The Julesburg grit-advocate., 1918-01-10


whole story Our part is to supply
the added force necessary to turn the
allies military advantage into mill
tary victory. The war is so big, that
this means America must supply mil
lions of men and billions of dollars.
This IS my conclusion. after visiting
the French English and Belgian bat
tie fronts from Switzerland to the
North Sea.
1t is impossible to give the details
of the trip taken by the ten Congress-
men in this statement, so shall give
only brief outline. We sailed on
the American Liner st. Louis" short
ly after the adjournment of Congress.
The st. Louis has five guns. They
are manned by crack crews of Ameri-
can Naval Gunners. Besides it was
conveyed through the submarine
zone by American Destroyers, The
manenvers at sea, the practice shoot
ING at targets, the sailing without
any lights whatever through the
darkness and the impossibility Of
sending any wireless messages to the
outside world impressed US all very
forcibly that we were moving into the
world of war.
At Liverpool representatives of the
British foreign office and of the
American Embassy took the Members
of Congress off the steamer shortly
after the shin arrived. On the way
to the dock we stopped to get some
officers off big Holland American
liner which had just arrived from
China with 5000 Chinese coolies on
their way to France to work as labor
ers. They were the first of the
thousands of others of their kind we
were to see in France later.
We left for London at 2-30 P. M. and
arrived at o'clock. Our first i'm
preston was that it was a city Of
darkness This WAS because of the
dim hooded street lights. The Brit.
ish officials there wanted to enter
tain US for two weeks before taking
US to France, but we dared not stay
more than three days if we were to
cover the battle fronts and return for
the opening of Congress in December.
During that period they made a most
wonderful use Of the time. First
they took US to some Of their great
orthopedic hospitals We were most
impressed at Ruehampton and Shep-
herds Bush, where they remake brok
en- men, where the legless are enabled
to walk and the armless to do almost
everything man with arms can do.
We saw wives and mothers in some
wards, sitting beside the parts of men
that were left after operations which
had Just been performed. They had
that most wonderful look in their
eyes that only those who have made
the supreme sacrifice can have. We
saw perfect physical specimens Of
men from 20 to 35 years old, whose
nerves were broken, whose brains
could not function, saw them learn
ing to walk like babies of only ~
months of age. saw them trying to
make their bodies do the many things
they had always done before We
saw also those patient women who sit
for hours working on the bodies and
limbs of men whose muscles will not
move, whose nerves no longer con-
troll. searching over and into every
part of the cuticle with electric vib.
rators trying to discover and awaken
those nerves and muscles which have
gone to sleep before their time We
saw men with every conceivable kind
of injuries. being cured and remade
and all but hypnotized into believing
hey could still play useful part in
this world struggle. In addition to
all this, we were honored in a sur
prising manner at the Shepherds
Bush hospital. 1t was by brass
band composed of Britishers gathered
from all parts of the Empire and
led by one-armed man. After
playing a number of selections, they
played "The Star Spangled Banner
for the American Congressman. while
we stood at attention.
Continued to next week)