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HEARST’S SUNDAY AMERICAN. ATLANTA. 0A„
SUNDAY, MAY 30,
1915.
LAST SPURT OF STRENGTH
Playing for High Stakes, With Last Reserves
Filling Gaps in Both Fronts in Hope of Break
ing lines of Allies With Close Formation.
XT' ITTY GORDON, vaude-
ville actress, who has
; decided to quit tour of United
> States to become war nurse at
the front in France.
Continued From Page 1.
ttpop which to conclude what he call*
iui honorable peace—that la. a draw.
But by the very use of thi* method
he will, If he fall* to achieve hi* ob
ject, find himself In a much worse
position after that failure than before,
for he Is going to use what he know*
to be hi* last reserve* and he ha* al
ready begun to put them into the
Held.
It !* very important that we should
grasp 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 German* have undertaken.
Seeks to Break Line.
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 Aljles la to
hold him. to keep him upon the de
fensive (or upon the offensive de
fensive) until, at a I.ATER and de
rided moment — for which they have
given all these weeks of preparation
—they launch their effort to break
him or to make him shorten his l(he.
One might put It In a single sen-
tenoe by saying that the Allies are
not YET trying to break him, while
he ia, and must he, in this new offen
sive trying AT ONCE to break us.
80 that the measure of our success
snd of hts failure In the next couple
of weeks will be his ability or In
ability to get through Tf he does
not get through, no local advance, no
capturing of a few place* here or
there, or even of positions with which
recent encounter* have made u* fa
miliar. would bring the ultimate suc
cess of the enemy 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 Prese.
That Is certainly a great danger
To read certain organs of the f>rc*s
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. Rut.
short of such a mlajudgment, no local
successes can benefit the enemy at
all toward his Immediate and only
useful end. which It simply the break
ing of the allied line.
Tf he does not break that line he
has done nothing, and If his attempt
to break through fail*, then, after
it has failed, he will be in a worse po
sition to meet the final 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
Austrians Flee Before
Italy’s Invading Army
By BRIXTON D. ALLAIRE
(Special Correspondent International
News Service,)
ROME, May 2».—All efTorts of the
Austrians to check the Italian inva
sion of Trent and Istria have failed,
ami the attvance continues success
fully at every point.
It Is unofficially reported that the
Austrian authorities have left Trieste
aj*J that the city has been abandoned
to the mercy of turbulent mobs
The ItftMan forces which occupied
Omdisa have crossed the Isonzo River
and are pushing southward toward
Monfalcone. A severe duel along the
heights of the Iaonao demonstrated
the superiority of the Italian guns.
(Storo is seven miles Inside of the
Austrian frontier and lies northeast
of Lake Idro. Tremalzo is east of
Storo and He* north of Lake Garda).
Italian artillery which was dragged
to the crests of raptured heights on
Austrian soil, have bombarded the val
ley of the F>l*a. wrecking an Austrian
ammunition train which was on the
way to the front.
Rlva, an important Austrian strong
hold at the extreme northern end of
Lake Garda, has been violently bom
barded
Austrian troops have retired In the
Austrian provinces of Trentlno and
Friuli, devastating the country behind
them, burning houses and destroying
crops.
A dispatch from Milan says part of
Trieste was destroyed by ftre, aet by
mobs. The office of the Italian news
paper Hlocolo, in Trieste, was fired, as
well as many shops and residenoe*
The mobs cut off the water supply so
the fire* could not be put out.
Related report# of Austro-Italian
naval operations in the Adriatic Sen
early in the week state that an Aus
trian submarine wa* badly damaged,
and probably destroyed, and that the
Italian torpedo boat destroyer Tur
bine was sent to the bottom by her
own crew’ off Pola to avoid capture by
the Austrians
Turk Loss 60,000
At the Dardanelles
(By International New, 8ervlce.)
ATITFJNB May 20.—The total Turk
ish oaaualttee in the fighting on the
Dardanellea are eetimated at 60,000,
In fllapn-tchoe received to-day from
Tenedoe The Eighth and Tenth
Syrian ttlvlatona of the Turktah „rmy
have arrived at Constantinople after
a forced march from the Interior The
troops are In bad shape from 22
day* of conetam marching
Turkey Holds Back
War Order on Italy
(By International Newt Service.)
SOFIA. BULGARIA. May 29 -Ta-
l&at Boy. Turkish Minister of the In
terior. Is reported In a dispatch from
Constantinople as saying
'Turkey has not declared war
against ItaJy, and will not do so un
til it Is seen whether or not Italy
sends ships and men to help the Allies
at the Dardanelles.”
Flash Your Blood
Get it Cleansed
Remarkable Remedy Thai
Works All Through
Your Body.
When you put a tablespoouful of S. 8.
ft. Into your stomach it gets straight
Into your blood In lees than five min
utes it hae become a wave of restora
tive Influence wherever the blood has
circulated Does this read like magic?
But it is absolutely true. Those power
ful digestive juioes in the stomach can
not change the medicinal effect of S. 8.
S The Uver can not burn it. The
lungs, skin and kidneys excrete it only
after 6. £ 0. has set In motion millions
of cells and nerves to throw off the
countless germs that have Infested every
part of the body. And b. 8 8 contin
ues to battle these troublesome peets
that gather In the form of pimples, boils,
eoseraa, acne, catarrh, rheumatism and
other so-caUed blood disorders, it rouses
into action a myriad of strange, but
weU-understood corpuscle* called Tue-
cocytee that actually devour or change
or convert disease germs so they are
readily and quioldy cast out of the body.
It is probably the best appreciated
blood medicine known. You will find
8 S. 8. on sale in nearly every drug
store in the U. S. Get a bottle to-day
And If your case is peculiar, write to
the Medical Department. The Pwift
Specific Company, 105 Swift Building
Atlanta, Oa It is conducted by a noted
Physician.
Terrific Gun Attack
Opened by Germans
By FRANKLIN P. MERRICK.
PARIS, May 2#.—Ceaairtg their
counter attack, with infantry for the
time being, the Germane launched a
terrific twelve-bour bombardment
againat the new French poeltions at
Notre Dame de Loretta In an effort to
dislodge the French soldiers from
that' trenches
An official communique, issued by
the French War Office to-day, states
that the Germans carried on an all-
night cannonade against the French
positions at Notre Dams de Iairette.
but despite the violent artillery fire,
the Frenoh have been able to make
further progress east of the road that
runs through Alx Noulette and Sou-
chel.
The French have renewed their of
fensive In the Argonne forest, captur
ing a German trenoh at Fontaine
Madame.
The communique shows there Is no
abatement In the ferocity of the bat
tle which has now been raging for
many days between the Germans and
French between Arras and La Bassee.
The fighting oentere particularly
around SoucheB and the Lorette hills,
where the French are trying to break
through the German lines and take
Lens, an important center of high,
ways and railways.
Advancing Russians
Take Turk Supplies
By FRANCIS LAVELLE MURRAY.
PETROORAD. May 29.—Twenty -
six guns, numerous other arms cf
various classes, enormous stores of
ammunition and provisions and all
of the government treasury for the
vilayet of Van were captured by the
Russian army which ha* occupied
Van, in Armenia, according to an of
ficial announcement relative to op
erations in the southern theater of
war issued to-day.
The Turks are suffering heavy
losses in Armenia and are falling
back before the continued advance of
the Russians. A Russian force has
occupied V&stan (Woatan). on the
southern shores of I-ake Van. The
Turks have been defeated on the
Seroskyrtyk-Blza Gugaverskuja road
and the Russians have occupied Bu-
riga.
Frenchman Is Victor
In Duel in the Clouds
i By International New* Servioe.)
PARIS, May 29.—A graphic story
of a thrilling air duel. 9.000 feet above
the ground, in which Lieutenant von
Buelow, of the German army, was
killed, is given t-day by The Matin.
Lieutenant von Buelow is believed to
have been related to Prince von Bue
low. the German Ambassador to Italy.
The fight took place over Flames,
between Rheims and Soissons The
French aviator who won the aerial
fight has been given a military medal
for gailantry In action.
Kitty Gordon Will
Become War Nurse
Vaudeville Beauty to Sail for Front
Soon—Gives Allies Auto
Ambulances
NEW YORK, May 89-Klttv Gordon,
the vaudeville star, will sail soon to
visit her husband. Captain Harry Beres-
ford, at Neuvrr Chapelle. Later she
will go to the battle front to Join the
band of Englishwomen nursing there.
All 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 went out an appeal to
all the English actors now in tbla coun
try to return and take up the patriotic
duty to their country on the battle
field
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,” Bala Alphonse G.
Koelble. president of the United German
Societies of New York.
Mr. Koelble had been promoted to
make this statement because of various
rumors that In the present crisis Ger
mans here were siding with their Fa
therland figalnsi the land of their adop
tion.
"I 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.”
LONDON STRIKE SETTLED
(By International News Service.)
LONDON. May 29.—The tramway
atrike was settled to-da>.
Royal Germans Lose
British Knighthood
LONDON. May 29 —The College of
Arms announces that King George has
directed that the following namea be
struck from the roll of Knights of the
Garter:
The Emperor of Austria, the German
Emperor, 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 cf Cumberland.
Prison Rather Than
Fight for the French
KANSAS CTTY, May 29 -Given choice
of two years in the penitentiary or a
return to France to serve in the Frenoh
army. Arthur de Molin. a Frenchman,
captured in the act of robbing a gro
cery. turned to Judge Latshaw, who had
Just made the offer of a parole.
“If It la either the Penitentiary or
the army. Judge." said De Molin. “send
me to the penitentiary.”
He waa 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-
thints of the members of the Munici
pal Council have volunteered
England Confronted
By a Meat Shortage
LONDON. May 29 -The Board of
Trade call* 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 British and French armies and ths
shortage of meat ships from oversea.
Clemenceau Sees No
World Peace Hope
PARIS. May 29.—Georges Clemenceau
writes
“I have received from the United
States a pretty note signed by im
portant name* wherein, under the aegis
of Carnegie. I am told that this war will
eventually ’•esult in considerable prog
ress along the road to universal peace
“1 believe they are all mistaken.”
ROLEOFU. SJFTERWIIR
Noted Psychologist Declares America and Japan
Next Probable Opponents—Believes “Lasting
Peace Will Spring From Battlefields.”
Professor Hugo Munster berg, of
Harvard, in hin latent book, “The
Peace and Americadiscusses our at
titudr toward Germany. The follow
ing article in from the /Inal chap
ter of the book. It pointn out the
part thin nation will play after, peace
in declared.
By PROF. HUGO MUNSTERBERG.
W HAT will the new' day (of
peacej 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
forgei that by far the greatest mar
kets of the world and hv 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.
Utterly Groundless
If, on the other hand, Germany
wins, it will seek to develop its colo
nial possessions and try to seise 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 attentloh will be ab
sorbed by the threatening conflict
\*lth 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 Be Feared.
If the victorious Germany should
think of colonies, they certainly would
not he in the sphere of American in
terests. But he would anyhow he a
bad psychologist who would not fore
see that after this war the energies of
Germany will he 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
gest* rather that If the United States,
abstracting from its troubles with
Mexico, comes into armed struggle, it
will he neither with England nor with
Germany, hut with Japan.
M ith the opening of the Panama.
Canal the great problem of the su
premacy of the Pacific has been defi
nitely set befhre 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 townrd 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
world 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. he says in unmistakable words:
”1 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 he neutral
and insists on this export because it
knows that only the Allies can profit
from It and not their opponents, and
that it thus has the power to fight the
battle* 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.
The day 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
conscience and may raise it to the
height of moral leadership to which
it seemed destined 1n the first hour
of the European strife. I trust this
will be the glorious to-morrow which
will e’estroy all those European sus
picions.
F.nally, what will the next day
bring to the Americans of German
descent? For the American nation
as a whole the experience during this
war t:me may be not without hard
ship, but for those million* of Ger
man-Americans, it Is the bitterest
tragec'v.
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 tneir
adversaries The soil on which they
had forsworn their fatherland has
hecomt foreign land to them, as they
fee! that they are no longer welcome
tu theii neighbors.
Praises German Industry.
Yet it is the land which their in
dust *-y has plowed and to which their
Joxalty 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
eisier than bravery before the neu
tral.
While there were one hundred and
seventy Congressmen of Irish descent
in Washington, there have never been
more then a handful of German-
Amencans. Of course, those Irish
men do not form a party; and no on#
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 Peaoe.
If the German element, hacked oy
a united organization, should become
a serious factor In the practical po
litical life of the nation, if those why
preach hatred against Germany were
defeated In election* 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 impossible.
The Germans say rightly that it
was always their aim to he in contact
with the culture of all foreign nations,
blit that they tried more earnestly
and more sincerely to gain the cul
tural friendship of America than of
ar.y land Rut ran this really be the
last word? In the embittered hour the
quiet work may appear lost and the
highest values destroyed.
But that wljl 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.
Many Valued Papers
In Red Cross Auction
Autographad Work* of Dicken*.
Stevenson and Jane Anten
Offered at Christie’s.
Maeterlinck Blames
War Ruin on Treaties
1/>NTX>N. May 29.—Maurice Maeter
linck. speaking at the annual conference
of the British Constitutional Associa
tion, said the example of Belgium
showed the utter ineffloency of interna
tional law in time of war.
"If it had not been for the treaty of
London, made In 1821, and revised in
1838. and The Hague treaty of 1907.
there is not the least doubt that we
Would have been spared aggression and
all its terrible consequences.” he con
tinued. “If aggression has taken us by
surprise we owe it to the treaties. 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
a* only vague debating societies and
resolutions coming therefrom are mere
scraps of paper fit for the waste basket.
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 so rap
idly that it was incorporated for $H>,000
under the name of the Eggert Chemi
cal Company. This concern is doing by
chemical process w’hat 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.
BARGAINS
FLYING MURKLE MOTORCYCLES,
1914 Model.
Absolutely new; never been run. Only four left.
Must Be Sold Quick
$125.00.
J. B. Shellnut Selling Agt.
64 Peachtree
LONDON, May 29.—The Red Cross
aaie 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 as of Swinburne.
Parhaps the most precious "lot” in
the sale consisted of Mrs. FYank
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-
Lelgh'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 document*.
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 41 Inserted
pages entirely in Meredith’s hand
Among the many music items were
the autograph copy of Paderewski's
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
V
Descendant of Famous American
Patriot Fights for British In
Seeming Paradox.
CHICAGO, May 39 —News that Philip
Sampson, a great-great-great-grandson
of Patrick Henry, had been w’ounded 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. Raton 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 waa contained in a telegram
from Montreal, which stated that young
Sampson wa rwounded on April 23. The
S oung man—he is 21—is a soldier in the
oyal 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 1“ 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.”
Maimed in War, Man
Gets Job as Sailor
PHTliADETLPHTA. May 29. -Rendered
ineligible for further service by the loss
of all fingers on his right hand at the
battle of Neuville last October Walter
Blake. 38. a resident of London, and
former British soldier, haa joined the
British steamer West Point at Port
Richmond piers as a member of th<»
crew The appointment was obtained
by the British Government as a reward
for his servioe and sacrifice for his
country.
Blake was among the first of the
British soldiers to go to France At
Neuville he fought in the first ranks
until a German bullet carried away the
fingers of hia hand.
“To Church, Salvage Institution, Falls Task ofi
Relief”—“Bond of Mutual Affection Be
tween Mother and Child Muse Be Preserved’*
The Right Rev. Arthur V/innington
Ingram, Lord Binhop of London, in
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.
By DENIS CRANE.
LONDON, May 29.—The trouble
with problems like that of "war
hablea” is they all get out of propor-
tior and entangle themselves w.tli
false impression*. The statement
made that there haa been a great out
break of drinkinng and licentiousness,
and it is promptly forgotten that 30
per cent of the regular army are tee
totalers, and that never In British his
tory has the young manhood of tha
nation been morally «o clean anl up*
right.
Similarly, when some one aaid “war
babies,” alarmist* at clC<* saw com
ing on such a crop of these specula
tive entities as threatened to subvert
social order Among those who tlvnk
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
eves 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, we shall have definite
data to go upon. The Archbishops'
Committee, which Mrs Creighton is
to convene In conaultation with the
National Union of Woman "Workers,
should put us in possession of the
facts. Meanwhile there is a caJl 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 unbridled passion
and in preserving her own virtue
guards her lover’s honor. 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
fighting for righteousness waa under
doubled obligations as to the integ
rity of his own prlavte conduct.
Urges Certain Remedy.
Turning to practical measure#. 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. It* instruments
are wisdom and love, and In the con-
, dition of these girls, victims of their
own and another's Duality, 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. without condoning the wrong,
womanly empathy must be accord
ed. so that the offender may not be
driven to despair.”
Recognizing that the danger 1* 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 with their
liberties. The work 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 would be advis
able in co-operating with 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, heedless con
duct.
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
on© hundred horses, which were shipped
to Chicago to he transshipped East.
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