Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-11-15
The Country Home
Stealing Automobile Tires
BY MRS. w. I'll. FELTON,

assembled at a fashionable club in
Atlanta for some sort of function,
or perhaps a big dance and dinner
party.
While the gayeties were at their
height, man was discovered in the
attempt to unbuckle the straps which
confined the extra tire on an ele-
CANT limousine in the rear.
1t was afterwards reported that
this tire thief had been proving
around for several hours and it was
lucky that he was thwarted in his
purpose.
There should be some sort of rigid
law to punish tire thieves. Those
tires can easily be stolen, especially
in darkened places and doubtless
they can easily be sold for some low
price that will sell them off the
thief's hands-and then make a get
away with them.
These tires cost good money, and
they are thus made temptation to
petty thieves.
There seems to be a general low
ering Of the moral tone, in these
days after the Civil war. Sharp
thieves can do land-office business
when vast majority go unwhipt
Of Justice.
A War Pilgrims Story
Suppose you had been born in a
western state like Nebraska (al-
though it was' not Nebraska), and
had gone to Paris to get the educa-
ton of an artist, and as a result
became an artist and also married
an American who lived in France
and who was foreman in an immense
mandatory of plate glass, and had
owned a home near Paris and spent
twenty-odd years in blissful content;
it would be more than natural to
like the French people and to set
great store by that lovely home in
France.
Just a few weeks before Germany
begun teh raid on Belgium the hus-
band died. When the kaiser's troops
were within few hours march of
the residence Of the agonized widow,
she and her sister made a rush for
a train-going towards London.
The jam at the station was so
great the two ladies could only take
win them few handbags of neces-
saries-leaving behind the work and
treasures of life time in that
French home. This deaX woman
gave me her experiences from her
own lips.
The escape from France was made
but her financial condition made it
necessary to find work in London
until she could connect with the
relatives in her western home in the
United States. Her familiarity with
France, and her long residence
there, gave her work in Queen
Mary's Red Cross organization. Dur
ing the entire time of thep World
war, she did, valiant service. Said
she: IF had not been so busy and
so active in the service, l should
have gone fild. That close, con.
slant work, kept me steady under
the conditions that had reduced me
to WidoWhood, and to poverty, for
my home was occupied by German
officers and the plate-glass manufac-
tory was RACED to the ground" She
is the proud owner Of four disting-
uished war medals-two given by
the British-one by the French Red
Cross, performing in London-and
lastly an American medal-gladly be-
slowed by the officials in charge
of American war activities in Lon
don.
She finally was able to make her
way to Atlanta, where she rented
small apartment for herself and
her faithful sister, and although
past middle age she had succeeded
in procuring some work that assist
ed in making her life somewhat COM
Portable, and eked out living with
the financial aid her western rela-
tives were contributing to these
brave women.
When they were becoming thus as
sured of a living, the dear brave
woman of whom 1 am writing was
run down by an automobile in At
lanta streets, her collarbone broken
and her right arm badly crushed
and other bones broken.
AS I passed her open door in a
well-known Atlanta sanitarium, l
had a strong desire within me to
speak a word of cheer, and thus
we became acquainted, and I had
the privilege Of hearing from her
this tragic story, filled to the limit
with sad experiences and heroic sac
rifices, foreign travel and many
years abroad. She had a dreadfully
bruised face that day when / ven
tured in to try to cheer a sufferer.
The wound on her head was plain
ly to be seen. Her arm is bound
up and she cannot use her broken
collarbone, of course.
But she is so cheerful, so uncom-
planning, and so courageous that she
has become an inspiration to me.
From the delights Of a Partisan
home, and the loving care of a kind
husband, she has no home at all
lat this date except a rented apart
ment. What she owned in France
she is trying to recover, but that
recovery may be doubtful. Her
right arm may be somewhat re-
stored to former usefulness, but that
cannot be safely foretold. She lacks
only a few years. of seventy, and
yet she gives no Indication of weak
ened intellect. She is as familiar
with the French language as with
English. Her cultivation and intel
! lect saved her when she fled before
| the German army to London from
bitter poverty and dependence.
For four years, as before stated,
she worked day after day in London
| in war service.
To think that this patriotic WON
an who has been so hOnored with
four splendid war medals should have
| been run down here n the city OF
Atlanta by reckless chauffeur,
seems intolerable to consider, or put
up with under these strenuous con-
ditions of misfortune, bereavement
and scant subsistence in her late
DAYS, which have all befallen her
as was narrated.
If she can recover the use Of he
arm and shoulder she rI.y be abb.
to get along in a way, but we know
that old bones do not knit readily
after they are broken. We do know
that Americans are greatly hamper
ed in the recovery of property in
foreign lands, and with the serious