The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1922-05-25
CHAPTER XIV.

1t was easy enough for him to evade
Fred Mitchell's rallyings these days
: the sprig's mood 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 spotlighted at the center Of the
stage, languished 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 after Dora s
bitter dismissal of Ramsey before she
was mentioned between the comrades.
Then, one evening. Fred asked, as he
restlessly paced their study floor:
"Have you seen your pacifist friend
lately|
mo. Not exactly. Why?"
swell, 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 a big class, you know,
over two hundred, under Dean Burney.
He's a great lecturer. but he's pacifist
the only one on the faculty-and
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 highest-stand student in the
class. She got up and claimed there
wasn't any such thing as legitimate
cause for war, either legally or moral
ly, and said 1t was sign Of weakness
in nation for 1t to believe that it did
have cause for war.
swell, it was too much for that lit.
tie, spunky Joe Stansbury, and he
jumped up and argued with her. He
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 a
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
the others, and that they've set out to
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 q right cause
for war, then all this couldn't be a
cause for war. OF course she had her
regular pacifist logic working; she
said that since war is the worst thing
there is, why. all other evils were
lesser, and 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 t.
look at 1t; and she'd heard there wal
already talk in the university of stu
dents thinking about enlisting, ant
whoever did such a thing was virtual
ly enlisting to return murder for muir
der. Then Joe Stansbury asked her i
she meant that she'd feel toward an,
student that enlisted the way sh
would toward murderer, and sh
said, yes, she'd have horror of an
student that enlisted.
swell, that broke up the class; 10
turned from her to the platform an
told old Burney that he was respons
BILE for allowing such talk in his lectnr
room, and Joe said SO far as he wa
concerned, he resigned from Burney'
classes right there. That started Il
and practically the whole class got u
and walked out with Joe. They sal
Burney streaked off home, and Dor
was left alone in there. with her hea
down on her desk-and ! guess sh
certainly deserves It. A good man
have already stopped speaking to her.
Ramsey fidgeted with a pen on tn
table by which he sat. swell. ] don
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