The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1918-03-23
.!9FRV|A WILL ENTERNOPE PACT
THAT D0E5NOT INCLUDE DUR ALLIES
DECLARED MADAME GROUiTCH,
WIFE OF SERVIAN MINISTER
TO SWITZERLAND.
Delivered Able Address on war IN
Telling Of Distress CT People
Over the Sea.

"Servia. while being Il very small
country, and unL,r the mighty u"
weak and small! must perish. Yet Scr
viii vii! not enter into any prac" terms
,ha, do not include her allies, was the
statement made by Madame Slavic
GrCuitch. wife Of the S"rTian minister
TO Switzerland. quoted from Il State
mcni Of the prime minister OF ScrHl'''
in Il lecture at III ElkS' Club last night.
Madam Gruuitth was introduced ny
Mrs. Andrew Wilson. Chairman OF the
Child's Welfare Society. who made Il
talk in which she declared That Amcri-
can women enter The tribunals OF mat
riuuny without III" slightest concrP-
ton, or of fitting themselves Tor the
RESPONSIBILITIES hat God mas plac"d
on women. She also stated that -'n,-
600 babies die in the United States
annually on account OF women enter
ing Ia:t;rimony ard motherhood With
out the slightest preparation. SHAH
we prepare and make citizens for the
future or let them pass out oil exist
cncr." said Mrs. Wilson. just before
int reducing Madame GTouitch. Ia
whom she paid III" trihul" Of giving
her lie, her money, her all 10 her coun'
try.
Madame Grouitch illustrated her en-
tire lecture by stUrrOpticon views from
Srrvia. She opened with telling of
founding hospital for children, WIN
four children adopted into her own
home. and when the institution had
grown to 20 children. of her own adop-
lion $50 in day class Of cducatlGn
and nurses and doctors whom she had
taken from America with her then
came the Germans and her little colony
was wrecked with the first shots OF
the Austrian invasion, and while she
was absent from the place. TIL" chill
drrn had been removed the day before.
The family of General Fisitch vas
shown, and many other interesting
slides. including peasant families and
groups OF young men who were collect
ed and sent ahead Of III" retreat OF the
Servian army. Forty thousand or
these youths started on the retreat.
-. .000 died OF hunger. cold and cX-
poSurr. 1000 were captured and put IN
detention camps. and at the present
time 500 remain. 20 whom Madame
Gr0uitch is sending 20 packages each
week.
The advance OF the Austrian army
as pictured by Madam Groutch was
one of obstruction and ruin. The pa
rents OF small children were killed,
the little fellows left to starve, ana
many OF thcm IL the present time 90
not know their names and are forget
ting their native language. The few
refucecs 10 reach the zone OF COM
narrative safety were tcrruTizHd while
waiting for ships to carry them 10
France and Switzerland by acroplaEhS
continually soaring over them ana
dropping bombs upon them.
I'VE must take care Of The CHI
d7en," said the madam, as the Of
ficials of the countries NJ Europe ar"
busy wasinc and making war anu
have no time for Tie children and wo-
men.
AT this time in tho fall of 1915
the typhuS broke out. and had II not
been for this fac; the expedition sent
out with the Dardancl!cS their HcS'
tina,iou would have reached their IN
tended goal and the war would have