Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1935-12-05

Andrews church, Ottawa. I'VE must
refuse the Establishments of ease,
ne sermonized in June 1915, land ac-
cept the opportunity for heroic self
sacrifice. The names Of a stalwart
host marching to war will be en-
rolled in the ranks of the immortals,
and their memory cherished by gen.
erations yet unborn"
Perhaps the good reverend did not
know the catacysmic hell toward
which he tempted young stalwarts.
The question arises whether it is
justifable for clergymen to prOpa-
gandize in ignorance of the facts.
S,643.5l5 anne were permanently
inscribed on the plaque of immor-
tails" with 21,2l9,5+2 mothers sons
garnering lesser honors by being
smashed up. Two million of them in
veterans hospitals remain alive
with a shattered spine or groin that
refuses to heal, with pleurisy or pull
monary Tuberculosis to follow in af-
termath, not to mention the living,
legless. armless stumps. With full
JuSlltt W AiftiilStEftS LII W TIC Lhh-
payer, these incurables could we'll
afford to die without delay.
| have interviewed many veterans,
and queried whether they would
again volunteer. With a you-haven't-
observation-disclosures stare. the ov-
erwhelming majority have DIS
claimed any part in any future con-
ffict. A "lifer' at a sanatorium in
Kansas-his arm amputated at the
bicep and for whom parallel Sits
constituted a nose - epitOmized the
philosophy of the veterans hospital
''No soldier will start a war nor go
to n unless he's commanded. Even
them he added bitterly, It'll be a
tough job to get us to 60"
Besides laceration by powder and
lead, capture by any enemy often
meant gross negligence in treatment.
Herded in foul concentration camps,
maltreated by the a%ll-imperious vic
or, the average prisoners plight is
represented by the following graphic
inciden est;ied to by a physsician.T
incident is testified to by a physi-
clan.
"At Marseilles, in a two-stOry
building many of the 500 prisoners
were suffering from severe diarrhea.
Three buckets were made serve 256
prisoners. They were not eTnptied
regularly and at midnight they over
flowed. The odor of offal and urine
became positively intolerable."
treatment varied from extreme
brutality on the eastern front to
comparatively humane treatment by
American forces. After all, malevo-
lence could hardly be reciprocated
by benevolence in the midst Of a
business tina calls for the blind ha-
tired of a fellow human.
Sustained Terrorism
Terrorism is necessarily an int
grail and sustained part Of modern
warfare. 1t was the same so, 900
years Ago.. While specifically man
has altered much, basically he has
changed but little from the primitive
barbarian whose one delight was to
kill and follow up murder with thor
ough plumber. And loosed from all
conventional restraints, man-on the
front lines-is ideally situated to in
dulge in an orgy Of RIGHTEOUSNESS
and violence to release himself Of all
unfulfilled desires and Illustrations.
Scenes of carnage incite in him
sadistic urges. His thirst for blood
and torment become contagious, sor.
did uncomfortable. Victorious troops
sweep like the very holocaust to deal
rape. rapine and systematized rob
berry. Mans repression to barbara
instincts dominate his every act or
the battlefield, despite the senti
ments of stay-at-homes.
D~iscounting the inevitale crop o.
propaganda tales of every war. M
veteran denied that the spoils of vic
tory included a good deal of spolia
ton. From official Investigations b,
British, Belgian and Austrian com
missions, the following emerge al
typical incidents WIN a mass O
adult men span the centuries of "cul
ture" to the Observation-Disclosures
tivism of the Stone age.
"At Mary-sur4Marne, when M. Ma
the attempted to hide under tn,
counter of his wine shop, he was bay
oneted to death because he had re
: fused to serve wine.
s Soldiers populated and carouse,
through the streets Of Liege; 10,
vain and Aerschot were sacked an
t set on fire; civilians were violated
e THE Cossack patrol OF five me
& forced its way into our home. hmm,
e dlately they told my parents. Civ
y MS some girls One of the Cossack
d caught and dragged me into the be
l. room. He threw me on the he'd an