The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1918-04-03
FRANCE Will FIGHT TO
A LASTING PEACE
Victory Not Peace, the Gallo Obiec-
tive, Says Lieut.. Jean Picard
NO SACRIFICE TOO GREAT
Former French Officer Speaks at the
Hugenot Church on the Great War


of it's kind in America, Lieut.. Joan
Picard, late of the French army but
now wearing the red triangle of the
American Y M. G.. A., yesterday de-
! llvered eli impressive address on the
great war ,as seen from the viewpoint
of a Frenchman
! The soldier speaker was presented
to the audience by the pastor, the Rev
Florian Vurpilot who said: "Today
we celebrate the supreme commemora-
ton of earth's greatest sacrifice, Good
FRIDAY. One year ago today it was
that the President of the United
States declared our country at war
with Germany, thus plunging us in a
position to make sacrifices in the
worlds war also, along with our al
lies. We are to hear of that sacrifice
today from one who is a Frenchman,
Hugenot, a soldier ana a Christian
soldier"
Lieut.. Picard's Address
Lieut.. Picard said:
"As l go through the camps of this
country and meet with the boys of the
United States army and navy l hear
them say this concerning Christ and
this war and their enemies:
AS He died to make us holy,
Let us die to make them free
To-day is the anniversary of the
death of our Lord. 1t is the ami
Versary of the entrance Of America
into the war. 1t is also the day when
men are fighting, what will probably
De the greatest strug. lie of all time.
Women-wives, mothers, sisters-are
suffering today as Mary suffered
when she stood beside the cross. 1t is
great day in which to think and
speak of this war.
1T is great pleasure to speak in
a French Hugenot church in Amcri-
ca. You, in America, have ALWAYS
loved France, and yet you have never
before read French news and studied
Frcnch maps as you are doing today
This slbecause your husbands, your
sons, your brothers, either are in
FRANCE, or are soon to be in France,
and it is in France that your heart
is today
4ou women who have given YOUR
husbands, your sons and your broth
eers have not yet given all, for the war
Is yet to- be fought; aye, is being
!ought, rlght here in America, right
i'll your midst, in this town.
at is not being fought alone by
men in khaki or men In blue, but by
men too old to fight in the ranks, men
too young to fight in the ranks, and
also very largely by women and chill
dren.
When the War Will End
III you were to ask me how long
this war will last I would saw I do
not care, for what is the length of the
time of the war! What we fight for
is victory! And every night, as YOU go
TO your room, aye, when you knecl to
pray, your question should be, Have |
done all that | could do today to bring
victory to our arms? %
DO not ASK yourself, Have I done
give all that l can; do give ali that
| can to victory?"
II ask you, do you do a.. you can.
40 you give all you can, and do YOU
give all that you are to victory? There
Is way to be sure you are doing
the right thing in every hour of the
tWenty-four hours Of the day, four
things to do always. To do nothing
whatever but to think victory, speak
nothing but victory, pray victory and
keep on smiling.
,"All these men ana these women
who tell me they wish to go to Europe
ana can fight Just sa wei! here in
America, when they say they wish to
fight, then l ask them no wmuch do
you give to the Red Cross TO the
woman l say about those summer
dresses, are you going to buy only
What you need, or what you want? !?
Are you saving food? Do YOU sneak
victory to fools and pro- Germans L? For
all fools are not foolish, some are pro-
German! Are you that worst kind of
Ioptlmlst, one who says when he reads
the terrible war news, 4 need not
worry, l know it viii all turn out all
right, anyhow DO not be that kind
or an optlmlst, which is worse than a
pesslmlst, but be the kind Of optimist
who says, 4 know it will turn out ali
right because | am making for vicP
tory, because | am doing my full
share
Will Keep on Fighting
You know how France is fighting
today France will keep on firhtinS
as long as there is any necessity for
her to fight! France can and will
stand whatever there is need for her
to stand for her to win this fight: no
isacrlflcc is too great for her to make.
lhere is not one woman in France
to-day, who has not lost some relative.
husband, son, brother--yet the French.
men keep up their courage and these
French women keep on smiling. 1t is
not difficult for these to keep on smil-
ing, and even the men and women,
under fire in Paris, keep on smiling
because we know we are right As
we are right we will win. Whatever
the sacrifice, sacrifice made for
right will win. Two years ago, Easter
Sunday, 1916, 400 came from the
trenches to take part in the Easter
services and to receive their Easter
communion, with us there were about
$50 women and children. We were
four miles behind the lines in church.