Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1918-03-01
THEY CONTINUED TODRlNK AND SING.

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THEY CONTINUED TO DRINK AND SING.
With 9 third Liberty Loan impending. it has becom,
quite the thing, to take stock. SO that when the campaign
is inaugurated al will be ready to purchase another bond
Bruce Barton, visilante. editor OF Every Week and a nov
elist, is one Of the prominent men who already has tase1
stock and awaits the opportunity to buy another bond
Here is his contribution to the cause published in Ever,
Week.:
Before you fill in your subscription to the Thirt
Liberty Loan, I ask you to take a look at Malines ant
|Campenhout.
ut is all written in a book, Just = matter OF tac
little book filled with official documents
''open it At the pages that deal with Malines an,
read:
"'In Malines itself they tthe Germans) destroyed
l'5oo houses from first to last and avenged themselve.
atrociously on the civil population. A Belgian soldier saw
them bayonet an old woman in the back, and cut off
young woman's breasts.
Another saw them bayonet a woman ana her son
They shot a police inspector in the stomach as h.
came out of his door, and blew Of. the head Of an old
woman at a window.
"a child of 2 came out into the street as eieh,
drunken soldiers were marching BY! A man in the soc.
ond file stepped aside and drove his bayonet with both
hands into the child's stomach. He lifted the child into
the air on his bayonet and carried it away, he and hi.
companions still singing. The child screamed when the
soldier struck it with his bayonet, but not afterwards.
Another woman was found dead with ~ bayone1
wounds between her shoulders and her waist.
-Another-between 16 and 20 years old-who had
been killed by a bayonet was kneelins. and her hand.
were clasped, and the bayonet had pierced both hands.
"A boy about 1e had been killed by a bayonet thrus,
through his mouth. ta..@.,
lin the same house was an old woman lying dead.
Il do not often ask YOU to read unpleasant para.
graphs like these. I do it now because. when it comes to
writing about Liberty Bonds I feel like throwing aside ali
the fine words and telling you the whole truth as it ap.
peals to me. SIS
And the truth is that 1 am not buying a nickel.
worth Of bonds to give Trieste to sgItAliy or one single add.
ed colony to England or Alsace Lorraine to France.
All other folks may rally around these battle stan
dards if they find satisfaction in them. -
II buy Liberty Bonds because there /. a 2-year-old
boy in my home-as there was in that nameless home in
Malines.
And hecause-so small has the world become-tha1
Malines is only just across the street from where I live
Prices are high. 1t is hard these days for a man
with even a good income to buy food and clothes for his
folks. S.. -
But I ask myself over and over again what good to
my youngsters are food and clothes if the spirit that fired
Malines came out of this war unrebuked?
What sort of parents are you and l., if we take care
OF the minor matters such as food and clothes, and send
our children out into a world where children may still be
bayoneted and women ~ruthlessly slain? ~.
II hate war. If we were at war with England or
France I would fill this column SO full Of cries for a
peace conference that they would put me in Jail for do
ing it. r. & 90
But this is not a war of nations: it is a grapple OF
ideals. ~, ~.
THE ideal that respects pledges and the lives of
women and children. battling with the ideal that counts
pledges and the lives of women and children as mere
'pawns in the game Of empire.
AT Campenhout,' says the book. they rifled the
wine cellar and shot the mistress of the house in cod
blood as she entered the room where they we're drinking.
The other officers continued to drink and sing
"on1y a woman being killed, It was nothing. They
did not even look around. They continued to drink and
sing. =
$50 long as they who bayonetted the child Of Malines
go singing through the streets Of Belgium there nusr ne
Liberty Bonds.
SO long as the terror that stalked through Campen-
bout continues to hang over my house, there must be
Liberty Bonds
II do not know how it may be with you; but with me,
this third Liberty loan cuts down through the luxuries
into what We used to think were necessities in our house
hold.
And We make the sacrifice gladly for the sake OF
the great necessity. eer :.
The necessity for establishing safety in the world
for little children. - |
For making it clear once and for all that while
women are being slain, no men can ever again with i'm
punity continue to drink and sing"
The correspondents with General AIenbys army
are sending out some mighty interesting stories about
Jericho, but Joshua still holds the record as the hes,
publicity agent Jericho ever had. :. PIT
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Mr.. Taft declares that spies, incendiaries, bomt
troopers and munitions tamperers should be backed up
against a blank wall and shot at sunrise. Rut vhv M,