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Playing for High Stakes, With Last Reserves
Filling Gaps in Both Fronts in Hope of Break
ing Lines of Allies With Close Formation.
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Upon which to conclude what he call*
'’an honorable peace—that la. a draw.
* But by» the very use of this method
he will, if he fails to achieve bis ob
ject, find himself In a much morse
■ position after that failure than before,
l for he is going to use what he knows
to be his last reserves and he has al-
”Veady begun to put them Into the
field
It Is very important that we should
#raep the contrasting objects of the
. Germans and of the Allies in the
west If we are to measure the fail-
, ure or success of this new offensive
which the Germans have undertaken.
Seeks to Break Lins.
The truth is that the enemy’s sole
conceivable object is to break the
allied line and to break it NOW;
while the object of the Allies is to
hold him, to keep him up^n the de
fensive (or upon the offensive de
fensive) until, at a LATKR and de
cided moment—for w’hlch they have
given all these weeks of preparation
——they launch their effort to break
«lm or to make him shorten his line
One might put it in a single sen
tence by saying that the Allies are
not YET trying to break him, while
I he Is, and must be. in this new offen
sive trying AT ONCE to break us.
So that the measure of our success
and of his failure In the next couple
of weeks will be his ability or In
ability to get through If he does
not get through, no local advance, n®
rapturing of a few pieces h®re or
there, or even of positions with which
recent encounters have made us fa
miliar. would bring the ultimate sue-
■ cess of the enemv nearer by an Inch
unless the effect produced upon civi
lian opinion should give the enemy
politically what he could not achieve
in the field.
Great Danger in Press.
That is certainly a great danger
To read certain organs of the press
in Great Britain one would imagine
the writers were incapable of grasp
ing the military meaning of military
events, and were concerned with
nothing more than tempting their
readers to read by panic one day,
boasting the next.
Unfortunately, comment of this
sort does affect general opinion, and,
I repeat, a political mlsjudgment
might give the enemy what he Is un
able to obtain In the field. But,
short of such a mlsjudgment, no local
successes can benefit the enemy at
all toward his immediate and only
useful end, which Is simply the break
ing of the allied line.
If he does not break that line he
has done nothing, and if his attempt
to break through falls, then, after
it has failed, he will be In a worse po
sition to meet the Anal allied offen
sive than he was before Not only
will he be weaker from losses, but
he will know* that he has now no fur
ther reserves to put In the field dur
ing the summer.
ROLE OF II. S. AFTER IflIAR
Noted Psychologist Declares America and Japan
Next Probable Opponents—Believes “Lasting
Peace Will Spring From Battlefields.”
I Many Valued Papers
! In Red Cross Auction
| Autographed Work* of Dicker!*,
8tevenson and Jane Anten
Offered at Christie'*.
Kitty Gordon Will
Become War Nurse
Vaudeville Beauty to Sail for Front
Soon—Gives Allies Auto
Ambulances
| Vienna Again Gay With
Turn of Tide in Galicia
[ - By LIEUT. COL. A. HEINCKE.
(Of tho Austrian Army.)
* VIENNA* May 16.-Nine months of
f jfrtm warfare has passed over Aus-
7 irla I remember so well the days
{I jjsrhen the frantic rrow’ds cheered ev-
j <ary regiment which left for the front
]| J Since then 270 days have passed.
■r. weary days and long nights of anx-
jty, which nobody ever wishes to
Jive through again.
* The brilliant enthusiasm of the
^hole nation has cooled down to a
Brin determination: if the enemies
5thlnk that the confidence of Austria
Is shaken, they err very much in
deed Every', soul goes about with a
g«ry sound and true contentedness.
_ The fine old capital of Emperor Franz
«Josef shows hardly any sign of un
easiness, especially now since the
Jlusaian offensive in the Carpathians
-lias broken dqwn entirely. The good
faith for the future is doubled and
if
can be noticed on every face.
* Of course, pity is felt by every
Civilian for the poor wounded soldiers.
Many once active, strong fellows limp
about on crutches, maimed for life.
But the well known "True Golden
m Vienna Heart" eases their sad lot a
» great deal. Uncountable gifts of
S every kind are offered continuously
pi .^’hile the men who offered their lives
if' .Xor the Fatherland struggle slowly
r , -along
The Bread Ticket’s Lesson.
f* w The other day I dropped Into a cafe
Rdar the opera Crowded with visit-
wm on it presented the usual Vienna pic-
Sff ture of chatting, well-dressed ladies,
ES officers in their tmart uniforms, me*
behind the mest telegrams and pa
pers, their cards or a gam a of bil
liards. wi ters rushing about from ta-
to table. However, something was
Mfiisslng The famous Vienna rolls,
Jw the fine pastry every one used to
with the coffee, have vanished.
T^r shows also here its grim fao
li
i
V
fifteen days the Brotkarte
jreaa ticket) has been issued and
%>body gets his dally bread allow-
■ice without presenting it.
Vrhe waiter bnngs my coffee and
U^ttly asks for my ticket. A pair
1 * sfjssors in his hand, an equipment
unknown in the cafe, appear, he
he coupons and returns with
ece of "kriegsbrot." It is quite
©rgia Man Is
Rescued in Time
tbes'dent of Woodstock Finds Himsslf
if—- Restored After His Physi
cians Failed
T. A. Uewis, lives out on Houle
U <, Woodstock, (la., was the victim of
stomach troubles for a long time. He
tried the treatments of many doctors.
S He tried all sorts of remedies
c His sufferings were a serious handi
cap to his work.
t Then he tried Mayr's Wonderful
I Homedy Just as it always does, the
first dose proved to him what could be
done for his ailment. He took the
Kill treatment; then wrote:
[ have taken your wonderful rem-
•*•0. . ml am feeling better than I have
Jtin four years.
-i'our remedy does just what you
,T “m It will do.
»»'] tried several doctors, but they
d me no good. I am glad that I
pfcve found your wonderful remedy.
K iave recommended It to some of my
rqghbors who need it.”
PMayr’R Wonderful Remedy gives
perm anent results for stomach, liver
an(* intestinal ailments Eat as much
Bland whatever you like No more dis-
after eating, pressure of ga.c 'n
||g)ie stomach and around the heart
one bottle of your druggist n
and try It on an absolute guarantee--
WM: not satisfactory, money will be j
Returned.—Advertisement.
sufficient, nourishing, and tastes very
well.
Suddenly a few words caught my
ear from the neighboring table. I
listen. Two men talk about the
"kriegsbrot." This is what they said:
“Oh, yes, we have quite enough bread
in the house, the ration is quite
sufficient, we even save up several
tickets at the week’s end and ex
change the rest for flour and other
material. And I tell you it is quite
healthy to live on shorter rations. My
wife and I feel much better In
health since we eat less. Really, this
bread-ticket arrangement will be a
lesson for a good many people who
have wasted bread! We—In fact
everybody—have lived on a much too
extravagant scale."
I indorse gladly this overheard con
versation. The man is right, this war
will be a good education for many.
Gold I Give for Iron.
Like a big wave a queer charity
has swept over the country I refer
to '*Geld bag ich fur Eisen.” When
it started everybody was eager to re
spond to this patriotic call. Rich
and poor offered their gold—many
pieces of fine old family Jewelry—
goodness knows how many wedding
rings were given as offerings to the
Fatherland.
The throng was tremendous; people,
mostly women, stood from the office
door right down the stairs along the
pavement in rows of two for hours,
patiently waiting in the hot sun to
receive for their gold a simple ring
of iron—worth perhaps twenty-five
cents.
Alongside of the lady in silk stood
the simple flower girl, the poorly
paid office girl. A good sentence I
caught passing one day. A lady said
to another close to her: "It takes a
long time before our turn comes.”
"The war takes longer.” was the
quick reply. I saw the two ladies
■till In good humor, passing an hoyr
later for my home. Yes, the Vienna
humor has grown into proverb
The Knight in Iron.
Another charitable Institution has
been erected on the Schnarzenberg
Platz. A dense crowd, whether rain
or sunshine, surrounds the black
wooden knight day after day. His
beaver over the face, a gilded sword
gripped by both hands across his
knees, he stands in a little open that
roofed chapel-like pavilion, upright,
daring! Made of wood, about 12 fee»
high, the idea is to drive nails into
his body until he is covered* by an
Iron armor of tiny nails. Each of
them costs “elne Krone.' about 20
i cents Of course, charity has no limit
—more may be given. If 2,000 people
drive in a nail every day. many
months—I have heard twenty-four—
are needed to cover the whole statue
While I looked at the statue, and
drove my nail into H. the crowd
cheered the passing “Sammelwagen.”
About six field wagons, such as are
used for the transport of food and
baggage in tho army, drove past
slowly. Decorated with the Austrian
colors and green fir tree branches,
they came to collect gifts for the hos
pital. the men in the field
The bugles sounded up the street
and everywhere the people rushed out
to deliver their ready made parcels.
The multitudes of them, huge, large
and small ones, soon filled the six
wagons At last no space was avail
able for the rest. Merrily driving
off the drivers shouted. “We come
again! We come again!”
ITALIANS BUYING HORSES.
HAMMOND. IND., May 29. ~Agents of
the Italian Government are scouring
Lake County for fine horses. At the
Crown Point horse market they bought
one hundred horses, which were shipped
to Chicago to be transshipped East.
NEW YORK, May 29 —Kitty Gordon,
the vaudeville star, will sail soon to
visit her husband, Captain Harry Beres-
ford. at Neuvre Chapelle. Later she
will go to the battle front to join the
band of Englishwomen nursing there.
Ail Miss Gordon’s male relatives on
her own side and by marriage are now
at the front and Miss Gordon has de
cided she must Join the other devoted
women and assist in the good work
they have been accomplishing by nurs
ing at the front.
Moreover, she has purchased two au
tomobile ambulances for the British
Red Cross and has sent out aft appeal to
all the English actors now in this coun
try to return and take up the patriotic
duty to their country on the battle
id.
flek
Pledges Fealty toU.S.
ofGerman-Americans
NEW YORK, May 29—"If it ever
comes to a war with Germany the Ger
man-Americans of the United States
will be found absolutely loyal to the
Stars and Stripes," said Alphonse G.
Koelble, president of the United German
Societies of New York.
Mr. Koelble had been prompted to
make this statement because of various
rumors that in the present crisis Ger
mans here were siding with their Fa
therland against the land of their adop
tion.
"1 do not believe we will ever have to
fight Germany, ' continued Mr Koeble.
“We would be fools to lose our heads.
We could gain nothing by making an
enemy of Germany."
DR. |. T. GAULT
Specialist"fer Mm
Established II Year*
S2 Inman Building,
Atlanta, arte
Royal Germans Lose
British Knighthood
LONDON, May 29.—Th® College of
Arms announces that King George has
directed that the following names be
struck from the roll of KnTghts of the
Garter.
The Emperor of Austria, the German
Etnperor, the King of Wurttemberg, the
German Crown Prince, the Grand Duke
of Hesse, Prince Henry of Prussia, the
Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha and the
Duke of Cumberland.
Prison Rather Than
Fight for the French
KANSAS CITY, May 29 —Given choice
of two years Jn the penitentiary or a
return to France to serve in the French
army. Arthur de Molln. a Frenchman,
captured in the act of robbing a gro
cery. turned to Judge Latshaw. who had
Just made the offer of a parole.
* lf it is either the penitentiary or
the army. Judge.” said T>e Molln, "send
me to the penitentiary.”
He was sentenced to two years.
Mayor of Rome Off
To Fight in Cavalry
ROME. May 29.—Prince Colonna,
Mayor of Rome, has resumed his post
in the army as major of cavalry and
started for the front, where his three
sons have preceded him.
About half of the Aldermen of Rome
have re-entered the army, and two-
thirds of the members of the Munici
pal Council have volunteered.
*
England Confronted
By a Meat Shortage
LONDON. May 39—The Board of
Trade calls attention to the great im
portance of restricting the consump
tion of meat.
The increase in price is found to be
due to the increased requirements of
the Rrltish and French armies and the
shortage of meat ships from oversea.
Clemenceau Sees No
World Peace Hope
PARIS. May J9.—Georges Clemenceau
writes:
"T have received from the United
I States a pretty note signed by Im
portant names wherein, under the aegis
'of Carnegie. I am told that this war will
Eventually result in considerable prog
ress along the road to univer*al peace
“I be lie v® they are all mistaken. ’
Professor Hugo Munsterbcrg, of
Harvard, in his latest book, "The
Pence and America," dis< usses our at
titude toward Germany. Th< follow
ing article is from the final ehap
ter of the book. It points out the
part this nation will play after peace
is declared. ^
By PROF. HUGO MUNSTERBERG.
W HAT will the new day (of
peace) bring to America? The
fancy of the first days that
America might stand aside as a mere
spectator, unshaken by the European
earthquake, has slowly been dispelled.
The American industries are crippled,
while those of Germany are flourish
ing, and a thousand times more un
employed are seeking work In New
York than in Berlin.
We hear from optimists that, who
ever wins, all Europe will be exhaust
ed from the war and America alone
will be the winner. Europe, with Its
fifty million dollars daily war budget,
will no longer be able to compete with
the inexhaustible resources of undis
turbed America, and in the markets
of the world the commerce of the
United States will have no serious ri
vals. It sounds tempting; yet can we
forget that by far the greatest mar
kets of the world and by far the best
customers were in those • exhausted
countries of Europe?
We hear from pessimists that, who
ever wins, the winner must be the
next enemy of America. If England Is
able to crush Germany, its naval pow
er will have such absolute command
of the sea that it must interfere with
the natural development of America’s
oversea trade, and the conflict would
become unavoidable. i
Utterly Groundless.
If, on the other hand, Germany
wins, it will seek to develop Its colo
nial possessions and try to seize ter
ritory In South America. The viola
tion of the Monroe Doctrine would im
mediately lead to a clash of arms.
Such pessimism seems utterly
groundless, and the future would look
bright if all misgivings could be so
easily recognized as unfounded. If
the Allies really win, Russia will be
the power which profits most, and
England’s full attention will be ab
sorbed by the threatening conflict
with the strengthened Russia which
can hardly wait to break into India.
But there Is still less reason for
fear if Germany wins. As the Presi
dent of the Reichstag said solemnly:
"From the blood-soaked battle fields
will spring a lasting peace for us.”
Germany knows exactly that any
colonizing efforts in the American
continent would mean a war, and Ger
many will never seek war.
Japan To Bo Feared.
If the victorious Germany should
think of colonies, they certainly would
not be in the sphere of American in
terests. But he w r ould anyhow be a
bad psychologist who would not fore
see that after this war the energies of
Germany will be so fully focused on
the Inner development of Its Euro
pean domain that the colonial wishes
will claim a small part of the public
attention.
The psychology of the situation sug
gests rather that if the United States,
abstracting from its troubles with
Mexico, comes into armed struggle. It
will be neither with England nor with
Germany, but with Japan.
With the opening of the Panama
Canal the great problem of the su
premacy of the Pacific has been defi
nitely set before mankind, and Ja
pan’s strength has been multiplied by
the war, whoever wins.
America’s political position in the
world does not and will not depend
upon its strength in war Its domain
is safe and no cannon balls will be
aimed toward the. Woolworth Build
ing. Its prosperity, too. Is secured by
the incomparable treasures of the
land. But its position among the na
tions of the world will depend upon
Its success or failure as a moral
leader
Two Answers Possible.
Few men in America know the
woria situation better than Colonel
Harvey, and few are more embit
tered against the barbarian Germans
“the enemies of civilization." In his
momentous letter to the editor of The
London Times, reprinted in the March
number of The North American Re
view, be says in unmistakable words.
"I wonder If your people, in com
mon with your Government and. of
course, yourself, are fully aware that
their allied forces are drawing their
rifles, their cartridges and their muni
tions of war from our factories, and
that but for the supply thus obtained
they could hardly hope ever to tri
umph."
But. even if The Times and the Gov
ernment were not aware of this unde
niable fact, the German nation is now
aware of It to the last man. Every
body there asks himself. Why does
not America feel the moral impulse
to shorten the war by forbidding the
export of weapons to all belligerents”
He may be mistaken, but he sees
only two possible answers. Either the
nation does not want to be neutral
and insists on this export because it
knows that only the Allies can profit
“ ■nd not their opponents, and
that it thus has the power to fight the
battles of the Allies without officially
declaring war, or the nation is politi
cally indifferent and considers the
commercial profit more Important
than all the striving for peace which
has been its perpetual program.
/ Change Is Coming.
will come when America
will look on all these un-American
actions exactly as England very soon
felt about Its anti-Americanism The
day may be nearer than the editors
imagine, and suddenly the spirit of
true neutrality may take hold of the
nation and may inspire its noblest
cons< ience and may raise it to the
height of moral leadership to which
it seemed destined in the first hour
of tnf European strife. I trust this
will be the glorious to-morrow which
will e’eetroy all those European sus
picions
F nally, what will the next day
bring to the Americans of German
dfsoent? For the American nation
■ ,<5 a whole the experience during this
war tme may be not without hard
ship. but for those millions of Ger
man - Americans, it is the bitterest
tragedy.
The ground on which they stood
trembled and broke; abysses are
around them. Their daily compan
ions have turned into their persecu
tors, their intimate friends into their
adversaries. The soil on which they
had forsworn their fatherland has
become foreign land to them, as they
feel that they are no longer welcome
to theii neighbors.
Praises German Industry.
Yet it Is the land which their in
dustry has plowed and to which their
loyalty is unshaken. They want to
struggle against the cruel attacks
which are hurled against the beloved
land of their fathers and brothers,
but bravery before the enemy is
cisier than bravery before the neu
tral.
While there were one hundred and
seventy Congressmen Of Irish descent
in Washington, there have never been
more than a handful of Getman-
Americans. Of course, those Irish
men do not form a party; and no out#
dreamed of creating a German party
beside the Democrats and Repub
licans.
Nothing could be more ruinous to
American life than a House of Rep
resentatives who represent only racial
groups of the country. Yet those one
hundred and seventy Irishmen mean
an influence by which the demands
of the Irish-Americans can secure re
spect and fulfillment.
Sees Lasting Peace.
Tf the German element, backed oy
a united organization, should become
a serious factor in the practical po
litical life of the nation, if those who
preach hatred against Germany were
defeated in elections wherever pos
sible, If a hundred or more Democrats
and Republicans of German descent
were carried Into the House, a repe
tition of that unspeakable moral
misery of the twenty million German.
Americans would become Imposslb/e.
The Germans say rightly that it
was always their aim to be in contact
with the culture of all foreign nations,
but that they tried more earnestly
and more sincerely to gain the cul
tural friendship of America than of
ar.v land. But can this really be the
last word? In the embittered hour the
quiet work may appear lost and the
highest values destroyed.
But that will not be and can not
be the American sentiment of to
morrow. From the blood-soaked bat
tle fields of the intellect, a lasting
peace will spring, too.
Making Soil Germs
Is Newest Industry
CANTON, OHIO, May 29.—Making
germs for farmers is a new Industry
which has sprung up In Canton and
which has increased its business sn rar>-
idly that It was Incorporated for $10,000
under the name of tne Eggert Chemi
cal Company. This concern is doing by
chemical process what nature formerly
did by alfalfa, soy bean, cow peas and
certain grades of clover.
Certain germs are needed when new
fields are sown. These germs were ob
tained by taking earth from old fields.
The new company is producing the
germs, which will be sold commercially.
Laboratories have been established.
Maimed in War, Man
Gets Job as Sailor
LONDON, May 29.—The Red Cross
sale at Messrs. Christie’s was devoted
to autograph letters and original
manuscripts. One of the most gen
erous donors was Sir Sidney Colvin,
who sent many of his precious Ste
venson and other manuscripts
Sir Sidney also presented letters of
Robert Browning and William Morris,
as well a.% of Swinburne.
Perhaps the most precious "lot” in
the sale consisted of Mrs. Frank
Gieldgud’s gift of five pages of the
original manuscript of the “Pickwick
Papers." Other Dickens items were
contributed by Lady Kekewich and
Burdett-Coutts.
Another choice “lot” was Austen-
Leigh’s manuscript of the first twelve
pages of an unfinished novel by Jane
Austen. T. J. Wise and Clement
Shorter, two well-known collectors,
contributed Borrow, Bronte, E. Norris
and Swinburne documents.
Austin Dobson sent one of his orig
inal manuscripts and several auto
graph copies of his poems; John
Galsworthy contributed the original
manuscript of his “Memories,” writ
ten in California three years ago;
Thomas Hardy, two autographed cop
ies; Rudyard Kipling, an autograph
of his famous poem, "For All We
Have and Are.”
From Charles Longman came two
manuscripts of Richard Jeffries, one
of 30 pages and the other of 31 pages;
Alfred Sutre contributed the type
written original of George Meredith’s
“Egotist,” with a great number of
manuscripts, and about 42 inserted
pages entirely in Meredith’s hand.
Among the many music items were
tl^e autograph copy of Paderewskis
famous minuet, given by the com
poser, and the original manuscripts
of Sir Arthur Sullivan’s "Utopia.”
about 318 pages, given by Herbert
Sullivan.
Kin of Patrick Henry
Is Wounded at Ypres
Descendant of Famous American
Patriot Fights for British in
Seeming Paradox.
HOW 10 3AVL ‘WAR BABIES'
‘To Church, Salvage Institution, Falls Task of
Relief”—“Bond of. Mutual Affection Be
tween Mother and Child Muse Be Preserved”
The Right Rev. Arthur Vfninington
Ingram, Lord Bishop of London, is
naturally greatly interested in Great
Britain's domestic problem of "war
babies" and his views on the subject
are given in the following interview
accorded, to Denis Crane, the well-
known novelist, for publication ex
clusively in the Hearst papers.
CHICAGO, Ma" 29.—News that Philip
Sampson, a great-great-great-grandson
of Patrick Henry, bad been wounded in
the battle of Ypres by a German bullet
has just been received by his parents.
Young Sampson is the son of Mrs. W.
G. Eaton by a former marriage Mrs.
Eaton, who is known in club and suf
frage circles as Mrs. Page Waller Eaton,
is a great-great-grandaughter of the
American patriot.
The news was contained in a telegram
from Montreal, which stated that young
Fampson wa swounded on April 23. The
young man—he is 21—is a soldier in the
Royal Montreal Regiment. Third Bri
gade, Fourteenth Battalion. He en
listed August 20.
The seeming paradox presented by the
spectacle of a descendant of the Ameri
can patriot who figuratively shook his
fist under the nose of the King of Eng
land and declaimed: “Give me liberty
or give me death!” now fighting for a
British king Is explained by Mrs. Eaton.
“My people are all British," she said.
“It was natural that my son should en
list with the Canadian regiment and
fight for the land of his fathers."
Maeterlinck Blames
War Ruin on Treaties
Belgium Poet Says Country Would
Have Been Spared but for
International Pact.
PHILADELPHIA. May 29.—Rendered
ineligible for further service by the loss
of all fingers on his right hand at the
battle of Neuvllle last October, Walter
Blake, 38. a resident of London, and
former British soldier, has Joined the
British steamer West Point at Port
Richmond piers as a member of the
crew The appointment was obtained
hv the British Government as a reward
for his service and sacrifice for his
country.
Rlake was among the first of the
British soldiers to go to France At
Neuvllle he fought in the first ranks
until a German bullet carried away the
fingers of his hand.
Girls With Beautiful Faces
or Graceful Figures.
American girls have a world-wide
reputation for beauty, but, at the same
time, there are girls in our cities who
possess neither beauty of face nor
form, because in these instances they
suffer from nervousness, the result of
disorders of the womanly organism.
At regular Intervals they suffer so
much that their strength leave**
them; they are so prostrated that it
takes days for them to recover their
strength. Of course, such periodic
distress has its bad effect on the
nervous system The withered and
drawn faces, the dark circles and
crow’s feet about the eyes, the
straight figure without those curves
which lend so much to feminine
beauty are the unmistakable signs of
womanly disorders
When a girl becomes a woman,
when a woman becomes a mother,
when women pass through the
changes of middle life, are the three
periods of life when health and
strength are most needed to with
stand the pain and distress often
caused by severe organic disturb
ances
At these critical times women are
best fortified by the use of Dr.
Pierce’s Favorite Prescription, an old
remedy of proved worth that keeps
the entire female system perfectly
regulated and In excellent condition.
Mothers, if your daughters are
weak, lack ambition, are troubled
with headaches, lassitude and are
tale and sickly. Dr. Pierce’s Favorite
Prescription Is just what they need to
surely bring the bloom of health to
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LONDON. May 29—Maurice Maeter
linck. speaking at the annual conference
of the British Constitutional Associa
tion, said the example of Belgium
showed the utter inefflcency of interna
tional law in time of war.
"If it had not been for the treaty of
London, made in 1831. and revised in
1838. and The Hague treaty of 1907,
there is not the least doubt that we
w'ould have been spared aggression and
all its terrible consequences,” he con
tinued. "If aggression has taken us by
surprise we owe it to the t r eatie«. When
we awoke from our belief in treaties It
was too late. The German army was
at our gate, and we were given twelve
hours to answer an ultimatum.
“The neutral powers have not even
lodged protest against the violation of
treaties. Peace conferences appear now
as only vague debating societies and
resolutions coming therefrom are mere
scraps of paper fit for the waste basket
By DENIS CRANE.
LONDON, May 29.—The trouble
with problems like that of "war
babies" is they all get out of propor
tion and entangle themselves w'.tli
false impressions. The statement is
made that there has been a great out
break of drlnkinng and licentiousness,
and it is promptly forgotten that 50
per cent of the regular army are tee-
tctalere, and that never in British his
tory has the young manhood of the
nation been morally so clean and up
right.
Similarly, when some one said "war
babies," alarmists at cr.ce saw* com
ing on such a crop of these specula
tive entities as threatened to subvert
social order. Among those who th nk
the situation 'has been exaggerated is
the Bishop of London, who in the
Church Council has already spoken on
the subject, and who on the matter
that so closely engages the thought
of Christian men and women, has
courteously consented to answer a
few questions.
"While there undoubtedly has been
a great deal of ill-formed and exag
gerated talk on the subject," said Dr.
Ingram, “I confess that the evil is a
grave one, because the birth of chil
dren outside the marriage relationship
on however small a scale is, in the
eyes of the church, a thing wrong in
itself and fraught with all sorts of
moral and economic perils. Sin is
hateful always,, and in any circum
stances. quite independent of its fre
quency and extensiveness.
Hopes for Definite Data Soon.
"As to the prevalence of the evil we
have at present no reliable informa
tion at all. Figures, that have been
given prove on investigation to be
mere guesswork. How could it be
otherwise? This is a mischief that
naturally shrinks from publicity.
Shortly, I hope, |^e shall have definite
data to go upon. The Archbishops’
Committee, which >lrs. Creighton Is
to convene in consultation with the
National Union of Woman Workers,
should put us in possession of the
facts. Meanw r hile there is a call for
caution and common sense.”
The bishop’s wrath was hot against
"sentimental nonsense" which speaks
of these unborn children as "seed of
our heroes," and excuses the mothers
because they "had not much to give,
but gave their all."
"People who talk like that,” said
he, "are a menace to morality. They
prove their utter incompetence even
to understand the problems, let alone
solve it."
“Upon whom lies the chief respon
sibility for these unhappy children?”
I asked.
"That is a point upon which no one
can presume to judge. At the same
time certain facts are indisputable.
Men have been beset, so we are told,
with unmaidenly—and it is in many
cases, I am glad to think, unwelcome
—attentions of young and thoughtless
girls who have caught the khaki fever,
and in gush and sentimental generos
ity feel they ought to do something
for soldiers. Doubtless the girls are
for the most part innocent in inten
tion. They want to show their appre
ciation of the sacrifices the boys have
made and the type of hysteria that
is prevalent in war time overwhelms
their modesty and paralyzes those
self-protective instincts that usually
preserve the ingenuous youth from
such excesses. But when that is said
it can not be too strongly urged that
girls who act like this are not hero
ines and are not to be excused. The
true friend of the soldier Is the girl
who checks all outbursts of enfeeb
ling sentiment and unbrtdled passion
and in preserving her ewn virtue
guards her lover’s honar. The times
call, not for any slackening of moral
standards, but for discipline and re
straint."
This, the bishop added, applied
equally to the soldier. God had given
one. standard of morality, and that
was the highest for all classes. A
king's uniform did not condone the
offense that the law of God con
demned. On the contrary, it, gave that
law special incidence. The soldier
lighting for righteousness was under
doubled obligations as to the integ
rity of his own priavte conduct.
Urges Certain Remedy.
Turning to practical measures, Dr.
Ingram opposed the view that the
authorities should make the same al
lowance to "unmarried wives” as to
the soldiers’ legal dependents, except
where women subsequently married
the fathers of their children.
"No,” the bishop resumed, "these
women must be helped, but not di
rectly by the State. This is where
the church and voluntary agencies
come in. The State cannot condone
moral evil; it must uphold the law
and exact for every offense its appro
priate penalty. The church, on the
other hand, while enforcing every
moral and spiritual obligation, is a
salvage institution. Its instruments
are wisdom and love, and in the con
dition of these girls, victims of their
own and another’s frailty, it has the
opportunity to justify its claims.
"At all costs the bond of mutual
affection and responsibility between
mother and child must be preserved
and, w'ifhout condoning the wrong,
womanly sympathy must be accord
ed. so that the offender may not be
driven to despair."
Recognizing- that the danger is not
yet over, the bishop urged that more
attention be given to preventive
measures. The increase of women
patrols was to be recommended, he
said, but more care is necessary in
the selection of persons appointed to
this work. Young girls naturally re
sent anything like espionage or un
warrantable interference w-lth their
liberties. The w^ork requires the ut
most tact, and the patrol’s duty must
be confined to intervention, when a
girl is in actual peril of place or con
duct. Stricter supervision by mili
tary authorities also w-ould be advis
able In co-operating w’lth those of
church, and all persons having over
sight of young women, such as pa
rents, guardians or employers,
should instruct them as to the dan-(
gers incurred by consorting with
strangers and by loose, heedlese con
duct.
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