The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-10-31
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CLARENCE TRUE WILSON national secretary of
~ temperance and morals is said to have charged
ex-service men with importing European ideals
OF the continental Sunday as against the American
Sabbath with lewd conceptions of social life, never
before openly advocated on American soil"
The American soldier saw little of the continental
Sunday. since that war did not adjourn the
week-endS to let fighters. with their $50 month,
storm the castle of riotous living.
When circumstances permitted, there a re-
ligiouS service Sunday after which the soldiers
meditated on the charms of trench life wrote some
letters home and lapsed into inconsistencies, while
Clarence True Wilson enjoying lfe far from the
battle line.
The old observance of the American Sabbath de-
clined long before the World war.
The Sunday movie the Sunday golf game and the
Sunday automobile invaded that observance long be-
fore the kaiser invaded Belgium so the American SOL
der is not to blame for that.
FEMININE authorizations arrived from France be-
fore the war; dresses took the elevator before an
American army dreamed Of and while not so
short as now, they their way; they had not
reached the equator but they were we'll above the
ropic of capricorn while bathing suits then as now
were invisible to the naked eye, so the American
soldier is not to blame for that
Ladies were frescoing themselves and thousands
painters collie, long before Woodrow Wilson called
for soldiers and for cgarets our soldiers did not
import them to u.s. but we did export billions of
them to soldiers they not to blame for that
OUR stage vile, motion pictures putrid
~ they called for censorship literature alive
with sinister Suggesveness and press engaged in
covering the land with the slime of every awful di
vorce and murder long before that broke upon
the world, so the American soldier is not to blame
for that
European ideals have been imported; not by SOL
dierS, chained to trench but by multimillionaire
tourists with the freedom of continent and these
gnded fools have been aided by hundreds Of thou
sands of other tourists, less wealthy, who saw
their own country but who the ocean annually
to PROSTATE themselves before alien customs and ins
tutons. so the American soldier is not to blame for
that.
Universal suffrage unbuttoned the fine reserve of
yesterday; prohibition led to alcoholic excess: the
relaxed the conventions by placing multitudes of
women in mills and factories. and CHASTITY world
butchery broke the thin restraints of civilization but
the American soldier is not to blame for that.
DUT our soldiers are to blame for some things
ID they are to blame for breaking the Hindenberg
line; they to blame for bringing to life the dead
hope of Italy, Belgium, France and England; they
to blame for making the kaiser an exile and
for making liberty supreme; they are to blame for
saving the world
If Clarence True Wilson has been quoted correct
", he apology TO the soldiers of the republic,
particularly those whose lives have been wrecked
he owes apology TO the crippled, the blind and
the insane.
And ne apology to the gallant dead and
to their gold star fathers and mothers