The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1919-04-24
CARRY on is
SPEAKERS MESSAGE
Mrs. Grace Manners Br0ughman
Gives Stirring Address to
Boost Victory Loan

One of the most thrilling war mes
sages which has come to Kennewick
was that delivered in the high school
auditorium Tuesday evening by Mrs.
Grace Manners Broughman, sister of
Guy Manners, the English. poet. Mrs.
Broughman was in Paris when war
was declared. She went from there
first weeks until the day the armistice
to Belgium and from those terrible
was signed, she was ssin it" and she is
still .in it," for she is carrying from
city to city and town to town q mes
sage intended to arouse the American
people to realization of the serious
ness of the spirit of industrial and So
cial unrest in the world.
She told her story with en- earnest
ness and vividness which only one who
has been Gin it, can command. Her
descriptions were most graphic,
whether they were scenes of terrorism
enacted upon the blood-soaked fields
of Belgium, or of deeds of heroism
like the stand of Britain's contempt
ible little army" against five German
army corps at Mons, or of the heart
rending flight. of the thousands of
homeless Belgians who sought refuge
in England, or of the grim sacrifices
of wives, mothers and sweethearts.
Particularly inspiring was her descrip-
ton of the Huns air raid upon a mu-
milton plant filled with women workers.
Nor did she forget to give full meas
ure of credit to the fine Yankee lads
for their splendid achievements on tie
battlefields.
Without attemptinge to minimize
Americas part in the war she con-
trasted the sacrifices that have come
to the American people with those
that have been laid upon the peoples
of Belgium, France, Serbia and Great,
Britain. At the Mouse she said moro
of Americas. sons went into battle
under the Stars and Stripes than ever
before in the nations history Seven
hundred thousand of them marched
into battle behind the flag Of their
country, but at either side of them
were seven hundred thousand white
crosses marking the resting places. of
British soldiers. OF the thirteen mil
lion dead of this war America lost but
fifty thousand. If the dead Of this
war, she said, were to march in re-
view in columns of four in regular
army quickstep, it would take them
three weeks to pass a given point,
marching every second of time, day
end night.
Turnout her address the predomin-
ant thought was "carry on" All of
these dead will have died in vain, all
of these sacrifices will have been made
to no purpose unless we continue to
carry on until the world has reor-.
ganized itself on peace basis. just
as in the black days in the spring OF
1918 when the British armies were
clutching the Channel ports in last
desperate effort, when the French ar
mics were being steadily pounded back
and the enemy's guns were lombard
ing Paris, America was the hope Of
the Allies, so America is today the
hope of the world in leading the way
to lasting peace. Altho the victory
has been won and the menace of Prus-
sianism has been put down, the world
/ is sitting on volcano. The same sim
lister forces which FRUSTRATED Russia,
dismembered Austria and dragged
down the hope of a free Germany are