Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1918-02-21
campaign with the other. Not the
least interesting trophy brought

IeaIlet In q STRENGTHENING campaign
such as thise for which Colonel War
this had to do, with tina fiitter4nEs UP
of canals! More especially the CONF I,
mittee had ~broadened its work to In
clude help. to all. famiiies III poverty
because OF the war, With tourists no
longer coming to the city and with
raised something like 5000. 900 lire
from voluntary contributions to carry
on general civilian relief and provide
work.
The well-to-do people of Venice ar.
not indu*triaiists who make then
money. hut people whoainherit fr,a.N
rents and otherwise helped ont dur
ing the war poverty. but with ms
GAGS largely gona. Little was coming
in NOW to tide the comrnlttee over
tEeir great emergency. It was main
tanning ten popular kitchens, Eight
days before 1t had been giving fft.
come the need, it had given twenty;
and altogether. through free flstripn-
tons and economic sales it was pro-
vidins for $4,000 families. or 5000
people.
So it had come about. in the pres
ent emergency. that the. committee
had ~hroadened its work once more
and taken UP the responsibility Of
functioning in connection with the
evacuation of the city, 1t was doing
so because OF this food pressure. be-
cause it had close contacts with the
people and because it was concerned
in holding together the working units
through which. for. two years past, it
had enabled SC. many families to
maintain thei" cconomic in1epend-
ence by working on uniforms. socks
and underrlcti7es for the troops. Its
.neetle rradc< has grown to the point
wl,e p twenty-five ,ailors cut the gar
ments for the SEQ workers il, i.s
rooms. anil for tho 5000 women who
sewed at hon,", 1t had started work
in wood. f." I'D men I'M invalided
~o!diers, "I3n rs t'la manufacture OF
wreel-tnrreN.' and mutation cases.
and work IL. ."!acksm:thins and tcot-
making.
Tho s~1r"aSt localities to which
the Venetian refugees were bound
We're rot Of its choosing. for they
seemed to orer little opportunity Tor
earning y LIKING. and the government
had rp plans for. eIc%:loynaent there;
OF vorkroon $ could be expanded to
rare FOR much larger numbers and
proposed not only tn ship its cquip-
Haent south. but to follow it's people
and coen headquarters at Riniri.
And there ne were to find them. a
nNSh 20 " N'SSl1 III ~. btStI NitN
women. round the broad table Of a
deserted hotel, wrestling far into the
night with personal and practical
problems rni"h after the kind. I
fancr. that the Pilgrim fathcrsefaced
in their day in planting their ship
loads OF settlers or the New England
coast. t
There wa anotser meeting THAT
; day in Venice that sripped me even
harder. for in its associations 1t
~e5 he'd FAR hack OF our New England
TRADITIONS Of se!f~-sovernnaent to these
60 this y a":ent. republic. In the
afternoon We were invited to NEE.
f, With the n.a.;c;' and his five associates
in an old ~!'o'ace ON tho Grand Canal,
Iona. used as tire mpnicipio. W'e"1,ad
seats with them about a beavst carved
cable in their room adjoining. the
, council CHAMBER. ~
. We had t., together express lions
] and forth were exchanged through
T, the ~consars fluent Italian, AND We
: came away each With a hanlsn"re
:. volurae issued at this time of LII" re-
? huildins of tho Camranile as tni; ~
,o Venetian appreciation of the
:. Anoe-ira~ fellowship "nr visi. meant
in thiz time of st.c@s.
These were nor the first of sueh'
tokens. 1t.cen1s that it vas ON April
: Of the revolutionary yea OF As
that N~enicessfSst attempted to throw
off the AYklTisn5 yoke. She failed
then. only To succeed twenty years
later. so when the United States de-
clarel VA on April . last the city
sent TO the American consulate in the
hands Of a veteran of both wars. an
a!hu:r for transmission to the White
House. 1t bore this inscription:
AFl;IL .. 1s4s-l?17
The day IGNORED in tine history Of
Venice
America has made sacred in the
history of the world.
I recall the: heavy urn-shaped
wooden vases which have been used
time out OF mind for taking the vote
cannot bring to mind the furnishings
Of the room. other than the fixed i'm
preston of somberness and suspense
it left with me J may have been
mistaken in assuming that. in some
shreds OF sentiment at east. on the
scended the mantle of that stern
governing body. doee n Council Of
Ten. which steered the even curse OF
republican Venice between the By
zsntne and Franconian empires and
sent hez arEosies throughout the
not have been mistaken lin the sense
Of insecure tenure of the morrow
!. which lay upon this little knot Of
sober. n,easer. middle-aged men sit
tins there. waiting upon they know
not what. Rut we knew that they
should remain at their posts, free city
, or captured or war-swept, as was the
order and understanding OF all these
municipal officers of northern Italy.
Our next visit plunged us into an
other group of associations. maritime
rather than civic. A municipal
lsunch> carried US to the arsenal,
which preserves the remains Of the
B%ucintoro. from which the doRe was
won't annually on Ascension Day to
E throw the ring with which he SYM
~bolically welded The Adriatic." At
the zenith of the republic, the Ar,
senal employed l6.600 workmen. but
housed infantry and craft no more
: strenuous ors strange than those OF
. this present war. In the yard. We
: paesed four antique lions. n OF
. them bearing Runici Inscriptions: and,
!. according to the Baedeker. in the ad-
joining museum. which We did not
: enter, were trophies and Turkish BAN
t ners taken at Friull in t412. at Corfu
in ss7, at Lerantc in 1871. weapens,
! armor. culverins: all ann of kaE-
. gage and spells of TIE city's cons
. quests such AZ are to be found not
( only here but aderning her own now
: threatened halls and churches. Many
we're brought from, the. very regions
which now are again being fought
, over. For it must he reniehlbered
that Venice in her time dominated
the Dalmatian coast (which is@the
+ goal OF the preeent-day Italian ef-
p~ansionists): conquered Co~nstantf-
E nople and fought for possession in