The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1922-04-27

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talk again and got kind of excited
about how no war could do anything
OF anybody any good, and all war was
wicked, no matter what 1t was about,
and nothin' could be good that was
founded on fear and hate, and every
war that ever was fought was always
founded on fear and hate. She said
If the Germans wanted to fight us we
ought to 60 to meet them. and tell
them we wouldn't fight"
"What did you say?"
"Nothin'. l kind O started to-but
what's the use? She's got that in her
head. Besides, how are you goin' to
argue about a thing with a person
that's crying about it? l tell you, Fred,
l guess we got to admit, after all, that
ole girl certainly must have a lot Of
heart about her, anyway. There may
not be much fun to her-thOugh Of
course l wouldn't know hardly any
way to tell about that-but there
couldn't be hardly any doubt she's got
a lot of feeling. Well, and then she
went on and said old men made wars,
but didn't fight they left the fighting
to the boys. and the suffering to the
boys mothers" III
"Yes!". Fred exclaimed, and upon
that he turned, free Of mirth for the
moment. "That's the woman Of 1t, ]
guess. Send the old men to do the
fighting! For the matter Of that, !
guess my father'd about a thousand
times rather 60 himself than see me
and my brothers go; but Fathers so
fat he can't stoop! You got to be able
to stoop to dig a trench, I guess! Well,
suppose we sent our old men up
against those Dutchmen; the Dutch
men would just kill the old men, and
then come after the boys anyway, and
the boys wouldn't be ready, and they'd
get killed, too; and then there
wouldn't be anybody but the Dutchmen
left, and that'd be n fine world,
wouldn't it."
"Yes," said Ramsey. "Course. ]
nOugn OF tnat.
did you tell herr"
mo"
"What did you say"
"Nothin'. I couldn't get started any
way, but, besides, what was the use?
But she didn't want the old men to go;
she didn't want anybody to 60"
"What did she want the country to
doT" Fred asked, impatiently.
"Just what it has been doin', I sup
pose. Just let things simmer down,
and poke along, and let them do what
they like to us" 4
II guess SOL" said Fred. "Then,
afterwhile, when they got some free
!! time on their hands, they'll come oyer
and make it really interesting for us,
because they know we won't do any
thing but talk. Yes, 1 guess the way
things are settling down ought to suit
Dora. There isn't goin' to be any
war"
"She was pretty sure there was,
though" Ramsey said, t%houghtfully.
"Oh, Of course she was then. We
all thought so those few days."
mo. She said she thought It prob'ly
wouldn't come right away, but now 1t
was almost sure to come sometime.
She said our kilograms and all the talk
and so much feeling and everything
showed her that the war thought that
was always in people somewhere had
been stirred up so it would go on and
on. She said she knew from the way
she felt herself about the Lusitania
that a feeling like that in her would
never be absolutely wiped out as long
as she lived. But she said her other
feeling about the horribleness Of war
taught her to keep the first feeling
from breaking out, but with other peo-
pie 1t wouldn't; and eve If war didn't
break out right then, 1t would always
be ready to, all over the country, and
sometime it would, though she was
goin' to do her share to fight it, her
self, as long as she could stand. She
asked me wouldn't I be n Of the CUES
to help her"
He paused, and after a moment
Fred asked. swell? What did you say
to that?" y
"Nothin'. l started to, but"
Again Fred thought 1t tactful to
turn and look out the window, while
the agitation of his shoulders be-
trayed him.
"Go on and laugh! Well, so we
stayed there quite a while, but before
we left she got kind Of more like every
day, you know, the way people do: 1t
was half-past nine when we walked
back to town, and I was commencin'
to feel kind of hungry, so l asked her
If she wasn't, and she sort Of laughed
and seemed to be ashamed Of it, as If
1t was a disgrace or something, but
she said she guessed she was; so ]
left her by that hedge Of lilacs near
the observatory and went on over to
the Terra and the fruit store, and got
some stuffed eggs and olives and half
a-dozen peanut butter sandwiches and
q box O. strawberrles-kind Of girl
food, you know-and went on back
there, and we ate the stuff up. So
then she said she was afraid she'd
taken me away from my dinner and