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UTSIDI3 the railroad station at Kvlnn
loslhilns they hud gathered together,
a group of some CO or CO. Thev worn
women iiiid children, with u scatter
Ins of old men. Knch bore a tag
Iirlnted In (Jernmn and with a large
nnmhcr on It. Some carried bundles,
others were empty-handed; their
clothlug was nondescript. Their fnee
were drawn nnd pinched In the evening sun that
came over the waters of the hike of (jenevn, and
the children among them clung to the knees of the
women In that pitiful, frightened way .so many
children of France have of doing these days.
Inlde the station 1 could hear the Chasseurs
Alplns, three drummers and three buglers, loudly
playing "J.o Snoyard." There were some cheers
us the hand, leading the main body of the conoy
which had Just come In from Switzerland, marched
out through the station to Join the group Pwus
watching. Great camions of the American Ited
Cross stood waiting to receive the Iiillrm among
them. Otherwise it was very unlet, not at all tho
scene I had expected to tlnd here.
There were some women and children In the
group who fascinated me by their dazed, hopeless
expression the still, numb way In which they
etood, almost trembling, It seemed to me. 1 turned
tny caiucrn toward them to take a picture, when,
as they caught sight of my uctlon. there was a cry
from them. A very
old woman raised her
shrivelled hand and
tried to hide her face
from tho lens. The
children shrunk fur
ther Into the folds of
their women folks'
skirts, and an old
man gasped : "For tho
Prussian. He Is go
ing to send our pic
tures back to the
Prussians, and they
" A lied Cross
nurse at my side ex
plained that I did not
wish to do any such
thing that they were
safo bnck In France,
their France, again,
and that the Prus
sians could never
touch them. She noinr.
SmV',PX;iJ
id to the arch across the street, a few feet away,
through which they v,uld soon pass, with the
American and French lings Intertwined and the
motto in big scrawly letters, "Soves les Wenvenus."
She explained that I was an American. They
seemed to understand, and their faces lighted up.
for this wit In early .lime, and even thee pitiful
ones, who had been where little news had reached
them for nearly four years, knew that the Aiderl
cans were In France In good numbers now, and
were their allies.
So thu group ceased to shrink from my camera.
A woman even thrust her child forward and
smoothed Its liair so that it would look well In the
picture. Hut, Just as I was about to snap the
shutter, another woman In the group, standing a
little back, looked at me with an expression that
was full of condemnation, full of appeal, as she
said: "Yes, my friends, let us stand up straight,
so that ho can get a good photograph of misery !"
Then sho laughed bitterly, and I well, I did not
take the picture.
At this moment the rest of the convoy begun to
come out of the station, led by the finis-sours' lit
tle hand With them came Ited Cross men and
nurses, carrying or helping those who could not
wall; into the waiting camions and ambulances.
I put up my camera and hurried ahead to reach
the casino, whither the procession was houud, be
fore their arrlvul there. Someone struck up "La
Marseillaise," some woman with a high, shrill
voice, .As I climbed upon the front seat of an
amhulauco and we started to pass the crowd I
thought for a moment that I was now going to
see, going to hear, what I hud come up from Paris
for tho glad burst of enthusiasm, of happiness
from these people now that they fully realized
that they were lu Fiance, among their own, free
from tho German yoke, which hud lain on their
necks slnco ll)M. Hut as our umhulunce went by
the procession there were no other voices raled
to Join, that of tho sluglug woman, and after a few
bars she, too, stopped singing and the procession
went on, silent, shullllng, except for smno small
boys, town boys, who trudged ahead of the Chas
Hems, still playing their tune on drum and bugle.
I reached the casino ahead of the procession
and waited at the door for them to come down tho
Rue dn Cikslno. The narrow, steep street was
crowded along Its sidewalks with townspeople,
nnd from windows was tlr.tig tho tricolor, while the
American Hag waved here and there, too, As the
procestdon came around the head of the street the
people hailed It with cheers and the Waving of
flags. Tho Chasseurs played more loudly now
It was "Vive l'Armoo" they were tooting. A few
of the children raised their heads uud looked with
glud eyes on tho enthusiastic natives who were
trying so hard to cheer them home. An old man
in the procession straightened up and shouted,
"Vivo lo General Joffro." Hut otherwise there
were no cheers, no thrills of happiness, nor any
thing hut Just that down-bent attitude, that shuf
lllng walk, that dazed, whipped, cowed expres
slon. It was, as tho woman at tho station, had
Bald, mlsecy. For Evhtn Is the clearing house of
misery theso days.
It wan not so at first, tho American Hed Cross
doctor told mo, and so tho subprefect of the de
partment of tho Haute-Savole tdso assured me.
"Which la why wo mako such n great effort 'to
cheer them ae they corno In nowndays," ho said.
"Thoy are crushed, theso people; they are like
dead men and women, nnd tho children, even tho
llttlo ones nro scarcely allvo to tho situation.
Froo from Gi-rmany onco more? They cannot be
Uovo ltr the.ro la scarcely enough strength left In
their' poos minds und bodies for them to bo ablo
to under8tfuid.n
"Yea," nddecl tho Ited Cross doctor, pointing out
a girl of eighteen or nineteen who passed; "look
Bt tho expression on tho faco of that girl" I
looked, I caught hero eyo an fiho turned In my dl-
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rectlon, but I do not think she saw me nt nil, or
saw anything. Her face was blank for a mo
ment, then, as In looking aside she nearly collided
with someone ahead of her, -he shrunk from him
with u sort of cry, as if she had expected to bo
beaten down.
We followed the procession Into the largo hall,
now, whore the people of Evlan greet these home
comers, nnd where, at long table, they feed them.
Over the balcony hung the Hugs of the allies, with
the French and American closely Intertwined. The
people were placed at the tables, numbly obeying
the Ited Cross nurses who flitted about asulstlng
them. They ate the food which was set before
them without a word.
As they ate nnd drank there was some Sr0 of
these people I walked about with the Hed Cross
doctor and studied their laces, their demennor.
Occasionally as one saw us he or she smiled, hut
for the most part It vas like walking through tho
halls of tin asylum for tlu mentally deficient tho
eyes were dazed, the expression empty, vacant.
Hy now some joung women had passed among
the crowd giving to each a little French flag. I
noticed ii boy of about twenty, tall, well put to
gether. The gill had to thrust the flag Into his
hand and explain to him what It was.
"That boy hasn't always been an Idiot, I would
sn. oiThnnd." said the doctor at my side. "Ho
liiil..s beaten, whipped. That's the sort they aro
scmhng hack to u.s, nowadays."
Tho boy still holds tho 'lag. looking nt It as If
trying to lecall whiro ho h.id seen that combina
tion of colors before. 1 recollected that ho would
have been about fifteen or sixteen when tho war
broke out, when he, with these others and so many
thousands like them, were caught In that first
southward rush of tho German horde through tho
towns of northern France.
Tho subprefect was mou'itlng the platform to
speak to the diners. Tho Chasseurs played their
tunes loudly. The the subprefect began to talk
to them. He told them they were safo among their
friends once more, that never again would they
he slaves of Germany, that homes would ho found
for them and an elTort inado to find tho friends
and relatives whom they hail not seen nor oven
heard from for four years. Ho told them that
Franco soon would conquer, that bho was now
Jolued hy America with her millions of young men,
and then ho gave the signal for tho bnnd to stnrt
tho "Marseillaise." This It did.
As tho first notes were heard somo of tho faces
lighted up. There was an effort to sing tho won
derful song, and after a fashion It succeeded. Hut
though beforo tho refrain had been finished thoro
wcro many voices hushed, many hands that could
not wave tho llttlo French flags for n moment
patriotism, lovo of country, hopo and trrmt had
been awakened. A few minutes later I followed
tho Ited Cross doctor Into the big worn whero ho
examines every child who comes Into Evlnn with
theso convoys of repatriated people. So far h
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has examined nearly frO.OOO. 1 saw USO llttlo chil
dren examhiiil. They ranged In age from three to
twelve yenrx, and of them all there were barely
more than '0 per cent whom ho could pass as be
ing even fairly well nourished.
"They hue been fed mostly on turnips and
black bread for months," ho explained, "and with
each convoy there lire more undernourished ones
and more like this little fellow." Ho Indicated a
thin wisp of a boy he was ten years of ago It
was tuberculosis.
This vxplulns, furthermore, why tho American
Hed Cross hospital, as a part of Its war burden,
has been obliged to extend Its work Into tho foun
dation nnd maintenance of homes, here, there and
everywhere throughout France, for theso unfor
tunates whom Germany Is sending back by tho
hundreds of thousands. For they aro unable to
work, unable to make their own l::;mes, and tho
civilian population of France, bent dotihlo with
the pack of Its own problems, lias been Increas
ingly powerless to cope with this, Germany's In
sldlou.s effort to break the morale of France.
It was all new to me when I went up to Evlan
from Paris to seo the repatriates come In. I had
heard of how Germany had begun sending them
bnck In 11H0, and how, as tho numbers of them In
creased, the American Hed Cross stepped In and
undertook to look out for tho sick children, finally
extending Its work to caring for the hundreds
of tuberculous women whom Germany returned to
France. Hut I had heard, also, of how the repa
triates, sent through Switzerland hy tho Germans
nrrlved at Evlan, singing, kneeling down and kiss
ing the soil of France and gladly taking up their
share of their country's work In factories nnd on
farms. I had looked for a scene of Joy at tho
station there In Evlan, for cheers and heart-thrills
at the casino. Here was u people being returned
to the cmintry that It belonged to; hero were ban
ners of welcome, here were hands and heartH open
to It. Hut I had seen something entirely different,
nnd whin I Inquired It was explained to me. "It
Is plainly." I was told, "part of the German plan
of breaking down French morale, of destroying tho
efllcleni of tho American Hed Cross, which It has
learned Is doing smii n large part In the work of
hnndlhi,' repatriates.
"At the same time Hint Germany Is hurling her
big shells Into Paris by day and air raiding it by
night; at the same time that sho Is driving refu
gees by the thousands from their homes In towns
along the lino of her proposed ndwince; at tho
sumo time sho Is filling tho hospitals with wounded
French and American soldiers, tnxlng tho equip
ment of tho yVmerlcan Hed Cross to tho limit, as
she btlites, she has tried a new trick dining this
offenshe
"If tbli Is not so, how can It be accounted for
that each succeeding tralnload of repatriates Is
larger, contains more sick uud completely usqd up
Indlvbhiils thnn the previous one? How can you
account for tho largo number of young women
with b. hies born In Germany slnco they were
token there babies whose fathers may be Ger
man, but whoso Identity will ever remain a mys
tery which nro unloaded on us every day?"
Even ni that It seemed rather a dllllcult tusk.
These peoplo who were coining In I snw several
traluhn.ils of them seemed such hopeless things.
What "iild he done with them? What a burden
they would ho on the French! How little result
there would ho from anything done for them oi
with tli m!
"That Is far from being the case," I was told.
"They iM'ond In an Incredibly short tlmo to all
wo do tr them. Their health Improves, their
minds 1 1' ur. From being liabilities they soon be
come assets. Germany sends theso peoplo In,
wrecks. fco cowed, so starved, that they can scarce
ly tell where they have been, what has happened
to them In tho years of their slavery In the mines,
tho mlllo, the fields of their captor country. Tuber
culosis seems to have a firm grip on many of them,
and tho children nro filled with tho germs of con
tagious diseases. Hut either by happy ability of
tho Freiwh to rlso under dlfllctiltles, or tho Joy of
finding theiiiBclves bnck in their own land, tho
rapidity with which they rally, tho quickness with
which their minds clear, Is remarkable."
A French woman, In chargo of tho casino ves
tlalro tit Evlan, where clothing Is found for theso
unfortunates, said: "Tho mora they send, tho
better wo llko It. Wo can caro for all, with tho
help of our friends, tho Americans. And tho fastor
they fiend them back, though their coming so fast
unquestionably taxes our resources to tlio utmost,
tho moro quickly will Franco got back hor own
peoplo."
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Forward!
With no thought of bursting shrapn
nel and poisonous gases into which
they plunge with every muscle tense,
with every faculty of mind alert,
with one thought only TO FIGHT
AND WIN.
That is the way our men are going
into battle. When the shrill whistle
sounds the advance, out they go their
whole heart in the task before them.
No power 071 earth can hold tiem back.
Forward!
The same sharp challenge to battle
is sounding for us. Wc must answer
in the same proud way the way of
our fighting menthe American way.
We must le?td the way they fight.
We must show the war-maddened
ITun a united American people mov
ing forward shoulder to shoulder,
irresistibly, to Victory.
Our task is to supply the money,
the ships, the guns, die shells that we
must have to win. It is a tremendous
task. We must do it as our fighting
men do theirs with the indomitable
spirit of Victory.
We must work, and save, and lend
with one tkought only TO FIGHT
AND WIN.
Get into the fight with your whole
heart. Buy Bonds to the utmost!
This Space Contributed by
Swift & Company
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Kaiser Bill.
"His majesty, tho Kennan kaiser I
Hoch. hoch, hochl" General Skoro
padskl of Ukraine.
Such outbursts of Impassioned elo
quence nnd expressions of undying
fculty will probably go thundering
down the ages ami cause even Presi
dent WIIhoij to shako In Ids shoes
with laughter.
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Sometimes, of Course.
"Anger, for example, is an emotkv
nn abstract quality," explained th col
lego lecturer. "One can seo only th
effects of It. One cannot taste It, hear
It, nee It, smell It or feel It."
"Oh, I know, but profesr, It hw4
color," said the usual class boob.
"You must bo mistaken, young mam,"
replied tho prof.
"Well, In a book I am wading It tayi
that man's faco was purplo vltfc
anger."
The teacher 1b otto who makes twt
ideas grow where only one grew before.
No matter how wed you do a thin
you are sure to hear moro complaints
than compliments.
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