The daily commonwealth. (Greenwood, Leflore Co., Miss.) 1916-1919, 1917-08-15
WHY WE MUST G

odran DeTHHaTul WflIinS ol ING
and beastly lustaof the German invaders OF
France, tells a story of horrors which though
known to many people in this country, brings
| clearly to light the magnitude and the awful de-
pravity of the German brute and his total disre-
gard for the sacredness of womanhood.
Ordinarily the details of the story would be
too horrible to print, but this country must need
sacrifice it's modesty to truth that we may know
why America must fight and why American men
must face the horrors of the battlefield of France
to save the ~virtuous womanhood of this country
from a like debauchery.
Madame Bernhard says that in the section
of France occupied for two years by Germans,
but from which they have been driven, that coun-
try "faces the problem of what to do with at least
100, 900 children of violence-the babes OF hated
brutal fathers and Of desccrated maids and wives,
and when the Germans are finally thrust from
France there will be other armies of these chill
dren to be cared for" "In all the terrible pages
of this worst of wars" she says "there is none
more tragic, more sinister, more devilish than
this that registers the brand of brutality and lust,
and she asks what is to be the fate of these little
ones begotten by such brutes, borne by mothers
who necessarily lived in an awful realization of
their agony and who hated their offspring as they
hated their "justful brute fathers.
These babies of hate is one of Frances great
problems. They have been discussed in many
of the medical societies, and the question has been
asked in France, What right have they to live?
Madame Rernhardt takes the position, however,
that despite the condition Of their birth, they must
be cared for, but she would remove them mined
lately from the side of their mother who should
never be allowed to know whether they had lived
or died.
These are conditions that exists in France
today. Besides the thousands Of women who
have been violated, other thousands have beer
murdered and their bodies left to rot in theil
homes which have been d~espoiled and in many
instances the only thing left to greet a returning
soldier is the charred bodies Of wife and daugh.
tiers in the embers of burned home.
Is it any wonder that the French soldier avoids
encumbering himself with a prisoner when h.
can possibly do so.
The body of every French girl taken from 6
French home and found in the captured German
trenches, calls for the death Of a score of German
brutes.
AHu yCC l. IlCl III IllllC VIII 1loN
M more soul than to resist the operations Of {
law by which this country is endeavoring to raise
an Observation-Disclosures.
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co TO 1T MR.. HOOVER.
= The food control measure has finally passet
congress and signed by the president, has becom'
law.
! The measure as finally passed, is much as i
went through the house, placing the food contro
law in the hands of a single man, to be appointed
by the president, who will be Mr.. Herbert c
Hoover.
The bill places great power in the hands O
the executive, giving chin authority practically t.
do what is deemed best for the country withou
question and without stint, says the Meridian
: Star.
It is practically the measure the presiden
asked for. If it fails the responsibility must b
!, upon the administration.
We do not believe it will fail in the hands O
Mr.. Hoover, whatever might happen under an,
other administrator for we have every confdenc
in the ability and integrity of the man who di
/ so much for Belgium and for the people of north
ern France.
But to make good Mr.. Hoover must bring pr
ces of foodstuffs down to a level with the averae
5 salary and at the same time satisfy the produce
who has a right to expect a profit from his good
It's a tremendous job.
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UNCLE SANS THRIFT THOUGHT FOR TODA
Spread the Meat F~lavor.--Spread the mea
favor and so economic on the amount of mea
consumed, says the United States Department c
E Agriculture. Here is a suggestion for making
delicious dish from an inexpensive steak!
Mock Duck.-On a round steak cut thin, plac
r a %stufiing Of bread crumbs we'll seasoned wit
t chopped onions, butter or other fat, salt, peppe
and favorings such as sage, celery seed, ETC.,
desired. Roll the steak around the s~tuffing an
2 tie in several places with a string. If the steak
O tough steam or stew the roll until tender befo1
roasting in the oven.