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Desperate Plans for Repairing
the Ravages of World War,
Through the Practice of Polyg
amy Are Advocated Freely.
By FRANCIS GRIBBLE, ,
Noted British Writer. 1
Our English judges, u\.uui.«(r.uh-ni‘
and ministers of religion are deplor- |
ing the prevalence of bigamy as oo |
of the collateral evile of the war, }
The view of the German leaders nli
opinion is different. They have hffl‘fl,l
and still are, clamoring, not merely
for bigamy, but cven for ;mlvg:nny%
a 8 A means of repairing the v.—uvm'n.\i
which the war has wrought |
Rumors of a movement n 'hat!
direction, encouraged and even in ,
stigated by the State, have been cur- |
rent for some time, They seem trace. |
able to a letter written by a German |
lady, at once time a governess, to her |
former Knglish patrons She had
successfully resisted a pressure to
which her two sisters had yielded.
These smisters had, under “official”
waspiees, contracted unions as the
result of which they expected shortly
to become mothers, and they would,
in due course, receive a pecuniary re
ward for the services they were thus
rendering to the community
Another rumor, similar and sup
plementary, mentioned some time ago
in the French press, was to the ef
fect that the German military ,m-’
thorities were conniving at unions|
between farmers' wives and ll:nmh-'
ters and the prisoners of war work- |
ing on the land. Children, it was sald, *
had been born as the result of such
unions, and when the mothers, as
generally happened, showed no de
#ire to keep the bhabies they were
“adopted” by the State and carried |
away to be brought up in public in
stitutions.
Polygamy Approved.
On top of these reports we gei :.'
pamphlet published at Cologne by a
certain Herr Karl Hermann Torges,
gotting the stamp of philogsophical ap
proval on these polygamous (or ra
ther, polyandrous) proceedings, The
title of this remarkable work is “The
Secondary Marriage as the Only
Means for the Creation of a New and
Powerful Army and the Purification |
of Morale"
1t preaches polygamy as a religion
and expounds (t asg a program for the
rapid regeneration of an empire weak
aned hy heavy losses in the fleld :nnl‘
impaired vitality at home. The
gcheme propounded—to be worked out |
by “the women and the clergy, as
gisted by the RState"—is, broadly
speaking, as follows
It Is to be "up to” every German
spinster, on attaining a certaln age,
to contract an alliance-—-to be styled
f “secondary marriage” —with some
married man to whom she feels as-.
fectionately disposed. In order that
unpleasantness may ' he avoided It
will be “up tol every legitimate wife
to give her free and amiable consent
to her husband's extra conjugal
amours.
In order that the secondary wife
muay fesl quite sure she is an honest
woman, she must wear a flm‘und:fl'y‘
wedding ring of elegant and readlly
recognizable design. But the union |
will not he permanent. It will be dis
soluble at any time at the wish of
either party, and if neither of the
parents has any love for the children
resulting from it, the State will take
charge of them and bring them up
to some ureful ealling,
ADOQILI to Clergy.
~ That in bald®outline is the plan,
end the author appeals to the clergy
to do what they can to remove the
"moral scruples” which stand in the
way of it. The divines who had no
moral scruples about the torpedoing
of the Lusitania can hardly be expect
~od to be shocked by this new de
_ parture in morals.
~ The first oblect obviously is to mo
~ bilize the full woman power of the
~ eountry for the purpose of Increasing
_ #ta man power The second object,
- not less. clearly, is to provide ‘te
. gountry with an inferior caste of citi- |
- zens, who will he, to all intents und‘
. purposes, slaves. The mothers will|
x;mly be able to afford to retain the
- children, even if they desire to-do so
_ aftr they have been cast off by their
%’mmborary hushand« .
. The immediate fortune of the in- |
_ fants, therefore. will be that of found
lings: and, in the end. the bovs will
hecome a caste of soldiers like the
" Turkish Janissaries, and the girls a
_ paste of domestic servants in time of |
Em and munition workers in time
-of war. All that, admittedly, in urderl
%M Germany may recover quickly
_ from her losses and rear a fresh breed ‘
-of Hups to overrun Rurope again in
_another twenty years' time. |
~ The proposal. vut forward in cold
' blood; supnorted by philosophic argu-
E@l‘nu and a snuffiing appeal to plety, ‘
I 8 as good a proof as one could have
~of the moral decadence which the \\-uri
¢ has brought about in Germany. The
. only question is will the plan work? |
. We may confidently answer that it
~ will not, and for two reasons: |
~ In the first place, polvgamy has
. never yet in the history of the world
~ pesulted in any rapid and abnormal
" increase of the -opulation. In the
~ second vlace, the plan, so carefully
. drawn un, is a man's plan, and can
" not possiblc be. carried Into effect
~ without the fgndid co-operation of the
~ women: and that cordial co-operation .
~ie hardly likely to be secured without
mer inducements than Herr
! is at vresent holding out to
. fhem. For there are some results
. which even German organization, in
. gemjous as it is, can not accomplish.
.It may be granted, indeed, that the
~ desire for mytherhood springs eter
i in the breasts of spinsters. Nt
. may also he granted that that desire
_is not killed by the kfiowledge that
* there are ne husbands immediately
v.jl.bg So far, Herr Torges is
. right. But he is wrong if he imag-
Ines any considerable number of spin
e | are anxious, or even willing. to
:} r children which will be called
~ for, as soon as they are born, by some
. functionary of the state and carried
A to workhouses or foundling hos
-ot there to be trained to be the
~ domestic servants of their more fortu
- iate married sisters. He' might as
s call upon Mrs. Punch to
‘Pershing’s Roads’ in
France Rival Those
Built in Caesar’s Day
i it Wenk b oyertios B
Beds to Move Up Troops.
PARIS, Jan. 26.—The doings of the
American engieers in France would
gladden the heart of the late James J.
Hill and wring words of the highest
commendation from the late K. M. Har
riman They are bound to go down
in the history of the whole world as
nothing short of marvelous. Through
miles and miles of virgin territory, un
broken forests, clayey regions, shift
ing sands and plain, old-fashioned mud,
the men of the United States are hew
ing, hacking, cutting, digging, tunnel
ing, shoveling their way, that the cause
of the American republic may go for
ward
I have seen roadbedsg constructed that
will last as long as the Appian Way,
whose foundations are not of small
broken rock, but of huge pieces of*
stone, any one of which would tax a
man’s strength to move I'hey will
be spoken of by future generations as
“Pershing’s mm{u,“ eus( as the present.
day inhabitants of the old continent re
fer to the roads of Jullus Caesar
through anelent Gaul, Masterpieces of
constriction are hardly fit words to
deseribe them. They are marvels o
science and laid down by Americag
hands that thoroughly understand that
business and build for efficiency and al
irost eternity
Startle Wild Boar. i
I have seen huge, gray locomotives
steal by on broad gauge tracks, with
the magic letters “U". 8, A" on their
tenders, the shrieks of their whisties
sturtling the wild boar out of haunts
he has held unfisturbed for centuries.
I have heard the clanging of American
locomotive bells that have frightened
the unsophisticated peasant villngers
out of their night's slumbers and caused
them to wonder whether it was the
end of the earth or merely the signal
for an_aeriel attack on thelr town
ship. The real opening up of France
is under way.
Such locomotives as are being nhl{nped
over to France have neyer before heen
seen except by the few who have voy
aged across the gea. Some avowed
commuters, who have gazed upon the
diminutivé rolling stock of Frapee for
years and were thought te be thor
uu'ghl%' blase in railroad matters, were
#tand "f at their station on the West
ern Rallway lines the other morning,
wultlnf for the 7:16 that was to carry
them to Paris. There was a shriek in
the distance that caused every last one
of them to look up with startled amaze.
ment,
Up the track came the heaviest of
French engines, lmmni behind it three
enormous looking machines that made
the leader look like the yveriest pygmy.
The huge locomotives, with what seemed
like myriads of driving wheels, thun
dered along majestieally, their lines of
slate gray resembling those of a hattle
«hip, while the only clew to what they
were were the letters ‘U 8. A."' paintegd
across the tender. The driving cabs
were large, spacious affairs, into which
the whole tender of a French locomotive
ecould have heen easily crowded. Their
hauling capacity can omly be described
A 8 enormous. .
Suburbanites Startied,
The suburbanites rubbed their eyes
asa ir xullnfi on a vision, while the trio
of glants slld majestically by. Tln front
of the station a grinning, campalgn
hatted figure in the cab suddenly Fufi»d
a cord, ’{hem was another ear-splitting
hlast that caused the crowd to trembir
and cover up its ears. 'Then the loco
motives steamed on their way.
One French writer has said the loco
motives are a portent, a herald of the
real power of America, steaming, speed.
ing up, to meet the foe that has mocked
and minimized it :
The poogln here are just hrginnhfllo
realize what lies behind the big ma
chines, but outside of the high officers
at army headquarters, apart ?rom Gen
éral Pershing and his n% of experts
on transportation vthe from the
four corners of the United States, prob
ably very few Americans realize the
enormity of the project undertaken.
Few think of the problem that confronts
the American expeditionary forces few
take the time to figure out that after
the men have been safely transported to
these shores the problem of transporting
them and their supplies from the sea to
itha battle front has only heen begun.
Few comrrahend the significance of the
‘ornnlnt on that must be completed be.
fore direct connection between base and
front 18 accomplished.
‘ Transport Is Vital,
It must be put down in tangible form,
in rails and ties, so that the great strain
on the already overburdened French
rallways shall not be added to: so that
their structure may not be pushed out
:w-.r by the influx of the Americans,
until that is done the army must
bear children for Punch to throw out
of the window. ~
German Woman's Protest.
Nor is the idea of bearing children
to be soldiers likely to appeal to Ger
man women in the near future. A
notable utterance by one of them -
Frau Ellen Pasche—was lately print
ed in The Berliner Tageblatt: >
“Are we young wgmen who have
bright young children playing around
us to sacrifice them, too, in twenty
vears' time? It must not be. Or are
women to bear children merely as food
for powder? That also is hard to ad
mit. German women must now bear
many children to ik up the gaps that
have been made. dbut not for war-—no
for an eternal and blessed peace.”
As leng as German women talk like
that there is not the least prospect of
their acceding to Herr Torges' polyga
moug propositions for the purpose ol
supplying the Kaiser with a new
army: and even the power of Prus
sian militarism will be incapable of
compelling them to do so.
Little Baby Suffers
from Itching Eczema
Healed by Cuticura
‘“My baby was about eleven months
old when eczema came on his face.
It first came in red, rough-looking
splotches causing much disfigurement
and pain. It then came in little plis
ters and the skin was sore and red.
The breaking out itched and burned
and he could not sleep, and he
scratched his face so that I had to tie
his hands.
“I tried several medicines but in
stead of being relieved he got worse, and
it went on until he was two and a half
years old. Then I sent for a free sam
ple of Cuticura Soap and Ointment.
I used it for two weeks and his face
was s 0 much better that I purchased
more, and one cake of Cuticura Soap
with one half box of Caticura Oint,
ment completely healed him." (Signed)
Mrs. Lewis Sitterson, Plymouth, N.
C., July 25, 1917.
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continue to remain imperceptible as an
important factor on the fleheip’u! battle.
The stretch from base to front is a
long one, but once our army is in action
nothing must be allowed to interrupt the
ceaseless flow of food and supplies,
nothing may be left to chance that may
spell loss of American lives, on the
other hand, nothing must be done that
could give equal opportunity for a mis
hap to the Krench organization. Only
ilh" American organization " must be
twice as speedy. Speed is essential to
the success of the American operations;
speed may mean the shortening or its
lack the lengthening of the war, with
1;15 concommitant cost in men and dol
lars,
Port Faciltties Old.
If the base were already organized, if
the Americans had found an up-to-date
seaport, equipped with modern appa
ratus, ready to receive them, with suf
ficient labor to load and unload the
shipe and transports; if they had found
a well-kept up. double-tracked line of
rails conducting them to the front, their
lask would have been a thousand per
cent gnore simple, RBul they found none
of this. On the contrary, the port was
'of the oldest sort, its materials of the
crudest, its modern apparatus nil, and
‘as for laborers, there were none. Ships
had come in for years, had discharged
‘L% hand, bad reloaded by hand. Time
didn’t count, the Old World had never
learned to value it at its real worth.
The whole character of the sea front
‘had to be changed, the whole system of
railways changed. Schedules had to be
rearranged. \Where the French might
riun trains every half hour the ,\merr{-
cans would havée to arrange for one
every five minutes. It couldn’t be done
‘wn.h the old organization, and so it was
changed.
| Big Cranes Needed,
~ Big cranes, sixty of them, were the
first things to be sent for, Two had
always been considered a big order be
fore. ‘The port had none of its own.
Sheds and warehouses had to be built
to receive the merchandise, Cars had
tg be constructed to haul it. Not the
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