South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1914-09-09
Wars alarms Arouse
Goldberg, Who C 'nnot
Get Trousers Pressed


nothing happened. Everything was
pressed but my trousers.
When / emerged from the elevator
on the ground floor | was confronted
by a pile Of a thousand trunks. All
the male employees OF the hotel ex-
cepting one Swiss bell-bOy had gone
TO war. Ii evolved upon that sturdy
Swiss lad TO run the elevator, make
the beds. carry baggage, wait on the
tables. handle the books and polish
the dOor-knObs So. naturally the
service was nOticeably unsatisfactory.
The walls all over the ground floor
were plastered with notices instruct
ing all Germans and Austrians TO
leave town within "a hours Heavy
set gentlemen, with wrinkles in their
necks. were busy explaining to the
Swiss proprietary nitor-cham ber-
maid-bellboy, in a rich Limburger
dialect that they were Scotch tour
lists doing a bit of golhng in and
around Paris. one man with Heidel-
berg duel scars scattered all over his
face pinned a Peruvian flag in his
buttonhole and indicated that he was
deaf and domb. The next day his
power Of speech returned TO him sud
denly when he crossed the border in
TO Germany.
At this particular time the chief
concern of Americans in Paris was
whether or not the folks in Washing
ton realized their awful predicament
|. myself, had received no word from
the United States for three whole
weeks.
Is Bryan Too Busy I'm Vaudeville?
do they know that war has broken
Out?" will they leave us over here
to starve To death ," They ought TO
| send the whole American navy over
to bring us back" lis Bryan too
u
sistance?" The only boats running
/ to America are the Turkish coal col
\ liers and they go the other way.
! Do you suffer much when you starve
to death ?" These we're a few of the
\ things that filled the air wherever the
! Americans gathered together in little
I groups to console one another. The
/ sensation of being shut off from com
munication with the rest of the world
I was beginning to tell Any word of
encouragement was absorbed with
great faith.
If man had gone through the
I American colony saying he had ar
ranged to slip US through a hole in
| Bots de Boulogne SO we could come
out on the other side of the world in
the middle of the Pacific ocean, there
would have been mad scramble for
tickets.
A mass meeting was held In the
Grand hotel and many men who felt
it would be long time before they
could attend any banquets availed
themselves of the opportunity and
made speeches. We thought they said
something and applauded. The more
applause the speeches received the
! less help we received. Later, No. 365
of committee No. 6S7 said Pres. Will
/ son was sending over 100000 to re-
lieve our sufferings-the inability TO
/ have trousers pressed, the lack of
picture shows. the absence of bar
! tenders. the high rate of taXicabs and
other hardships.
Goldberg Has the Six Bits.
| There were approximately 3OO,0
Americans stranded in Europe. SO
that 100000 relief fund represented
/ 20 cents a head. My spirits rose. L
was worth six bits.
/ ! went out into the streets 10 watch
/ the troops and army wagons file slow
/ ly by.
Every soldier i'm his new uniform
or old one that had been hanging in
the kitchen for months or perhaps
years-had a smile on his face. 1t
was not a smile of self-satisfaction.
Nor was it a smile of JOY. 1t was
smile of faith and bravery There
was something holy in that express
/ sion.
| have no particular interest in
France excepting that | feel grateful
for it's artistic atmosphere, rare wines,
/ cheap carriages and red lips But
/ great big lump rose right up into the
middle of my throat when l saw
those men, fresh from heart-breaking
farewells to their wives and children
and sweethearts, riding right square
/ into almost certain destruction with
/ the calm resignation and divine con-
/ fdence of those inspired by some
| power more than mortal
/ cheered and sang and even shed
/ a tear or two. Perhaps / would have
felt the same way had / been in Ber
lin TO see the German soldiers take
I leave of their beloved ones This may
be old stuff 10 those who have passed
through trying times and have be-
| come blase. / hadn't time to think of
the grotesQue figure / may have pre-
scented standing there deeply touched
bv a sight that had little or no bear
ing on my own personal future.
saw sOmeth ig that showed me
there is still nobility among men
and il has nothing - do with a crest.
Not Dry-Eyed Woman i'm ThrOng.
There was not a dry woman
i'm all that crowd that thrOnged the
streets. Patriotism knows no restraint
nor etiquette. Nature Obeys the high
or instincts. ] saw a fashionably
dressed woman WITH a uellCdle Cullu
i'm her arms embracing her husband
right in the middle of the street No
one stared and no one passed a word
of ridicule. The air about them was
Z held sacred.
The man looked like and probably
was prosperous lawyer or physician.
But his uniform was rough and he
wore no decorations. He carried his
identification card inside his heavy
blue coat and he was going away
from everything he loved 10 fight. not
for any personal glory but for his fair,
green country.
/ said TO myself. this is no place
for a man who owes himself money"
>traSsburc statue i'm Tango Gown.
So / wandered out the Champs
Flysees till came 10 Place de la
ConcOrde where old lady Strassburg
has sat for SO manv years ROBBED in
black in memory OF her folks. Alsace
and Lorraine But she was no long
er weeping Her black cr"pe and
wreath had given way 10 red white