The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1918-04-10
WORLD ARMY FIGHTS HUNS

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TO 10 p. Nor to put it in French
way, from 10 o'clock to % o'clock.
At least one.third of the business
# houses In Ge-many's capital were clos
ed. None are closed in the capita
OF France. Germany's experts since
IN the war began have been of minor i'm
portance and have gone only to the
4 email neutral nations of Scandinavia
Holland and Switzerland. The markets
OF the world are open to France. Hel
exports last year were larger than IN
Defyins the Submarine. =.
France and England are the ter
minal nations for the ships OF com
merce that sail the seas, and their
sailing schedules, are arranged and
carried out with apparently no thought
Of submarines. Railway officials send
their thousands Of trains daily across
the continent of the United States
Irrespective OF the dangers from brok.
en- rails, washouts. fallen bridges and
collisions. Neither do the masters
1t shipping hesitate to send their
* &SUlUS u sea. Anu just do lllOuooHOo "
1trains 60 their journeys safely. only
an occasional one suffering accidents,
SO thousands and thousands of ships
\ complete their voyages where one Is
B destroyed.
..~; While the commerce of the world
is open to England and France, Ger
z many is isolated. She is like an obese
man living off his own fat.
E;nh&sa~ ;r;k NJ EranHA
In order to understand the won.
derful fighting spirit OF France, we
must remember that this is the Sec
ond time in less than fifty years that
she has been attacked by Germany.
In 1870 the King of Prussia insisted
On putting a HDhen4oll@rn on the
Spanish throne. A Hohenzo3lAEn had
no more legal claim to- MECHANISM
4 throne than did an, Arab from the
I sand dunes OF Arabia. France OBJ
I jected. She didn't want to be sand.
wiched in between two Hohenzollerns.
The kaiser who was away from home
sent Bismarck a telegram relative to
the matter. Bismarck deliberately
changed the phraseology of the tele-
gram, rewriting it SO when he made
I It public it was so offensive to France
as to result in war. Germany ripped
out q piece from the side of France,
4 Alsace-Lorraine, and kept it.
Again in 1917, and without pro.
vocation, Germany siezed a strip of
France seventy miles wide by two
hundred miles long, which she still
holds.
4 Suppose it Were in Iowa.
Let Us stretch our jmaginations
- Ak.A
loyNa we're independent nations
and that q few years ago Missouri
had declared war on Iowa, and had
siszsd the counties Of Lee, Van
0uren, Davis, WapeIIo, Henry,
Jssfsson and Washington and an
nexed them, and had undertaken
people who lived in those coun-
ties; had given them no voice in
their own government, and had
held them by force in practical
slavery. Then suppose that be.
.a5lI ii.tss "A Alaseouei Rad. again
raped Iowa, and foreibiy taken
over ali that territory Tying be-
and from the state line on the
south to Sioux City.
II you can imagine these things,
happening, and the resultant state Of
mind of tho Iowa people, you can
begin to understand the attitude Of
France today. All that France has
she is putting into the struggle-her
resources, her strength. her very soul.
The other day French soldiers dis
covered a woman cropping her way
near the front among the marked
grayes OF the soldiers. They de.
manded to know why she was there.
She replied that she had already Wis
tied the graves OF six of her sons
and was searching for the grave of
a the seventh, her last, who had fallen
on the field. They led her to the spot
where her boy was buried. She knelt
moment in silent sorrow, then ex-
tended her arms and shouted Frances
patriotic battle-cry: "Vive-la-France."
Such is the spirit of France.
n Such spirit Of sacrifice and cour-
age can only possess a people who
love liberty. Three times in a little
more than q century have the French
people 0verthrown monarchy in their
own country. and now they are COM
PEELED. to fight the monarchy OF Prus-
STA. To the side Of. the Frehchmen
have come smother people who fought
their way up into Gods sunlight of
freedom. and today the American and
French soldier are fraternizing and
fighting side BY side singing the same
songs. drinking out OF the same can
teen. interpreting each other in the
light of the liberty which they both
know and understand.
81 a Touching Incident.
II Here's an incident that illustrates |
the tender, regard which the French |
hold for the American soldier: A
United States captain was recently
buried at Cambria Two Y. M. C. A.
secretaries sought his grave to see
that It was properly marked and to
decorate it. They found the grave
literally banked with flowers placed
there by French soldiers.
The Socialism Of Monarchy.