Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1918-11-08
WOMAN BORN ON TIE
RHINE.


PTRIOTIC WOMAN BORN ON TIE
RHINE.
San Francisco-She was born on
tn eithinc. All her male relatives re-
manning in Germany who can fight
are in the kaiSer's armies. She mar
ried Il Pennsylvania German All her
folks and all his folks speak Ger
man. She has five sons. All are in
! Uncle Sans armies. Two were
drafted Three enlisted. -Four are
fighting in France. One is about
to embark for the trenches. She has
one daughter. This daughter is in
the Red Cross, soon to 20 to France,
Then-that will leave at home the
woman who was born on the Rhine,
and he ragged husband, of German
ancestry.
This is what she has to say about
it: "lif it takes all my five sons and
my laughter, too, to bind, gag ana
Jail the kaiser ! am willing to give
them all. | would GLADLY see four
Of them die that the fifth might live
Il free mans life than have them all
/ live to ripe old age. as serfs in a
! Prussianizcd world. With the allot-
mcnts received from my sons army
pay am buying Liberty Bonds ]
like worms better than slackcrs-a
don't like worms"
There is the story of Mrs. Michael
liaincs, GIL Twcnty-sccond street,
! home III the present Liberty bond
drive There is IL message from the
banks of the Rhine for Mr.. William
llohenzolcrn. If he has not under
stood it, here is some more of Mrs.
llaincs Philosophy to make it plain.
Freedom and liberty are everything
Beside them life is nothing. With
out them living is not life 1t is worse
than death. l know, because | have
lived in Germany. That is why /
am so loyal an American. When |
realize how | feel, born on the
Rhine-l am unable to imagine that
any Americnn-born mother can hold
down her emotions enough to keep
from taking her broom to the Ger
man cmpcrors head.
"liow do Americans keep their
p"triotism within bounds? Those
who are not boiling over with il ev-
cry minute, those who have not given
all they can give and gone into debt
for all the bonds they can pay for
before the next issue rolls around,
surely cannot appreciate what Amer
icanism means. Only by contrast does
anything become plaincst. White is
winter against Il black background.
kno Whether what liberty means be-
cause have known what Plussian
serfdom means. Gan American
mothers take Il lesson of enthusiasm
and encouragement from my life?
Germany has been turning its people
into human machines. She boasted
she kept them weil-oilcd. Buff
you're Il machine what do you care
Tor old-age pensions? One breath
Of liberty is worth IL year of repres-
sion--to real men and women: be-
cause men and women are meant to
he free"
She has quite philosophy of life,
has Mrs. Michael Ilaines. She has
thought about the problems of now
en- HE whose roots were laid in Ger
many. She has thought this: "Havc
you noticed the disappearance of the
hyphen? Is not this the most damn
ing conviction of the kaiser"tbat as
the issues of this war have been made
plain by our President hundreds OF
thousands of Americans of German
q,
flaming Amcricanism which for
tunatcly have always had? ! am glad
have five sons and daughters to
give, | would give twice rs many il
! had them. And while they are work
ing over there | will be doing nv
best over here.
Liberty bonds? If the kaiser won
he would take my money had bet
ter lend it. However," Mrs. IIaines
smiled MS she finished, "thc kaiser
will not win. have five sons who
say he shall not. will trust them,
and my neighbors' sons" Through
out the interview there WIS never a
trace of moisture in Mrs. IIanes'
eyes Her lower lip did not CULVER
once She was not fidgcty. She was
determined. You see she had lust
read letter from one of her BOYS
IN France. 1t contained this SEN
teence: Mother, believe all you hear
about the hellishness of the Huns
brutalitipS