The Morgan City daily review. (Morgan City, La.) 1916-1920, 1917-07-28
VICILANTES WAR NOTES

vICILANTEs WAR NOTES
We have been hearing consider
able of late about Germany's twill
ingness" to go back to the status
quo before the war.
Of course, Germany is willing.
She has been caught with the goods.
In an article entitled "The Latest
Propaganda" J. Lewis Davis of
Vigilantes, shows graphically exact
~ what this Willingness" on Ger
many's pat means. Says Mr.. Davis:
"An individual in a law-abiding
community land the world is q
great community which thought, up
to August, 1914, that is was living
under civilized law plans and COM
mits an assault, calculating, coldly,
mercilessly. Pursued, he runs mad.
ly up and down the streets, shooting
in every direction, until.it takes the
entire police force of the city to ar
rest him. Arraigned before the
court, he says:
81 suggest, your honor, that mat
tiers be allowed to return to the
status quo. will go back to my
home and stop rioting, for the pres
ent, and you will let me keep my
pistols and cartridges; I may need
them later. And, as regards the
damage l did, as a compromise, that
you take up collection here in the
court to make it good"
"What would society reply to
such an individual?
"Would his argument prevent
jury of his peers from convicting
him? Would it prevent judge from
sentencing him to a proper punish
ment?
ut might get him turned over to
an alienist instead>o of a prison word
en-, but whether he were put in Jail
or an asylum, soci-ty would assure
itself that opportunity to repeat
his offensive placed securely out of
his reach. Society would not do this
in revenge; but measure of self
protection"
France is again pointing the way
to wisdom for this country. It is not
so long ago that prejudice against
England was as strong in France as
it ever has been in America, but the
French have learned the lesson Of
this war and know now who may be
depended upon when it comes to
rallying the forces in favor of Lii
berty and Justice. Miss Gertrude
Lynch, the special correspondent of
The Vigilantes in France gives this
bit to show the change that has
come over France:
81 heard French woman say
when the disaster of Neuve Chap
ellie first became known, "Well. Of
course Tommy had to stop and have
his cup of tea Such comment
would not be made today, for Tom
my of the trenches and the poilu are
real friends. They go arm in arm
along the Boulevard and no one no.
tees them, for this now is a habit
and no friendship which has been
cemented as this suffering and sac
rifice can be easily loosed."
The women of America, the Vigil
antes point out, would do well to
heed the appeal contained in 1.-THE
Win-the-War Cookery Book" pub
lished for the Food Economy Cam
paign in England with the approval
of the Ministry Of Food. Here is
To the Womsn Of Britain:
The British fighting-line shifts
and extends; and now you are in it.
The struggle is not only on land
and sea; it is in your larder, your
kitchen and your dining-room.
Every meal you serve Is now liter
ally . battle.
Every well-coolked meal thxG
saves bread and waste no food is . |
victory.
Our soldiers are beating the Ger
mans on land.
Our sailors are beating the Ger
mans on the sea.
Your can beat them in the larder
and the kitchen.
Victory in the food-fght will
turn the scale.
You are fighting for the children.
Tie ca dsen are ca!!i,: sou IL
Give them food, safety, ant free
dom.
The unborn children are calling
you to give them q free world free
from the poison of Prussianism.