The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1917-03-08
~ War Correspondent
n Prince Of Traitors If
Pacifists Are Traitors

War. in the opinion of pacifsts. is an
awful thing; a barbarous thing and a
more barbarous thing because II is an
unnecessary thing.
Pacifists realize that wars are not
fought by those who share in the profits
of war.
They realize that war is fostered and
wars are fought to satisfy greed OF capt.
til and lust for power, and that the hard
ships, the suffering, the bleeding and the
dying are done by brothers on their re-
spsctive sides who have nothing in Gods
world against each other.
They realize that the weeping is done
By sisters who have nothing against each
other, either.
Because they have given the matter of
var THOUGHT, and because thinking
has opened their eyes to the truth Of
var, and because they are brave enough
10 express and support their convictions,
poeihsts are charged with lack of patri-
otism; are called spineless towards and
other names.
Phcihst senators in Washington who
opposed what they deem to be too much
authority to be vested in an individual
ina democracy. have been called traitors,
md one of them has been hanged in
eliey - such, yet William Philip Simms
eoss unpunished for the part he played
and continues to play.
II the pacihsts of our country are
straitors," then William Philip Simms is
ths aych-traitor; he Is prince Of our Ben
odiet Arnolds.
For the service of William Philip
Sinms to treason" such a. our pacifists
~ accused of, is the making Of trait
ara"
william Philip Simms is a war cor
rsspoudsnt-
He u the representative in the war
sone Of the United Press which serves
you through The Times with news from
the front.
A day or two ago he stood where the
c1rmans had evacuated their trenches in
<kotr rstxsat along the Ancre, and there
- harmed the reason for their evacua-
1fon.
4 was because the German soldiers,
~ wscts, in ttsir positions that had been
lgnsd into stsneh pits too horrible for
nnn nerves to stand, were fast be
ourning garrison Of gibberins lunatics.
l1aybe you read what Simms had to
rport
II you did, read il again
Il 4 m hour that calls for its reading
mnny times over.
This IL what Simms saw, IN his own
wogds:
vas the arst American permitted to pene-
exnte across the ground evacuated by the Ger
mans q far ~ Thfhoy towards Bapsume.
Mme. Tussaud's wax works chamber OF horrors
Wns cheerful compared with this held or terrors.
palnfnlly pictured at each step. There J saw
otngnant cesspoois and interiocking shell era
tSrS IN which the water was the exact color
fuSmd myself stepping on German bodies
WhlGh Uttered the region. They were in all
imaginable conditions and positions-sometimes
49, several deep l saw arms sticking full
5onutA out OF the mud that concealed all else
a. the bodics to which they were attached There
were legs. feet half bodies-or heads alone
pro(ruding. Some lay face down. some were
promo on their backs. exactly as II asleep.
Al another place on a pile several deep lay a
boyish ofAcer fair a. girl with HE arms thrown
hack and his blue eyes staring 10 the sky. His
oAndy hair had been brushed back modishly by
he rain.
Inas1ue scenes like this covering miles
imagine every trace Of vegetation long. long
oeDoe blasted away. Imagine the earth powder
oeninod and churned up from 10 TO so feet in
0oueh. Imagine mud 30 bottomless that the
Oerman prisoners claim their men frequently
vere svailoved up whole in attempting 20 cross
aftsr dark