The Glasgow courier. [volume] (Glasgow, Mont.) 1913-current, 1918-12-20
BOWIE AUTHOR
OF BOOK ON Hi VAR
Brother Of Glasgow Woman Tells
Horrors q World Struggle in
"Soldiers' Of the Legion."

A number Of Glasgow people have
met Legionnaire Bowe, the brother
of Mrs. Hattie Taylor, better known
here as Hattie Bowe.
John Bowe, "the fighting author"
has recently completed his second war
book, "Soldiers of the Legion" which
is no inviting account of a holiday in
France but q terrible tale, written
literally, unglossed-without glamor,
with the motive Of helping the rest
Of us Americans understand the hor-
rors of war and Prussian dreadful
ness.
AS a collaboration says of the auth
or, he is cosmopolitan, and born on
the Scotch English border, he knows
no boundaries in Freedoms cause. He
has served in five regiments in
France and after being wounded he
has been restored in five different
hospitals. Evacuated from the front
twice, he has recuperated, and re-
turned to America a little over a year
ago, and it was soon after his return
that he visited his sister in Malta
and Glasgow.
Since his return he received Ger
tificate of Honor" for promoting the
sale Of Liberty bonds. In Europe this
| fighting author was thrice decorated
for distinguished conduct and valor.
He also wears three medals from SER
vice in the Spanish-American war
and the Philippine Insurrection.
He has been marched through count
less villages in France whose names
he did not know, and, Indian file, he
has tramped hundreds of miles of
trenches, which he could not have
recognized in the morning. He has
endured twenty days and nights of
continuous c~annonade. Experiencing
every sort of military warfare on
land, he has also survived a collision
at sea. +.
John Bowe has been mayor of his
own town, Candy, Minnesota, and in
M~innesota's Thirteenth, he fought for
the Stars and Stripes, being present
at the capture Of Manila, P. l., Aug
ust 10, 1898.
His book is brim full of stories
Of human incidents, humorous, path
etc and horrible, told in a natural
manner by the author. We quote be-
low a very few Of the worth
while passages taken from the various
chapters:
:" = The brutality seems to start
with the sous-officer. It gets more
refined and cruel as rank goes up. :"
"Talk about forgiving the Germans!
Robbing the poor, the destruction Of
property, possibly may be forgiven.
Property can be replaced; but the sys-
tematic, deliberate ruin of non-com-
Blatant, women and children is a
crime against civilization that can new
or be forgiven or forgotten For gen.
erations to come the German will be
treated as an outlaw. He will be
shunned-worse than q beast. Un-
clean, he will have to purge himself
before he may be again accepted in
the society of decent men and women,
"In invaded country the process Of
terrorism is invariably the same,
First, the crushing blow Of invasion,
followed by pillage and murder; then
when the victims r paralyzed, crush
ed in spirit, shocked to the hearts
core, obnoxious regulations are pub
lished and enforced to prevent their
recuperating.
Glove and War-Love and war 60
together. War destroys the body, but
love lives on with the soul. Love
and war have transformed the hith-
erto seemingly empty-pated, fashion
able woman to an angel of mercy.
Socialists have developed into patri-
OTIS, artisans have become statesmen,
good-for-nothings n now heroes,
misers have grown to be philanthro-
nists."