The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1919-05-08

but people all over the country
learned that in order to be healthy
and vigorous they should not coop
themselves up in an Office or in steam
heated buildings, but should live
closer to nature, that fresh air and
exercise were their friends. This les
son. alone will have very beneficial
effect upon the future citizenship OF
the country. One of the first lessons
that they were taught in health was
that they must have sanitary SUI
| roundings to be we'll. The training
camps were models in sanitation and
not only did the government teach
these lessons to the soldiers but to
her citizens generally.
For fear of being too lengthy, l
must touch briefly upon many other
things by which our men have been
benefited; in fact, the benefits from
these have been felt by our citizens
as a whole. Really, each of these de-
serve at least paragraph.
-Thriftfulness, taught by the neces-
stiles of the war, will make our peo-
ple more valuable to their country's
prosperity.
The many laws enacted against
immortality will be of invaluable aid.
All houses of prostitution were closed
and the inmates driven out from the
towns near the camps, while the fact
that we have prohibition is attributa-
BILE very largely to the war.
Bringing Capital and Labor To-
gether.-These two interests have al
ways been antagonistic, but the war
served to bring them closer together
than ever before. Bringing the rich
and poor together, the good derived
from this will never be fully realized.
The richest and the poorest wore the
same clothes, ate the same food, slept
in the same tents, suffered alike and
fought side by side. They thereby
learned to understand each other as
never before.
Socialism, whether we believe in
it or not, has been given a great i'm
petus by the war.
And lastly, the fact dawns upon
US that this war has caused woman
to come into her own at last. During
the last two years our women have
demonstrated to the world that they
are capable of handling mems jobs.
They have entered almost every con-
ceivable line of work and have sue
ceeded admirably. Three million wo-
men were in the field of actual labor
before the signing of the armistlce
and there were over eight million
wage earners. Best of all, the reports
from government agents declare that
in a great many instances, women did
more and better work than the men.
For the first time, they understand
Irrational affairs and realize that they,
too, are citizens of the United States
and therefore they have obligations
to their government, and there is no
doubt that within a few years women
will have equal rights with men in
every respect.
With the hearts of our people
turned to God, living unselfsh lives
and with sense of duty and obedi-
ence to trust, with ignorance no long
er curse in our land, with strong,
healthy men and women and clean,
sanitary homes, can we doubt that
in a way war has been a blessing to
our country? 1t is the old lesson that
some must sacrifice and suffer for the
common good of mankind. It must
be that we needed also to learn that
every one should work, economic to
help others, condemn and punish i'm
morality and feel that riches and high
social position alone do not make a
man.
The most beautiful lesson of all,
which, put into practice, will usher
in day of perfect peace, has been
that taught by comradeship and a
feeling of the common peril of man
kind, the feeling that we must all
stand together. The war has drawn
the men of the nation together, there
is no longer any North or South, East
or West. Having fought together,
We can never again fight each other.
We have not only been knitted to-
gether as one nation but our boys
have honored the spirit of France,
appreciated the bulldog tenacity of
the English, and come close to the
hearts of the other allied nations. So,
as a result of the war, the great
Brotherhood or League of Nations