The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1919-08-10
In the War Gods Track
European Battlefields Still Are Furnishing New
Horows and Heartaches for Those Who
Look Upon Their Devastation.

Torn root rddlrl with holes. and
rooms that are cIumblur iu pieces.
while ln, rest n rul a. home. 300
ia place du. looks Ike a rull you
may rrv q light 900 lho window, and
"a woman Wlluu lH preparing a meal
ur a yu.Il runs uut from suWo iul
lpru place. srudnIEErd about The
lower part ha II U had sheltered
. troops and looks up ana down tho
road ,NpcrtNNE
Ilur differences between invaded
France ana Belgium aud me hulan
Isles stands out very clearly when
one drive. through miles and miles
OF places which were once part ut
% happy uruylu,II county rather
aloof from international politics but
. very busy with their biftFH. uuI
. their domestic lifc, and are now
places OF the dead
No description can DO justice tu
'hr sight Towns and villages 'hr.r
shops. E..iUa. cottages ana ,uuruhuH.
silent heaps OF dust and mur'nr and
BRICKS. .auIhaEH. iu0N 40, torn
railways and broken bridges make
the country great refuse heap. 'o
|CtsluuI.B 'hu dtsulNiun ~ CmphU
sized boy t few figures as womon
search Tor s1mc remainder OF lhclr
old homes.
Can you wonder that Franco
''hIukH htur.y of q neat ,ir1n Ger.
many. untouched los the INVADER
Homeless and Broken
As / muturrd through the dcyaH.
taicd and hair destroyed areas uf
France. where not n factory chin
ury smokes "a fact which may have
escaped the notice ~ President WI.
SON thought how small was tho
. Il. f.....H...F. lUE.I#s...
.iu comparison with The whole war.
but how great lu tho individual TO
whom this corn was the world 10
lbs no wonder that the refugees.
homeless ana broken ana poor turn
lnsuuCtycly 90 tho one spot on curlh
which thuy love
n .s said that women Ect a high
value on human llto because they
know what it costs 20 produce l.
ANA that men value property as iho
fruit uf their toll Uuf women prize
property also when 90 IL woven into
1he,r lives ana forms part Of their
foundations
the destruction of homes Is 30
'crucl, so indecent The little treas
lures collected for generations, tho
IcradlUs 300 which tho habins slept. tho
furniture handed down from mother
10 daughter the bed on which some
loved man or woman dlSl, tho clock.
tho CruritiN on the wall all these
,trc pounded 'O dust and rubbish
Hero and there something surviving
|H homhardmout makes the ruin
moro complete, with It's suggestion
Of an ordered existence Part OF a
bookshelf swings loose from q tot.
teriuK wall ana q rusty bird cage
has escaped the shells \ hall. ruined
IvlI IS hatrlCldrd with slndulgs
which have burst and are leaking a
communal cemetery is torn and
.splulqrcd from the shells.
From Cnmhrnl To Nrrns
The destruction seems almost Tn
credible, Yet on the famous road
hCrwccu Cambria, and Arras Ory to
think OF 70 as part OF the road from
London to Rriphton). which Is linked
with much OF tho wars story "a
road that has been shrlled and
isholIcd and lately repaired yuu
pass for miles through war ruins
! Great black signs tell The name Ot
Ithc town that was and has ceased
TO be. 90 higher rpin here and there
Indicates church; another pilo
must have been a row OF shops,
trees in the distance are Bourluu
wood. from which troops watched
the great fire ln ClWhrai, the dark
CrizsCrusg limos are trenches, over
there is he HindcnhurE line, empty
dugouts some still strong and firm.
with their Steps clearly dutliuey
speak of the mon who lived and
fought a uttIc while aED-now all o.
silence
Tho trees arc gone and only bare
shiny black trunks with bent and
uwIs's-l branches remain 10 show
whore stately trees had hordorcd