Cheraw chronicle. [volume] (Cheraw, S.C.) 1896-2005, 1922-03-30

human ABOUT HeT, tllelI- ulNSi oil' -hhu
if he had put his feeling into words at
the moment, he would have said that
he guessed maybe he could stand this
ole girl, for few minutes sometimes
better than he'd always thought he
could.
"Well," he said, "Colburn prObly
wouldn't want to hurt your feelings
or anything. Colburn-"'
HE? He didn't. I haven't the
fa:ntest personal interest in what he
did"
"Oh" said Ramsey. "Well, excuse
me; thought prob1y you were sore
because he'd jollied you about this
pacifiSt stuff, and then"
mol" she said. sharply. "Im not
thinking of his having agreed with
me and fooling me about it. He just
wanted to make pleasant impression
on girl, and said anything he thought
wOul'' lease her. 1 don't care whether
he does things like that or not. What
l care about Is that the principle
didn't reach him and that he mOcked
it! l don't care about petty treach-
cry to me, personally, but L"
Fraternal loyalty could not quite
brook this. Brother Colburn is per-
fectly hOnor'ble man." said Ramsey,
solemnly. "He is one Of the most
honorble men in this"
"Of courSe!" she cried. "Oh, can't
l make you understand that I'm not
condemning him for little flattery to
me? l don't care two straws for his
showing that | didn't influence him.
He doesn't interest me, please under
stand"
Ramsey was altogether perpleXed.
"Well, / don't see what makes you go
for him so hard, then"
81 don't"
But you said he was treach-"
81 don't condemn him for it," she in
sisted, despairingly. Don't you see
the difference? I'm not condemning
anybody; I'm only lamenting."
what ahout?"
about all of you that want war;"
"My gollyw Ramsey exclaimed.
"You don't think those Dutchmen
were right TO drown babies and"
"No! 1 think they were CHASTITY
murderers! / think they were detesta-
BILE and fiendish and monstrous and"
"Well, then, my goodness! What do
you want?"
81 don't want war;"
"You don't?"
81 want Christianity" she cried. 81
can't think of the Germans without
hating them, and so today, when all
the world is hating them, l keep my
self from thinking of them as much as
l can. Already half the world is full
of war; you want to go to war to
make things right, but it won't; it will
only make mere war;"
"WelI, /"
Don't you see what you've done,
YOU boys?" she said. "Don't you see
what you've done with your abaIrd
telegram? That started the rest: they
thought they all had to send telegr&ms
like that"
"Well, the faculty"
even they mightn't have thought
of it if it hadn't been for the first one.
Vengeance is the most terrible
thought; once you put it into peoples
minds that they ought to have 1t, 1t
runs away with them"
"Well, it isn't mostly vengeance
we're after at all. There's lot more
to 1t 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 peaceful place here.
You've filled it full of thoughts Of fury
and killing and massacre"
"Why, no." said Ramsey. at was
those Dutch did that to us; and, be-
sides. there's more to 1t than you"
mo, 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 tooth for q
tooth. It's those things and the love
of fighting-men have always loved
TO fight. Civilization hasn't taken 1t
out of them; men still have the brute
in them that loves to fight"
II 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 football
team often has :crapper or two on
It, but that's different"
NO" she said. 81 think you all
really love to fight"
Ramsey was reused to become argu
mentative. 81 don't see where you get
the idea. Colburn isn't that way, and
back ut school there wasn't q single
boy that was anything like that"
What" She stopped, and turned
suddenly TO face him.
whats the matter?' he said, stop
ping, too. Something he said had
startled her. evidently.
"HOw can you say such thing?
she cried. You love to fight"
"Me?"
"YOu do! You love fighting. Yor
always have loved fighting"
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