The twice-a-week Twin Falls times. (Twin Falls, Idaho) 1916-1918, 1918-01-29
Moved Audience to
Cheers and Tears
Vast Audience Greets Noted Speaker
and Applauds to the Echo His Ad-
dress.

Every American should have but
one business now and that is to win !
this war"
power Rev Samuel Cranston Benson, !
a Presbyterian parSOn, the BILLY Sun |
day of the Red Cross drive" held his |
audience SpellbOund last night at the |
high school auditorium as he re-
counted the story of the German
atrocities perpetrated during the
first ninety days of the rush
through Belgium. When Rev. Benson
visited the scene long afterwards, the
burned rafters told the story of the
crime against civilization and this
was supplemented by heart-rending
stories told by those whose husbands
and fathers had been murdered. The
story was not new, but like the repeti-
ton of an old song, it went to the
heart.
He told the story of how "Kultur''
and the doctrine of the divine right
of kings had perverted the German
people and convinced their soldiery
that anything done to advance Ger
many and her monarch, however afro
cious, was the will of God. He de-
2 clared that his heart went out to
Germans in this country, who were
y loyal to America and who mOurned
the crimes committed through a bad
philosophy by their kinsmen abroad.
IOn Jne OJner nanQ ne CkDIGSSGQ
e lOathing and contempt for the Ger
o man who escaped from the land of the
kaiser to free America and who, in
stead of being loyal, was seditious
and tried to undermine the cause of
e liberty.
s He suggested the wrapping of La
Toilette in barbed wire and shipping
!, him to Germany, where he would be
in his element"
t. He told the story of our patience
+ with Germany under grave offenses
k and how after the Lusitania sinking
e she had promised to mend her ways
Ii and broke the promise and finally
e gave a definite pledge, which she later
:. explicitly revoked and proclaimed heI
s policy of murder. He said we hat
stood aside as neutral until then, and
1t had not even protested against the
II invasion of Belgium as a certain for
y mer president of the United States be-
lieves we should have done. (This
probably refers to Colonel Roosevelt
who seven weeks after the invasion o
Belgium praised our policy of neu
l. trality in a signed article, but later
on reconsideration, came to the con
cluSiOn that 1t was mistake.-Ed
TIMES.) But when Germany told u
IS that we could only send one ship
week. loaded with articles o. KID b
Germany, to certain designated pOr
provided we should paint the vessel a
Germany dictated. When she pro
l. claimed her policy of murder wit
ID this insulting exception Uncle Sar
i took off his coat and we will sta.
J., with the war until the end of the doc
! trine of divine right of kings is rec
re- ognized by all men. During much o
TO the recital of Belgiums woes. peopl
d wept in many parts of the house.
10 His description of his experience
10 with German officials when taken in
10 to custody a possible spy kept tn
is audience breathless. Everyone seem
!: ed to feel the sensations which tn
speaker must have experienced whe
every trivial incident seemed moment
Gus, and all realized that he at leas
"a felt that he was in terrible DANCE
and that he probably was.
is The singing program by the Meth
IL odist choir was magnificent and a
entered with spirit into the singing {
ra Americas patriotic songs. The M.
orchestra, combined with the Bair
or bridge orchestra furnished instru
mental music and the announcemeI
nc by Choir Leader Butler that the
would unite in the free concert o
ra Thursday night was greeted with al
er plause. tstttt ts
2 Chairman l.. L. Breckenridge intro
1T duced the speaker of the evening wit
a timely little talk in which he rt
or counted the work done by the mir
istry in the Revolutionary war. Re
ferring to the subject Back F'rol
ra He'll" he stated that he believed
the existence of hell, and aptly quo
eft ed the Jewish grocer, who when
food administrator said he doubte
the existence of hell, replied we'll,
ra dere is no hell, we're has bushes
gomez"