Grand Forks daily herald., 1915-06-30
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Minneapolis, Mimi. June s0.-That
there is more food in Germany today
than there was year ago; that the
European war will last at least an
other year. and that it will not end
until there is a decisive defeat of one
side, are expressions of his views made
today in Minneapolis by Lafayette
Young, proprietor of the Des Moines
Capital and former United States SEN
ator, who was on his way to North
held to deliver a lecture.
Senator Young returned from the
war zone three weeks ago. He recall
ed today that while he was sitting two
months ago in compartment of a
train which had crossed the Swiss
border and was nearing Innsbruck,
Austria, he felt hand on his should
er and looked up to see an Austrian
soldier glowering at him. The soldier
also glowered at something the Iowan
per published in London.
Even Shoes Were Searched.
IT was ordered to follow the SOL
lied that 7 was under arrest. was
not detained as the dispatches from
Germany at the time had it. I was
jailed They searched my Shoes the
Innings Of my clothing and everything
had. Then they locked me up. I
had all kinds of credentials. but they
didn't do any good. They wouldn't
even let me wire to Berlin or Vienna"
Then the former Iowa senator told
fcer entrusted with his care to permit
him to obtain room in a small hotel
rather than spend the night in the
Jail.
"Saved by Bob Fitzsimmons.
The officer had been in Australia" /"
said Senator Young" l knew some
thing of the country and l also knew
something of Bob Fitzsimmons. I
talked about Fitzsimmons and his
prowess in the ring. The officer was
much interested. Why. when I left
after they had taken % hours to sat
isfy themselves wasn't a spy. that
introduced me to the dining car con-
ductor. Bob Fitzsimmons did it,"
senator Young, who went to Europe
to study the bellgerent countries in
wartime. saw France and Germany
and crossed the channel into England
In France, with French officers. he
visited the trenches and was within
40 feet Of the German line.
Met Author Killed by Fall.
Tt was in Paris that Senator Young
met Henry Beach Needham, the
american magazine writer. who with
Lieutenant Warneford, the Canadian
aviator, was recently killed in an
aeroplane fall. II took dinner with
Needham and his wife the day left
Paris for the German lines" said SEN
ator Young. "Needham's last words
to me We're: I'll never see YOU
again It wasn't premonition Of
his own fate. He meant he. thought
would never get back"
Senator Young was in Berlin when
the news Of the sinking Of the Lusi-
tania came. "There was no celebrat-
ing he said. The German people
been killed, that women and children
had lost their lives. That fact was
not announced to them. They would
regret that just as much as we Ameri-
cans did"
Went to Europe on Doomed Boat.
1t was on the Lusitania that Senator
Young had made the trip across the
Atlantic early in January.
Americans cannot realize what the
war is," said Senator Young. There
are 25,000,o00 men under arms in nine
countries and 100000 of them are
under II years old.
is an overeupply there. In Berlin
there is no sign of war. This in con-
trast to Paris. where the parks are
full Of cripples, where women in black
are on the streets. In Paris [ saw
such sights as a wife feeding her
young husband who had lost both
arms in the war. 1t brought the war
home to me.
II am an advocate of peace and I
am with President Wilson in his ef-
forts to keep this country out Of war,
but l am convinced of one thing: We
must prepare. We must have a bigger
army and a bigger navy