The sun., 1918-10-20

In Amerlc8 Co-Oay, priest as du,
should do my best to have put to death
any Boche in America, or any so-called
American who would apologize in any
way for what the Boche has done. ALI
that you have heard in America about
them does not approximate the truth.
Children With Hands Cut Of.
There are little children right here in
France with their little stumps of hands
there were some not far from my last
camp-and young men with all the fingers
of their right hand cut off. The other
day a British officer and three Tommies
told me that q short time ago they went
as an advance party into little village
from which the Boche had been driven
back, and in large room there were four
young Canadians crucifed-one on each
wall of the room.
Also when was with the British they
told me they 1.-THE Boche) had taken
young Belgian and French girls into
their front line trenches and tortured
them until their screams made the Scotch
and the Canadians so crazed they would
go over into the machine gun nests which
the Boche had set up, using the women's
screams as a decoy. And l have it on
the word of British officer that they
have stood-the officers-with guns lev
elled at their men to keep them from 60
ing over when the women scream and be-
ing needlessly slaughtered, and l cannot
tell you what the soldiers told me they
found when they drove the hell fends out
of one of those positions-it is too awful
even to think about it.
l also have it on the word OF one OF
the greatest French abbes that the Boche
were especially instructed TO destroy con-
vents and kill or outrage the nuns, and he
saws that all through France and Bel
GUM are ruined converts and that the
nuns were given to the soldiers to be
outraged in the camps.
Go along the French and British front,
and the only conclusion you arrive at IS
that they are just the ground principle OF
Boche efficiency in action. l don't be-
ieve there is one of us here who would
not be glad to be at home; but there Is
not one of US here, l believe, who does
not want to see Bocheland devastated from
one end to the other, with Berlin black
ened ruin, with the Boche exterminated,
militarists and all, before We come home.
Why Americans Are Kindly.
Why doesn't America kill as the Boche
has killed. Go over to the first line hos
pital where just have been and see what
1 have seen-a great big boy all torn and
disfgured by Boche shell, and l help
him, guiding his hand as he writes good
by to his sweetheart, and he, mind you, he
tells her that God will bring them to-
gether again. Or again young Ameri-
can only twenty-one, his side and arm all
shot away, getting me to write to his
mother, and almost the last thing he can
say is, chaplain, she won't suffer, she'll
be taken care of, because took out my
full insurance" Or hold the head Of
young ambulance driver only nineteen as
he sobs out his life, crying for his mother
as you and cried for ours when We were
lonely. And then talk about terms with
the Boche! Never until we have taken an
eye for an eye and tooth for tooth!
It is American blood that is flowing now,
and God grant it may give America some
strength to realize what we are up against.
To talk of terms until the Boche is exter-
minated is to league with Satan for cor
ner in hell.
Privations, sacrifices, what can you do
at home to compare with what these men
of ours are doing over heref Meatless
days, wheatless days, sugarless days, good
women knitting, benefits for the Red
Cross, or all your social diversions with
charitable object sandwiched in! But you
are home, you are warm, you are with
your friends
And all that you can do and l can do,