THE FULTON
COUNTY NEWS. McCONNELLSBUB 0. PA.
YANKS QUICKLY
ADAPT SELVES
American Youths Soon Fall Into
Free and Easy Life of
the Soldier.
WE IN PUBLIC SQUARE
tight ! So Commonplace That None
of Townspeople Stop to look on,
Even When They Tke to
"Reading" Shirt.
Willi tint American Army. It hosn't
jken long for American youths to bo
cme accllinuted. to tlio free-and-easy
lives of soldiers. They are lis frunX
loll an "pen and as shameless uh their
French brothers In arum, and a good
deal more no than their ItrltlHh com-
I
A convoy of American troops halt
(or I few hours' rent In Rome French
town, not too far from the front but
that the distant rumble of the lnces
unt cannonade can be heard, with oc
casionally the alternating buzz-buzz
of i Iloche ulrplane and the dull boom
of the archies hurled ttkywnrd ut It.
After "chowlng" at the rolling kltch-
mi that accompany them and washing
op their iiichm kits, the doughboys usu-
illr turn to their toilets. Even though
lliny are parked In the shade under the
tall trees around tho public square of
the town, that doesn't fen 7.0 them a
Wt. Tliey unpack their safety razors,
their Minvhig soup and brushes and
proceed to shnvo then and there. Nut
It la Mini a commonplace sight that
Hone of tho townspeople stop to look
M. Tho French children "les souses,'
U tho Yanks hove ulrendy learned to
nil them In true French argot gather
round, but that Is all.
"Read" Their Shirts.
Then one doughboy who thinks ho Is
I burlier enters tho nearest house and
borrows a chair. He places It on a
boi nnd administers haircuts to such
ititiJcctH as will tako a chance- on his
handiwork with the scissors. These
unateur barbers are not so bad, el
UVr, clipping off the hair close, so the
douxliboys stand less chance of linV'
ton ps stick In their hair.
Often tho doughboys strip to the
waist nnd engage In tho pleasing pas
time of "reading their shirts," as
American hoboes term It. For, no
mutter where a number nt men are
(Mitcri-giited without women to tidy
op after them, they are bound to have
vermin.
footles," tho doughboys call fleas
mil body Uco and other forms of an
imal life that Inhabit their garments.
Whenever they cutch a particularly
large specimen they examine It close
1; uii'l minnunco that It Is of (icrmnn
wli'ln, has escaped from the Roclm
trvni lies and has the Iron Cross stump
ed on its bark.
If tin- Yuiiki bivouac near a stream
everybody take a dip right away
Their oillcers always Insist that the
men wear somo sort of n breech clout
In limning, so tho doughboys usii
lly keep on the drawers of their B.
V. P.'h anil then stand naked on tho
bank of the stream waiting for them
to dry In tho sun.
in tlie lino the men shave every
dnywhett It Is possible, because they
twve learned from tho French that
(M musk fits tighter If there Is no
itulilile of beard on the chin to let
the deadly fumes seep In and burn
them. They have becomo used to their
Mpinitors very quickly and wear
them 21 hours at a stretch without
It bothering them.
Adopt British Custom.
They have also adopted tho Hrltlsh
niMoni of merely nipping the nose
dutch on their nostrils nnd placing
'he breathing plug In their mouths
Wilimit strapping tho headgear over
Mr miniums every time a gas alert
u Hounded.
If gns really materializes they pro-
"1 to adjust tho mask according to
"illations, otherwise they unsnlp the
bwepiece nnd spit out tho mouth plug
"d go on about their uffulrs. Any
time dud shell lands one that falls
MADE HAPPY BY
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delivery of letters from home Is a great event "over there" Mere are
n llin Imppy countenances of American lied Cross chuuffeurs upou the
rlVul f the mull wagon In Purls.
0 SHELL PROVES FATAL
,nl Ambulance Driver Killed While
Hvlng Previous Wounda At
tended to.
llli1"' Ml,K''y"w"unded when two
,, linided near a dressing station,
rUt0 ,l,,li Ii.... i ... i t
, ""I'd when a third shell exploded
it," '"H having his previous wounds
(m!"i '"Mt Hh"11 al" Inflicted alight
" two other Americana, l'r
lo explode It Is likely to bo mistaken
for 11 gas shell and the alarm sounded.
Nearly all of tho doiiL'lihovM In tin
lino wrap their tin hats with burlap
some oilier material to cover the
till, us In walking throuirh tbu
trenches If one's helmet strikes u wire
some projection It rlnirs like a bell
und Is often taken as a signal to open
lire by some llocho snlner lurkliiu
hidden nnd camouflaged In No Man's
land.
A stray bullet striking a barbed
wire strund makes a ping ti nt can
bo heard half u tulle, and If one strikes
steel bat It sounds like u villain Ore
alarm Lull.
HIS WtLCOME IN ITALY
MAKES HIM FAVOR WAR
Cleveland, O. "If this be war, f
to hell with peace I"
This Is an extrut from a let- ,,
ter written by Lieut. O. W. Con-
nelly to friends here from his
billet In Italy, describing the
welcome accorded tho first !!
American troops to arrive In
that country. Ills letter stated !!
that the soldiers wera deluded
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wiiii nowers, iruus ami gins uh
they marched along and were T
tendered several banquets and I
receptions.
To Stop Death Under Fifty.
London. Death under fifty must be
prevented. Kir George Newman, In
making a health report to tho board of
education, lays down this ulm. All
medical education, ho argues, Is build
ed primarily on the curing of disease,
not Its prevention. Kxamlnatlon of
records shows, says Sir fieorge, that
most fatalities under fifty are more or
less directly preventable.
In the six years from 1011 to 11)17
membership In trade unions In Canada
has grown from li,l-'- to 20I.C.H).
SERGEANT LOSES
HIS LAST FIGHT
Soldier Wins Admiration of Com
rades Through Cheerful
ness in Hospital.
HE WAS GAME TO THE END
Four Operations Were Too Much for
Strength of Non-Com. Who Was
Wounded In Action at
Chateau-Thierry.
An American Hospltul In France.
"No, they'n t going to bring tho
sergeant back to the ward, boys."
These were exactly the words the
nurse used. Hut the tone of her voice
and the look In her eyes said more.
The little group In the ward which
had been playing cards on one of tho
beds to forget tin tension they felt
while tho sergeant's operation was
taking place, stopped suddenly, all at
trition, all hungering for good news.
"You don't liienn the sergeant's
pone, do you?" exclaimed one.
"Yes, boys, the sergennt's gone. Four
opi-ratlons Were Just too much for his
strength, lie never regained conscious
nesv." He Was a Game Boy.
"flee, the sergeant's gone," huskily
said a chap with one leg gone, "he suro
was a game boy."
"Ho was the best fellow I ever
kniw," said another, "and the cheer
fulest, too. Tvo seen them dressing
his leg time and again, nnd gosh t but
It hurt. Hut did the sergeant ever
say anything? Not the sergeant he
never batted an eye."
"Just to think," mused a third, "It
wasn't bulf an hour ago when w
MAIL FROM HOME
vates William J. Itlnohold, of Athens,
Pn., anil John 11. Itedcuy, of Heading,
Pa.
The first shell broke a few yards
from the dressing stntlon Just as Paul
started to crank his ambulance to go
to a more advanced post. Shrapnel
fragments slightly cut him. A second
shell followed closely, almost In the
sumo place, and Puul was cut In sev
eral places.
A doctor at tho post, with Itlnebold
and lledcay, came out of the station
nnd was dressing Paul's Injuries when
DROVE AMBULANCE IN FRANCE
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Miss Caroline Stevens, daughter of
Mrs. Itlcb.ird Stevens of New York and
Newport, v ho returned to this country
recently from France, where she drove
un ambulance ut the front for many
months.
saw blin go out. I shouleil, '(iood
luck, Surge,' when the stretcher was
circled through the door, and be
smiled and said : 'Thanks, I'll be back
In a few minutes with you.'"
The sergeant was Frank Carbaugh
of (ireencaxtle, Pa., a member of the
Seventh Machine-dun Sanitary detach
ment. No mother ever reared n braver
M'll.
The sergeant, who was a mathemat
ics icacner nerore the war, was
wounded when Ids out lit was rushed
Into action near Chateau Thierry.
None of his bliukles knew Juxt how,
because, as one of them explained,
"the sergeant wasn't the kind of a
fellow who'd talk of himself. You
can bet he was wounded doing sotne
iblng for somebody, thoutth."
They did know that the sergeant lay
out In the open a long time after he
was wounded. Medical records show
that. Ills left leg was badly smashed,
and they operated at the llrst hospital
he reached. Hut gangrene had set
In, and four operations had followed.
They have had lots of brave pa
tients that doctors and nurses and
putictjts admired alike In that hos
pital, but never one Just like the ser
geant. The little group sitting on the cots,
w'th the nurse, hnd been talking of
t'.e sergeant for a long time, when
one of the boys said: "You ought to
vrlte to his mother, Miss Cutter. Tho
surge thought the world of Ids moth
er "
'I'm going to," replied tho nurse.
"You boys write out what you think
cl the sergeant, and I'll send that,
too"
What the Boyt Wrote.
Tho boys did, and here arc n few
lines from them :
I'rlvnto F.lmer Ilylnnd wrote: "I was
r.'Ith hlm.as soon as he came from the
operation, and I cried when he went.
Ilo was n great boy a clean fellow
through nnd through. I wish my foot
was so I could walk with him to the
cemetery."
Wagoner John Trnsk wrote: "Our
'orgount Is gone. Why, I loved that
fellow like my own brothers. I've
seen other fellows go, but I never
Mt like this."
Sergeant Vincent Sutler wrote: "I
never felt worse since I came In the
light. He was game to the last; al
ways cheerfsil, find when I culled 'flood
luck to you,' he answered : 'Thanks,
111 be (). K. soon.' We always had
fun around Ids bed; he was so cheer
ful. Ilo was one of the finest fellows
I ever knew."
Arthur Stulit, who knew the ser
geant better than the rest, the boys
ay, because 'he and the surge liked
to dabble in poetry,' wrote a poem to
nend the sergeant's mother.
They burled the sergeant In the lit
ilo American graveyard In a pretty
Lorraine valley, with an American flag
oor tho collln, us 13 soldiers fired
throe shots over the grave and the
bugler gave "taps." Then some of
tho boys whose Injuries permitted
their attending the funeral, gatbere'd
(lowers In the valley and the nurses
placed them on tho grave with red,
white und blue ribbons uromvt them.
the third shell landed, a he-nvler pleco
of shell striking Paul and his death
followed In a few minutes.
Itlnebold was cut on the right foot
by u splinter from tho same shell, while
Itedcuy was cut below the left eye.
Itlnebold was taken )o a hospital, but
Itedcuy was able to resume his duty
after receiving medical attention.
Puul, lit tho time of his enlistment,
was n Junior In the eng'neerlng school
of Lehigh university, where he was
prominent In athletics. He was a mem
ber of the Hlgina Chi fraternity.
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GERMANYACGEPTS
WILSON'S TERMS
1 1
Note On Its Face Seems Com
plete Concession.
RECEIVED WITH SUSPICION
People Should Be Cautioned Against
Any Certainty Of Imme
diate End Of Hos
tilities. TEXT OF GERMAN NOTE.
Washington. Germany's reply to
President Wilson's Inquiry, Intercept
ed as it was being sent by the great
wireless towers at Nauen and forward
ed here in an otllclal dispatch from
France, says:
In reply to the questions of the
President of tho United States of
America the Gormun Government
hereby declares:
The German Government has ac
cepted the terms laid down by Presi
dent Wilson In his address of Janu
ary the. 8th and In his subsequent ad
dresses on the foundation of a per
manent peace of Justice. Consequent
ly Its object in entering Into discus
sion would be only to agree upon
practical details of the application of
these terms. The Gennr.n Govein
mentment believes that the Govern
ments of the Powers associated with
the Government of the United Slates
Also take the position taken by Presi
dent Wilson In his address. The Ger
man Government, In accord with the
Austro Hungarian Government, for the
ptirpose of bringing about an armistice,
declares Itself ready to comply with
the propositions of the President in re
gard to evacuation.
The German Government suggests
that the President may occasion the
meeting or a mixed commission for
making the necessary arrangement
concerning the evacuation. The pres
ent German Government, which has
undertaken the responsibility for this
step toward peace, bus been formed
by conferences and In agreement with
the great majority of the Reichstag.
The Chancellor, supported In all of his
actions by the will of this majority,
speaks in the nnme of 'the German
Government and of the German peo
ple. SOLF,
State Secretary of Foreign Olllre.
Uerlln, October 12, 1918.
Washington. Whatever promises
Germany may make to the United
States and her Allies they cannot
serve us a basis for an armistice or
peuco negotiations us long us the
llolienzollerns and the system of gov
ernment they represent remain in
power.
And this, in effect, Is expected to
be the reply of President Wilson to
Germany's reply to the President ac
cepting the terms laid down by the
President.
The President has nindo It plain
that the German spokesmen as at
present constituted cannot be trusted.
In his address in New York, Septem
ber 27, he said:
We are all agreed that there can
be no peace obtained by any kind
of bargain or compromise with the
Governments of the Central Um
pires, because we have deult with
them already and have seen them
deal with other Governments that
were parties to this struggle, at
Urest-Litovsk and Iluchurest. They
have convinced us that they are
without honor and do not Intend
Justice. They observe no cov
enants, accept no principle but
force and their own Interest. We
cannot "come to terms" with
them. They have made It Impos
sible. The German people must
by this time be fully aware that
cannot accept the word of
those whd forced this war upon
us. We do not think the same
thoughts or speak the same lan
guage of agreement.
There Is nothing In the German
note that Justifies the President to
change a single sentence of the fore
going passage.
The assurances given by the note
as to composition and origin of the
present Government cannot be taken
seriously, officials asserted. They
pointed out that the President, In
sending his queries to Germany, was
aware of the strong possibility of
Germany acceding ostensibly to his 14
points of peace agreement, but that
she would dodge on the main issue as
to Who was going to pledge Germany's
name to such an 'agreement. It was
on this point that he was looking for
an opening to convoy to the German
people dually and unmlstakubly that
their present Government, no mutter
who may wear the title of Chancellor
or how many members of the Heidi
stag may be willing to stand sponsor
for It, Is unacceptable to tho United
States from the point of view of trust
worthiness as long us the llolienzol
lerns continue to wear the German
crown nnd retain the power of making
and unmaking of cabinets.
The President, olllclala believe, will
Inform the Gorman people that "the
present German Government, which
has taken responsibility for tills step
toward peace," In reality differs In
no wise from any of tho preceding
ONLY ONE POUND AT A TIME.
Revised Rules Governing The Sale Of
8uflr.
Washington. Revised rules govern
ing tho Bale of sugar to consumers
while still permitting the Issue of two
pounds a month for euch person re
strict the sale to one pound at a time,
Hereafter only one pound for each
person can be Issued between the first
and (Iftoenth of a month and the other
pound between the fifteenth and thirtieth.
German Governments, the Govern
ments that declared the treaty Insur
ing the Inviolability of Dclgium a
"scrap of paper" and forced the oscr
ons peace treutles on Husslu und Hu
mania. The President hns gained the oppor
tunity he has sought, olllciuls declared
the opportunity of telling the Gor
man people:
"You ore willing to evacuate all
conquered territory. You ure willing
to make good the wrongs you have
done. There Is but one way in which
you can convince the people of the
UifUcd States and tho Allies of your
sincerity, and that Is by getting rid
of the political system responsible for
these- wrongs."
The President's reply, It was de
clared, will be ntllciully addressed to
the German Government, but he will
actually speak above (he head of that
Government to the German people
themselves In on effort to convince
them that the llolienzollerns must go
ere peace can be returned to them and
the whole of Europe.
Reports That Kaiser May Abdicate In
creases. Zurich, Switzerland. Neutral travel
ers arriving here from Germany report
that rumors that Ei peror William may
abdicate appear to take greater con
sistency day by day. The arrivals add
that the unpopularity of the German
Crown Prince has considerably In
creased In Germany.
Favored By Germans.
Purls. The tendency Is remarked in
certain German circles, says a dis
patch from Geneva to tho Temps, to
represent the eventual full of F.mpcror
William us a concession which the Ger
mans would be disposed to allow to
the Allies If they demanded It.
Such talk appears, above atl, the
messuge adds, to be an attempt to
bring about an event which many Ger
mans judge to be Inevitable und even
desirable.
PRESIDENT LEADS TROOPS.
Marches At Head Of Armed Forces In
New York.
New York. President Wilson, commander-in-chief
of the Amerlnian Army
and Navy, marched at the head of the
American forces in the Columbus-Liberty
Day parade, one of the most Im
pressive and inspiring spectacles New
York has ever bud.
Under a canopy formed by the flags
of the 22 nations arrayed against au
tocracy and with squadrons of Amer
ican airplanes hovering overhead, the
President strode with 25,000 fighting
men from five continents and Islands
from tery sea over the entire thret--mile
line of march ulong the Avenue
or the Allies. Then, nt the foot of
Fifth avenue, beside the Washington
arch, he look his place In an automo
bile and reviewed the long column.
A GIRL FIRES ON OUTLAWS.
D. irricadcd In A Tower, She Keeps
Train Wreckers Off.
I'liiontown, Pa. lSarrleiidiiig horsi !l
In the tower ut the Pennsylvania Rail
road crossing nt Gist, near here, .Miss
E. M. Vensel, signal operator, pluck
ily held her post nnd fought a re
volver duel with three men who at
tempted to wreck an ammunition train
by placing ties across tho tracks.
With bullets crashing through the
sides of the tower house she returned
shot for shot until the arrival of tho
freight train frightened away the in
truders. TO PLAN LEAGUE OF NATIONS
German Foreign Minister Will Name
Committee Of Reichstag.
Amsterdam. Dr. Solf, German
Foreign Minister, will soon appoint a
committee of Reichstag members, rep
resentatives of tho Foreign OMlce and
jurists to formulate the German draft
of a league of nations plan, according
lo the Nord Deutsche Allegemrlne
Zoltung today.
U. S. CUTS PEN INDUSTRY.
Brais And Nickel-Plated Styles Are
Stopped; Others Curtailed.
Washington. The manufacture of
brass and nickel plated pens will be
discontinued shortly by a ruling of
the War Industries Hoard. No new
types of pens ore to be produced dur
ing the war. The variety of existing
styles also Is to be materially reduced.
HUNS BALK AT EXCHANGE.
Will Not Ratify Agreement On
Prisoners.
London. The German Government
has communlcsted to the Hrltlsh Gov
ernment, through Holland, its decision
not to ratify the Anglo-German agree
nient for un exchange of prisoners
unless guarantees are given against
the deportation and Internment of
Germans in China.
U. S. SUB CHASER SINKS.
Goes Down In Foreign Waters After
An Explosion.
Washington. An American subma
rine chaser, designated as the 219,
sank in foreign water October 9 after
on explosion, with the deuth of one
enlisted man and the Injury of one
officer and eight men. One man also
Is reported missing.
ENTIRE DRAFT BOARD OUT.
Member Of Georgia Body Remove!
By Wilson' Order.
Atlanta, Ga.-i Removal at the ordrr
of President Wilson of the mombeis
of the local draft boaTU of Liberty
county because of alleged Irregulari
ties and Improper conduct of the reg
ulations waa announced by Major Joel
D. Mullett In chnrgn of administration
of the selective service law In Georgia.
At cat owned by Mrs. Mcl.eid, of
East Cleveland, Ohio, eats olives.
Two Kinds of
Allies
By GEORGE BARR McCUTCHEON
of Tht Vlgllantet
An Italian widow living In New
York city hud five sons. Four of them
were born In the United States, the
other In Italy. He was one year old
when his parents came to New York
to live. Wten Italy entered tho wur
ugiiiiiHt her domineering, exacting ally
three of these boys ull American sub
jects lost no time In doing what
thousands of other American boys al
ready had done. Where the other thou
sands hud cast their lot with the Ca
nadians, the French mid the ItrltlHh,
as free-horn Americans bud the right
to do, these three young men set sail
for the land of their father, and took
up the arms of their forefathers
ngiilnst the foe. They entered the
Italian army. They weVe volunteers,
not conscripts. Two of them hud
never even seen the land from which
ciimu their father and mother.
Then came the decision of the Unit
ed. States to engage In tho conllict
on the side of civilization and hu
tmiiilly. This old Italian mother gave
her two remaining Americans to the
army of the United States. They wera
her youngest one of them bandy
eighteen mid they were ns eager to
fight as their brothers had been. They
did not want to be drafted. They en
listed as common soldiers, and went
nway with the troops to France.
The old mother did hot give up her
boys to the armies of Italy and France.
She gave them to the armies that
Were lighting fur the tilings dear to
I hem us Americans. They went lis
Americans, not us Italians. No mut
ter what their father may have been
when he was u boy, these boys were
Americans. They loved the land In
which they were bom, even ns their
father loved the land In which he was
born. They believed In the land of
their birth mid in Its Ideals, as their
futher and mother hud taught them
to believe. They did not go forth as
adventurers, but us soldiers with a
principle behind them.
Difference in Mother.
A German mother in a Connecticut
city also hud live sons of I he lighting
age when the war broke out. They
were nil born In the U.nlfcd States and
they were American clll.ens, as their
father deliberately bud made himself
by the processes of iiaturiill.alion per
haps before any one of them came Into
tho world. Two of these sons suc
ceeded In reaching Germany, und. like
the sous of the Italian mother, took
up the n rms of their father's native
land. No one will gainsay them the
GOD'S WILL
OR MAN'S
By CYRUS TOWNSEND BRADY
Of Tim Vigilantes
If God be perfection in wisdom and
love, and all powerful, why docs He
not stop this war? He must know of
the suffering. He must feel for the nif
fi.ri'rs. If Ilo can whv does He not
' end It? Grave quest Ions, Indeed, and
wrung from hearts unaccustomed to
doubt, by sorrow nnd shame und de
spair. God Is wisdom, love and power;
God knows and feels, yet the wur goes
on. He- does not act. There Is no Divine
Intervention! What then? Shall we,
like Job's wife, curse God and die?
I!y no means.
Let us ask ourselves the exact
meaning of that clause In the world
wide prayer "Thy will be done on
earth us It 1s In Heaven." Is that a
statement ..of Invariable ever-present
fact, or Is Is a necessary petition? Is
God's will always and everywhere and
nt nil times being done upon earth, or
Is It not?
I think that statement Is a petition
nnd thnt It Is properly Included In the
Lord's prayer. I am sure that God's
will Is not always being done, but that
often and for long periods the evil will
of man Is being done nailer the In
spiration of the devil. Incldontly, lifter
the experiences of the past few years
I don't see how any one can doubt the
existence of the devil and legions of
attendant spirits of evil. He Is liuar
nnted at Potsdam, and his fallen
Angels In the ravngers of the strlek
n lands of Kurope and Aslu. Have
ynu seen that terrible cartoon In
which the devil shakes his finger nt
the kaiser und says. "If you don't quit
culling me '!'',' yon will get Into
trouble?"
We Must Continue Free.
Will nn.v one say to the maimed
,.i.m.1i..ii. (he outraged women, tho
' starved men, that these sufferings nr
tnlllcted upon them by the will of
God? Were Helms and Ypres and
Louviiln destroyed by the will of God?
Does he pollute wells, and devastate
fields anil destroy villages? Is He re
sponsible for Poland. Serbia nnd Ar
menia? Is the torpedo launched
agnlnst the merchant ship In accord
ance with Ills will? Is lie using liquid
fire and poison gas? Is God accessory
after the fact to murder, rape, outrage,
devastation, destruction? The thing Is
unthinkable; the claim monstrous, Im
possible, Incredible.
Hut If God be not responsible nnd
If men nre, still why does He not pre
vent them? A restatement of the ques-
Intelligent Maine Dog.
A Gardiner (Me.) dog was caught on
(he trestlo over the new Maine Cen
tral viaduct nnd could not reach the
end ahead of the fast-coming train.
Helng afraid to Jump off because of
the distance to tho ground, the dog
dropped his body over ono of the sleep
ers, letting his head nnd legs hang be
tween tho sleeper. The engine and
six cars passed along and then doggie
perked up one ear, found the coast
was clear and calmly finished his Jour
Kejr koine.
right to Join the kaiser's army. They
were free-born American citizens, ns
much so ns tho boys who went out
to fight with the Italian, the French
nnd the Canadian forces, and It was
their Individual right to fight where
soever and with whomsoever they
elected. P.ut when the United Stutes
went Into the war, did the three re
malnliig sons offer their sertlces to
the country In which they weie born,
the country which hnd enriched their
father, the country which honored
them by culling them citizens? They
did not. They were not Americans.
They were Germans. The mother of
the three young men openly declared
that she would rut her see them dead
by her own hand than to have them
take up urms against their kaiser!
The Fortune of War.
P.nt the fortunes of war produce
strange conditions. The fortunes of
war demanded thnt three Americans
should go forth and shoot two Ger
mans. There can be no going behind
the fact that the Instant the United
States entered the conllict these three
hoys automatically became the ene
mles of their brothers. Their brothers
had gone out voluntarily to light with
(lie German armies. That was their
right, their privilege. They did so at
the time when their native land was
riot lined up against the kaiser. They
elected to face the bullets that were
aimed nt Germany, Just as those other
boys elected to face the shells tired
at Ualy. Hut the two Germans went
out to fight for Germany because they
were Germans, I ause they were not
allowed to he anything but Germans.
Their mother sent them out to die for
Gerinnny. Was she willing to send the
other three out to die for the United
States? NO! She preferred to kill
them with her own hands. The Itnl
Inn mother did not semi her two re
maining boys to light In Duly but In
France. They went us American sol
diers. They would have gone with the
American armies to fight against Italy
If the call had been from that direc
tion. She would not have preferred
to kill them with her own bunds.
In the great Civil wur that threat
ened the existence of the United
States of America back In lHflt-Uo
brother fought against brother. Thou
sands of young men came up from the
Southland and put on the uniform of
blue. Their brothers, their cousins,
even their fathers, were wearing the
gray. The Instances In which Northern-born
men went to fight with th-J
Confederate iirinlcs are notably n.re.
These men who cnine north loved
their Southland with u devotion that
cannot be questioned, nlul yet they
loved their country more. They did
not light with Hie North because they
were Northerners but because they be
lieved In a United States of America.
Rlood may be thicker than water, .
but It is neither blond nor water that
counts In the ninklng of an honest
man. It Is his heart that omuls.
Hon. The answer? Is No! We are en
dowed by God with free will, power
to choose. That Is and must be a real
power else we are victims of n ghast
ly Jest, n hideous delusion. If God has
limited Himself by giving us this pow
er we can, If we will, choose evil In
stead of good. Men have chosen evil
and the world Is suffering because of
the choice. Once more you ask, why
does not Guil withdraw from us our
freedom of will, since It Is nbuseil? He
ciius the privilege Is so great, so In
estimable, so necessary, Hint It Is bet
ter even to suffer ull the Ills that fol
low upon Us abuse, than 1 hut It should
be withdrawn or abrogated, and we as
cend to the position of automata. Ir
responsible beings, moved nboiit arbi
trarily by an omnipotent hand. We
must work out our own salvation by
the help of God. We nre not children
of the bond woman but of the free
nnd we must so continue.
What I Your Answer?
How, then, Is God's will to be done?
How Is the war to be won? In what
way Is a slop to be put to all these
atrocities? When men, by whatever
menus and searching, do discover the
will of God, and after the discovery
develop sulllclent consecration and de
votion to do the will of God, then, and
not until then, will it be done.
"The 'Son of God goes forth to
war " Yes, always and at ull times,
hut lie never comes back a victor un
less the Sons of Men go with Him.
When we find out the will of God
and do It, we shall end the war, und
every other evil that results from tho
Inability or unwillingness of men to
see and do that will.
Are your hearts set upon righteous
ness, upon doing Hie will of God,' oh
ye people of America? So the question
Is not of God's duty but of your own.
What answer nre you making?
TO GERMANY
By GEORGE STERLING,
of the Vigilante.
Thy mount pmihiichh utim men no more to
tin to, '
Hot imiiHen. What OVtlli'cl nnd fi'tlj sea,
W'lmt etiirk sliyiiHKH of piililillty,
llavu liulcliivl llieo? Thou hast rtuchi'J
the world ton title.
For with tho replllu Is thy pluce and
ilato;
Yet must wo love the snurlun. as wo
Kind It a sentlo tiling rompurui! to thet
Whose imiw no tilouil of nurnu or hnbt
can into.
Tho Ahnmlnalilo olmll put by III crown
llernuno of thoe, Bno at thee ull
npoei'h
(loin bankrupt, and ImnKlnntlun truing
No en r no that (lore not bless lliy liluctl
renown
Thou, who ilool hnlil all Infamy In
reach I
. Thou, with the blood of dovlU In thy
veins!
London's population Includes 471,
(KtO persons who reside In flats.
To the Writing Guys.
Cast thy manuscript upon the edi
tor nnd after many days It will return
ngaln In such n condition that It will
have to bo recopled.
The man who used to burn the mid
night oil milking his money now has a
son who consumes the midnight gnso
lino spending It. IndhinapolU Star.
,
Except along tho Caspian sea coast,
agriculture In Persia Is dependeut uu
HrrhiuMoo.