Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1918-05-09
PATRIOTIC SERVICE

PATRIOTIC SERVICE
Addresses By Dean Hills and Mrs.
Forbes Robertson Hale.
At 7:3O in the evening a patriotic service
was held in the gymnasium, the principal
speaker being Mrs. Beatrice Forbes
Robertson Hale. The program opened with
a half hour concert by the 31Oth cavalry
band and then the entire audience sang
America" The scripture lesson and
prayer were read by Professor 8. F.
Emerson. Phi. D.
Dean J. L. Hills Of the College Of Agri-
future gave a short talk on the univer-
sity's work in the food conservation cam
paign. He was introduced by DR.. 8. q.
Barnes. Dean Hills said thtat the College
Of Agriculture was teaching conservation
through its home ecoonmics department
and production through It's agricultural
department. He said that the College Of
Agriculture taught on it's campus, Off it's
campus and then besides that did research
work. He said the teaching on the campus
was about the same In peace time as In
war time, but in the other branches Of
its work tried to stick to the more
practical things.
In the home economics department the
practice house, said Dean Hills, has been
a radiant center Of good things. He told
Of the week in which a number Of people
were served with absolutely wheatless
meals. He paid a tribute to Miss Bertha
M. Terrill, who has done so much toward
making Vermont n State Of food conser-
walton. and called her Hoover's right
hand woman.
Dean Hills also spoke Of the work Of the
experiment station. and particularly of
the extension service. In concluding. he
said several Of the GIT stars on the serv-
Ice flag were college Of agriculture men
and that of the % men who had graduated
this year Is either were or were shortly
to be in khaki. He said that was tho
proudest thing he could say.
MRS HALE ON FOOD CoNsERvA-
TON.
Mrs Beatrice Forbes Robertson Hale
then gave talk on food conservation.
She was introduced by Acting President
G. H. Perkins. Mrs. Hale said that since
the wheat crop was all or nearly all
planted, the question to consider at the
present time was not production as much
as conservation.
She said: IT want to talk on the wal
itself first. We are being asked to dc
such simple things, to buy Liberty
bond, an admirable investment. to buy
| war savings stamps, to make war gar
dens and to observe wheatless days. We
| should do those things cheerfully, but
| really it Is much harder to do little
things continually and to keep UP ones
courage than it Is to do one heroic thing
and to have 1t over"
Mrs. Hale gave a description Of condi
lions as they were in England wher
war was declared and said the spirit
OF the English people could be seen II
the answer Of a British officer whom
she asked II England was really coins
to fight: I'VE must fight IL we have g
spark of HONOR That was the spri
Of England.
| No nation in the world ever went into
war with a loftier purpose. said Mrs
Hale, than the United States did II
April. 1917. But in thinking of this W,
also must remember that the United
States went into the war with a motiv,
Of self -defense. The debt we owe tn,
allies for protecting US cannot ever b,
repaid.
She told of the letter received b.
Count Won Bernstorff which fell int
the hands Of the Americans and whic
said: Hold off the Americans. Kee
them neutral" She said "They kne,
Russia would collapse because thei
morale was undermined by propa
ganda. They expected to do the sam
by Italy and then to beat France an
get by the English fleet and land tw
armies in the United States. one 1
New York and the other in the gull
Then they would demand an indem
nifty from America large enough t
cover Germany's war debt and t
maintain two armies of occupation 1
the United States for a period Of fror
ten to fifteen years. When England de
clared war the United States did nc
have force enough at hand to kee
an army landed on her shores froI
marching way to Denver. That is wha
France and England have done fo
u.s."
Mrs. Hale told Of some horrible thing
which were perpetrated in France, add
ing: That is a Sunday school picni
compared to things ! could tell you an
which l know are true. not from hear
say. but from someone who reall
knows"
She said that the American peopl
should not direct all OF their animosit
against the German people nor shoul
1 ~
for the people would not have to hav
a kaiser II they did not want one. Eng
; land had a kaiser and beheaded hin
France decided tho only good kaiser wa
dead one and did tho same.
Mrs. Hale said that the big thing ..
, fight was not the German people or tn
Kaiser. but the German ideal. "Sint
the Franco Prussian war" she sal
Germany has not produced anything
, music or science and has made no II
, ventions. They didn't even invent the
| own idea. That was born In France
, the 18th century"
; 1.-The professors in Germany are d
, rectly responsible for the Kaiser ar
; they have taught that Christianity
a religion Of slaves. 1t is satisfactory 4
weak people but It is entirely inadequa
t for a strong people like the Germans al
they had better turn back to their origin
teutonic gods. Germany knows only o.
thing. and that is elf-interest. When on
!, a nation thinks only of self-interest Il
thought naturally leads to worlddomini'
: and then there Is n military excuse (
everything. Then the mind. the high
: trained mind. becomes debauched al
. humanity shudders at the comman
, uttered
1.-THE German commanders at the b
T ginning OF the war said In this W
frightfulness is not only permissible b
right and to be practiced upon every ps
h son. regardless of SEX. while Lo
!. Kitchener's order read, The British arr
y is to respect all women. both for I
n honor of the army and for the honor
A England That is tho difference betwe
!, tho two countries"
Mrs. Hale told Of the splendid work
. | the English and French wop,au ana