The citizen. [volume] (Berea, Ky.) 1899-1958, 1922-03-30


the difference I'm not condemnlng
anybody, I'm only lnmenting."
"What about2'
about all Of you that want war; :"
"My gollyw Ramsey exclaimed.
"You don't think those Dutchmen
were right to drown babies and"
"No! think they were CHASTITY
murderers think they were detesta-
BILE and fiendlsh and monstrous and"
swell, then, my goodness What do
you want1'
81 don't want warl"
you don'tf'
II want Christianity" she cried. 81
can't think Of the Germans without
hating them, and so today, when all
the world Is hating them, keep my
self from thinking Of them as much as
! can. Already half the world is full
Of war; you want to go to war to
make things right, hut 1t won't; 1t will
only make more war"
well, /"
Don't you see what you've done
you bOyS?' She said. Don't you see
what you've done with your absurd
telegram That started the rest they
thought they all had to send kilograms
like that
"Wcll. the faculty"
Even they mightn't have thought
Of II IL II hadn't been for the first one.
Vengeance Is the most terrible
thought; once you put II into peoples
minds that they ought TO have IL, 1t
runs away with them"
well. IL isn't mostly vengeance
we're after. at all. There's a lot more
10 It than just getting even with"
She did not heed him. you're all
/ blind, You don't see what you're do
| ing; you don't even see what you've
| done To this penceful place here.
You've filled It full Of thoughts of fury
and killing and massacre"
"Why. no." said Ramsey. ut was
those Dutch did that to us. and. be
sides. there's more to 1t than you
NO. there isn't" she interrupted.
Its just the old brutal spirit that ma
tionS inherit from the time they were
only tribes; it's the tribe spirit, and
an eye for an eye and a tooth for a
tooth. It's those things and the love
of fishting-men have always loved
to fight. Civilization hasn't taken it
ont Of them; men still have the brute
In them that loves to fight"
81 don't think So" said Ramsey.
Americans don't love to fight; | don't
know about other countries, but we
don't. OF course, here and there,
there's some fellow that likes to hunt
around for scraps. but | never saw
more than three or four in my life that
acted that way. OF course a football
team often has scrapper or two on
il. hut that's different"
NO" she said 81 think you all
really love to fight"
Ramsey was reused TO become argu
mentative. II don't see where you get
the idea. Cohurn isn't that way. anC
back at school there wasn't single
hoy that was anything like that"
what" She stopped, and turned
suddenly to face him.
whats the matterf" he said, stop
ping, too. Something he said had
startled her, evidently.
How can you say such a thing :?
she cried you love to tight!"
"MeT
"You do, You love fighting. 70,
always have loved fighting"
He was dumfounded. why, l neve
had fight in my life."
She cried out in protest Of such pre-
varication.
well, / never did," he insisted
mildly.
"Why. you had fight about mel"
"No. didn't"
with Wesley Bender!"
Ramsey chuckled. THAT wasn't
fight"
ut wasn'tT'
Nothing like one. We were jus
guyin' him about-about gettin' sllcke
up. kind of, because he sat in front o
you; and he hit me with his book straI
and chased him OF. Gracious, no
that wasn't a fght!"
"But you fought Linski only las
! fall"
Ramsey chuckled again. "Tha
wasn't even as much like fight as tn
one with Wesley. l just told thi
Linski was goin' to give him a pune
In the sn-- | Just told him to loo
out because l was goin to hit him, an
then l did II. and waited to see II h
wanted to do anything about II, and b
didn't That's all there was to II, an
II wasn't any more like fighting tina
! than feeding chickens is"
She laughed dolefully. ut seen
TO me rather more like II than that
"Well, Il wasn't"
They had begun 10 walk on agal
? and Ramsey was aware that they ha
? passed the frat house." where h
> dinner was probably growing cold. Il
was aware OF this. but not sharply I
insistently. CuriouSy enough, he d
not think about it. He had begun
find something pleasant In the odd 1
, terview. and in walking beside gil
I even though the girl was Dora Yocur
r lie made no attempt to account
I himself for anything so peculiar. POI.