Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1918-06-21
MADAME GUER|N
DREW A CROWD
TABERNACLE FILLED TO
SEATING CAPACITY AND
MANY STANDING
TOLD STORY LOVE ANDHATE
Baxter Quartet Made a Hit
Took Large Collection for
the French Manned and
Suffering.

That the French soldier fights for u
nickle day and when he comes home
is not pensioned, except in a trifling,
way, and that his morale after years
Of bloodshed and the most acute sac
rifice is still wonderful was n part OF
the story told by Madam Guerin, the
Friday night.
Madam Guerin is possessed Of the
characteristics which we all like to be-
lieve are typical Of only the country
of Lafayette and Bonaparte-vivac-
ious, emotional, dramatic.
She told two stories-one OF love
and the other of hate. Madam Guerin
under the handicap Of the foreign
English language, reached the hearts
and minds of her audience in a way
that made one wonder to what depths
she could stir one who could have I'M
derstood her native tongue. The Allies
overlooked q mighty instrument Tor
war stimulation in the French speak
ers.
81 have come across the seas to
thank America" She told Of the COM
ing of the Sammies. France bleed
ing. stumbling, almost crushed IN
body-mourning in every home, weary,
but struggling on in the unquench-
about, unconquerable spirit of France
welcomed the coming of the Amer
leans as the saviors Of the cause and
spread the path OF the marching SAM
mics with flowers. 1--WE love those
brave boys of America and we give
them the best that is left in France"
Madam Guerin then related some OF
The atrocities perpetrated upon the
French. their finest boys taken prison
ers and innoculated with the baccilll
If tuberculosis--sent home to die and
spread the horror among their fam
lies. The daughters of France thrown
back across the borders, outraged and
broken and never to know the joys OF
love and mating, others the near
mothers of German children-victims
Of the lust of the German officers. In
tragic pathos Madame Guerin told the
sad story of the neighbor man gassed
nv the fiends of Prussia, who toiied
| in the fields to support his three little
children and died in sorrow with the
hungry and unprotected faces OF his
little ones about him. Other stories
were told that brought moistness to
the ewes of the audience. Madame
Guerin had 16 cousins in the army
but nine of them have been killed. In
France one person out Of every nve
in the nation counting the entire pop
ulation, is in the army. Over l,OOO'-
600 men have been killed and 1,6OO,-
900 hoplessly MANNED and crippled
Thousands are dying with tubercu-
| losis instilled by the Germans TO
weaken the nation. She told Of the
how taken prisoner with a scratch on
his foot. The German physician chlor-
oformed him and amputated his leg
at the thigh and told him it made one
less soldier to fight against the armies
of Germany.
Bringing the horrors little closer
home the speaker produced a letter
from the governor of Missouri verify
ing her statement of the little Am
erican nurse who was captured by the
Germans and sent back into France
manned for life and to be the mother
of child by n German officer. She
told of the little Belgian children
whose hands and ears were cut oil
and who were branded with brand
to show. Women, the young and
pretty, after being used by the offic-
ers were inocculated with disease and
then branded to keep the German SOL
diers from becoming contaminated
men and children of the land. Madam
Guenn says there is 100000 people in
France who are destitute and starving
at this time.
Other numbers Of the program will
be mentioned in another eOlumh'
with them.
From the pathetic Madam Guerin in
fiery manner and voice repeated the
watch word of France: "They Shall
Not Pass"
Madam Guerin said that we had
100000 people and that an army
of 100000. 100000 or 100000
was not enough but that we needed
an army of 12O,OOO,OOO to win the
war.
At the close Of the meeting liber-
al collection was taken up for the
French helpless and the destitute wO-