Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1917-10-10
HARRY c. EVANS
Tells OF WAR
A
woman Shield" Editor q.
Thrills Local Audience
With Descriptions.

The First Baptist church was Ilieu
To capacity last evening when Hon Hon.
Harry &. Evans, editor Of the Yeoman
Shield, of Des Moines, Iowa, lecturec
on the great war.
II wasn't the ordinary kind ofa
war lecture, based on a mere glance
at mans and newspaper headlines, II
was the testimony Of an eyewitnessI
one who had actually seen the mol.
rors. heard the means and cries, n
the thunder of the giant guns; one
who had walked in the trenches Tor
miles and miles talking with the fgnt-
ers and making psychological observa.
tons as he. went along. Mr.. Evans q
been in the military hospitals, ne g
seen the immense camps Tor war prs
oners, and had a tale to tell wnlcn
gripped every heart.
At Thanksgiving two years ago, MI.
Evans had Joined the famous .oscar
II ut-of-the-trenches-b Christmas
%expedition organized and managed by
Henry>Ford, and this journey had CIV.
en- the Des Moines writer an unusual
opportunity for observation and study
opportunity Of which he had
awaited himself with the most ncou
aging results, as was evidenced by his
lecture here last night.
Seven Millions Dead.
Mr.. Evans detailed the tremendous
cost Of the war in money, men. morals
and distress. One hundred billions OF
dollars already has been borrowed by
the nations at war, 400 BOZ 900 mon
have been torn from their homes and
taken to the battlefields, 100000 OF
these are dead, 5000. 900 have suffer-
ed serious wounds and 100000 are
now in hospitals and prison camps.
There have been 10000 babies of
hate" born to women of France left
to the mercies of the German soldiers
in the territory held by the kaiser's
tionin Poland and Serbia and Russia
and other. war-torn nations. He told
of 5000 Polish children being concen-
trated in n building in Poland
where they starved to death at the
rate of 200 a day And these were but
enough instances to illustrate the thor
oughness Of his study and observation.
Still a Pacifist.
II have been asked if I am still Q
pactf1st," said MI. Evans. II am. That
Is why I believe in this war-because
1t is a war to end all war-and the
United States could not keep out of
1t, we had to go into it, and we must
fight 1t out If we are the last mes to
fire a shot. Autocracy must die-de-
mocracy must rule the world. We do
not propose to stand ever armed as q
nation. and If fighting now will end it
all we will fight to the end"
He detailed the method of govern-
ment of the German federation to
snow how the war was brought on by
the fact that the kaiser had prepared.
and prepared, to the point where IKE
the prize fighter in training he had to
nght when at the highest pitch or
"go STALE"
me domination Of Europe and the
ultlmate ~enslaving Of America wa the
great aim of Germany's kaiser. ha
said. The world has been brought to
n verge OF Observation-Disclosures
bankruptcy, moral degeneraoy and
physical deterioration that threatened
n future of the human race and civ
ilzation itself. Wv
That is the condition tho United
states Is to avert by going into the
Americans and Others.
There are just two kinds Of peo-
PIE IN this country now" said Mr..
Evans. "Americans-and the other
fellows. If I had my wav. the msn
VINO had come from the industrial he'll
OF Europe without a dollar and had
round q home on the prairiss, secured
a homestead, became we'll fixed and
enjoyed the privileges Of our nation
ana now declared we were in an nm
Just wal and he was in sympathy WITH
tnose over yonder-I think thai x
sunrise there would be a beautiful
cemetery" e Al the
The boys of America have pone +o
Esht our battles, he said. "MMotbaus
nave given their sons and mivas haas
given their husbands, what are Ho''
young ome going to do, and ia ia
men: Every woman in the co,,rt,,,
must soon become a worker ' IN ths
Hed Cross. 1t is absolutely necess. ~
we must all stand ready to do e. !.
ever duty comes to us, no matter w v,ss.
Inc sacrifice. Russia is in chan. anI
cannot recover in time to f,eht a.s anu
france Is exhausted, but can ho1f I'm;
own; Britain is drained oui ta ner
ne anGlc Belgium. which saved Wy ~
world to democracy, is a pauner a me
powerless. It remains for the uos ana
s sscas; america, to step in and give 1 ths
ae 'as blows n we must s az ene
s"er the call to whatevar -. 81 an