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The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-01-25

in a moment reach the old German
line, and II Is hardly three hours to
the Gerfnan-made desert of the Somme.
And these deserts present the problems
l have mentioned, problems Of repatria-
ton and restoration. AS II stands, the
German has lost the war. but before
he lost the war he ruined half of
Northern France, and IL he Noes not
repay his factories win profit, his la
borers gain and glory will be to the
victor, but the dividends to the van
pushed, who only fought while victory
seemed possible and grounded his arms
when the battle approached his fac
tories and fields,
Feed the German?
It Is not a hymn of hate that l am
trying to sing, There is no longer any
room for emotion. The war Is over.
The futility of the German methods
carries a final Judgment, but either
the Germans must pay or the French
and Belgian people stagger under the
burden OF history's most terrible de-
struction, while the German. escaping
the burden, recuperates FOR a new adj
venture. He expects to escape. A year
ago he was starving millions, today
he openly demands that the world feed
him. His propaganda Is everywhere at
work, in Parts and out of II, and such
a small part OF the nonmfiitary part
OF the world as thinks OF the German
| desert knows IL as II exists. that one
| fears that the world will forget. To-
day I talked with an American Jour
| nalist flaming with fury because in
some fashion his precious comment was
| delayed or los In transit, to the great
injury Of the freedom Of the press.
I talked with q British colonel keen
to erect a new Hediaz Kingdom under
the sympathetic eye of America. I'ne
frontiers OF Poland move with the
| tides; q new map of Asia Minor is
made each hour and the islands OF
| the Aegean change hands every no
ment, but In the midst of all this diplo-
matte discussion, the %ntingling Of ideal
ism and realism. international romance
and high finance, l find myself con-
stantly thinking Of the ruined cities, OF
the wasted fields and the forlorn graves
Of the north. Shall we forget them all
in Paris, and II we do shall we not
invite the German to coma again, how
ever lofty a structure we raise in the
name of the league of nations?
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DEVASTATED ZONE
Of FRANCE CRIES
ALOUD To ALLIES
CONTINUED From First PaGe.D

all the war news a few months ago,
Immediately before her was her own
village, or it there remained a few
masses of riven masoury, endless heaps
of brick and dust, formless masses Of
ruins, themselves half buried in ashes.
Where the village church had stood II
squat German dugput arose In stark
ugliness. the single existing structure
that had form. Looking north, east,
south or west from the gentle eminence
on which the village stood, she looked
out upon a land torn by shell fire until
II resembted a skeleton rather than the
flesh, Along every swell in the slopes
actually behind II, c%rumbling dugouts,
ugly holes in the ground slowly sinking
under the action OF the rains, separated
from each other by endless rows Of
barbed wire, sown everywhere with lit
tie crosses, themselves half fallen,
where dead men were buried at hazard.
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COAL that she shouAA stilI be crippled
for an endless time, 30 systematically
he destroyed the mines, the machinery,
the dwelling houses, he took the fur
niture, l do not know how words can
describe the monstrous, the amazing
miracle Of destruction he accomplished
in the Lens district.
He Is gone now But the problem
remains. He wasted the fields that the
peasants might not return. He de-
stroyed the cities and the mines that
the industrial population might not
come back, that this region and this
portion OF France might die, and now
their undlsturhed FARMS to their un-
damaged Industrial centers and their
intact factories, the people Of northern
France are still exiles,
| hope my American friends will
think of the German desert which oc-
cupies so much of northern France
when the peace conference begins its
work.. II the French ask the posses
sion Of the Saarcoat district, once
theirs and stolen by the German In
1914, to replace the ruined coal fields
of Artois and Flanders, | trust that the
Americans will not see In his demand
French Imperialism, but the effort OF
France to resume h business of lite
In spite of the German effort perma-
nently to destroy French industries,
And In the same sense, II there Is dis
cussiou OF compelling Germany to sup
ply labor Il remove the shells, pillow the
fields and open the roads, | hope that
the Americans will think that the
French are not seeking revenge, but a
way to repair the most prutal ot an
injuries and permit their exiles to re-
turn home again, the eXiles, who, like
the French woman at CrofSilles, have
courage but have lost everything else,
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Punishment for Crime.

I have dwelt upon these circum'
stances at this time because IL seems
to me that Americans must understand
in some measure the mood and temper
OF France today. 1t is the tragedy
which has not been abolished by the
armisttce, II is the ruin which no
formula OF words and sentiments can
abolish. The men who planned and
guided this thing are in the main alive
and UNPUBLISHED, At least a million
practically homeless. Years must pass
before the open wound which stretched
from Belgium to switzerland can be
healed, II at all, and 1t will remain
an open wound forever in the side Of
France II France, and not the Ger
yet, save for the French in Paris and
out of 1t, one feels a certain tendency
to forget this German desert, The Ger
man is singing a new tune now, his
humility Is as complete as his arro-
gance was a Year ago, The French
woman told me how her German mas
ter made her work in the fields close
up to the firing line. growing potatoes.
and then allowed her two a day TO
live on, yet the German now imperi-
ously demands that we feed him while
his victims remain without all that
which they must have Il they are to
begin life again.
over in Germany the Germans are
feeding our soldiers with words and
with provisions. carrying IN a mon
strous propaganda with something OF
the success they had IN n similar work
In America not long ago, In Paris
the peace conference reports eoncen-
trate upon the Adriatio problem. the
Polish Establishments. while the ques-
ton Of the kingdom OF the Hedia1
threatens TO shorten the lives OF states
! mon and diplomats alike.
But by automobile one may almos'
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-01-25
Who Will Pay?

And IN the HaflS conference IHeIt 10
to be talk of the responsibility, not
alone for the acts Of war after the
contest itself came. but for the caus-
ing of the war, II only one could trans
late into words that had n meaning
the fact of the dead and deserted bat
tlefields. that she'll torn region one looks
down upon from KENNEL and from
Sharpenburg, the region that was onEe
the Ypres salient: at least hadf a mil
lion men died there. 4 few sleep IN
graves, but for the most part they
and their graves have beer ground Nup
in. the never-ending pounding of cease
less bombardments.
a year ago every ridge, every slope,
every heap of dust and ashes had its
military value and n historic meaning,
Men died by the thousands to advance
a few hundred yards; hut now all the
hills and ruins have been, as 1t were,
demonetiged. They have no further
value, The Germans lost them, the
British advanced beyond, the war has
gone and peace can not return, hall
| a million dead remain. but nothing for
| which they fought to the end Is worth
a second thought, nothing in the ma
| terial facts. And the Htndenhurg line
and the Somme battlefields-it Is the
| same thing In both cases, A million
and a half Of dead sleep between the
User and the Somme, but in the lands
! lhtI ulN ~ llVFt Nv AiNlANb nv SNAi
save a few prisoners and their guards.
The trenches disintegrate in the rain,
| the barbed wire ruSts In the brown OF
the landscape II the snake grass is
| beginning to bury everything.
And for all this some one ~ pay,
not as a matter of punishment; that
is another question; but someone must
pay In order that this part of the Ger
man plan may not prevail, that this
much Of civilization may not perish
that this corner of France may moi
die. In Flanders, Artois, Picardy, yot
get the full measure OF the German
fury Of destruction.
4 more terrible force one a not
imagine, 1t has wasted provinces ant
destroyed cities. Nothing has been toe
small or too great to elude Germany
u amuck, The passion that Is al
most elemental in its magnitude OF de
~structive force at one moment seems
guided by microscopic vision at thu
next, one must see what the Germans
did TO understand something of wha
Germany was and may be again whel
1 a faw derndns have pasSp1
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Pressing Problem.

Yet by contrast there was the French
woman, and she said quite simply;
Are we coming back? OF course we
are coming back, rs soon MS the. gov
ernment win give us the barracks in
which to live, We must get TO work
on our fields again. Yes. II will require
courage to do this work, but we have
courage. We must do II for the young,
is 1t not so?' And that, as said, Is
the problem, not OF the French gov
ernment alone, but Of the Paris con.
ference, Somehow these thousands and
hundreds of thousands of women and
men who have courage must be brought
back to these fields, Somehow the
German, who created the desert de
liberately, wantonly, viciously, must be
made to abolish II, to e~xcavate the
shells. to supply the labor and the ma
tcrial to furnish the new homes with
what they stole from the old before
they wrecked them, to return the ma
chinery which they carried TO Germany;
to supply a beginning, for they took
everything movable and destroyed ev-
erything that was i~mmovahle.
There Is still another problem. You
will find it at Lens, II you follow in
the footsteps Of the Canadians over
Here we're the coal mines Of France,
surrounded by. q score of little cities,
model cities. with their well ,ordered
brick homes-cities of which Lens was
but the most considerable. A hundred
thousand people lived In these cities,
lived in a degree OF comfort which was
unmistakable, and year By year thEought
| up from the ground some 1000, 06e tons
Of coal the greater share OF the French
supply, and the very foundation OF
French industry,
And of all these little cities are left
only vast heaps Of -spllntered beams
directions not a house stands, Into thu
mines the Germans turned the floods
Such machinery as they could not re
move they smashed, Each house wal
treated to dynamite. The industry o
destruction was unbelievable, CITY
blocks were reduced to dust, and straw
mattresses, fallen by the wayside, wer,
picked clean OF the straw; 1t was as J
the contract had called for utter ruin
and the Germans life had depended
upon the completeness of the destruc
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-01-25
War of Waste.

This was her W country. And be-
You'd the nearer view, curve on curve,
he land swelled away In all direc-
tons, a monotonouS waste without a
tree, without a single surviving habi-
tation, without m obstacle to inter
rupt the visioIt-not a desert with clean
sand, but a waste In which everything
spoke of decay following death, For
nearly 90 miles In either direction this
desert extended Eastward against the
horizon was the skeleton of Beurlton
hrai was won and lost in 1917. West
ward a Arfas, behind the slope, the
city OF "A Thousand hombardments, gone
now to dust and ashes in the main.
Hero, where there had been smiling
villages, fertile fields and happy people,
was nothing but u desolation tragic
| beyond expression.
And all this was not the wreck Of
battles. 1t was nothing of the sort,
In January. 1917, Hindenburg had said
I'VE shall retreat 20 miles, wasting the
country to create a desert in front Of
us; thus we shall escape an allied at
tack, while we settle with Russia and
with German thoroughness the thing
was done: The people were marched
off to Belgium to be fed by American
relief missions, or to die. The villages
were destroyed. the roads mined, every
living thing was cut down, every inant-
mate thing was blown up. So the Ger
man desert was created, and so 1t re-
mains, sown now with millions of UNI
exploded shells, the debris of late bat
ties, with helmets and hand grenades,
Il region where every heap of ruins Is
n deadly peril, where the ptow must
reopen burrows among live shells,
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-10-13
JACKSON U SLUG.

Early in the fright | started boxing
with him, and he went right along. /
thought he'd tire after a while. We
went for 10 rounds or so, and II seemed
to me that he vas firing. 50 ! started
to slug for all ] was worth. After n
few rounds Billy Delaney said to mo:
This fellows n better slugger than he's
a boxer, Jim. You'd better take IL easy
He has weight, height and reach on
YOU, and YOU won't go long at that
gait
Il began to think so myself and went
back to boxing and footwork, where |
was much safer, Two fought a lot of
fellows since, but never in my life was
so bewiidered as that night. The
fights that / lost after that were ono
punch things. | was winning up to
the time | got the punch and was never
worried, but with jackson | had to use
everything | had to get by, and /
worked hard. ! never saw a man who
could follow you, no matter how YOU
elected to fight. sBox or slug, he didn't
care.
Il was tired after that fight. ! wasn't
tired for a day or two--I was tired for
SIX months after IL.
Eyes, he could beat any heavy that
! ever saw
'Jeffries! \ wonderful fellow! You
know a wonderful fellow for u man
without the fighting spirit, Jeff, NAT.
urally left handed and with tremepdous
power behind II. Vas tough; but | can
look back and see that Jackson with
everything q fighter needs, and / can
help saying he was my ideal fighting
man.
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-10-13
LOCAL SHOOTERS
INTERESTED IN
SQUADS COMING
Next Saturday Is Date of
Crack Shot Aggregation'S
Exhibition at Memphis Gun
Club.

shooters in this city and vicinity are
keenly interested In the visit here next
Saturday Of the Winchester Shooting
team which will give an exhibition OF
fine shooting and fancy shotgun work
az the special meet Of he Memrhis
Gun club. Six recognized topnotch
shooters are members OF this team
which has been secured for this event
Local gun fans are certain 20 turn out
ior this event In large numbers for
the treat Is an unusual one.
j, NOVEL; Hawkins, head Of the new
shooting promotion division of the
Winchester Repeating Arms company,
is in charge Of this team and has
brought IL here at the request Of the
local club to aid in it's membership
campaign which 10 being vigorously and
successfully cond lcted Just now. II Is
the aim OF the shooting promotion di-
vision to lend its aid in every way TO
the advancement Of the sport of shoot
ing and OF gun clubs. MIR. Hawkins
Will also shoot in the exhibition and
his work, as n Of the best dozen
professional ~trapshots Of the country
for Is consecutive years, indicates that
his shooting will be well worth seeing.
Fred q, Bills, who, upon returning
from war service as an instructor to
mon In the United States air service,
won the professional championship OF
Illinois this year, is another OF the
shooteFs on the program. Bills won
the high general average at the Pre-
Olympic tournament in 1914 and numer-
Gus high averages and trophies that
have placed him In the first rank of
shooters.
Another man whose work will bear
close watching Is John r. Taylor, who
has piled up an average of better than
s6 per cent on average targets for the
past ten years, His consistent work in
this line gives gun followers the ex-
peotancy Of some fine work from him
In this exhihition.
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-10-13

,Cincinnati's victory over Chicago in
the recent world quarrel enabled the
National league to run up her second
triumph in ten years owe the American
tached no less than eight scalps for a
tidy mark OF 800 for the ten-year
sweep, This leaves the n. l.. cantering
along al a eco clip.
If there is any argument left re-
garding which league carries the supe-
rior forces then the grand old dope is
not worth a whoop and the records are
useless.
More than that IL you were to pick
an all-star cast from the two circuits
no less than seven men would come
from the American league-Cobb,
Speaker and Jackson for the outfield.
Schalk behind the bat and Sister, Collins
and Peckinpaugh for the infield. Then
there is Walter Johnson, who still is
pitching for Washington.
The clammy details OF what has oc-
Cured in the past ten pest season
championships follow:
1910-Philadelphia Americans VS.. Chi
cago Nationals. Philadelphia won.
t911--Philadelphia Americans VS.. New
York Nationals. Philadelphia won.
10t2-Boston Americans vs.. New York
Nationals Boston won.
1913-Phlladelphia Americans VS.. New
York Nationals, Philadelphia won.
lolt-Boston Nationals VS.. Philadel-
phia Americans, Boston won.
19l5-Philadelphia Nationals VS., Bos-
ton Americans. Boston won
l9l6-Boston Americans VS.. Brooklyn
Nationals. Boston won.
l9l7-New York Nationals VS., Chicago
Americans. Chicago won.
191S-Boston Americans VS., Chicago
Nationals, Boston won.
1919-Cincinnati Nationals VS.. Chicago
Americans. Cincinnati won,
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-10-13
GREAT L~IGHTWEIGHTS.

There were lightweights in the olden
days who were %terrors, too,
Jack McAuliffe, for instance, was
a wonderful a Kid Iavigne was a
powerful little fellow with a world of
stamina and then again there IA
Cans, You know, Cans used to come
around to my training quarters and
beg for boxing lessons, He was
probably the greatest admtrer that !
ever had, and that's saying quite a
good deal,
do | mean that they could have
beaten Leonard? No. ! don't say that
Leonard to me Is n great fighter. I
oon't know whether he could take It
IKE Lavtgne, but he doesn't have to,
lt they can't hit him, why should he
prove to the mob that he can stop
them with his chin and then get up?
Another old-ttmer, n ring marvel,
was Tommy Ryan, oh, | don't think
there's a man Of his weight in the
ring today who would have stood a
chance with him, He knew the game
inside n out, Couldn't he hitp Ryan
could feint and knew why he did it.,
Felntng Is a lost art nowadays.
But my greatest | have 10 say
Peter Jackson, Mind YOU, | don't say
that he lowered over the other fellows
I've Just mentioned, but | think as a
rlnRster he was the star, saw him
box an exhibition with Fftzsimmcns
At the old California Athletic club. and
y was like a professor giving his pa.
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-10-13
LAST MEETING Of
THE GRAND CIRCUIT
Grace Direct From Tennessee
Will Renew Battle With
the Fast Set.

&C ATLANTA. Ca. Oct. 1a.-Stx of the
- races Programmed for the Grand cir
cut meeting here are early closing
events ln. them the horses which have
oeen making turf history since the
starts in 1919. "
The meeting will open with the 9.O3
race IN which the Tennessee bred mare
Grace Direct, who defeated Direct q
Burnett last Tuesday, will again take
up the battle with the Direct Hal horse
or Sarardo, who came within half a
second OF entering the two-minute list
at Lexington, Belle Alcantara' Frank
Dewey and Edna Early.
Inc ga trot is the feature for Tues
DAY and as both McGresor the Great
ana Mariondale are named. the South
ern people will have an opportunity to
see me pair which were the leaders in
me $4,000 races at Hartford and Svra-
Gnse, me other starters include Olive
rant; kerrigan and Nellie Mack. There
VIII be new records made on Wednes-
Gay when I.u Princeton meets Royal
Mack ana Heir Reaper in the free-for-
ali.trot and the 2;03 PAGERS parade. Eva
Aone. John y. Braden, Sanardo. Roy
Grafton and Lillian r. are named In the
tatter n all Of them are now in top
form. Geers should win the ~3-year-old
event that afternoon with Molly Knight.
the General Watts filly with which ne
defeated Abbie Putney at Lexington.
Two early closers are programmed
for Thursday, the first one of the caro-
being the s-Year-old trot with Daystar,
Natalie the Great and Harvest Horn as
starters. It VIII be sandwiched with the
2:oI trot in which Royal Mack Is named
with McGregor the Great. Easton, Miss
Perfection and Echo Direct. It should
prove a fast race.
The PAGERS viii be the leaders on Fri
days card. The afternoons entertain
ment will open with the free-for-all in
which Directum J. will have a three
heat contest with Russell Boy, Grace
Direct or South Bend Girl, Belle Alcan-
tara and Frank Dewey, 1t win be sand
wiched with the Piedmont Hotel cup, in
or Direct c.. Burnett against Eva Able,
Lillian Silkwood and Double G. The list
of entries to the late closing events
for the Atlanta meeting shows that al
most all of the horses which appeared
at Lexington are engaged. while a num-
Der of new names appear in the races
reserved for Southern horses
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pills a lesson, : He Just made Fltzsim-
mons look like a sucker. No wonder
Fitzsimmons challer ged the world-bar
Jackson. He knew what he was about.
saw Jackson spar four rounds with
ChoNnslti, too, and it was the same.
zoe couldn't touch him with a basketfuI
OF Clothespins.
You know, Jackson stood six feet
one and one-half inches tall, and
Weighed 205 pounds, stripped. Think OF
that. And then, think again of his
speed, his footwork, his feinting and his
punch. He had everything. What more
could a mar want? He knocked out
Frank Slavin, the greatest slugger OF
his time. Just o~utslugged him. Clever
boxers were the same with him. He'd
Outlook them, He was a student.
u saw jackson box and fought him
myself, SO | ought to have a pretty
ar idea OF what the fellow could do,
shouldn't /? You know, we fought for
over four hours at the California club,
and they called 1t no contest.
"Il never forget that night as long
as | i've. 80
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-10-13
JOE BOYER FIRST IN
WORLD SERIES RACE

CINCINNATI. Oct. 1S.-Joe Boyer
won the world series automobile sweep
stakes race, $50 miles at the Cincin-
natl speedway yesterday with an aver
age time of i0l,69 miles per hour.
Art Klein finished second and Kurt
Hitke was third, Dave Lewis fourth,
y. Hickey fifth and Tom Alley sixth.
Boyer, off to a good start, practically
led his field all of the way and fin
ished an easy winner. From the drop
of the flag to the end he never entered
the pit on account Of trouble or for any
reason. Klein made a fine drive but
was unable to overtake Boyer, who Sc
cured a good lead early in the race and
held II throughout.
Several postponements and threaten
ing weather resulted In q small attend
ance. Many important personages in
the automobile world from all sections
OF the country We're present. While "A
slippery track threatened trouble in the
first few laps, a brisk wind and sun
shine quickly dried out the big oval
and the race was not marred by even
a minor accident.