El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1918-06-13
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KnO10S NOTHING
OfGreat War
Cares Less Than 1t Knows
and Goes on IN Pleasure
and Contentment.
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Z the present she has kept Anna geddun
al a sufficient distance not to make
I life depressing.
You have only to spend a few days
7 in Dublin to enjoy a freedom from
war restrictions such as some neutral
Q countries in Europe do not know to-
/ DAY.
Food? Plenty Of It. Meat coupons.
( butter coupons2 Nothing OF the sort
I Beer2 Not so much as there used 10
J be, but still-enough. Spirits2 Any
amount Ask the waiter for a whisky
and soda. and he comes along grin
ming with bumperful-a double
Irish or Scotch. and II you tell him
You only wanted a small one he viii
look hurt
"All glasses empty by 2:3O please e'
Ridiculous. A great joke in Dublin
is tGlt complaints have been made
that you cannot get a drink before
seven in the morning,
All blinds down at night? Certain
~ not-and so on.
And you ask them why they do net
like the man-power bill
Something To Fight For.
we are all fighting men in Ire
land says a Nationalist leader TO
you with enthusiasm. You won't find
many conscientious DIRECTORS in IRE
land We are more Of fighting race
than the Welsh or the Scotch or the
English our young men like to fight
But give US something to fight FOR
Give US an Irish parliament and
want-but no cOuscrip
Yes. we know how England is
suffering says a clever young Irish
ever since 1855"
But all democracy is in this war
against kaiserism, I interrupt.
The masses in all the belliEerent
countries had nothing 20 do with
causing this war" he replies. 1T
was engineered by the governing
classes"
But have you read prince Lich-
nowsky's memorandum? p" I ask.
OH I have read extracts" he saws
each side accuses the other. So far
as ireland is concerned. ever since
1SS6-
A party OF gay young men who
were driving 10 the races at Phoenix
park were hailed with shouts in
Gaelic by some peasant women who
were standing by the side Of the road.
i asked my jarvey what they were
calling
Women Are For 1t.
sure it's 'Youu have to go.
they're saying he answered
They've heard that conscriptiou is
coming, and they want the separation
allowances You see. they'll be better
Off than they've ever been before.
Which. after all is one good reason
why some people in ireland would
not mind CONSUMPTION.
You can't help getting that prewcr
You feel il everywhere, save when
you look into the faces Of the Irish
wounded in the streets. Look into a
shop window and you viii see a pic ]
ture Of The Hero Of the Hour" the
lean, ascetic face OF 1Ir. de Valera I
Read the Dublin papers and you
enter into the spirit Of the political I
days OF old. Giant headlines about the I
campaign, stirring leading I
articles about the unity Of Ireland, I
lesser articles about still more local /
politics. The war news is there. oil
course, more prominently displayed I
in some than in others. The great /
Freeman's Journal gives it modest
single column headings Just now. re-
serving the big type for the defence {
Of the Hierarchy.
Political Unity.
AAAEA SUN NlAAAAAa-A
unity. It is strange TO see the famil-
lar British war posters about food
and war savings and the old appeals 4
for volunteers conspicuous and not
defaced. and to see British soldiers
walking down Sacl1ville street just as /
if il were the Strand. During the
few days Of my last visit I saw not
one unfriendly sign towards our
fighting men from the groups or
young men who were discussing con-
scription at the street corners.
Life goes on in the old leisurely
way, only things are more prosper
1us. II il were not for the petrol re-
strictions there would be really very
little TO grumble about The jauntins
cars are kept busy, what with the
holiday makers and the races, and
the jarveys make good money.
Tt is true there are two meatless
lays, but these have been bravely en-
breakfast in the hotels-that Is II
you care 10 wait until half past ten,
and some people debut there is
great scarcity Of jam and marmalade
and visitors must bring their own
sugar.
Not Getting Excited.
But these troubles have not caused
any unrest Worse things might
happen. The Germans may get to thel
channel ports, but as Dublin door
keeper assured me. That won't mat
English fleet will be there.
sure, If we've got to die wen die in
]uld Ireland"
1t is at nightfau that one feels one
self really back into the spring OIL
-914-thOse perfect moonlit evenings
when ali the world save ireland was
u peace and there was not so much
IS a whisper OF war in the stir Of the
Freezes.
mo street lamps are lit. the shop
windows are bright with unshaded
1rillance and the light pOurs gener-
lusly on TO the gaVemeuts. Crowds or
-oung men and women laughing and
.alking gaily. pass to and fro one
o0ks IN vain for the sad Swallowed
aces that are seen In every town IN
I'D England today. Young Ireland,
happy and contented. is filling the
picture palaces and theaters, or gOs-
sipiRg in the main thoroughfarcs.
leedless OF the world tragedy.
Mount KENNEL has fallen; a hun
.red thousand Huns are smashing az
he gate TO Calais. What mattersyl ,
S not Ireland united?
Lots OF Funi No Cares.
Outside an hotel here is a little
.rOwd peering through the doorway
It the sigh Of dancers Youthful
members Of Dublin society have fore
iarmless amusement. The stalWart
-oung men are there in evening
lothes with perfectly laundered
ineu, white gloves. hair brushed
lightly back from the temples. The
women know how to dress we'll They
COX as IL they have no cares. They
i've fin a world of well ordered ease
nd freedom from an awful anxiety
which the women Of France and OF
HraH HaHn