The Morgan City daily review. (Morgan City, La.) 1916-1920, 1917-12-24

turn loose to practice every form OF
license and lust, they can destroy
churches, libraries, universities
"Look at thisn' DR.. Hills held up
before his auditors a paper repro
duction of a German medal. "When
YOU look on this, remember how
Kitchener told his army to STAY en-
emies, but to save non-combatants to
wrong no woman, even in their
thoughts to protect all women and
children.
"And think also Of what Pershing
told his soldiers, that they must
fight the enemy and protect all the
helpless.
SHOWS MEDAL
"And then look at this German
medal. One like this, made Of al
minimum, is worn in every German
soldiers vest pocket. On it there is
a representation of the good old
German God,' holding a sword The
advice on it is to the German soldier
to strike your enemy dead, and the
Day Of Judgment will ask you no
questions. This is said for fear
some German soldiers conscience
may trouble him!
"The German is told that he is
stronger and therefore has a right
to strip France and peel Belgium,
and'the purpose of all his terroristic
acts is plain. He spreads black
wave Of destruction over houses and
lands. And the announced purpose
Of the German tactics is to break
down the intellectual and moral re-
sources of the enemy. They would
spread a wave Of terror over all the
lands.
Gravel with me in Imagination
into one district larger than Long
Island. Now there is not one vii
lage, not one church, not one school
house, not one farmhouse nor an i'm
plement. The ak has been used to
destroy pear trees, peach trees,
plum trees, apple trees. The grape
vines have been torn up, there
where the women carried their pals
of dirty water and slowly nurtured
the vines.
"And here is perhaps the most
anguishful thing. When a remnant
of the people return to district !
which Germans have occupied, they
see carried out the German order:
See that wells and streams are pol
luted with corpses, cow-dung and !
creosote" So that weeks and |
months pass by before the wells and
springs can again furnish water for
natives Of the soil.
VAST DESOLATION.
1T is one of the vast desolation,
like the trackway Of Southwestern
tornado. It is like Chicago after her
fire. Lisbon after her ideal wave,
Pompeii disinterred from the ash
es.
"Digests have been made of 1O,-
600 separate atrocities. Ninety
thousand more cases remain to be
digested and are in progress of ar
rangement."
Then DR.. Hills told story which
sounded like condensed dramatic
tragedy:
"Once in an officers chateau /
heard q story Of how some British
officers and a French officer talk
ed together in the trenches. One of
the English officers said: six days
more, six more eternities, and l can
60 home and see England again for
little while The other English
officer said: 1T will be two months
before ! have seven days at home,
And then one of them said to the
French officer: And when do you
go homer
"The French officer said: 4 do
not 60 home. You do not UNDER
stand, friends. Your England has
never been invaded. My village has
been invaded, has been torn up by
the roots. My house is gone. My
GIRL, my little girl-she was only a
little girl-and my young wife, will
both have babies by German Off
GERS within two or three monthsv
''The English officers turned and
fled out of the trench-out into the
cold and the rain-to get away from
the awful storm Of suffering on the
face of their French comrade.
Ito be continued Wednesday,
The Peoples State and Savings
Bank have started their new Christ
mas Club and new members are en- |
rolling daily. They have twelve {