The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1919-06-13
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HILLS
No. Ill. 4
Wars Atrophy Of the !
Nerve of Pity. (
By Rev. Newell Dwight Hills
(Copyrighted. 1919. by The Twenty 4
first C"ntuT- press.i
Copyrighted. 1919. by ,hs Twenty
first C"ntuT- press.i

; At last thr fun and verified story OF
what took plac" during tho war IN 'h'
interior Of Serbia and Rumania Is now
being brought out from tho cruciheo
lands. on March 18th. Sergeant Ruth
Farnam head OF on" OF the SERBIAN
Relief societies. sailed for Belgraoe'
She reached that stricken lana by way
of Italy. While there she went over
the ruined territory. studied inc oes"-
lated farming lands. visited inc ru'hcu
villages. inspected tho hospilaiS. Hi''
tho British authorities and inc amer
can physicians and nurses, and having
received every opportunity 10 investi-
r,,c tho condition. has returned TO New
York. bring report for which the OUT
siJ. world has long waited. Her" ana
now !, can only bc SAID that the pnoto-
rraphs taken in these towns IN. when
,thr Bulgarian and IN" Austrian mao
. inst ncd. INTO which the Allied ana
serbian army wcvc entering. cannot DC
shown 10 mixed audiences, nor can hcr
rrpor, he published III its revolving anu
h,drous details. There arc forms oi
lcllIshncss and depths Of perverted ue-
nrayiIy from which even the sahes'
eyes bad best turn away.
d ono of tn" awful results Of this cruel
war has been iis reflex action upon the
nerve OF PITY. II Is possible 10 SO IN
lure tho optic nerve that the sun ceases
10 shine 1t IL possible 10 ruin the
nerves 0r memory and !n'cii'c'' unt,'
Tho crofliga,c becomes a gihbcrinS idio'.
,rho,o Rulparians and .tustrians after
,hrcc Years OF war. have destroyed IN
themselves tho nerve OF pity and COM
nosinn In their fury because they were
hoinr driycn out of Serbia, these bfaStS
nutilntcd their cap;Ives ana STRANGE!
enough nj last. they looked upon l'''l"
child or delicate girl with nara anu
Callouscd souls. ,t,,
Sergeant F:,rnnn went into hnSpl'hi
in Serbia. II was about thn hrSt oi may
ON tho cots were the wounded NlilaS'rS'
old r,cr women, ltil" children. young
,,,r,hcr, rrur:!alcd soldiers, all ie1t pc
l;ud hy INC nccinE RulEsriaTs ana AUS
train. Syddcnly. from ono cot. screen
cd off from the other beds. came scri'"
Of shricks. moanS. with SOUNDS as from
a wild an NAL. y little KIrl or ~ WAS
IN a conyuIsIon. With her tw" sisters.
~, t. end the other ID. and their mother
e abru' -. she had been carried INTO
rLc,r tr.n, he's by tho Bulgarians. The
mother Tough, Tx" n tigrrss in dcfonsc
of her ,hrco girls whom they were be-
,rinns fastened their mother 10 tree
and made tho thr"n little girls look on.
Within short time this girl went in
sane. through pain and grief. The Brit
IN phy Sirian in charge Of tho hospital
went and said to Sergeant Farnan that
# he could get tho whole German and
Austrian army INTO ono throat and clutch
thcm with his hands thai h" would be
glad to lose his soul If only he could
rcnd these Hun monsters limb from
limb and make them suffer half the az
my tina; they had wrought upon the
delicate frames Of the loveliest children
and women AgaIns; this feeling We
must all struggle. Vengeance belongeth
unto God: He will repay. The one les
son written in fire is this: II war cx-
ats noble men struggling for a prin-
ciplc Of justice and liberty. il turns evil
men. lighting for mere gain. into tigers.
wolves and into gorillas. An evil war
cuts the nerve OF pity and syua0atAy.