The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-08-12

played handsome gowns anu WoA4St
full hats and jewels. are now seen
widows weeds, and artificial limbs and
respirators. I saw In Germany and
Belgium great wounds in the ground,
made by bursting shells. Nature
seeks to cover them by the corn now
ers and the poppies. which grow Il
the wheat fields, but the peoples only
serve to remind one OF the open
wounds in the bodies of tho soldiers
and the corn flowers arc . reminder
OF the blue eyes Of the German boys
forever closed to the scenes OF earth.
London Is dark and the people
move with stern set faces and quiet
voice The day I landed in America
my wife invited few friends g the
house to meet me. They laughed ana
talked with the careless ffee hearted
American spirit, and it seemed 20 ma
wicked to laugh, 1t Jared on me 40
II 1t were bad taste. You see, nao
been for weeks where no ono laughs.
vIsited Field Hospitaia
T visited many field hospitals. Ono
day in France, we had heard dFin8
all day and the doctors n the hospf-
tai said: we will have many pa-
tents tonight They fight from the
trenches so long as day light lasts
and at night cease that the dead ana
wounded may be gathered In.
helped carry the stretchers from the
ambulance vans. About hve per
cent are wounded AZ our soldiers In
the civil war were, from . clean gun
wound, the others are mangled with
sctrapnel, or sabre thrusts. or are
wrecks or are insane. No
other war ever saw SO much insan-
ity. In every hospital train. one car
Is padded. filled with insane. When
the soldiers wefe taken from the
their clothes w6ro re-
moved, cut from their bodies. or
soaked Oft for the blood clots often
make 1t impossible to remove them
otherwise. Then they are bathed
and Oh, the dirt, ono could hardly
tell the color OF them. Then they
are placed on = table and are ex-
amined. every one Of them by hve
physicians. and then given the care
their condition needs. Tho Red
Cross service II wonderful In itS en-
cheney.
While in London one night went
to Charing Cross station to see .
train Of dead and wounded soldiers
come In. Ranged along the platform
were hundreds OF women there 70
meet their wounded or their dead
they did not know which. Hundreds
OF pine boxes, every one marked.
were unloaded and those sad-eyed
women with eyes sometimes too dim
to read. walked down and read tho
stood to receive .
husband or . brother who came to-
ward them cropping In blindness or
leaning on crutches..''
Coming Out Of Trenches.
One OF the most dramatic pictures
described was OF q regiment coming
out OF the trenches; they came not
with military step and flags float
ing. but huddled along In broken
ranks. with ragged clothes and dirty
faces, with bandaged arms and heads,
come too weak % do other than
stagger or crawl. They had, gone In
to those trenches three weeks before.
three thousand strong. one thousand
stragglers. wounded and weak. came
out.
DR.. Writ begged that every man
and woman would use what influence
they had to create and maintain .
sentiment for peace in America. He
said nothing short OF invasion ought
to make the United States 90 to
war. He said II is sophistry to say
In time Of peace. prepare for war. He
said we ought to prepare for peace
and keep peace.
In closing, he outlined the policy
which American diplomats feel would
at the close Of this war. prevent an
other ever occurring. The plan is
for an international united States
with an executive. q judicial and a
legislative department and an inter
national navy to maintain That peace.