Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1919-08-14

SSVAsVAAAS oA0 M0uy VtlST QEOUlemS.
French women have had to come to
the front and prepare themselves for
active work at home, for their men
are not able to fill the places. In
France nine-tenths of the men under
80 years of age have been eihter kill
ed or crippled. America must help
these countries prepare to livee again
and it we learn to work together, won
ders can be accomplished.
At the conclusion Of the lecture,
Charles R. Taggart, the Country Fid-
dler from Vermont, presented a SPLEEN
did postlude. Mr.. Taggart is read
er, pianist. ventriloquist and violinist
combined. His numbers were a pleas
ing variety and he was most enthusi-
'astically received. He played his fid-
die upside down, cross ways and many
other ways. The old fashioned tunes
were fine and every one was more
than pleased with his entertainment.
Sunday Evening.
The Country Fiddler once more de-
lighted the large audience with his
unique reading and limitations. His
fiddle really talked. The ventrilo-
quist act in which he introduced
"John," the boy who lives inside the
piano, was a delight to all and one of
the best acts ever presented on our
Chautauqua program.
At the conclusion of the prelude,
Mr.. Mott introduced as the speaker of
the evening, DR.. Amaury Mars. DR..
Mars is physician of San Francisco,
and was educated in Germany and
Russia. When the war broke out,
DR.. Mars was in the city of Luxem-
burg, where he had gone to settle his
mothers estate. Being of French
parentage, he was arrested as a
French spy and condemned to be kill
ed in spite of his passports and
American, citizenship papers. He was
thrown into a terrible vermin-infested
prison, where his hair turned white
during the awful night. A German
priest interested himself in the Doc
tor'and thru his efforts he was sent to
concentration camp 20 miles from
the front, near Luxembourg. This
camp was divided, one part for civil
ians, the other for military prisoners.
Around the camp was an electrically
charged wire fence Z feet high and a
yards thick. The whole camp was
watched from guard towers as we'll
as by patrols and 50 a final safety,
machine guns We're located where they
could be turned any way upon any
trying to escape. Fever broke out in
the camp, and g or 40 died daily.
DIR. Mars said he c lid help break it
up, and at last Mas made a camp
physician with tive guards always to
watch him. Undc.. his direction the
cause Of the feve. vas found and in
three months the 1',th rate reduced
from 40 to daily
At one time the Doctor performed
an operation which saved the life of
a German girl, The daughter of an
officer, and for three years she was
his devoted friend, bringing him maps
compass and knife to use when the
time came forhim to escape.
After more than three vars pris
onr, the opportunity came, and after
poisoning both of his officer guards
and taking the uniform and mus
tache of one in which to make his es-
cape, the Doctor left the hospital and
at last reached the woods. He trav-
eled for % nights. making the trip
from the camp to the Dutch border
and at last came to a place where he
could swim across the river and be
safe in Holland, where he was cared
for, and finally received credentials
and passports permitting him to
come home.
During his confinement in the con-
centration camp, DIR. Mars saw every
evidence of German brutality and
cruelty. Throughout the camp were
the signs "Got Nit Uns," but under
meath these all kinds of crimes were
committed. Little French children
were sent out to collect unexploded
grenades and in so doing, any num-
Der were set off and many hands and
faces were blown away.
DR.. Mars believes that the war was
indeed war of the German people
Not once did they complain of the
atrocities or would they even believe
that their soldiers would do such
things. Each German individually
was responsible, not only in Germany
alone, but any in this country who
were in sympathy.
For the prelude for the fourth day
of the Chautauqua, platform manager
Mott introduced Prof. w. M. Ewing
and his overseas military band. This
organization is composed of splen-
did group of ex-fighters chosen from
various branches of the service. Not
only were they fighters, but each one
a real musician. Their concert was
enthusiastically received, for no one
could resist the "pep" and ego" that
was put into each selection, whethe,
classical or popular.
For the lecture of the afternoon
lMr AlYa M. Reitzel spoke unor