The evening world. Newspaper, September 26, 1918, Page 16

MARTIN GREEN’S AQ THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 1918 Eight Months at the Front | With the American Army THE SPIRITUAL SIDE OF WARFARE. “Soldier Becomes a Fatalist, but, Convinced He Is Fighting for Righteous Cause, Believes God Won’t Overlook Fact That He Gave His Life for Principles of Right.” By Martin Green (Staff Correspondent of The Evening World.) Cer—Icht, 1918, by The Presa Publishing Co, (T INCE my return to New York I have been asked many times if sol- S diers actually engaged in warfare pay any attention to religion. Observation establishes that participation in the Job of earnestly | trying to kill or wound makes for indifference to death and suffering as | such, but cultivates in every soldier who nas had any. religious training—and what American soldier has not had more or less religious training?—a quickening of thoug® about the future life. é The sight of dead and wounded men strewn about: @ battlefield is part of the game, an@ after the soldier! experiences his first baptism of fire he looks upon dead men and wounded men wita no particular inter- est, But a soldier engaged in a pursuit which is likely to wipe him out at any time is apt to think consider- | ne thoughts bend in that direction. Practically every American boy has | been taught that there is an exist- ni a Sey “Oh,” replied the boy, the shadow} 9 /of a smile flitting across his face, “L ence beyond the grave and that the! ioia worse lies than that many a Mines of that existence are governed \ ime. iss, will you do something for l want yeu to write to my by one’s mode of life. C heteh American voya in our armies in France yave not | been repeatedly told that people with- | owt sin go to heaven and sinners go} that I died game and did my boy was lying on a cot under a window in a corridor of the hospital to hell. “Most of them went into the | ‘The nurse sat on the side of the cot urmy sincere believers in heaven and| until the boy died) On another cot hell. Experience with the hell of | jess than five feet away a wounded earth associated with the sort of wur-| soldier looked on Ay the nurse, ? fare that is waged in these onlight ened times tends to dull the belief in a hell beyond, and promotes a sort of gonfidence that a fellow who puts up & goo® fight and gets killed in action has more than a fair chance of being well cared for on the other side. Face to face with death in many forms, the soldier js bound to think | Cips about dying. He sees his pals go and |; hears about others he knew who have) jumper of the deen killed. Gradually he beco:e# a | qass there were Protestants (fatalist. “It he is going to eet his, ail) nad Leen accustomed to going to, right, and fv he isy’t, all right. He 18) churet on Sunday at home and fol- convinced that he is fighting for a! jowed the habit in France. righteous cause. There oug A noted Catholic chaplain told me sme reward for fighting for a rigit-| that the soldiers in France w cous cause. | the same ax to morale and id Surviypra of the war will get thelr | similar collection of men at home, reward th@ thanks of the péople,| lite of a soldier gradualiy the respect of the world. ‘The fellow freedom of expression and started away this soldier motioned te me kid,” he remarked, pointing toward the body, In_ travelling umiays I saw through France thousands of Ame t of churches were American on The chur f the Cath The New York Fvening World). | | ably about himself, and the younger he Is the more his . Urey “ f DAILY STORY OF THE REAL FIGHTING AMERICANS ' a AKAN oh SRN So SLE RR RA RRR \ _THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 1918 “Prima Donna May Dare _ | To Marry If She Chooses An American Husband” Eight Prima Donnas Who Proted Marriage a Success BUT ALL TOOK PAINS TO MARRY AMERICAN HUSBANDS, WHICH, ACCORDING TO MARGUERITA SYLVA, IS THE BEST INSURANCE OF DOMESTIC HAPPINESS. | MARGUERITA SYLVA DEFENDS DOMESTIC HAPPINESS OF WEDDED SONGBIRDS 'And She Points to Seven Others Who, Successful in Matrimony as Well as in Song, Buttress Her Arguments—Howard, Nielsen, Homer, Namara, Romaine, Vicarino and Garrison. Py Marguerite Mooers Marshall Copriieht, 1918, by ‘The Pree Publishing Co, (rb HOULD t prima donna dare to marry? Ss. “Yes,” valiantly asserts Marguerita Sylva, “if she takes pains ta ,° marry an American husband!” I was moved to ask the above question recently: in The Evening World when the sharp discord sounding from the home life of Amelita Gallf-Curci recalled the misfit marriages of many other operatic performers of world-wide distinction, Sylva, besides being a beautiful woman and a charming and popular singer of both grand and Nght opera, is the very happy wife of an Ameri now en- gaged in his country’s service. ‘Therefore f New York Evening World) ' ‘ ! she ty . , that she is In a position to defend the domestic ha) ‘Mai ta. Give. p EX" ness of women in her exacting profession—always pr vided they wed American men—and she offers the following list of women fe of Maj. Bi Smith. Wil Gar dase aeaghees * * Sylva. prima donnas most happily married to citizens of this country. Nal of the which ally, she speaks first a donna marriage about band rs when 1 the he had humiliation wh the upper fe » was » knows the most—her own. She) srg, dhe trail Bt ones tieeeh 1 me last winter that it took ex-| into the society of many men, ly two months for her hushand/tning to which sne nas now’ grow + and herself to fall in love and marry | SRO AE Ghaatitic ea Un Ee emt he being at the American Embassy! footing, and the suddenness of it “ofie nN in Paris and she singing there at the| goes to her head. Opera Comique. “It was ‘Veni, vidi, ' he ult isn't the woman's, eith sald Syive, y she laughed watt nog bat Ae That was three years ago. To-day | jike hushdnd will resent she says, “My husband, Major Bor-|the fact that his wife is no lonzer de= nard L, Smith, would no more think |Fondent pon him for her support. jof kissing the hands of my women | independence of woman in a thing t ‘ friends than he would of taking a trip | which 1e foreign man has pr ver |1o the moon, but he fs the finest of pervens ustomed, and x ver wit necome aste F 6 becomes Hi i men, and if I were any happier th hs ated‘ th the spirtt sly am with him and my two little s I couldn't stand it is mid and done, ner goes to great who gets killed is entitied to his re-| ijperality of thought and action which ward too, and surely God isn't goivg | would not be possible in civil life to overlook the fact that he gave lis |“ wwrhe war,” ho said, “in going to do memitce the principles of right, | Incalculable good to a majority of the in rough outll that ist A t oung 0 nh over he physically and ean soldier's philosophy, Th " nental Travel has broadened their { ¥ . a devoted ML canny ‘paisa; te eunn’ ¢ ret | nas at -reliance and cour- j wife and a confirmed mother, and one entioned have met men on an Only the deeply’ grounded ions | ABC. hting has given them initia- would surely imagine there'd be cause Cuts ting all thelr lives, and the soldier thinks much about heli or|tivs and ambition. | Countless incon. for jealousy between them, for Sid treat t bums fears the prospect of going to hull, | venlences much ac ¢ ‘ f one of orem : . i talked” wita a Te SS boy in one| have brought them to a state of mind |ney Homer is one of the f r TATE Danie hians of our base hospitals, Two days be-| Where they refuse to worry over) Ainariban combOnere ‘ } : Rone fore, his right leg had been amp rifles, Lads who would worry ant ¢ “The same thing holds true with! mu ' ma donn fated at the hip. He was in a ward| fume about ee pte Fe hom \ srabel Garrison, for her husband, |"A% nothing to 4 1 with some fifteen other amputation | get he army to acc) ies : ie slcla ‘ : 3 tases.” On entering the door of this | Wi Jong, and thos George ROO st SOR NEE te ely Lisp or Stammer ward one was reminded of the looms | bo Back bome thes Oh tbe COREY, They Werk Tain yi If I im @ cotton mill. Over each bed was| ns an ineid such perfect harmony that Mr. S rain Yourself with « 5 s: fe s Ww F @ framework and susponded tri AP, es ave wc caviaes shor (onastiaa Ler and t witha the framework was a net of weignts and ropes and pulleys. The stubs of the amputated limbs were resting in soft bandages attached to weignis so Tegulated as to hold them in a com- fortable position, and each wound | me Was under a drainage tre The nurse volunte: they will seldom miss a train, “These habits of discipline will give to the United States in the m ship of our armies millions ¢ who will return to el army f time. malities V pe e taught thi Mation that the Texas boy are taught to things with ‘ “ argaret Namara, who m Awaiting hiy operation and under th finite purpose and to stick to their] ! ' Regina a eI Ane age beta Meo ient influence of delirium had sung many | work until it is accomplished. These] 2). May Romaine, H :)ried Guy Bolton, the playwright FS eampmeeting hymns, ‘The boy smiled | young men, full of initiative and wil et Sreuni wife “oF G pag SP aay Namara, ; lice Nielsen, who is in y @nd said that back home he was con-| mental and physical energy, will be) 5 te Famrmett Ing George Seamonn. George Guyer wife oF Guy Bolton a the wife of Dr. Le Roy (onl 5 sidered a right smart singer at camp- | disposed to take change of things in} Bence. he a Sede Soir oniagns \ H ee, meetin the United States when they get back, ‘ears ‘ 3 ‘ Stoddard, . ea | 4 “But,” he said, “I never knew I was| and they will come pretty close to , : 2 “And Kathleen oward, whose! j} singin’ hymns. ‘I 'never sung a hymn | doing that very thing. Service in the! Sf g t ‘Willem Kellogg Baird, | ‘ singe I joined the army except when I| army establishes a sort of fellowship onenenge, ’ ncien ellc, r anization, s anne TE ee as @ale Gain 4 went to a religious service. I don't| that will not be eradicated when the > e attorney for the . y - ins Mf % ; fmisk hymn singin’ ts goin’ to get me | met put off their uniforms, | d b V k pany, camo simultaneously with the | Saami © anywnere abwever Neontinvea,| INOW England s Froptrty by Girt For IU, : omen W orkers!2* ons seer sects ifter I got hit I thought I was ; lot of bums eae i TARA Sarearet Romaine, who has| Li goin’ to dic. I wasn’t scan d-about it. Elizabeth Freeman, Appointed “Organizer,” Explains Reason) |‘ a Tenet aicnes (este GomiCac? that if T was mee yy just left the Chica a y 33 to die, 1] th ; for Movement Which Includes Both “Lady Hoboes He Toltat tis Mdetropalliag (Opera) Ae y no prayers, Then 1 jest will “Sto, vork Ps. pepe . ; t home naturally passed away and when I| they have riske: for t and ‘Steady Workerette 0, So that oe ft ap el Ke 2 F come to my lez was off, At first 1| country said country should take care ganization of 10,000,000 | New York and play the role of wife Was sorry I didn't die. Now I'm|of them for the rest of their lives. : : ; a i rr “Y! to Dr, Emmett Browning and mother 7 apxious to get back home and try to| This cl wouldn't have amounted to WORKS ‘ . 7 dditio do somethin’ that a one-legged man} much anyhow, had they remained in} boes” and m I y || jo ber two little children, in addition can do.” civil life, so the army ean't be blamed Ituated workerettes, js the lates! to her parts oN the operatic stage d “E thought I was going to die too,” | for all of x of altruism and organizing Now what is the psychological ex # put in a Chicago boy on the next bed, the ‘ j ; or the success of these Who had lost his right foot and was 3 th Pech Sly) Gtr: a: Made Bo f, RADAHER 207 tae a aa un wounda | think Millionaire Hobo," and Eliza jj unions, when so many other opera d to pray, but | the nan, feminist and milit ‘\ song-birds have not agreed in their | , the only prayer J could think of was |i? ™ ; ugette | little neste? H ake ‘Now I lay me down to sleep,’ and | #eneral thin 8 wort - an ¢ t yiva that sounded kind of funny to me, so | Mligious awake The first working plans of '| sylva has her own ingenious theory | j eit, After they put me In en am,| states as a re cheme were laid down yesterday a | “Most of the unhappy marriag?s PEP) ~bulance and started me back there | I!) France the a luncheon given by Dr. How a \lamong prima donnas,' “whe says, | / was something doing every minute, | #OM He has ny restaurant at No, 66 Bast Fourth ||*nave been where foroign singers | : 06 F cidn’t teink about praying way | \, preponderantly c st © movement is aimed tog married foreign men. I belleve that | “Didn't you think about where you | M4 ¢Oqipinad with) Branes Rnliate: Ayary <2e worker in th jin the majority of cases thelr matri- might go after death?” asked tne| in religious observances. i é i “ ountry with uN hat will | monial differences hav8 sprung from | anove: Practising bre paves a ; | which was « y ¢ ' | PN ATA seas Gall Get eagle pep garnet sexy ct her wo does not aim lthe fact that the woman's position! trol with a» jo, ma’am," replied the boy, And] yast amou { cern, ‘To sim up {OEE OVRE Wen Oh SEO PELOO Be HOLDS Sans > estat un exc whe | cesta, i 4 scame| low: ‘Tongue and palat, . eee wounded en Fue bey, Aad va an nt of Or ern au mp | ionaire curio collector, vanished te when it was an Ay Heth ig i chang 4 entirely as she becam | apition batate paiste sym. ogreed that while they thouxht they | akes men serious, a | cable that C,H. B. Chubb | the celebrated relic " ni a |] famo | a Rime moing to die they had locke | wan oe te ae 4 to the British Government, Mr, Chu enge from Sir Ed- ker see the union || _,Take, for example, the average SPING and stammering are sep= ’ upon approaching death as something | telie ward Antrobus in 1915, for $35,000. 8 previously had. set t is the workin ale | Wrenon ip Of Boon Tany a Paver arate imperfections of specah: they had taken a chance on, and they | Abser Price of $750,000 on the ve when he > ihe 1 Govern 1 an, who wa lana’ kesiad intercourse with men which require entirely different Sipe perhaps he, eanlh Ceara wiki aia biti organ m After she attains young womanhood | treatment Ea ha cee et nes | tndes pemank enge consists of a ¢ up huse st ing woman w As boon 5 j| hor family marries her off to the man | Lispers, for inatanee, can be cured death, but © wounded Frenchman on|have fallen. a sp ease dares Ls ge ey ent in rad s since Mmn {| poms aay Sete nee ses slalf in a short time by tongue and patatey ; the ground near him was babbling in| Weak stunb! 4 / wee one * | Pankhurst sta her hu P ‘ as S| Wholly dependent apoD ching created |X¥™nasties. They “Hthp” simply bee Re eres te ee wae | rane ma the hares tands i mpaign in Lond uy Elizabeth Freeman Solely for his pleasure and comfort, |cause they do not work their tongues to make out what the aon sold | sha santo clean mind theor Stonehenge w milt for sun | Hey fl intimation of her n If sho be a good wife she 1s quite jand palate properly, By making the, was saying cting boys that sailed eventeenth century B,C, Some investi by Dr. How for the organt ¢/women in the United States, or 1,500,-| content, with this Sor, ot existence i child speak before a mirror, however, ve wes & handsome little fellow and ndard of mn rals, } or wa Re monument + ; 4 of oynae oe ee Which has formed the |t@kes, Says Popular Sctence Monthly, wounds were many and terrible,| Soldiers in Fra are allawed to - , * LB pads ey bs be | Surgeons and. nurses” had ‘worked {rink wine and beer, but a ramen. x hasnt ok | theme of go many of the vle| Stammering is a nervous disorder © foverishty to save him, but he was | Portion of the army’ does not indulee. | 2 been put 1 ¢ sively ame , movement French novels. which cannot be cured so easily. Sf slipping across the line this sunny |Boys from sections wher s au have gefused to ¢ ime one day that ) “Now, should it so happen that a|cuon involuntarily appli be His mind wag clear, and | saloons generally keep away from| Weak Wine wh I States bad sent over an| Was nec joining existing unions or forming] girl brought up under such conditions | ly applies too muck rs whose eyes w streaming, | cafes, There need be no f bd pollu, and has t rt nm boda ilers, j-ehe raiment t 1 chew ones, is suddenly thrown in the limelight | force at certain parts of the voval ore ‘him he was about to dic. part of parents of boys who did not iM bad { ubstitute, Theres g y fight on it pretty damned on the quest oR of ¢ t Dv. How has declared that there are| by attaining fame as a singer, ehe !s|gans, causing the stuttering and «@ 014 are you, really, boy? sho |drink before they joined the army | cheer that they will ever acquire | he added. Western Union and th nearly 1,000,000 cleaners, serubwomen | ai once put in a different position, In|sputtering with which we all that they will become drunicards 12, %48te for pinard even though they) At the risk of proveking dixcus- jpointment of the War and washwomen alone in the country | the first place she becomes financially | familiar. The cure ts to relieve the = wey tes. unkards in tried, and ‘more palatable wines are| sion, 1 will in conclusion that 1/has shown that it favors the union'z- who need badly to be organized, and| independent, and being wholly un- erworked parts by distribut u i? a a ak bie ; jexpenmive, Ax» ior the Prenci bevr, it) ive oven isi lnivalcaled puldieras img of eriem: for the pear nf he gino states that particuiar-ntten=| accustomed to auch @ thing, she is|energy evenly, ‘This is learm r docan't Mire abou PRMinE | dosan’t appeal to the taste of any-| and sailors in uniform in New York |thbir labor,” she declaros, “Kinirea tion is going to be paid to the qggants| more than likely to abuse ie iiberiy |ploteunetun eeriain flowing sounds wine, Thousands of our mach Rey A Re ier attached tojin three weeks thay I saw, In ao ioe the War Feber Board show thas) gation of lady hoboes, which ns’ which Mygenteneeupas her, Also she of @ candle until the Amerioan nce Bervice France. there are now 000 Working, migratory female workers. is very ap’ per hus- Bok fioken the other prima donnas arried American men and | [ as the day is long,” she e the Homers, for in- | World wh the American man. graciously and ble evidence of no man in. the the Innate chiveiry of who Ray tave as ba , continued. acts as her accompanist Mirror or Candle. “Been ‘there's Regina Vicarino, who > married George Guyer, from San i Frane where they call her ih | second razzini, and has @ swe lo daughter. cr