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/ breed and barter i'll its own material
ism; but it broke the peace and came
ravening out of its jungle.
The Germans know that they are
going to be beaten. as well as the
/ Allies know it. For months, how
ever, Germany has hoped, and size
! still hopes, that by some chance she
I may make a peace which will favor
her 10 a greater or less degree. Ger
lmany knows that the spiritually civil
/ lied world did not want war and
/ long ago came 20 hate this war fore
ed upon it. 1t is here that we must
need the voice of those who lie in
/ Flanders field IF ye break
faith"
The creatures called, for want of 4
more precise term, 'pacifcists,' have
grown constantly less numerous.
7 Noise rather than numbers distIn-
| guished them even from the first. But
to millions Of our people there comes
sometimes the temptation 10 long for
peace. even though it falls short Of
victory. Has not the torch been car
ried almost far enough: Even if Ia
ken up, may it not be held d little
less high?
These millions of our people" are
made up of the fathers and mothers
OF the soldiers who have gone to the
front; we are thinking particularly OF
the mothers.
You are the mother of the son with
to you that the Germans are ready
for a just peace. This whisper may
come from a neighbor, or it may
come in print, or in some other way.
The neighbor, or the author OF the
lines in print, may be only foOlish.or
he may be a sympathiZer with Ger
many Your son is beyond the Elan
ders crosses, row on row, along the
danger line, facing the exploding
shells and poison gas of the unpity-
ing enemy. Other men in his COM
pany have been killed. Perhaps you
would be more than human if you
did not at least listen to these whis-
pers. Perhaps it is not strange if
you are tempted to believe, and to
say,"We must make the Just peace
the Germans are willing to accept"
Not strange!-With peace your boy
comes home, without it he stays to
face the exploding shells and the poi
son.
mother, who sleeps in Flanders
fields? We are the dead" If he
could speak, would he say, Let them
have their peace" The answer has
been made by one now himself of
their company:
If We break faith with us who die,
We shall not sleep, though peoples
grow
In Flanders field.
That your son may know immedi-
ate safety it must not be that those
other women's sons died in vain.
They have given the last full mea-
sure of devotion, and they. more than
We who have given almost nothing,
are entitled to speak. Take up our
quarrel with the foe" 1t must not
be that their death was fruitless, nor
must the son OF your son be forced
to go through this saIce ordeal a
Guarter-ceGtury from now
For of course the point is her
The Gar.na"s 60 not want Il jIst
peace \ Just peace means the Ylp-
ing out OF their whole military ma
chine and most of their dangerous
feudal system of government. \ just
peace means the hanging of con-
siderable number of Germans of high
rank who have ordered the violation
OF all the rules OF civilized warfare.
A just peace means that the Germans
must pay for all the unlawful dam
age they have done. The Germans
do not want a Just peace.
This job must be finished. We shall
not break faith These dead in Elan
ders did not die in vain While the
larks still bravely sing, our guns
must as bravely speak below till a
peace is won of which both the dead
and the sons of our sons can say:
They kept faith"
(From the October WOman's Home
Companion.
The funeral services over the re-
mains of Private W. {. Livingston, |
who died at Camp Meade. Will be reid !
at the home of his parents, 500 |
South Division street, Salisbury Md,
tomorrow Afternoon at $50 o'clock, +,
with interment in the Salisbury GENE |
terry.
\ restriction in the output of books |
has been ordered We are confident .
we should never miss the Congress /
sonal Record were it included. (
Ulysses Grant has been rounded up |