Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1914-09-09
ON THE EDGE
OF The WAR

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A few days ago there was a bip mar
ade, and / watched it on Fifth Ave-
nue.. with muffled drums small
army OF women robed in black. mar
ched down the great thoroughfare.
as protest against the war Here
and there a woman would lean for
ward from the crowd of spectators
and clap vigorously. In another
place man would do the same. and
once two or three persons applaud
ed at the same time, but the gener-
al silence OF the great gathering was
considered the best evidence of I'M
derstanding. At different places
men stood with raised hats as the
peace flag passed.
The crowd which saw the parade
was immense. 1t began at Fifty
eighth Street, and there down the
Avenue the people stood three deep
on both sides, while children sat on
the curb stones at their feet. The
crowd massed on the steps of st. Pat
r.cks Cathedral, with its drapery of
mourning for the pope.
Silently and sorrowfully the for
eigners in the metropolis who are
perhaps brought closer to the situa-
ton than any other part of the Unit
ed Estates, watch the shifting scenes
and fortunes of war, as their broth
ers and their fathers, and their old
friends fall in battle, and as the pla
ces SO dear to them in the mother
countries are RACED by devilsh war
fare.
! Met NJ. ID. Berlitz.
| called on NJ. ID. Berlitz. having
learned that he was On this side of
the water. He is young man. and
an extremely active one. Il came
over to see my grandchildren, he
said, and was caught here in New
York, and could not get back to Eur
ope,' AS we talked he told me how
he had built up the greatest system
OF schools of languages in all the
world. Il have four hundred schools
scattered throughout the civilized
world" he said, land three hun
dred of them are in the war zones
cannot even communicate with
most of them, and those have heard
from are closed, while my managers
and teachers have gone to war, and
those same men who served me sol
faithfully and who did such a great
work, are against each other in OPP
posing armies" Mr.. Berlitz was,
born in Germany, was kniGhted in |
France, and is citizen of the Unit
ed States, though he spends most of !
his time abroad. Nearly all of the
four hundred great schools were m
stalled by himself, and he tells with
pride how he brought the work to |
and how the schools at New
York, Washington, Chicago, and else
where were nursed to full maturity
under his personal care nearly half
a century ago. You ask whether this
man was crushed because of the mis-
fortunes to his business? | cannot tell
you because his speech and manner
did not indicate any feeling in that
direction. He is one of the great cit
liens of the world, and he talked like
a man in profound sorrow, but his
feelings were all for This people, and
he called them by name, and told of
their successes in Moscow, St. Peters,
burg. Antwerp, Paris, Cologne, Liege,
l<OuuOH. lmeTe Was no ceHSuTe III
his tone or his voice-but there was
plenty of sorrow and regret, and it
extended to all those unfortunate
of Europe engaged in this
cruel war. And as l left him / car
RED away an impression that will
asst forever, that here was one of
he greatest creators of an education
II and business system that the
world has produced; and thought
hat had there been more men like
him, who had won individual re-
1own, in control of the politics OF
Europe, that the things we are read
ng about today could never have
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