The weekly Iberian. (New Iberia, La.) 1894-1946, 1915-10-02
THE EUROPEAN WAR
And Some of the Reasons
Why Thus Far Our Con-
suls For Peace Have Fallen
on Deaf Ears.

says:
Miss Goodrich, formerly Mrs.
Nat Good Win ia here to fulfill q
contract signed with the LaskJ
Motion Picture Company before
the European War.
"My contract was signed sew
eral months before the war;" said
Miss Goodrich, ''but | delayed
coming to America until had
finished my studies and was in
Ostend when the war broke out.
/ volunteered my services to the
Belgian Red Gross and for three
months, or until could stand II
no longer, | daily witnessed the
sufferings Of countless soldiers.
.sPeople in America have no
idea of the horrors Of the war.
They are phlegmatjc; interested
in it only as a sporting PROPOSE
ton. IL they could see, as l
have seen, the manned, bleeding
forms Of the soldiers and the
broken hearted women mourning
their dead, their hearts would go
out IN pity TO the people Of the
warning nations,
Given in London the people go
about the streets depressed and
with a sense Of fear constantly
upon them. The fear Of q Yep.
pelin raid and the deadly gas
bombs which have been shOwered
upon the city is ever present.
People sleep with q respirat0r
under their pillows. The fret
though t in the morning is one Of
thankfulness for escape and the
last though. at night is a prayer
for deliverance from the deadly
gas.
81 am trying to forget 1t. 1t
is beginning to seem like q dream,
but the .errors of the trip across
the ocean ! will never forget.
Every moment the danger Of be-
ing a target for q torpedo was
uppermost in our minds. My
mother is under the care of a
physician now, the effects Of the
8 strain she has been under. All
of us are almost nervous wrecks.
"We will get y house here in
Los Angeles and know what 1t
means to live once more without
the dread of impending doom"
Only a few days since we saw
q similar report from q prominent
New York woman just returned
from the scene Of h0stilities.
! She had served in the Red Gross
as a nurse from the beginning of
, the war. But she came home ut.
terly Disguised at the futillty Of
, her labors. She Gays: lit is ut
ter folly to attempt to assist
these people," We only add fuel
to the flame that is dev0uriDg
Europe. This reign Of madness
must spend itself. The people
must be left alone till out of
sheer helplessL ess and despair,
they become willing to listen to
reason.
The sane people Of this coun.
try, the real Democrats. those
who believe in the Fatherland OF
God and the Brotherhood OF man
have said from the beginning
that we should have absolutely
nothing to do with the beIligereDt
nations. Even to seDd nurses
and medicine il to pr0long the
agony. We have come to the
parting OF the ways. We must
caat our lot with them, or hold
ing utterly aloof use our utmost
endeavors to bring them back to
sanity, and paths OF peace.
In the effort to do so actions
will speak louder than words
However much we may counsel
"the beating Of words into pillow
shares, and spears into pruning
hooks, our words will fall on
deaf ears till we begin practiciDg
what we preach. They will be
lieve we love the almighty dollar
more than we love our fellowmeI
az long a. We sell our produce ia
either side, aud they'll never
he ID orr everlasting place, till
our actions prove that 10 the fu
tnre we intend settling interna
tionsl Differences by moral sua-
sion, rather than by resort tC
arms. Josie Thorpe Price.