Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1917-02-06

nips potatoes tomatoes, sunhowers. The Germans
have adopted sunhower culture in order to get the
valuable and nutritve oil of the sunfioWer seeo sun
flower seeds have long been eaten by the Russians
with the same relish that peanuts eaten in the
United States.
It is when one wanders in the sections the city
where the laborng people live, or nanes excursions
to suburban neighborhoods, outlying parks or to
smaller that the imprints OF the "orld
Here are improvements that were begun before
the war, and never finished; here are homes out Of
repair gardens become Uttered and deSolate, parks
turned into cabbage fields and goat pastures deserted
shops and mills, and here, in these outof-the-"ay
places battered wrecks of the batehelds
In the quiet of secluded park one comes upon
a leading about shell of man, breathing
moving thing in which every vestige OF mind is dead
smothered by the horror of the gun fire. One meets
red-eyed weeping women, mourning their losses here
wife reading her mangled soldier in the
invalid chair at her SIDE her filled with thanks
giving his wounds been to pre-
vent him from again serving at the front She
would likely periodically deny the of her happ
but it is hard for the mpersonal wanderer
read-for her the terror Of suspense is
Then, there are the recovered victims Of the gas
startling their nvid, dscolored skin There
broodine, taciturn young soldiers at home leave
thinned about the temples and all tinged with
gray Many Of these young soldiers will tell Of
horrors that they never forget and all of them
repeat the expressive formula with but little variation
TITS just hell there, mad and CHASTITY"
In the country you meet the weather-roughened
women returning at night to the duties of the home
from days hard work the fields. Their clumsy,
skirts while their bouses and turned in after
the manner sweat, they
altogether unlovely and unfemnine. Many of these
helped in the fields before the but
the hardest and the toughest work which left
the men. Today, they doing their
absent men, from sunrise to sunset of
their homes at night Likewise in the poorer sections
of the city, when the women coal shovelers
diggers, bricklayers, and coming
home bandylegged bedraggled, sodden
unwonted toll, dirty and sweat-d renched, one
looking upon of ugliest features
that of the logged cheerless unequal struggle back
home
Business Offices town harfor many of the
victims shrapnel and the bayonet employers
of labor have rallied strongly to the relief of the
damaged soldier. 1t is common to read advertise
in the paper of the following general content
Wanted, blinded at the front, for light work"
Wanted, injured in battle for Office work"
And finds these victims everywhere, readjust-
ing themselves to the requirements of commerce. The
machines, become quite proficient. arnIess and
the legess equipped with artificial legs
which they soon able to with surprising sue
cess You may notice man tip his hat, smoke
and his cane, handling all things quite
naturally, and only discover hand he is using
is artificial after long puzzIns rgidity
of position.
powerful stimulus is given to the imagination Of
the intoerable suerngs multiplying the battleheds
upon occasionally meeting a soldier who, victim of
OF the not-infrequent trerch caveins dug
out to the air with his bare hands. A number of
these were taken of in private hospital in
a town in southwestern Saxony. They had worn down
their fingers, flesh and bone knuckles as Though
ground off by emory wheel in frantic clawing OF
their from living burial, gravel sand
and rock to the freedom of the bedlam above.
The story of the ready sacrifice. the heroic
endurance the steadfast assertion Of will superior to
hardship. fear. and anguish which being shown by
all of the peoples at war, If it be told would
form the most sublime, as well the terrible
of human tragedies