Semi-weekly herald., 1915-06-24

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born in Germany and had been fifty
five years a shoemaker in Paris. He
had never been naturalized in France.
Therefore he was considered a German
and was shipped out of Paris to the
internment camp. He was happy and
was living better than he had lived
in many years. He was the cham
pion checker player of the camp.
Youngsters Artistic.
The artistic taste Of the youngsters
is encouraged, and | saw samples OF
clay moulding. A German youth had
made bust of his teacher. Samples
Of map drawing were on exhibition
on the wall. In fact the school rooms
were just like school rooms anywhere
in the United States. They every
where gave evidence of the work in
progress. The aeachers were bright
young women. Several of my asso-
ciates would group the teacher with
her pupils and take special proto-
graph. | did not carry kodak
bought such pictures as l could OBJ
tain. Near the entrance of the great
establishment is posted the price list
of delicacies which can be bought by
those who have the money. The plain
foods for sustaining life are furnished
free by the French government.
The people do not know when they
ere going TO get out. They
know they will get out when the war
is over. They have no idea when that
will be. There are men and women
in this camp who were earning $4,000
per year when they were arrested and
sent to the camp. They woraried for
a long time, but now they are at
peace and are making the best of it.
There are hundreds Of these camps
in Great Britain, France, Germany,
Austria and Russia.
Unruly Prisoners.
! visited an inferno camp of citizens
at Southampton, England The pris-
oners were Germans, and the day
| was there they had been little un-
ruly. They were in great barracks
with German soldiers who were also
prisoners. The soldiers were behaving
splendidly. The keeper of the prison
said he was fond of the soldiers. They
were obidient to command and made
him no trouble. But he said the cit
izen prisoners were troublesome and
he had just been enforcing very rigid
discipline. He said he did not antici-
pate any further trouble.
In Germany | had chance to get
out to see English prisoners, but did
not have time to do so. After the
sinking of the Lusitania ! bad been
urged to get out of Germany and
thought best to do so. ! left an unful-
filled engagement in Germany to go
out and see the way they take care
of British and French soldiers who
had been captured in battle. But |
did not have time to fulfill this en-
gagement. However, | did not break
an engagement without mutual un-
derstanding. Otherwise l might not
be in Des Moines.
| Society is Broken Up.
| The reader can scarcely realize what
a general breaking up of society this
war has caused. | found schools of
music and all the comforts of home
in these camps, but on account of the
diversity of religion of the citizen
prisoners there were no ministers or
priests. | found one among the in
termed prisoners who was giving his
attention to the spiritual welfare of
the people wherever his services were
acceptable. But | heard of no ar
arrangement for public religions servic-
es.
| None of these prison camps can be
visited without special permits or
passports. Occasionally a party is
granted the privilege of visiting some
of them, but always under special es-
cort. In the communities where the
camps are located they attract practi-
cally no attention. They live their
own community life and are part of
the life of the locality.
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