Norwich bulletin., 1918-08-29
LITTLE NORWICH BOY
 GIVES WAR IMPRESsIoNs

Dressing his thoughts for ore so l young, George Colt Butts, Jr.. son of l Mr and Mrs, George C. Butts of 1 Rocklawn, Warren street. who are at 1 Marblehead, has written a letter 10 l The Bulletin. describing a trip ia inc 1 i west As he says he wrotee it all himself 1 as follows: Marblehead. Mass. Aug. 18th 1918. l To the Editor: Before I came to ] Marblehead for the summer I took a trip west with my papa and I would ! like to tell all my little friends Of the
 wonderful things saw, and I am so- ! ing to write this letter ak myself. l When I left Norwich I did not know very much about the war or soldiers l or sailors except what my parents told me, and 1 couldn't understand very much more than that in very very cruel creature called a kaiser. oh, 1 much worse than a tiger, drove all the 1 Germans into beautiful place called i Belgium and another beautiful coun- 1 try called France and "tried to get al, l the homes of the dear little children
 and even hurt the little children and took their nlama's and papa's away from them. I cried once when a | house burned down and the little
 children lost all their playthinss, but just think of hundreds Of little chill dren. and I can count one thopsanl
 and mama says even more than that number of little children losing not
 only all their things, but their rnamas
 and papas and devoted big sisters.
 Just suppose a gr9at big tiger should
 come scratching at your door and say, l Get out! 1 want everything Tn the
 world, and then told an awful. lie and said God told him to get it and kill
 everyone. It would be a lie, wouldn't lit, because the Little Christ Child said
 we mustn't want anything that be-
 longs to another? And God loves lit tie children best and wouldn't want
 them to suffer.
 supposed that all the men who , went away from Norwich were going : over to push all the Germans back to , Berlin and not let them get OUT coun- try, and I knew God would take them 1 safely over the ocean because all His ; dear little American children prayed
 for them.
 When I left Norwich my mind was 3 on the glorious scenery of the Mohawk 5 Trail someone told me about, and on t the trains and bridges, Niagara Falls } and other wonderful things. Rat l ! hadn't been gone long before I knew
 that the only wonderful things in the T world were our soldiers and sailors, :. and no one cared for anything else. I : soon learned that every little boy sa- : luted the soldiers and sailors and l
 thanked all 1 could for going to save a l our country from the wicked kaiser V The only trains that interested ne k were the troop trains. l stopped
 i counting after had seen eleven. s l saw ever and ever so uaay catJ <
 trains going east. I didn't know there n were so many pigs in the world
 = No one cared for the parks. Most of 2 the animals were gone. the gra $ e grown long for hay. there were nc S flowers and 1 couldn't even have. a e swanboat ride. They were all pnt h away and there were no band con- q certs. Men wanted to do their bit iI
 other ways. Everyone wants to work
 for Uncle Sam. We saw loIs of beau
 tiful places but the lawns were vege-
 table gardens or grown for hay. IT
 one city 1e saw bricks removed iron
 i the si6eTalk and tomatoes and othei l, vegetables did their bit and gre < nicely along the curbstone.
 $ In Millionaire's Row, Cleveland, tft = elegant houses were all covered witt IS big signs asking the soldiers and sail 3 ors to come there and be happy. anf ' some were Red Cross headquarters l. People didn't care how they looked oi e how they dressed, they didn't hay: e time. In all the big parks of Cieye a, land we did not see any private au d tefnobiies. I suppose people buy thrif l. stamps instead of gasoline. No or' al cares about any wealthy person ex y cept what he does for the soldiers
 Guides seem to think more of tha
 than they do of a mans money. ",
 heard no music in a single hotel eN le eept the big organ at The StatieT IS Buffalo. There were lot of Cath9 z lie priests there because a priest wa n. made bishop, and at their big ban Ut auet they sang all the patriotic song es in true spirit and cheered like boys d. You bet there weren't any wieks' e pro- Germans or pactfsts among them Ts They were all true loyal Americans g. loved to hear them sing Owe K There.
 ce We were at ever so many hotels an IT. did not see one person order liqunl en There won't be any liquor when I at al president because the people won
 want it,
 In the 54 miles on the Mohawk Ira
 we saw only seven automobiles. Th ls trail was rough because army suppl tp wagons went over it in the spring. ad We talked to hundreds of peepl la " hile we were away. and after We lei S. Norwich we did not meet one s.agl u- wicked pacifst. l wish people i es Norwich wouldn't talk about BenediC is Arnold. Do you know what 8 pacihs nd is? A pacinst ia sort ( re real dunce that doesn't know an he better; and pro German is grown iR up dunce who cheats-that is, yo ed can't trust him, I saw a valuabI es poster here. I told the postmaster he wished I had one. He asked me whs
 I'd do with it. and I said I would pt
 it in window at horne so as to mak
 people up. It was the only one he1 .>, but there aren't any paeifsts here. S ' Marblehead gave me that poster No1 sh if anyone says he doesn't believe tna on he wouldn't believe anything not eve he the little Christ Child, and is wh: te you call narrow" Do you kno he what I'd do with the kaiser if I gt on him and Hindenburg and all the oth, nd wicked German officers? I'd tie stor
 around their necks and drown thel o. just as the little Christ Child said be Go.
 nd love New York, the state where is was born. They won't allow Germa
 taught in any school We aren't 2,
 ing to allow German to be spoken
 this country after the war and a ae, German books have got to De Inat pm over.
 las In every station we Eaw Red Gro ne workers giving all kinds of deiieie,
 A. things to -the--SoA4ie -on every ra.