Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1918-08-16

ID ECENTLH / visited Fort MchenrEs
IN hoping TO find some soldier back
from France who knew something OF
my oldest brother. Sergeant James
Revell Carr. or had been fighting with
his company - Company +. Ninth In
fantry. / had been warned not to go
With two brothers at the front the
Oldest recently wounded, a visit TO
Fort McHenry could only be depress-
ing. Here. in the sick. MANNED and
afflicted soldiers, one saw the grim,
relentless face of war ] would vision
my two brothers, Sergent James Re-
veil and Corporal Benjamin Skinner
Carr, so young and strong and brave,
so full of speed and heat, all the stuff
of which God makes heroes, and
would only go away discouraged, sad,
and full of fears. But / disregarded
all these warnings and went. did
not want to hide my face. / wanted
TO SEE ! wanted TO know something
of the price they are paying over there.
| want TO share with them; | want no
selfish shelter fSom the dread side OF
the things they are enduring. So /
went to Fort McHenry and / saw boys
from over there - boys like my broth
ers - big and clean and brave, the hot
fire of youth running strong in their
veins - splendid specimens of fighting
manhood stretched on hospital cots or
sitting in easy chairs; / saw them all,
the sick. the MANNED, the crippled.
talked to them and heard their stories,
but l did not come away with a heavy
heart / came away more exalted and
inspired than ever over the Great
Cause to which we have pledged our
selves - more than ever glad that my
brothers were among the first to an
swer their country's call, more than
ever proud of them and of the thou
sands of other boys who have volun-
teered. One young fellow was a cow
hoy from Texas, great, brawny chap
who may never use his arm again. He
made no complaints; he had no re-
grets, only that he could not go back.
spoke of the pride we felt in our
men. THE women are doing the
most" he said; they are making the
greatest sacrifice" Looking at this
great fellow, sitting on the side of his
cost with his fighting arm in a sling
l DID vision my brothers and the
other splendid boys who volunteered
from Maryland, in perhaps such a
plight, but it CHEERED me! Yes, it
cheered me, because l saw with my
own eyes and knew in my glad soul
that death and mutilation had no
power over those boys. They have
gone into the Great Worth Whites,
they have drank, kneeling, at the we'll
of eternity, and whatever their fate be-
fore the guns, it will have no victory
over them. No, nor over the women
who sent them. for the true women of
America and of the world will not love
and marry the men who Jagged be-
hind in the safe places. They are not
afraid to mate with the men who will
come back from the front with torn
limbs and disfgured faces. They will
be proud to be the wives of such men,
The coward. the Stacker, the peace-at-
any-price man, the growler, the SCOT
fer, the weakling, the crouch - these,
though their bodies be straight and
sound, and not the disfigured and mu-
tllated, are the men from whom the
true women of America and the world
will shrink. The women behind the
men at the front are not going to
bring into the world children in whose
veins runs the blood of the enemy's
propagandists. There are things
stronger than death, over which hor-
rors have no victory Our boys in
France are not dying for the seed of
the enemy to live, The women who
sent them are not traitors,
One sees no gloomy faces, hears no
tones at Fort McHenry.
The surroundings are bright and
cheerful; the wards spacious. light
and airy, with every possible home
like appearance. Amusements of all
kinds are a daily occurrence, while