The evening world., 1919-01-09

or hot, duv" {; IN %. I w..h
could change my posnon--ny neck
,a cr1mppG.
Then / jumped 40 and walked up
and down. and t~,ni TO tel myself Il
was good to be able 10 move. But |
caught myself listening all the time
-llstcninc TO- the guard 60 come and
open tic door!
1T seemed a whole day s.nce We
came. and still there was no sound
a, the door. ;riod 70 keep myself
thinking normally, but the thought
would come pushing in upon nc, Ike
q ghostly face q, a window. that tie
guard had forgotten us. | knew
cSJcuy what should look Ike when
hey found mo. My hair would be
long, falling over my shoulders. and
my bcard-not red. but whtc-wou'd
oc down to my waist--tor people I've
weeks on water-ard my nai,s would
h' 50 long they would turn back
lIaaiu-and my hands would be Tx
claws.
Then q chill seized me. and be-
gan 10 SILVER. That frightened me.
So / made bargain with myself
nus. no. tA.uh. must walk. Think
/ NC IS what sends gcoulo crazy. /
/ rut mp then and began to pace up and
down. But whom 1t was done. ard I
'I: down, beyond a little healthy
! tu2.ing in my legs I did not feet
a.' d,rfc-o1t. was listening-iisteu-
.ny JUS, the ssmc."
The guard came, finally. but hc
would not speak a word. lie zoo,
',ao prisoner 10 MI his pitcher A. -ho
tap and then gave him 4 slice o.
bread.
This was my daily ration" SUI
mous's account continues. "tre hryt
three days. soon learned to rnlia
my bread last as long as 10 would.
b, eating il in instdlmen,s. aGd II
''Iuircd some will power to do mi.
Thoughts OF food came to torture
Iwa-whcn ] slcp.. my dreams wero
all oc eating. S'arvation-the SLOW.
guuwinS starvation, when the re-
serve is gone, aud every organ. ov.Ig.
muscle, ovc-y EorN %. cries gu, TO-,
't,oG--it is OF tho devil. Tho starrlr :.
man Is a brute. with no more moral
.cnsa than the gutter cat. His mimi
'oilows the same traC',-ho want :
Good"
And az least two paragraphs Of
Private simmons narrative remind
',ac reader that not all fr!ghtiu.ucss
.' made in Germany"
why" he demands. do our au
thorItics think they can reform D
man by throwing him into a dark cell
. and starving him?
"I' the authorities in our prisons
could once feel the horror of tho dark
cell when the overwrought nerves
bring in tho distorted messages, and
= tac whole body writhes in the grip
. Of fcar-chUNinS, unrcasoning. pan
, ,lrlly roar--thcy would abolish II for
ioycr."
on the fourth day the cell was lieh'
ana We received q little more tJol
Then darkncts shut down again 10:
three days and nights, On ono OF IN,
li9lt days Of his sentence the guart
d forgot 10 bring tho extra soup, "Tha'
70 day" simmons relates, 81 experienced
what starving men dread most OF all l-
3 the hunger pain, It is Ike a ramishe,
rat that Fnaws and tears. writhel
on tho floor and cried aloud in my
agony, while the cold sweat drippeC
from my face and hands. do nc
remember what ! said DO not van
e to remember,
"That night ! stood up and saool
, my fist at the door, including III,
{ whole German nation. vas not 60
S ing TO die" And the last night O
. his two weeks in the black cells, h,
[ records proudly; a sort OF exulta
s tion came to me. They-had -no..-
broken mel"
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