The Washington herald., 1919-03-16

| and Nine, Lorquet, with other un-
fortunates, were deported. As the
sorrowful procession passed the house
| on the way Mai. ORR stood at the
window and jeered at their woe!
The grandmother in her diary tells
OF people burned alive in their houses.
| This fact is recorded also in the diary
OF German soldier afterward made
prisoner, one named Hassemer. OF
the Eighth German Corps, who tells
of five wounded prisoners who were
burned alive there on September ?,
1916
Lieut.. LHuillier also told OF a
| friend, looking for his father. who
found his calcined body in the char
red ruins of his house. He recognized
1t by his leggings. Madam Flavie Vol
trou. aged slxty-two. also was burned
beneath the ruins of her house. Her
calcined remains were found. She was
a cousin OF Lieut.. LHuillier.
| Lieut. L'Huillier's words brought TO
| my mind a new idea which had not
occurred 10 me before. The aoomin-
ations committed by the Germans,
while they excite in all honest in
diyiduals the righteous indignation
| that generous souls feel in the pres
ence of unnecessary and wanton
I cruelty and beastliness, give rise to
what may be called an impersonal
hatred OF the perpetrators of those
hateful deeds. But, to the victims
they are in no way impersonal. At
/ tached to each crime there is a hate
full name to which is fastened hate
ful face.
These peaceful harmless people
who have seen themselves betrayed
hNr rhT, ha1 1F t1ar 1x,~s
and who. after eating their bread,
! done business with them, and perhap.
entered into bonds of friendship with
some of them turned upon them to
rend them like wild beasts-can any
one wonder II they cannot forget or
| forgive. and that at least they mean
to have and to secure forever a no
mans land" between them and those
all-devouring wolves who since the
days of Julius Caesar have never
ceased their predatory raids on their
neighbors? To the French the dan
ger is clothed with a personal feeling
! that we over here cannot realize. Re-
member, everywhere in these little
| peaceful communities the victims mon
and women and children, know by
name the worst OF the bandits. Do
you wonder if they want to see JUS
tice meted out to them? 1 don't"
1t is nice that we won't lose the
Swagar Sherleys after all. Though
he was not reelected to Congress
he has been appointed as director
of finance for the Railroad Admins
tration. He will take charge OF
the work about April l. He sue
| ceeds John Shelton Williams. whose
resignation was accepted by Hines,
| Monday.
Sherley's work as chairman of
| the House Appropriations Commit
tee during the recent hearings on
| the railroad measures, drew much
favorable comment from Mr.. Hines,
who was before the committee four
times.
Sherley is now in Louisville. Ky,
| recuperating from q near break
down occasioned by heavy work in
the closing days Of Congress.
Henry E. Spencer last week was
named director of purchases for
the Railroad Administration ad-
visory committee purchases. The
| appointment is effective March IS,
sfter which time John Shelton Will
| Jams retires from that office.
.. II
Brown Chase, widow of Capt. Vol
ney Chase, u. s. N, has several
very good paintings in the twenty
third annual exhibition of the
Washington Water Color Club which
IL now on at the Corcoran Art CAL
lery? She is quite clever artist,
you know. One called "Old House
at Pikeland" is particularly good.
Mrs. Chase is a Washington woman,
though being the wife of q naval
officer. has lived in many places. of
course. She has kept up her art
work though she has reared a fam
lily of four children, namely, Mrs.
John Mcdonald Thompson. wife Of
Capt. Thompson, u. s. A. Command
, er Nathan Chase. U. s. N, Miss Sus-
anne Chase and Volney Chase, jr.
Susanne recently went on the stage
and is doing very well, I under
stand. She is a beautiful girl and
clever in several ways. Capt. Chase
passed away very suddenly in the
early days of our participation in the
war; just worked himself to death
trying - prepare the nav, In a ~uyry
| to take its part in the war. He was
one of a large group of important
men who were victims of the coun-
try's unpreparedness.
Another person whom Washington
| claims, DIR. Maurice Frances Egan, is
doing things. He has Just published a
book
''oh, that mine enemy would write a
bookw HSprovarh aasilx shattsred BY