around us. The fingers of my right hand are singed by the fire of an ex ploding shell and I drop my gun, only to stoop and pici: lt up again. The fire becomes so strong that we become bllnded by it; our men become sep arated, none of us knowing just where he is going. Here and there in the mlst I could discern forms of men falling heavily to the ground, and now and then above the roar I heard the heartrending cry of someone who had ' received his death wound. " 'Forward !' shouts our captain. "We are running like mad now. Sometimes we stumble over the bod ies of our comrades, but there is no stopping. Our breath is coming fast, our hearts are thumping wildly in our ; breasts, our blood is coursing at break neck speed through our veins. We are now as men pcssessed; we have for gotten ali our fears and ali we want now is to meet the enemy face to face ; | we are lusting for blood. "The German trench is before us, and we ali plunge in; but the Ger mans have flown ; the trench is ernpty. We stop for breath and look about us. It seems ali like a dream now. and we greet each other like happy children. '"What, you. my friend? Thank God, you are unhurt. Have you seen our captain? What has become of him? God, what must we not ali go through !' "We remain in the trench and teli our experiences. The cries of the wounded have ceased. but the roar of the guns has increased. We no longer pay any attention to the noise. We are tired, very tired, and there we sit at the bottom of the trench, waiting for a wink of sleep." HUMDfiIfM LIFE i OF AIR THRILLS Ì Reads Like Page From Book of Fairy Tales. I TELLS OF FIGHT WITH HUN Boy Seea Nothing in His Exploit, But ! r Is Willing to Spin the Yarn if Any body Cares to Hear It—Plays Po&- sum on Fritz and Then Gets Him— Clouds Help Ambush. I The every-day humdrum life of the i | boy airfighters on the western front reads like a page torn from a book of fairy tales. Here is a story of one of the dull days as told by a rosy-faced youth of nineteen. He was back in "Blighty" recovering from a machine gun wound. "What, you want to write a story about how I got this?" He laughed in erabarrassment. "It was just an ordi nary day—no story in it —Americans wouldn't care to hear it. "This particular Hun had got old ; Regan—sent him down blazing. So we I were after him. He usually carne snooping over our way 'bout sunup. Poor old Itegan. His old fault was that he adopted stray dogs. "Anyway, this Hun bird carne sail ing over impudently the other morning about Ave. I skipped out to the aero drome. Ali the boys yelling good luck to me. After that nothing but the roar , of the engine. Clouds Help Ambush. "There were a few chunks of white cloud —bully for ambush —if the other fellow doesn't do the ambushing. "Once before this bird had caught ine with nothing to feed my Llzzie, my domesticated machine gun, and jolly well chased me right down to our back door. "Before I got up much I was get ting 130 out of her —old engine slng ing like a cricket. I went up 10,000 feet, keeping an eye peeled for Fritz. He was sitting under a cloud some where, evidently. While I was nosing around the corners of the clouds I caught eight of a shadow on a cloud- j bank below. It was my meat. "You bet I took a qulck look at my flxtures, got a trayful of food ready for Liz, hummed the 'lnvitation to the Waltz' and began to slide a bit. But I fell clean into a pocket, did a slide slip. While I was getting her straightened out, Fritz saw me and started to get up over me. He flew better'n I did, had more parlor tricks, but I'd got the best machine. He knew it. . "The boy leaned forward and his eyes sparkled with the memory. Plays Tricks on Fritz. "Y'know what that son-of-a-gun did? —he'd lured me over their First thing I knew a puff of shrapnel left off below me, then one above, then one on my port side. I turned her nose ! up and got out of their reach. Mean- i time I'd lost sight of my Fritz. "Then I got an idea. I began to wabble around like I was hit. Began to fly like lame ducks was eagles com pared with me. And it worked. He barged right out of a near-by cloud and opened up on me. I swung over him —two struts and a landing wire cut clean off. I whirled —and let Liz zie sing her favorite hymn to him. He swerved and began to settle. Then his machine caught Are and began to whirl like a falling leaf. "Only then I felt my arm stinging ! ; and a funny feeling across my back. ! He'd got me with his first beltful. "I turned back toward home. 'Bout twenty feet irom the ground I lost control —probably fainted —and ruined our flower patch. Had bullet in arm, skin wound across the back and ì sprained leg in the bungled landing. That's what sent me over here. "But let me teli you, old man—and put it in the paper—l wasn't fighting that particular Fritz ; it was the whole outfit of skunks that bomb defenseless cities and kill women and children. "Now let me buy you a drink for boring you." GIRLS STOP TRAMPING Wisconsin Poor Soon Tire of the Wan dering Life. Maude Bride, eighteen years old, of Madison, Wis., said she not going to hobo any more, as she sank on the upholstered seat of a passenger train just leaving Peoria, 111., for her home recently, in custody of her father. She and Marie Shadel, seventeen years old, also of Madison, were picked up by the police in Prlnceville one eve ning in a stranded condition and lodged in the detentlon home. ; The two girls set out with $lO earned by Maude in a candy factory to hobo it to Waco, Tex., to visit their soldier sweethearts, whose names they gave as Herbert Ward, corporal of I Company C of Madison, and Ben Ni chelski, a member of the Wisconsin band. They rode box cars and blind bag gage until their money ran out, when they were glad to be picked up, they told the authorities. Maude's father is just recovering from a broken leg and used the money he had laid by to buy his winter coal to come to Peoria for his daughter. Woman Mayor Fined Herself $lO. Mrs. John J. O'Brien, woman mayor of Moorehaven, la., fined herself $lO when one of her horses broke the law by straying from its corrai and tram , pling gardens. KAISERISM LAID BARE BY GERMAN Dr. Liebknecht Makes Charges Against Government. IS A SCATHING INDICTMENT War Inclted Through SuppressJon of Belgian Ultimatum and Messages of Czar—Submarine Warfare and Sink- Ing of Lusitania—Taking of Host ages and Levy of Contributions. A scathing indlctment of the Ger man government by a German was re ceived in Washington and made pub lic at Washington. It is a four-page pamphlet in German by Dr. Karl Lieb knecht, the Soclalist leader. These are some of the things with which he charges the kaiser's government : The incitement of the war through the euppression of the Belgian ulti ! matum and the messages of the czar. The rape of Belgium and Luxem burg. Introduction of poison gas. The Zeppelin bombings, "aimed," he says, "to annihilate every living per son, combatant and noncombatant." Submarine warfare on commerce and the slnking of the Lusitania. The taking of hostages and levy of contributions in occupied territory. Systematic exaction of service trea sonable to their own countries from Ukrainian, Georgian, Courland, Polish, Irish, Mohammedan and other prison ers of war, and from enemy aliens in Germany under threat of internment. This service involved forced espion age for the centrai powers. Fostering politicai lawlessness and exploitation of the people through martlal law. Failure to provide for the people through the war through the influ ence of the capitalistic and agrarian classes. Maintenance of its aims of conquest blocking the way to peace. Ali of this Doctor Liebknecht sums up as "the most extreme concentration and extension of politicai oppression, of economie exploitation, of milltarls tic slaughtering of the working classes, body and soul, for the advan- ! tage of capitalism and despotism." Paved Way for Revolution. "The German government," he says, "has prepared the way for a revolu tionary uprising of the people and for general distress." Doctor Liebknecht's statement was made to the imperiai military tri bunal, Berlin, in explanation of his deposition in the proceedingg follow lng his arrest. He says: "The German government contrived the war jointly in concert with the Austrian government, and so burdened itself with the greatest responsibility for the immediate outbreak of the war. "The German government brought on the war under cover of dèception i practiced upon the common people and even upon the reichstag (note the sup pression of the ultimatum to Belgium, the promulgation of the German White book, the elimination of the czar's dis-, patch of July 29, 1914, etc.), and it sought by wicked means to keep up j the war spirit among the people. "The German government wages the war methods which, judged even by standards till now conventional, are monstrous. (Note, for example, the sudden attack upon Belgium and Luxemburg; poison gas—since adopt ed by ali the belligerents—but most outrageous of ali the Zeppelin bomb ings, inspired with the purpose of annihilating every living person, com batant or noncombatant, over large areas ; the submarine war on com merce, the torpedoing of the Lusitania, etc. ; the system of taking hostages and levying contributions, especially at the outset in Belgium; the system atic exactions from Ukrainian, Geor gian, Courland, Polish, Irish, Moham medan and other prisoners of war in the German prison camps; of treason able espionage for the centrai powers ; the contract between Under Secretary oi> State Zimmerman and Sir Roger Casement in December, 1914, for the organization, equipment and training of the 'lrish brlgade' made up of im prisoned British soldiers in the Ger man prison camps; the attempts un der threats by forced internment to compel enemy alien civilians found in j Germany to perform treasonable war service against their own country, etc.) 'Necessity knows no law.' Refuses Ali Reforms. "The German government has, through the establishment of martial law, greatly increased the politicai lawlessness and economie exploitation of the people; it refuses ali serious politicai and social reforms, while it seeks to hold the people docile for the lmperialistic war policy, through rhe torical phrases about equal rights of ali parties, about alleged discontinua tion of politicai and social class dis criminations, about an alleged new or der and direction of affairs, and the like. "The German government has failed, out of deference to agrarian and cap italistic interests, to care for the eco nomie welfare of the population dur ing the war, and so has prepared the way for a revolutionary uprfsing of the people and for general distress. "The German government holds fast even yet to its war aims of con quest, and thereby constitutes the chief obstacle in the way of immedi : ate peace negotiatìons upon the fund- [ f amental principle of renunciation of annexations and of ali sorts of op pressions. It stifles through the main tenance —in itself illegal—of martial law (censorship. etc.) public knowl edge of embarrassing faets and soclal istic critielsm of its procedure. The German government thereby discloses , its system of specious legality and 1 sham nationality as a system of act ual force, of genuine hostility to the people, and of guilty conscience as re gards the masses. 'j "The cry of 'down with the govern ment' brands this entire policy of the government* as fatai to the masses. "This indleates further that a strug gle of the most strenuous charucter, class struggle against the government, is the duty of every champion of the welfare of the proletariat. Not in Interest of Masses. "The present war is not a war for the protection of national integrity, not for the freeing of oppressed peo ple, not for the welfare of the masses. "It signifles from the standpoint of the proletariat the most extreme con centration and extension of politicai oppression, of economie exploitation, of militaristic slaughtering of the | working classes, body and soul, for the advantage of capitalism and of despotism. "To ali this the working classes of ali countries can give only one an swer —intensified struggle. Interna tional class struggle against the cap italistic regime and the ruling classes of ali countries for the abolition of every species of oppression and ex ploitation, for the termination of war through the institution of a peace con sistent with the spirit of sociallsm. In this class struggle, the sociallst, who knows no country but the internation al, must come to the defense of every thing which as a sociallst he is bound to defend. "The cry 'down with war' signifles that I must stand opposed to the pres ent war, condemning and hating it on principle, in its historical character. In its general social causes and spe clflc origin, in the method of its con duct and in the purposes for which it is waged. That cry signifles that it is a duty ineumbent upon every defender of proletarian interests to partecipate in International class strug gle for the ending of the war. "As a sociallst, I am fundamentally opposed not only to this present war, but also to the existing military sys tem, and I have to the utmost of my abllity continually urged on the fight against militarism as an especially portentous undertaking, a matter of life and death for the working classes. (See my paper: 'Militarism and Antl ! militarism, 1907,' International confer ence at Stuttgart, 1907, and Copenha gen, 1910). The present war is a sum mons to maintain the struggle against militarism with redotibled energy. Socialism Not Hurt. "Since 1889 the lst of May has been consecrated to manifestation and propaganda of the great fundamental principles of sociallsm, against ali ex ploitation, oppression nnd violence, consecrated to propaganda for the es sential solidarity of workers in ali lands —a solidarity which the war has not impaired but strengthened— against fratricldal conflict, for peace , and against war. "The declaratlon and propaganda of these principles is a sacred duty iin posed upon ali socialists —doubly so during the war. "The policy advocated by me is set forth in the pronouncement of the in ternational soclalist congress held In Stuttgart (1907), which bound social ists of every country—since they have not prevented the war—to work with ali their energies toward Its speedy YOUNGEST KNITTER FOR THE RED CROSS ÌCJL Wj Little Edith Riggs, six-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. C. M. Riggs of Brooklyn, N. Y., is the youngest knitter registered with the locai Red Cross. The little girl has already knit ted several sweaters for our boys abroad. She won a knitting bag of fered to the first pupll in her school who learned to knit in a practical way. She is shown at work on a blanket for a wounded soldier, spend- Ing ali her play time at this sort of work. f ending. antl to take advantage of the condìtions which have nrisen for has tening the abolition of the capltallstlc j order. "Socialisrn, evento its ultimate con . sequences, ìs internatlonal in spirit. ; It imposes upon the socialists of oth -3 er countries the sanie duty, with ref j erence to their governraents and rul . ing elasses, that I with others in Ger » many have performed with reference . to the German government and rul ing elasses. "Socialisrn works in the spirit of in » ternationalism in its reciprocai incite ment, from country to country, of the . class struggle agalnst war. Upholds Socialist Pollcy. "With others I have, since the begin » nlng of the war, in every posslble way, in the most public manner, defended and upheld this socialistic pollcy; and . I ani pledged to it, to the last degree, in compact with my brother socialists ' in other countries. ("I may mention, for example, my i Journey to Belgtum and Holland in September, 1914 ; my Christmas let- I ter in 1914 to the Labor Leader, Lon don; the Swiss conventlons, in which [ I regretto say, I was unable to par ticipate personally, being prevented . by the superior powers, etc.) "This pollcy—to which, cost what it may. I shall hold fast —is not mine alone, but is on the contrary the pol lcy of an ever-increasing proportion of the people in Germany and in other countries, belligerent as well as neu tral. It will soon become as I hope— and to this end I ani resolved to toll on —the pollcy of the working class in ali countries, which will then possess the power to break the imperialistic will of the ruling elasses, and to shape as may seem best the relations and conditions of the people for the unl versal benefit of mankind." WQMEN ARE QRGED TO - KM FOR SOLDIERS Causing Shortage of Wool in Making Fancy Sweaters for Personal Use. "Stop knitting bright-colored sweat ers of wool" is the message that the woman's commlttee of the councll of national defense is sending out to the women of the United States. Miss Hannah J. Patterson made this statement to the members of the com mittee : "While nurses and soldlers in France are sending appeals to the Red Cross for sweaters, bed socks, wrist lets, helmets —in fact for six million articles of clothlng which cali for wool, hundreds of women in the Unit ed States are using up enougb wool in fancy sweaters to equip the greater part of the army. With knitting yarn advanced in price and with an urgent demand for wool from the Red Cross society and elsewhere, it is imperative that we send out a cali to our sisters to do thelr bit in the war by making this sacrifice. A woman should feel the greatest sense of shame in the pos session of more than one woolen sweat er, and it is the duty of women con ! nected with war work in this great army, which is under the direction of the women's commlttee, to make this point clear. There is a cry of distress directly from the soldiers and nurses in France in personal letters wrltten to members of this commlttee. It does not seem possible that American sol dlers should have to shiver in open trenches during a terrible winter in northern France because the women of America choose to have from six to ten sweaters apiece made of material which is needed by the government." IS FIFTH TO SERVE Young Man's Ancestors Were Ali In the War. Although there is nothing unusual in the enlistment of a young man in these days, it is quite out of the ordinary for the young manto be of the tifth gen eration of his family to answer his country's cali. Elton H. Bennett, a native of Fort Madison, la., and a grandson of Quar termaster H. J., Bennett of the lowa Soldiers' Home, has enlisted in the navy at Los Angeles, Cai., accordiifg to word received here by his grand parents. He completes the chain of family representatives in his country's wars. Not only did his two grandfathers, Bennett and Brookover, serve in the Civil war, but his great-grandfather, Daniel Bennett, was also a veteran of that war. The young man's great-great-grand father, Asa Bennett, was in the war of 1812, and his own great-great-great grandfathers, Bennett and Harris, were in the Revolutionary war. Al though not in direct line of ancestry, young Bennett's uncle, Harry Brook over, represented the family In the > Spanish-American war. PASTOR LIVES IN CHURCH Demand for Houses In Town Force# Him There. Even the churches at Junction City, Kan., are being used in the emergency created by the "boom" resulting from the establishment of Camp Funston. The Rev. James Houghton of t%e Universalist church, forced out of his residence by the sale of the property, sought in vain for another house and finally hit upon the scheme of using the social rooms of the church for his | residence. Four thousand dollars has been raised for the construction of a par sonage to be built in the rear of the church and work is to be started soon.
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