The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1918-04-05
BY J. r. COUNTESS, President Grenada College. Grenada, Miss.

s ~sss zm ssarS Ss, sad' n mMg car is. at tho ss door aSrn md in a fSr MINUTES Inv ties. ! wi. will tai, take ya to
b un Ge 90 occasion cast ma a parry n. pu ssm nm so%ers rose rom sH "en ~ amSw p then aGr
FIRE md when thu Germans each stood before hsm maj, he cArred his hand upon his
chest md released a spring that threw burning gasoline in the fe f their enemies,
friendship The man who does not earnt to fight in the overthrow Ct such aszadns
must have water in his veins instead of blood ~
,~ This is not war between Westminster and Berlin, nor between Wilson and Viii
o os the Ann ai@n. people de- agninssa ut s"a a, and dssp0t7 z. a war for fr ss future welfare ARE
hamy and DASH, tut by equipment and endurance. On side ms be exhausted
soldiers fight bestan and longest who are best supplied with food uniform and the im"e
soure and furnish our boys with the needed equipment To dc this we nus deny
s so5 fsmsh n me s fness we a ts: able aen sS buy T. , 1t IDS physically ns st y yim posi- am for f. 0ut f's actor s
articles we are accustomed to buy The output of or factories of every kind is s24,
ooooooooo0 for The purchase IF materials fort the prosecution OF the war for ont
wear last years clothes, or soldiers nus go without uniforms. Six hundred thousand
the colrs; all factories are short # abor: I repeat some odsrsm lust 70 untitled.
Of H.. S Some fear sfa the "a Nv will ,h hurt a1 business ,%ssm Such Oh, people scRsh have not stopped top to- to- think
thought Of heir sacrifice of education, of the giving u Of cherished hopes OF pofes
bloody Huns When bushes intrferes with our supplying everything needed by or
business, our only business now, is to win this war; 1 should rather nae my children
u M i hs S Sosae ss f S"s shs sah s'o of ~r' n makes as e sn 1nsni sahnais sssaa fss so manw ' t., s tss
pass the Shells furnish the cannon, build the ships, construct te aereplanss, sna con-,
serve serve TIL f00d sup supply mpS, as it isl for s.S our soldiers to fight in the trenches: Our is not a
democracy and the liberty of the world.
TO serve Or soldiers in the trenches we aust save0 r products at home Our
mmd is the the most ooun si sd our people are the most xravagsn in the inhabited
in Ter Der eaphas savings of $500. Ever benhhed, ana~dsde,d owntrodden, stonm
sosss h ssSss a ns; ,i Il Ser s' APT shs s"s Ssessn sss'e at ss " %~s t hrs 81, ns . s w 100000 % Of ss as
millions of bond holders. We mut bring that number to aftv millions a"' No %' ben n.
simpler scheme was ever devised than the sale of Thrift Stamps These stamps cost
month of January 81 each, but having a face value Of $500 in January 1928 That
is to say the War Savings Stamps bear interest at 4% compounded qumtery. Should
the ownsr so desire he may cash them ata y time uont ten days notice to his post
Office, This campaign is not merely for the purpose If securing w billions IF dol
lars, but rather to teach or people the habit of thrift to hncuhate in them a sense of
t n% emoney in o %ne sae% p xMb te 81 cove, u1semn st as an f. eS rs'e mt the then m. t%m using NM
people need not cry hard times when the crop of 1917 is valued at twentyone bill
spending money for candy at the rate If a million donarsa day. and more money for
'sns give ' or people @s a s sse% ina ssf fs ~ so S': al 1s sse ssseesr ye ass o i' he ' rs these stamps
II each OF our W million people in Mississippi will saves an average Of five
cents perd day. it Will make two million nckeks one million dimes,$ 100000, or more
than 100000 pa month, or sa6,5oo 900 PEI year. Such are the possibilities of
init and savngs in a SMALL way. What a country we should have if we kept this
habit u for ten years..
AS certainly as it wa necessary TO the success of ancient Rome to destroy Car
tage, so certainly is it necessary for the future peace nd liberty Of the world for the
miharisicp power of Germany to be overtrown. The full story of her leeds Of ter
rorsm cal never be told, because she has sunk and buried much of the evidence with
out leaving trace" but canno close without recing a ew weLa uthen in
cdents reported by Dr. Newell Dwight Hills Upon the retreat of the Germans from
one city, inquests wereh held overth bodies OF 600 of their victims including veyag aged
nena and women ad unborn babes removed from heir mothers v the havonet The
nude bodies of women telling the mute but fearful story OF their sufenngs before
death brought release Passing through a village, the Germans found a calf
skin nailed to a band door and beside it hev nailed a little child and undr.sathw 900
their word for" two" In another they hanged lad to a pear rec and wento n to te
next house. O looking back they saw that his mother had cut him owl and wasr re-
storing him to Ife. Thew returned. andhwh1e one soldier hold the mothers h.nds he
era another poured gasoline over the boy and set him OF fire.. The soldiers roared
with laughter at the frantic efforts of the tortured lad. As German soldiers marched
through the strets of a village a little child w years old came out .to watch thu pa
shouoer' keepng step with his companion who .sang a rbald song, norl losing a bar
from thu music. Such stories could be multiplied by the very housand, as these bar
military ohcnas'r epeatedm every square mile Of captured territory, whether Belgian,
French erviap, Russian or Italian and exceededo only by their more than worthy Al
pHlaged, outraged, murdered more than a million Armenian Christians.
We aust be in ed hot earneta about this war; German miinismm must be de-
sroyed. Its cod-boodd system has given US Bible without inspiration, q theology
without God, a religion without ahruim. 1t has robbed thu Almighty of his aML
butes and pinned them on the kaiser who assumes divine prerogaives and hasphem-
Ay tks Of the parnershI between Heaven ad the Huns Wanou. s eH or COZ.
friendly nations without a trace melted attack upon aeutgaass 1d USED their territory
Ge@sissead' eapt~s torpedoed hospital hips, sunk relief ships bearing the gifts Of a
sss eFo sss supplies s ss ssr f sa.esk s assssy ssI %ss f sSs n ad srs ss s's asas enemies sss:
issaas sSs hs Tsaanss s aad n scientific 81 sM ms .n %Ga he efsasSse %sa sSas ase Of the sm no %s highly 2Ss
civilized.
Though it should take a hundred years to triumph, there can be no treaty of
peace with such q rnn s 1T Its power ERIN must %s, be bel broken broker. q M wv Woodrow Wilson,
we SIX no reward, we desire n territory, but as soldiers Of righteousness. as ministers