The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-11-08


be within stated limits. These precau-
tions are taken to prevent panic and
what the English can scratching
pennies by attempts to give by voice
or headline a wrong value to the news
or false news itself.
La FrOHdc has always stood for the
creed that to woman belongs the last
word, and its rather high handed
methods Of attack were looked on smil-
ingly in the beginning of it's career. or
possibly it may have been protected 10y
high officials. To-day such liberty is
revoked. Every issue of La Frondc !.
submitted 10 the Minister Of War he
fore 1t Is put on sale with obvious re-
suits.
The offices of La Frondc are on the
th'rd floor of a big Cd fashioned build
lng in the Rue Montmartre When a
SIN correspondent called there to inter-
view the editor it was found that Nine.
Durand had been detained at the War
btiice. hut was expected back shortly.
The question of woman suffrage is
In England and France at least "a dead
| topic at present. La FroHdc.. without
losing sight of It's fundamental aims.
has widely detected its activities into
ne channels created by circumstance
beyond its control. Always anti-war i'm
It's policy, now that the war is here II
/ does not discuss its psychological as
p"cts or bother with peace projects.
/ Nile. Marie one of the associate editors.
voiced ihe views of Mime Durand by
SaNi ing that this will be the last war.
| without volitiun of their own" she
SAID, women by the cXlgoncies Of the
war struggle which has handicapped the
man force in the professional and bust
ness world are pushed into the positions
which they have cove ed, and the step
from those to the legislative power will
not be so long one as It might be by
| the ordinary course of events. The
splendid organization that has fitted
women for this now roaps its full re-
ward.
once there, are there any women who
VIII permit another war? With their
hands on the resources of the States
VIII women ever submit to the agony
lot seeing husband, son and brother 60
to flght?"
The answer is assured before the qucs-
ton is finished. This is the last war of
civilization, so the women say.
While we are deep in this discussion
Nine, Durand comes and am invited tn
her inner office Mime. Durand is hand
some, and little later on bushes like a
dehutante when a request is made for
her photograph. She is gowned very
modishly, her black picture hat orna-
mented with single rose, beneath
which shows an abundance of golden
hair Her eyes are blue, the expression
Keen yet very sweet. and the mouth has
the same combination of amiabi!itv and
decision.
She is much agitated, and excusing her
self talks Immediately through the tele-
phone with tears and anger alternately
In her voice. She has tears too in her
eyes when she explains her feelings
That. like true French woman In a
crisis, she makes no effort to control.
THE Minister Of War has cut my
leader OUT she says. "He will not let
me print "A word of It, All vanished in
smoke So arbitrary. ! have waited
there for hours-and then to get this
dccision."
ask, following this, question that
has been agitatng my mind for "A long
time.
40 you think that this extraordinary
secrecy regarding the war is WISE"
Il do not have said that in one
of the numbers. Here it is! You will
see. knowing the temperament of the
French people I can only dcplore the
unnecessary secrecy while admitting the
necessity for wise precautions. The
French people are breaking under the
strain. We are too emotional too high
strung, our imaginations too active. All
along ! have been opposcd--not to the
secrecy but to its hyperstringency"
What do YOU think will be the return
demanded by the French Government
for the atrocities alleged to have been
committed by tho German army?"
"Thls-that | have already written-is
my creed and my hope" and she pointed
to the following article:
"The French Government in mal<inl
public the inhuman acts committed y,
the German troops, that is the use o
dumdum bullets and of niCked bay0nets
has acted well. lSut these acts Shout,
sadden us not lead us to rcprisals.
Such atrocities are unf ~tunatly az
integral part of every war. and 1t Is ur
account of them more than on accoun
Of any other feature that pacltisi
oppose the fighting of nations Away
there has been and Is now added to tn
loss of the Combatants the awful sacri
flee of innocent women and children
hoCatomhs of these.
The unclaimed soldier to whateve
race he belongs is an cXterminator. T,
kill produces an excitement of tn
@ spirit which ends in preventing hi
making any distinctions; it is a sor
@ of intoXication, of incipient madness
@ Hunters are often, according to psy
/, biologists, prey to 1t and xiii some
?. tines their dogs or their companion
"A when obsessed by its power.
$ AN army enervated by defeat o
drunk with victory is always scourge
: 1t Is a storm that RACES forests, tn
hail which lays the harvest low. tn
:, powder which blows up and destroys.
r The role OF those who are not Il
action should not be that of exciters
l. 1t Is bad it is odious to say to on
z French soldiers: The Germans have Gu