Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1918-02-28
MASS MEETING
STIRS ENTHUSIASM OF ALL
Long War Is Prophesied Unless U. S. People Step
Into the Breach -Terors of Warfare and Privations
Of Soldiers and Non-combat tants Vividy Portrayed.
"This story I checked carefully

IH1S StOFy 1 cnCckCu ciFcIuHy
to assure myself of its truth. A
nurse had brought q German Off
Ger thru. He had been horribly
wounded, but she had nursed him
back to health and strength. When
he was leaving the hospital he
asked the nurse If she would shake
hands with him to show that there
was no enmity between them. Inn
pulsively she stretched forth her
hand and as she did so he seized
her by the wrist and snapped her
arm across his knee, exclaiming as
he did SO, There! You'll not he
in shape to nurse anyone else for
u long while.'"
''They took him out and shot
m."-Dan Reed.
An audience that taxed the capac-
ity of the Armory gathered Tuesday
evening for the patriotic program
which was given under the auspices
Of the Jamestown Commercial club
The speakers of the evening, Dr. H.
C. Culbertson and Daniel Reed, bro't
to their hearers, facts concerning the
war conditions in Europe, that had
never before been so clearly eluci-
, dated before a majority of those
present. They spoke with authority,
this being delegated to them not only
because of their appointment by the
United States Food Administration,
but In a deeper sense by the fact that
they are familiar with conditions as
perhaps but few Americans now in
this country have been able to ac-
quaint themselves.
The audience was deeply impress
ed by the dire need of large por-
tion of the peoples Of the earth, and
there were hundreds who resolved to
take a much more active part in the
waging Of the campaign against Ger
man militarism and barbarism.
DIR. r. A.. Bolton presided over the
meeting, /, ana in his brief introduc-
tory remarks he pleaded for the put
ting forth of the united efforts of all
to the end that our boys and our
country might be aided to the full
measure of our strength. He stated
that our country should come first in
our thoughts. He quoted Decatur's
familiar, my Country May she ever
be in the right! But right or wrong,
my country"
The Ruby orchestra rendered pat
riotic airs and other music of an ap-
propriate nature, while the audience
was assembling.
In addition to the instrumental
music furnished by the orchestra the
audience sang America and The Star
Spangled Banner, led by the college
chorus. The college students also
sang, Men of America" the song re-
Gently written by Dean F. B. Taylor
and set to music by Professor Walter
Bonney. This special number was
very impressively given, the lofty
theme of the song being effectively
brought out by the student chorus.
The leader was Mrs. Arthur Stucken-
bruch.
DR.. Henry c. Culbertson began his
address by relating some of his
worldwide observations before and
during the war. He had seen the or
ganization that Germany had builded
up, had talked with the people of
Holland and had seen their determ-
ination to keep their land unviolat-
ed, and had seen England's heroic
efforts to prepare herself.
He said, in part:
There has never been any great
achievement in the world except by
sacrifice, blood and tears. Today we
are called upon to make sacrifices for
the winning of a war in which the
whole world is engaged.
1.-THE full tale of German barbara
ties in the lands which she has con-
quered cannot be told until after the
war is over" said the speaker, but
it makes us boil with anger to know
that she has deported thousands of
captured women into slavery, and
that in the cellars of the houses of
Eastern France, in the villages Oc-
cupied by German troops, there are
hundreds of helpless French women
tethered and chained in the darkness
in order that they may be used to
crafty the lust OF German officers
and men. In one case German troops
even burned French girls at the
stake in order to lure the soldiers Of
France into certain death trap"
In speaking Of the contrast be-
tween German and American ideals
Of warfare DIR. Culberts0n gave an H.
illustration from our American Civil
War. During that war Captain
Symmes of the Confederate cruiser
Alabama, was seeking to sweep the
commerce of the northern states
from the seas. At one time he cap
tured vessel which he very much
wanted to retain and to At out as an-
other cruiser like the Alabama. He
put prize crew on board and sent
it to port In one Of the West In
dies. When they drew near land
they found that the island was .suf-
feringI from an epid denic of# holera.
Tho passenger 4of the captured b sship % 2