The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1922-05-17
CHAPTER XVI.

surface now and gradually be-
heard as the thunder Of d million
bpon the training grounds. The
rang sharper; the drums and
bf town and village and country
we're the drums and flies Of a
that came closer and closer TO
hearth between the two oceans.
the old symbols became symbols
and new, as II no one had ever
khem before. America" was like a
word, and the song America"
Iiks,a new song. All the dusty
pcies Of Grating candidates, seek
rouse boreu auditors with 1.-THE |
hg", all the mechanical patriotics
lhocl and church and club; all |
time-worn, faced things leaped
knly into living color. The flag
be- brilliant and strange to see
ge with a meaning that seemed
a meaning long known, yet never
b till now.
d SO hearts that thought they
themselves came upon ambushes
notion and hidden indwellings of
not guessed before. Dora Yo-
listening to the "Star-Spangled
Ser," sung by children of immi.
Is to an out-oftune old piano In
sion clubroom. in Chicago, found
Ut crying with soul-shaking
iness In q way different from 9th.
ays that she had cried. Among
many things she thought Of then
this: That the banner the chill
were singing about was in dan.
The great country, almost a con.
h, had always seemed so untouch-
80 safe and sure; she had never
able to conceive Of a hostile
y mighty enough to shake or even
!. And since so great and funda.
al a thing could not be injured, a
for its defense had appeared to
h her eyes, not only wicked but
1lOus. At last. less and less
ely, she had come to comprehend
thing Of the colossal German
It, and the shadow that touched
bright banner Of which the immi-
u.s. children piped so briskly in the
on clubrOom.
began to understand, though
eould not have told just why. or
or at what moment understand
cached her. She began to under
that her country, threatened to
ife, had flung its line those thou
Of miles across the sea to stand
hold Hindenburg and Ludendorf
Rll their kaisers, kings, dukes and
b princes. their krupp and Skoda
trOus engines. and their mons
other engines of men made into
es. Through the long haze OF
I'D sea-miles and the smoke OF
miles she perceived that brown
of ours. and knew II stood there
Freedom. and the Nation itself,
not perish from the earth.
ID so, a week later. she went home
came nervously to Re VS. moth
d found ID how taackay, e. r letter
":.s in challis. I Zs a. red
r. 9 and soI II
| + sF m's3I7e cciIayHA "a ma,
Utter speec, weN So y you
ike the stepiw Q ~ tha'
sent YOU to9 Wu. and that
1t to be kin, VI for doing it. but
' that Won had other motives, too
ew. OF course, that you thought OF
country mora than you did of me
any mad ling l could say-bn'
bught that M ht suid might have
the promti1 big thing, the wore
threw YOU ,nAo it SO hastily ant
ire you wers ready, perhaps.
ded to bear THAT terrible RESPONSE
h. hope yoY understand.
iy great mistake has been
ght was So 'logical'-it's beer
my starting everything with
ght I'd never proven: that war !!
wdlrst thing. AID all other evii'
esser. WIS wrong. l wa
BIZ because WIZ isn't the wors
81 avery is a worse evil. and nov
knt to tell you lhave come to SEE
you are makingwar on those tina
avery. Yes, you are fghtip'
30 be2 make bothwar and slaYery
, " IRE right. aid l humbl rev
th eve honor all of you \ ho arr
var. rNave cop he hom'
the Red Cross he1 Z; wor'
g thhy, and all day l heep say
&lf-but really med IN to yo'
ay AIpray. and oh, how l pra!
ven soe with you and grant y'
yr For you must win ant
KlrSin.
arrise me, oh, p!ease-and II yo'
;halld you write to me? ! Know
m things to do more fmportah
~ .rls'-but oh, couldn't you
rou ,,
las,ottor which she had takel
10 to dampen, as she wrote. wen
eha course to the american FIX
yua AIRY Forces in France am
..,ound him whom 1t patient
Lie delayed not long to answer
me she held in shaking han
led misslve he had sent her
~ Tho, comic talk abOu