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Desperate Plans for Repamng!
the Ravages of World War
Through the Practice of Polyg-!
amy Are Advocated Freely. |
By FRANCIS GRIBBLE, I
' Noted British Writer.
Our Tngitsh judges, mamm‘
and ministers of religion are daplor-’
ing the prevalence of bigamy as o.e‘
2 the collateral evils of the war,
The view of the German leaders of
pinion is different. They have been, |
ind still are, clamoring, not merelyi
‘or bigamy, but even for polygamy,
8 & means of repairing the ravages
which the war has wrought.
Rumors of a movement In that
direction, encouraged and even In
itigated by the State, have been cur
rent for some time, They seem trace
able to a letter written by a German
iady, at once time a governess, to her
former FEnglish patrons, She had
tuccesafully resisted a pressure to
which her two sisters had yielded.
Thesa sisters had, under “ofMcial”
wuspices, contracted unions as the
"ssult of which they expected shortly
Lo become mothers, and they would,
‘n due course, receive a pscuniary re
ward for the services they were thus
rendering to the community.
Another rumor, similar and sup
nlementary, mentioned some time ago
‘n the French press, was to the ef
fect that the German mfilitary au
thorities were conniving at unions
hetween farmers’ wives and daugh
ters and the prisoners of war work
ing on the land, Children, It was said,
had been born as the result of such |
ianfons, and when the mothers, as
senerally happened, showed no de
jyire to keep the bables 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 get a
pamphlet published at Cologne by a
certain Herr Karl Hermann Torges,
sotting the stamp of philosophical ap
proval on thase polygamous (or ra
thar, polvandrous) proceedings. The
title of this remarkable work is “Thae
Secondary Marriage as the Only
Means for the Creation of a New and
Powerful Army and the Purification
us Morals.”
It preaches polygamy as a religion
and expounds it as a program for the
mpid regeneration of an empire weak
oned by heavy losses in the field and
impaired vitality at home. The
scheme propounded-—to be worked out
by “the women and the clergy, as
sisted by the State”--is, broadly
speaking, as follows:
It is to be "up to” every German
spinster, on attaining a certain age. |
to contract an alliance—to be styled
% “secondary marriage”—with some
married man to whom she feels as.
fectionately disposed. In order that
unpleasantness may be avoided it
will be “up to” every legitimate wife
to .give her free and amiable consent
so her husband's extra conjugal
unours.
In order that the secondary wife
%y feel quite sure she is an honest
man, she must wear a secondary
wedding ring of elegant and readlly
recognizable design, But the union
will not be permanent, It will he dis
soluble at any time at the wish of
sither party, and if neither of the
parents has any love for the children
resulting from it, the State will take
¢harge of them and bring them up
to some useful ecalling.
Appeals to Clergy.
That in bald outline is the plan,
“nd the author appeals to the clergy
to do what thev can to remove the
“moral scruples” which stand in the
way of it. The divines who had no
moral seruples about the torpedoing
of the Lusitania can hardly be expect
ad to be shocked by this new de
parture in morals,
The first object obviously is to mo
hilize the full woman power of the
sountry for the purnose of Increasing
its man power. The second object,
no&fllen clearly, is to provide the
codntry with an inferior caste of citi
.sens, who will be, to all intents and
purposes, slaves. The mothers will
rarely be able to afford to retain the
echildren, even if they desire to do so
aftr they have been cast off by their
temporary hushands,
The immediate fortune of the in
fants, therefore. will be that of found
lings; and, in the end, the boys will
hecome a caste of soldiers like the
"Purkish Janissaries, and the girls a
saste of domestic servants in time of
peace and munition workers in time
of war. All that, admittedly, in order
that Germany may recover aquickly
from her losses and rear a fresh breed
of Huns to overrun Europe again in
another twenty vears’ time,
The proposal. put forward in cold
hiood, supported by philosophic argu
ments and a snuffiing appeal to plety,
i® as good a proof as one could have
of the moral decadence which the war
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:
Tn the first place. polygamy has
never vet in the history of the world
resulted in any rapid and abnormal
increase of the =cpulation. In the
second place, the plan, so carefully
drawn up, is a man's plan, and can
not possiblr be carried into effect
without the candid co-operation of the
women: and that cordial co-operation
is hardly likely to be secured without|
gtronger inducements than Herr‘
Torges is at prxent holding out to
them. For the are some resnits
which even German organization, in
genious as it is, can not accomplish. ‘
It may be granted, indeed, that the
. desire for mptherhood springs eter
¢ nally in the breasts of spinsters. n‘
4may also be granted that that desire
&€ not killed by the knowledze xhu‘
there are no husbands immediately
avallable. So far, Herr Torges is
right. But he is wrong if he ima:-‘
ipes any considerable number of spin
gters are anxious, or even willing. to
bear children which will be called
for, as soon as they are born, by some
unctionary of the state and carried
ffato workhouses or foundling hos
[ there to be trained to be the
prien ic servants of their more fortu-
‘Pershing’s Roads’ in
France Rival Those
. Built in Caesar’s Day
Rierials S oo B e Oedyie: 00l
Beds to Move Up Troops.
PARIS, Jan. 26.--The doings d the
American engineers in France would
gladden the heart of the late James J.
Hill and wring words of the highest
commendation from the late E. 1. 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 thelr way, that the cause
of the American republic may go for
ward.
I have scen roadbeds constructed that
will last as long as the Appian Way,
whose foundations are not of small
broken rock, but of huge pleces of
stone, any one of which would tax a
man's strength to move. They will
be spoken of by future generations as
"Perlhlng’l roads,”’ Lunt as the present
day inhabitants of the old continent re
fer to the roads cos Julius Caesar
through ancient Gaul. Masterpleces of
construction are hardly fit words to
describe them. They are marvels o
science and laid down by Americag
hands that thoroughly understand that
business and build for efficiency and al
n.ost eternity.
Startie Wild Boar.
I have seen huge, gray locomotives
steal by on broad fuuge tracks, with
the magie letters U/, 8, A.” on their
tenders, the shrieks of thelr whistles
startling the wild hoar out of haunts
he has held undisturbed for centuries.
1 have heard the clanging of American
locomotive bells that have frightened
the unsophisticated peasant villagers
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 their town
ship. The real opening up of France
is under way.
Such losomotives as are being nhlg;p:d
over to France have never before 'n
seen except by the few who have voy
aged across the sea. Some avowed
commuters, who have gazed upon the
diminutive rolling stock of France for
years and were thought to be thor
oughly blase in railroad matters, were
ttundlnfl at their station on the West
ern Rallway lines the other morning,
wnmnf 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 Q&: heaviest of
French engines. trullng hind it three
enormous ooklnr machines that made
the leader look like the veriest pygmy.
The huge locomotives, with wb:t seemed
I'lke myriads of dflvlax whe l' thun
dered along majestically, their lines of
slate gray resembling those of a battle
ship, while the only clew to what they
were were the Jetters “U. 8. A." painted
across the tender. ‘The driving cabs
were large, spacious affairs. into which
the whole tender of a French locomotive
could have been easily crowded. Their
hauling capacity can only be deseribed
a 8 enormous.
Suburbanites Startied,
The suburbanites rubbed their eyes
as if 't.lnfl on a vision, while the trio
of glants slld majestically by. In front
of the station a grinning, onmpalflm
hatted nfire in the cab suddenly Pu ed
a cord, ere was another ear-splitting
blast 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 Amarica, steaming, speed.
ing up, to meet the foe that has mocked
and minimized it
The peokle here are just beginning to
realize what Ifes behind the big ma
chines, but outside of the hl,‘h o’flcnrs
at army headquarters, apart from Gen
eral Pershing and his staff of experts
on transportation gathered 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
the battle front has only been begun.
Few comrrehond the sig:mcunca of the
organization that must completed be.
fore direct connection between base and
front is accomplished.
Transport s Vital, #
It must be put down in tangible form.
in rails and ties, so that the great strain
on the already overburdened French
raflways shall not be added to; so that
their structure may not be pushed out
of gear by the influx of the Americans,
and 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 likelv 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 yvoung women 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 fill up the gaps that
have been made; but not for war—no,
for an eternal and blessed peace.”
As long as German women talk like
that there is not the least prospect of
their acceding to Herr Torges' polyga
mous propositions for the purpose of
supplying the Kaiser with a new
army; and even the power of Prus.
sian militarism will be incapable of
compeiling 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 blis
ters and the skin was sore and red.
The breaking out itched and burned
and he cotfid 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 hegot worse, and
it went on until he was two and a half
years old. Then I sent for a free sam
rh of Cuticura Soap and Ointment.
used it for two weeks and his face
was so much better that I purchased
more, and one cake of Cuticura Soap
with one half box of Cuticura Oint
mentcompletely healed him.” (Signed)
Mrs. Lewis Sitterson, Plymouth, N.
C., July 25, 1017,
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HEARST'S SUNDAY AMERICAN — A Newspaper for People Who Think — SUNDAY, JANUARY 27, 1918,
continue to remain imperceptible as an
)n*ortant factor on the field of battle.
he stretch from base to front is a
long one, bul once our army is in action
nothing must be allowed Lo 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 ml‘ual opportunity for a mis
hap to the French organization. Only
the American organization must be
lwice as speedy. Speed is essential to
the success of the American operations;
speoed ma¥ mean the shortening or its
lack the enfthening of the war, with
les concommitant cost in men and dol
ars.
Port Facilities old. \
It the buse were already organized, if
the Americans had found an up-to-date
seaport, equipped with modern appa
ratus, ready (o receive them, with suf
ficient labor to load and unload the
ships and transports; If they had found
a well-kept up, double-tracked line of
ralls conducting them to the front, their
task would have been a thousand per
cent more simple. But they found none
of this. On the contrary, lheuf)ort 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 dmchnrfed
by hand, had 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
rallways changed. Schedules had to be
rearranged. Where the French might
run trains every half hour the Ameri
cans would have to arrange for one
every tive minutes. It couldn’t be done
with 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
to be constructed to haul it. Not the
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