Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, July 20, 1918, Page 4

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All rights of republication of epecial de¥patches herein are also rved “Right is More Precicus than Peace” THE COUNTER OFFENSIVE., |, How far the counidr offensive of the allies will be able to proceed before| it is checked will depend to large extent upon the manner in w the Germans can rally their forces to stop it and just what the real oh- ctives of General Foch are. It re- mains to be seen whether he has un- dertaken to regain that salient which| has it; apex at Chateau Thierry or whether his purpose has simply been 10 the fifth phase of the Ger- long the western front. o be no question but Iready succeeded in ac- the latter. That was! the resistance which the rees, including the Americans, from the verv opening of the to bre effort to pture the Rheims salient and the points of the sup to the south thereof. There the Germar force appears to have heen largely spent 1 spite of the great number of troops W was thrown into the fighting. The conditions which were revealed, however, as the resuit of the operatio: made it evident that the time not only striking| at the 1 ps on both sides of the ent but to virtually rear those troops sent to the south of hold that sector after the ops had been withdrawn for reorganization o icked tr Rheims een spectacular. mans with their re- lied machine from advancing further to the point where they will not only to reaeh the lines of supply to their troops but actually cut off|' those routes remains to be seen. There is one thing certain and that iz that when it comes to fighting the allies are not an unknown quantity and they can be expected to hold their own { the object sought demands it. THE U-BOAT'S RETURN. The return of the U-boats to this side of the Atlantic is only what was to be expected. They have come back stronz with the sinking of the United cruiser San Diego probably by a surprise attack but it sounds the alarm and henceforth every possible effort must be 2 not only to warn but to guard ping along the coast. The toil of ships secured as the re- sult of the activity last month was too large for the enemy to overlook the oppor es which were afforded to strike at the many shipping lanes along the extensive coastiine on this eids of the Atlantic. What Germany does in the way of sending underwa- ter boats across the ocean must of necessity reduce the effectiveness of the c: ign which they are waging about the British isles but it imposes upon us the obligation of employing every facility which we have at com- mand to destroy the menace. From all indications this latest vis- itor has gotten down to business more quickly than those which preceded it, or at least its presence has become known to the naval authorities quicker and no further warning is required. All means of combatting it have been brought into action long before ghis and there are reasons to believe that it will from now on be kept busy in lookinz out for its own protection. That this is the U-boat, or one of them, which is responsible for the losses sustained in midocean and at points at a considerable distance off the coast is to be presumed. Such bsses must of course be expected but svery effort must be put forward toj prévent them and to bag the under- | water fighters. HELPING WIN THE WAR. In connection with the saving and sacrifice which the people of this country have been making in order to provide a sufficient amount of food- stuffs to take care of our allies it is an interesting statement which is put forth by Food Administrator Hoover to the effect that in the past twelve months ending with June we have of coursd not include . the: large shipments BEHIND THE BARS |plnvea here and in F were made to neu This not only shows how extensive- ly the allies have leaned upon this country for food but how magnificent- !y we haVe responded and it is note- worthy in this particular, as Mr. Hoo- ver points out, that we Supplied the last call for.75,000,000 bushels of wheat to the allied food controllers after our surplus from the 1917 supply had been exhausted. That means that we gave to the allied nations, in order to take care of their needs under shorter ra- tions than have been put into effect here, by denying ourselves. The plan was an urgent one and was So recos- nized. It meant.a cutting down in the use of wheat here and it was cut. But the need was met and it is perfectly cvident that those who are saving food of any kind and espécially those who are using' substitutes as asked are giving valuable help for the win- ning of the war. THE MAN WHO TALKS “It makes me laugh sometimes,” said the girl who sells tickets at the moV- ing picture show. “People seem to forget so that I'm here.” “Oh, well,” her friend said, “they can't gét past the young man at the door without a ticket, even if they dv forget to stop here.” “I don’t mean that they sneak past the ticket girl explained. “They don’ try that. Ne, it's just that they don't seem to know I can hear and see away back here in the box. They act as if I was blind and deaf just because I sit on a high stool in here.” “If somebody’s been getting funny,” her friend said fiercely, “you just let me know who he is and I won't let it happen again.’ Get to thinking that you are dis- appointed, that you are not succeeding in life as weil as you expected, that no one cares for you or does as you advise them; that your opportunities were never ,what others seem to en- joy, and sundry other dog-thoughts which bark at the heels of a fool eévery day of his life that he will let them, and it will not take you long to feel your own self created handicap and become a failure. You are able to make mind your friend or foe—and mind 1s vou! Hope and Faith and Push are man's thrée able assistants, and the quicker he finds this out the ‘better it is for him. It is the mind the mood, which makes men efficient or inefficient. This has been preached more than 3,000 years, and although it is a great truth it doest’t make a deep impression because men Step_aside once— Fifteen cents, the girl laughed. here comes a lady. do not believe. Believing is the six-{ma’am. No, ma'am, we pay the war| SHIES EaN 1 E _EAST' eylindér mental force which drives men | tax. Don't forget your ticket. vSay. Almost simultaneously with the an-{to the greatest achievements. Jim, run after her will you? She’s left nouncement to the effect that com- 7 3/ tracts have been let for the construc- tion of more steel ships in Japanese ship vards and arrangements made to secure additional shipping through the shipbuilders of China comes word of the arrival/at an Atlantic port of the first steel cargo carrier built for the United States in Japan. It is a ves- sel of 9,088 deadweight tons and the first of a substantial deet which is to he constructed in the east. is of course good news. We are to increase onr merchant marine in the way and to the extent that has long been needed.. Not only are American shipyards going at full ast hut they are being increased in size and number. Yet in reaching out for all available resources for the pro- duction of more yessels it is unfortu- We are told now that the epidemic which puzzled the doctors of Spain has broken out in Germany. This i good news not because it places upon the enemy one more affliction, but because it in a way disproves the theory that Germany by the spreacing of germs has created with base design the dis- ease to destfoy the Spaniards. It is not at all' likely the Germans would let loose the disease germs upon them- selves. The disease-germ theory bears the label of German origin: and the dispatches have fold us that they spread zerms in Roumania and in France, but there is no proof what- ever that Germany has been able to start a coniagious disease among her enemies anywhere. The lancet, the oldest medical journal in Canada, printed recently a letter from Dr.John B. Frazer. M. D, C. M, of Toronto, showing the germs are incidental to “Crazy women!” he said. i “You ain’t any call to say it’s women,” the girl said tartly. “The men go in without ’em just as often as the women, only they get mad when you call 'em back. I guess it makes ‘em feel foolish. . “Yes, ma’'am, children 10 cents, we pay the war tax. Here, little girl, take mother's ticket. I got_a lot of knitting done these warm nights. I'm doing a sweater now for Harry, only it takes so long on account of me being siow that it'll be the end of the war before he gets it.” “Ain't he got enough for him.” the “without his asking fingers to the bone this hot.weather?” “There ain’t any bone showing on my fingers yet,” the girl answered. I just told you I was taking my time at nate that Japan was not turned toldisease, hut not its cause. To test the|it. Besides, he asked me to, and T teforc and that China with its|germ theory from 56609 to a million|didn’t have anybedy clse to knit for.” raw m and shipbuilding plants | lic Eenow wels diken, with] . tes muain, lUs 15 cents” the girl chouid not have been resorted to be- |food. millions of typhoid germs, and 101:; the next patron, sm lingly. _l\e fore this date. From those two coun- | Millions of pneumonia germs. Six|pay the war tax. Yes, sir, to-night s o 3 - 5 persons, 3 men and ¢ women, took the | we're giving ‘A Foolish F the same tries there can be no question hut|.om;g™and in two vears 47 different |as it shows on the board ou We what most valuable help is g0ing to be | tests were made and not of disease was developed. 2 symptom | gave it at the matinee and folks said it was good. 1 ain't seen it myself. Don't forget your ticket, sir.” “What an idiot,” said the friend scornfully. “Does he expect you to go anq see the show first so he won’t lose his money? I wisht I'd offered to pay for him and then he’'d have gone soon- s received in the w of new tonnaga. We will be expected to furnish much of the steel but those countries have the facilities and the labor and it is| only reasonable to expect that they ill develop speed in construction which will closely rival that being dis- ope. The. claim is made at more U- boats were destroved in the past three months than in any orevious quarter It is amusing what disputes have arisen over the pretty little service flag. It simply tells the public that vyou have as many representatives at the front as there are stars on the flag. Who can lezitimately vse the 'stars? If the industry be served and the civic and religious bodies a sol- dier belonged to can have him repre- sented uvon tueir flag, what is the “Oh, he didn't stay. longz.” she said. “Some are slower than that. Some want the whele plot told ‘em.” “Oh, you needn't get excited, Jim” |s “Tell ma the plot of this &B‘ “Go in and see it yourseif, That's what that couple did this afternoon. That was what started meé to saying that mor'n half the time folks don't realize I'm here. You e they come in by different doors and both of ‘em didn’t see each other, They got near the barg here, and ) opped short. He said, e!’ Ang she said, ‘Don’t speak to me,’ but she stuck around’ just the same. 1 could see in a minute that they'd just last night maybe had an awfil fight. “Well, he got cross again and they had it back and forth for goodness knows how long, telling how bad each of 'em was and how the other hadn’t done a thing. Once he made a 5lip, and called her '‘Darling’ and I thought e’d 20 through the ceiling, she was &0 furious, Then I knew they'd been en- gaged, and 't was longér ago than last night’ th it was awful’ rious, 3 they ot to talk- ing so sort of short and shaky I was| Jjust positive she was going to up andj faint or something. “Well, right in the middle of it they turned around to let a woman buy a ticket and they were quiet just a sec- Fond. When they moved they came ban~ up against that poster you see there with the picture on it—where the man’s holdinz out his arms and sayine something to the girl that's crying. What is it . ‘We've been very foolish, let's make the friend read. Yeh, that's it. Well, soon’s they saw ‘that he turns to her ang her to hi and they kinder laugh and he says: ‘T ghess that't about right; let's g0 in and see it’" They did, tod, twice over, and when they come out they were holding hands. Yes, ma'am, this is the last show juSt beginnin® now. Don't forzet your tickets, mister.” “For Pete’s sake!” g8aid the young man fiercely. “I wish you wouldn't keep knitting on that old sweater. I can’t see your face at all.” ' “That's on account of me just learn- {ing. I know girls who can knit and {look at the ceiling.” “T don’t see what you want to knit for him for.” “I don’t 'specially. He's engageq to Neliy. T just wanted practice so in case I wanted to knit something real extra nice some time.” “Oh, say, would you? For me?” “You're standing right in the way,” smiled the girl. “The boss won't like |it. 1 tell you! You go in and see the show and we can talk afterward going home. Run alonz: that's a good boy! | You left your ticket!”"Exchange. use of claiming his brothers and but there still exists the need for ships | US A i sisters or his cousins and aunts have the shipyards of the east sheuld strikés me that might be hell enough : ! ight show their interest and|for most any of us: prove an important factor in securing| 7% FIENL 10 ShoW e Imerest L0 b ; them. We are zoing to need all that|,ythority says. and it is well to re-| | suspect the reason the Kaicer is can be supplied. member this I flag cume to usjso anxious to make peace is because S — from the west:—"A f he doesn't want to see justice done. SUPPLYING COAL. FFor cver a vear much has been said in regard to the coal situation. The shorta has been attributed to one cause and another. Last year the people were told that the inability to get'ceal was due to a combination of} cumstances but that it would be relieved before another winter. This spring it was even asserted that ther would be coal enough, only to be fol- be represented on sevel flags, on that of his club, 1 business, his church and in the wind-i ows of all his near relatives. There is no hard and fi rule about the matter.” Let us all glory in the serv- ice of our boys at the front and keep free from the selfishness and jealous- ies which disrupt families and na- tions. If it is true that as a master of world- politics he know's more than any other fifteen men in Europe, it must also be true that he rcalizes that he and his armies are ‘the invaders of nationsand the 'murderes ‘and slave-makers of men. 'No nation has invaded Cer- many. but Germany has invaded and overthrown the government of four small nations and destroyed property and dispersed the people in the most ruthless w: She has disrespected Have you called it to mind that war is costing the Amo n people | internationai w andq destry d the lowed very soon by the announcement|five times what immoraiity @oes in a |Ships and seamen of half a dozen that cveryone-must curtail, that there|year; and that immorality and |neutral nations. hi st be a marked reduction in the|social diseases cost m than ten|Tights on sea or use of coal if those requiring it were | {iMes as much as is spent for all re-|UPOR earth Havine respected neither : GRS RTEE Sa i mis- | military, civil nor international law, it 0" get 2 sufficient amount to carry Laious home work and forelen mis”| [Ty igicuc 1o tell how a peage can.be them throush the coming winter even | ymerican Federation of Hygiene told |made at Germany" estion. Thi by ke2ping the temperature of their e war cannot be settle because of the criminal conduct of men who know they. are guilty of crimes they ould he punished for, and who by their plan of peace would escape punishment. Th a failure if any ace .is made which allows these villi to escape. us years ago that the American peo- ple spend annually three billion fomes to 68 degrees, and even then it | dollars, because of their immorality ; i would be impossible to guarantee that there uld be no shortage. For past several months the re- ports have been to the effect that coal production was not keeping up to previous accomplishments. In order to increase the amount mined the min- ers have been exempted from the pro- visions of the draft. Apparently all the trouble in the way of distributing the cornmodity has not been overcome. It has been claimed from time to.time that if there were sufficient cars to take away the product of the mines all demands could be satisfled. It is now insisted by President Hayes of the miners’ union that if the cars to c v it car be furnished the miners| and social diseases. More than eight = hundred and ninety-two thousand dollars a day the year round! Isn't it surprising how liberal men can be for | things which bode them harm. When you come to.think of it. there is more difficulty in believing “man js only a| little lower than the angels,” than to believe that other trite saying, “only vile” Talk about “going n this direction man is going “over the top” every day witheut getting any applause! What an amount of good that ten dollars (and over) a second could accomplish if devoted to humane purposes. It was McKinley LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Willing to Help Veterans. Mr. Editor: There are a numbsr of old Civil war veterans who are enti- tled to an increase in some c: up to $40 per month under the lately en- ho said in the midst of the Spanish-American war, (o = acted law that will have to apply would zet otit a billion tons of an-|“I do not prophesy There werelihe increase or will not got it, whi thracite a year. This dodging from |doubtless then as now. many Personsjothers receive it automatically. one excuse to another ought to be 3};;1%’5!“5" s o re;fl"!- This is not - generally understood. stopped and if it is so that it is be- |, 'O 3"}' pos e _;’(»"‘ %) |The fact is that the recently enacted e Rt jsm and humanity e asked. “Al- |3 was simply an amendment to the cause 6f a lack of cars that the short- . 1 d always after thé & 2 ways perils and always after them|jqw pagsed May 11. 1912. Al who now 89 thesatons every pussible enerey: " said Le, “always darkness and polq- certificates tunder the 1912. law ought to be put forth to supply the ., but always ning through | wij] receive their increase without any need. Coal is one of the great nece: them the light and the sunshine: : i- ties of the nation and particularly so now, so that it would seem to be time that the problem was solved. al- ways cost and sacrifice. but always after them the fruition of liberty, edu- cation and civilization.” He saw be- the confiict, and he was aware, s we’ all should be, that the end was | to be as God willed not as man willed. The Kaiser prides himself upon having been for 25 years ‘“the Prince of} Peace,” when through all these years he was planning to horrify the world | for the realization of his ambitions, | for world-wide power and undisputed sway. What he planned to do with inew application. All those whose cer- tificates ante-date the act of 1912 will have to apply and will get the i crease only from date of filir plication. Now then, I am a regularly appoint- ed U. S. pénsion agent. I am also a notary public and will be only too glad to help any old veteran free of all cost. If you are in doubt send me the number and date of your certifi- cate. Will reply immediately. If you are sure that an application must be made come to me any ernoon at EDITORIAL NOTES. The man on the corner says: There is no use trying to conserve good in- tentions. It is time for Austria to wonder what it is going to do with its_ally which falls down on an offensive, twelve million trained soldiers has|packerville depot, anv SEEEeT 1 not worked out as he would have it,|rome in Oneco. and I will do your With the people of Germany going|becauso he could not ovércome theé|work free of all o b F barefooted it shows what effect the |power of rizhteousness. C. B. MONTGOMERY, pressure of-war conditions are hav- PR e U. Pension Agent. ing upon that country. If you want things to run smooth| Oneco, Conn. July 18, 1918, keep cool. There is nothing to be gained by getting excited or letting temper get out of control. If the first law of life is self-preservation, the second should be self-regulation. A sage more than two thousand years ago said; “He who ruleth his own spirit is greater than he who con- quereth a city.” The ereatest master on earth is he who first masters self, then he is prepared to master anything mundane he understands. Try this: “If you have the blues read the 27th psalm: if your pocket book is empty, read the 37th psalm; if discouraged about your work, read the 126th psalm: if you can’t have your way, read the 3d chapter of James; if peo- ple seem unkind, read the 15th chapter of John: if you are losing your con- fidence in your fellow man, read the 13th chapter of Corinthians.” A pop- ular motto of our times is “Look for- ward not back;” but those old battlers for truth have left us something worth looking back for. Act Unfriendly to the Government. Mr. Editor: Reports are being re- ceived of activity by stock salesmen and promoters, principally rcpresent- ing companies whose securities have doubtful value, in efforts to secure the cxchanze of Iiberty bonds for the stoctks which they have_ for sale. This practice specifically disapproved by the treasury department, and we are compelled to characterize any con- tinuance of it as an act unfriendly to the government. If your readers have such cases come to their notice, T will be glad to have them write me promptly. giv- ing the name of the stock which is being offered, its address. the name of the salesman and the names of the officers of the company if they can be secured. We hope you will give publicity to thig letter, with a view to stopping the practice. Very truly yvours. CHARLES A. MORSS, Chairman. With other things bound upward at a record breaking clip it is decidedly strange that the thermometer hasn't been more seriously affected. That Poland promises to be decided- Iy rich picking is pldinly indicated by the announcement that there are five royal candidates for the throne, An outbreak which promises to give Russia in its present state of affairs much trouble is that of cholera. It is bad enough under normal conditions. As widespread as has been the sym- rathy expressed over the death Lieut. Quentin Roosevelt will be the hope that he is still alive, although in German hands. \ — From the revelations which are be- ing made regarding the fund raised in this country to boom Germany’s interests the surprise is that they have been kept quiet so long. The kaiser may have witnessed the opening of the attack on the Ameri- cans but it is dollars to wheatless doughnuts that he isn’t hanging around today in the Chateau Thierry salient. We get a warning from the past to “be not anxious for the morrow,” but we should be mighty careful of our todays, which became concreted yesterdays. or fixed records of our be- havior. It was John Muir, the emi- nent naturalist, who set forth in greatest detail the self-registering character of the great, long-lived trees of the west; and this prompts me to ‘question whether these great trees are the only things God has made which self-register. If the human soul was known to us to be a self-registering instrument I think we should be a little mofé careful about our days, don't you? What if we should discover in the better land Boston, July 15, 1918, Views of the Vigilantes It is not to be supposed that Gen- eral Foch has opened this counter drive without having made due prep- arations for keeping it up and taking full advantage of the gains which have been made. Sentiment in the Trenches. By Francis Rogers of The Vigilantes. Our boys in France are r\aturing fast. live tend both to clarify and to deepen their thoughts. They bear no suppiied to the allied armies and civil population, Belgian relief work, the Red Cross and the American military | typed answer all ready for the pro- forces foddstuffs to the value of $1,-|test which it will receive from Spain in. | because of the sinking of a Spanish create of 844,000,000 pounds of meats| vessel bearing a Spanish - diplomat, and fats over the same period preced-|of whose sailing Germany had been ing it and over 80,000,000 bushels more| informed. The U-boat probably suse of cereals and cereal products, which!pected American aviators were aboard. 440,000,000. This represents an \ o TN that no one condémns us, but that our self-registeri; machinery is both our shame and condembnation. That would be a surprise party never equalled in mortai life and I rather think we should not have much to say for ourselves. It would not need any recording angel to keep an account of our sins of omission or commission: and they would be there so we could read them if no one else could. It sponsibility for theit own physical needs; food, shelter and clothing are all provided for them. 'Many, if not most of them, have assigned the great- er part of th pay 1o their fam- ilies add no efforts of theirs can in- crease their income. During the day and often. at night they are almost constantly under orders! in doing only what they are told they are doing their full duty. Their only real re- Germany probably has its stereos war will be! The conditions amid which they | gine, by the thought of those English which may be abridged as follows:— sponsibility is for the conduct of their own thoughts. 3 In intercourse with our soldiers in France one soon discovers that many of them are living an active, often an exalted, inner life. The gossip- that used to satisfy their hours of leisure n6 longer meets their need for mental refreshment, and their minds seem to crave the solid nourishment to be found in poetry and relgion. A mem- ber of the Foreign Legion, who was by no means an educated man in the usual sense of the phrase, told us that he always carried in his pocket a copy of “The Golden Treasury,” which had comforted him through many a weary vigil in shell-hole and trench. Ro- bert W. Service's “Rhymes of a Red | Cross’ Man” is the familiar friend of nds of our boys. Kipling, too. they know well .and a host of other poets less celebrated. Many a boy {has his pocket crammed full of verses {ihat he or his correspondents at home have culied from the newspapers. Not only do they read poetry; they write it. We met one boy who had compesed reams of “vers libre” and whose letters home, his official cen- sor told us, were written in the same medium. That delightful mirror of army life, “The Stars and Stripes,” is brimming with the poetic efiusions of its read- ers. The Parisian “New York Herald” held a competition in verse last spring, open to men in the A. E. F. The response was overwhelming in gauntity and the prize winners, espe- cially the sonnet that won the first , were worthy of really serious consideration. Confronted with the most serious of all problems, that of death and what comes after it, the boys’ thoughts turn often towards religion—not so often jto the traditional creeds in which they were brought up as to the significance to them personally of the sacrifice they hold themselves prepared to make. The Y. M. C. A. secretaries and the Chaplains find them willing to lay bare and discuss the most in- timate problems of their livés. The trend of their religious thought is away from the formalism of dogma jand doctrine and towards a simple {code of service and séif-sacrifice. The many tales of gallantry and self-for- gentfulness that come to us from the battle line show how this code ex- s itself in deeds. ¥wo incidents have been reported to me show v it expresses itself in words. In the course of a hot battle a de- tachment of American soldiers was cut off and surrounded by the enemy. Some one must cut his way through to where relief could be obtained. A private generaily known as a “rough- neck” volunteered and performed this dangerous service. Afterwards he confided to a Salvation Army worker that, although he never before had prayed, this time he had offered 'a! prayer before he left his lines. “But what did you say?” “Oh” 1°said. “God. I don’t give a damn what happens to me, but please !keep me safe till T ean bring back help for these boys here.” Another boy confessed that he al- ways prayed before he went over the ltop. He did not pray to be saved from all harm, for that would seem as if he were taking an unfair ad- vantage of the fellows who forgot or did not know how to pray; he prayed only that no matter what happened he might be given the strength to bear himself like a brave man. Could the} most pious of saints have framed a nobler prayer than this? | STORIES OF THE WAR FROM PRISON TO INTERMENT CAMP everything.” his gentleman, writes a special cor- respondent to thé London Chronicle concerning a gentleman from Ger- man; “but you will see that only half of what I have to ay can bg printed at the present time. It would be un- fair to those who are now imprisoned in Germany if you printed everything. I am haunted, as you may well ima- | | “I will tel you said | people who are still suffering captiv- re-|ity. How any man Set free from that dreadful hardship can publish any- thing likely to make their lot harder 1 cannot imagine. But it has to be done.” & He then told me his narrative, “ I went to America in 1901, and worked for some years in a museum. Then I went to Italy and studied art. In 1908, driven by the desit® to study philosophy in relation to art, I weat i were horribly - At 1,30, 3,16, 6 and 8 p. m. The Smiling Athletic Star DCUGLAS FAIRBANKS In the Five Part Comedy Thriller “SAY YOUNG FELLOW” ROY STEWART In the Five Part Western Play “THE BOSS OF LAZY Y” FROM THE POPULAR 8TORY BY .CHARLES ALDEN SELTZER THE VERY LATEST EDITION OF CURRENT EVENTS First Time 8hown in Norwich ~ SUNDAY, JULY 21st Submarine Base ®ev London) vs. Putnam AT OLD FAIRGROUNDS This is a Benefit Game. Al proceeds going to the 65 men who are leaving the Putna\) district for Camp Devens next Thursday ., Toeo M $PIRING, SOUL- 0TIC MESSAGT LIEVER" 57‘1350 ON T BOOK 7' PATRIOTISM TIGL Wag- THE U. S. GOVER EOSTLY IQC‘.'} L 330 P. M. to Paris, living in the Quartier Latin, and there 1 worked toward a certain method, thanks very largely to the teaching of M. Bergson. 1 was one of . group, a very considerable group, who expected a revolution in life. To make this revolution as catholic as possible we decideq to get French students to visit Géermany and German students to visit France. To this end 1 journeyed to Germany in June 1914. In August I was arrested as a French spy, but was rescued, after a . very searching esamination, by the pebple! with whom I had lodged. Soon after this the order came that all English people were to 5o to Baden. I had no passport, and in consequence was sub- jected to no littie annoyance. I was taken out of the train, spoken to with much rudeness, and bumped about with no ceremony. Is ‘Baden:Baden we enjoyed a great measure of lib- erty The head of police was polite and trusted us to behave with proprie- ty. For three months it was like this, and not unpleasant. But on Novem- the police station.and informed that we Jnust g0 to prisgn until we were moved to an interment camp neat Ber- lin. We were two days in prison: “Then we set out for Berlin. This was a railway journey of over thirty hours, and except for some soup in Baden we were given neither food nor water. It was obviously .an order. We were refused water, and food was procutable at the stations; but we were allowed mnothing. When we reached Berlin we were thrown into a convict prison. Mow, it is very difficult to imprison an Englishinan. His sense of liberty triumphs over the rigor of brutality. The warders may shout till they grow purple of face, but they cannot subdue an english- mans’ spirit. In this dreadful prison, for example, the beds were in cages, and an iron bar was let down at night, locking us all in; well, we told the warders that we simply would not stand this, and the bar was no longer let down at night Then the beds infested with bugs. We protested so decisively that the authorities provideq us with an in- secticide, and for two days 70 Britons in that prison were engaged in clean- ing their beds. “The German official is a very sim- ple character. He s . accustomed either to shout or to be shouted at. He is either a bully or subservient to bullying. He thinks he has obnly to shout to be obeyed. only to frown to be feared. The warders in this prison were afraid of their prisoners. These criminals did not strike me as very bad people, certainly not worse than the Germans themselves, but the warders shouted at them and bullied them because they were afraid these poor devils might show fight. I am quite certain of this: the German re- garded from a creative, a moral, and a spiritual point of view, is—nothing. He is simply nothing. I mean he con- tributes mothing new to the life of the human race. Germany is not a nation, it is a conspiracy. The Ger- mans have no vital sense of personal or spiritual freedom They are ali merged together in mass material- ism, The difference between the Brit- on and the Geérman could be seen most strinkingly in Ruphleben, as 1 wili tell you presently, but it could be seen even in this convict prison. “After 19 days we were seént to Spandau by train, and from there, dragging our things with us, we mareh to Ruhleben Camp. Now the camp seemed to me like a colliery district when there is a strike on. It was a frightfully untidy place, with no signs of order or industry: you saw people standing about in erowds, and bulldings which looked as if they had been wrecked by rioters. One. did not like its appe&rance. “To give you some idéa of the se- commodation I lived with two others in a space exactly the size of a bil- liard tabl?, that is to say, 12ft. by 6ft. Three of us occupied this' space wit! our beds, our books, our clothing; the roof over our heads being 8ft. at its highest, and 4ft. at its lowest. The end of this space we used as a clags-room. Our billiard-table life was spent in a loft over a stable, freezingly éold in winter, and so bedly lighted that one is always in gloom. The particular barrack i which 1 lived this life was called the Snobs Barrack, because the people who oc- cupied it comirg from Baden and Ber- lin were mafnly of the public scheol and varsity tyvpe. Some of our féllow prisoners in the camp were very.oh- jectionable people, some, I mean, of German origin who had become nat- uralized for purposes one had bétter not inquire into, and who were cer- tainly opposed to.the English eause. We called them P.G’s, pro-Germens, and watecned with Bcorn their miser- able efforts to curry favor with the military authoritles. But -the true Briton was magn:ficant. Ah, if' I was to begin speaking about British char- acter with any freedom 1 should sgon be in tears. No words can exabbe: the splendour of British character in ber 6 we were all arrested, marched tol FOUR SHOWS TODAY 1.30, 3.30, 6.15 and 8.15 Pl RitaJolivet LEST WE FORGET A Massive 10-Act Film Spectacle, Showing the Sinking of the Lusitania, Transferred . to the Screen Under the Guidance of an Eye Witness. What Her Eyes Have Seen Yours Will See Don’t Miss This Treat First Time at These Prices MATINEE 17c EVENING 28¢ Augmented Orchestra H 3 e — e — AUDITORIUM THEATRE FOUR SHOWS TODAY Your Last Chance to See BILLY HALL & CO. THIS IS SOME SHOW BOYS A MACK SENNETT COMEDY “SECRETS OF A BEAUTY PARLOR” HAROLI? LLOYD N FOLLOW THE CROWD (LAUGHS) COMING NEXT MON,, TUES. AND WED. THEDA BARA IN A THEDA BARA SUPER-PRCDUCTION “The Forbidder. Path” The Stirring Story of a Girl Dragged Down in Sin by Force of ‘ Circumstances T e S e Ruhleben Camp. “God knows how you can live on nothing; but you can. In those days we. were famished and frozen: ‘With & cold below zero Fahrenheit, - the Germans gave us.two cotton rugsand a sack full of straw; and farmed out our rations to a Jewish contractor at €0 pfennigs a day—§d. or_7d. a persom, You will knoy from this that we were starved. “From November 14 our life was un« imaginahly horrible. I can't bear to think of it. It was awful, awful. And thus it would have been to the end, killing us or driving us mad, but for the genius of British character. That splendid ‘moral character, manifesting itself at once, took hold of life even in_those miserdble surroundings, and organized it on a_ communal basis, Then one began lo.‘i;fi}\he power of man’s spirit. In his Note on the Egyptian Budget in April Sir W. Brunyate stated -hat Mr. Henry Ballou, & leading euthority on cotton pests, had reported favor- ably bn the measurés taken by the Government. The name was previous- ly given erroneously as Professor Balls, CASTORIA