Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1918-03-12


drown themselves to save themselves
from what they would face IL German
troops landed on British soil.
1 cannot-wel!. I cannot begin to Dc.
scribe to you the horrible, brutal. beastly.
consistent official things that Germany
has done, not in isolated cases but gem
orally, to the women and children and
the poor old suffering people in the coun-
tries where she set her dreadful foot.
She has stopped at nothing. British off,
GERS told me Of seeing their wounded piled
in heaps and hand grenades thrown in
! their midst and exploded to kill them
while they lay there. British officers
have told me or the men being taken as
prisoners through Germany and German
women coming and Offering them a glass
Of water and splitting in it as they handed
1t to them.
/ came back across the water with a
prominent British officer and statesman.
He told me Of friend OF his who Law
wounded and suffering horribly in front
Oh the herman trenches. He laid there
Tor day and half or two days, suffer
Ing terribly and the Germans came on. at
night, stood around him and scofYed at
him and kicked him and made fun of hin,
ana then went away and left him. and
when some OF his own people went out
at the risk of their lives and brought him
IN before he died he told them of these
things.
DO you think the men in that British
regiment would be willing to make 4
haif-peace with Germany? DO YOU think
| 'hal the Canadians WHO went in the
trehches and found their officers cruciiied
--whether those men will ever make q
half-peace with Germany. J tell Won i
Is only short time before our bows who
are over there now are gulng TO be suffer
ins those same things, and YOU have go,
10 understand ii here, and YOU have GOT
70 Duild, and build and sacrifice. no mat
ter what 1t costs to beat that beast. Can.
plause)
This is a War Of Nations.
No"' TINS war is not a war of armies.
II is war of, ma tons. There ism, a man.
woman, or child id sGreat Britain. in
Belsium, in France, or in Italyx that IS
not a factor in this war telgiou tina.
II you should go, as I have gone, 3bout
those ruined districts in France and seen
the little children. little bits OF tsts. four
and five years old, driving In the herds al
night. seeing the little boys coming dow,
the radcliffe bits Of tots-with then
arms full of fagots that they were aceu-
mulating against the winter, old men and
old women working in the fields until ii
was so dark that as You looked yon could
just make out those vague. ghostly forms
gathering in the crops for France
! l have passed through those towns and
Hooked In the windows at Night where Won
would see a little here and there. ana
they were always working working
working, working. 20 carry on this war
1t is not the armies of France that are
the essential thing to Francesin this war
nor the armies of England, nor the other
countries. Those armies will do their
sl1art and't.o it to fnish,.if they are sup
rortef BY the people behind, and the
grAt Drying need in Europe today is e
bu,ld4ehIyA spirit and keep UP the spirit,
or the people behind the lines, and it is
that great work which the Ref lrossF
! thanks not to us on the other side, buttS
you.' on this side-has performed and be.
come the largest known single faero,
since our sSatry in5 the war. !: -
Now, ! am. going to sketch flor you
eebrisay Ihet1ake have done. and YOU will
Nhdsi standewhy we did it. tApelause.)
l. In the first place we.came to a country
that was stringent by three years OF war
There is very IAsae yon can buy on the
other side In the waya6f supplies and ma
terial. There Is very fatle you can ge,
hold of in the way Of human power
There are no stenographers, or telephone
operators, no people to run errands o,
keep furnace fires going or anything OF
/ that sort. We had therefore to import
, practically all the labor we had to use f.
our undertaking. We Nlso had 70 get TO-
gether supplies from places other thar
Europe itself
The Warehouse System.
we started Immediately the construc.
ton OF a great system of transportation
and warehouses. The theory of the or
gan!zation was this That there were onl,
two things which were essential to oui
success-you could strip everything else
away but two things we had to have;
One OF them was goods materials; sup
plies on the ground: and the other was
some way to move them. And II we had
those two things, well, put 1t 10 any Idiot
to do the rest
So we started our warehouse system.
Our warehouse system Is very tompli-
Gated: IT is a very complicated matter,
the working ont of a warehouse system In
France for the reason that, the Govern
ment has occupied practically all the
points that are desirable for warehouse
sites. But we have Il system of ware
houses beginning al eight of the principal
ports II France at each of which we
have a warehouse. and where we have