Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1922-03-17
CHAPTER XIV.


Fred MItchclls rNllyIngs these days;
the sprIg's mooG was truculent, not
toward his roommate but toward con.
gress, which was less In fiery haste
than he to be definitely at war With
Germany,
All through the university the
change had come: athletics, In other
years spotlIghtcd Mt the center of the
stage, lnnguishcd suddenly. threatened
with abandonment students working
for senior honors forgot them; every.
thing was forgotten except that grow.
ing thunder in the soil,
Several weeks elapsed infer Dora's
bitter dismissal OF Ramsey before she
was mentioned between the comrades.
Then, one evening. Fred asked, as he
resilesSly paced their study floor:
Have You seen your pacIilst friend
latelyY"
NO. Not exactly, WhyW
"Well, for my part, | think she ought
to be locked up" Fred said, angrily.
Have you heard what she did this
afternoon?"
mo"
"Its all over college She got up In
the class in Jurisprudence and made a
speech. It's big class, You know,
over two hundred, under Dean Burncy.
He's II great lecturer, but he's Il pacifSt
the only one on the fNculty-and n
friend of Dora's, They say he encour.
aged her to make this break and led
the subject around so she could do 1t,
and then called on her for an opinion
as the hlgheSt.stand student In the
class. She got up and claimed there
wasn't any such thing us legitimate
cause for war, either legally or moral
ly, and said 1t was II sign of weakness
In nation for 1t to believe that II did
have cause for war
"Wcll, 1t was too much for that lit,
tie, spunky Joe Stnnsbury, and he
jumped up and argued with her. lie
made her admit all the Germans have
done to us, the sea murders and the
land murders the blowing up of fac.
tories, the propaganda, the strikes,
trying to turn the United States into II
German settlement, trying to get
Japan and Mexico to make war on us,
and all the rest. He even made her
admit there was proof they mean to
conquer us when they get through with
rule the world for their own benefit,
and make whoever else they kindly
allow to live work for them.
"She said it might be true, but since
nothing at all could be right cause
for war, then all this couldn't be Il
cause for war. OF course she had her
regular paciiist logic working; she
said that since war is the worst thing
there Is, why all other evils We're
lesser, and n lesser evil can't be a Just
cause for greater. She got terribly
excited, they say, but kept right on,
anyway. She said war was murder
and there couldn't be any other way to
look ut 1t; and she'd heard there was
dents thinking about cnlisting, and
whoever did such thing was virtual
ly enlisting to return murder for muir
der. Then Joe Stansbury asked her If
she meant that she'd feel toward any
student that enlisted the way she
would toward murderer, and she
said, yes, she'd have horror of any
student that enlisted
"Well, that broke up the class, Joe
turned from her to the platform and
told old Burney that he was response.
Bile for allowing such talk in his lecture
room, and Joe said so far as he was
concerned, he resigned from Burney's
classes right there. That started It
and practically the whole class got NJ
and walked out with Joe They said
Burney streakcd off home, and Dora
was left alone in there, with her hcat
down on her deSk-and guess she
certainly deserves it. A good many
have already stopped speaking to her.
Ramsey tidgeted with pen on tn,
tnble by which he sat well | dom
know" he said slowly: 81 don't know
If they ought to do that exactly"
"Why oughtnt they?' Fred demand
ed, sharply.
"Well, it looks TO me rs If she wa
only tightin' for her principles. Sh
believes in 'em. The more 1t costs
person to stick to their principles
why, the more believe the persol
must have something pretty fine abou