THE BEE: OMAHA, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 25, 1918.
PLANS FORMED
FOR LEAGUE OF
FREENAT!ONS
'Victory ProgranTAnnounced
by League to Enforce
Peace as Basis for
Discussion.
New York, Nov. 24. The League
to Enforce Peace announced here
tonight its "victory program."
It calls for the formation at the
coming peace congress of a league
of free nations possessing judicial,
administrative and executive powers
and functions which would be so ad
ministered as to guarantee a perman
ent peace.
The program, which, it was an
nounced, already had been adopted
by the New York League of Free
Nations association as well as the
League to Enforce Peace, was draft
ed by a special committee of which
William II. Taft president of the
league, was chairman. Other mem
bers of the committe were A. Law
rence Lowell, president of Harvard
university; Oscar II. Straus, former
minister to Turkey; Theodore Mar
burg, former minister to Beleinm-
Hamilton Holt. Talcott Williams
and William H. Short of New York
and Glenn Frank of Boston.
t Jn announcing the program, which
is to be submitted for consideration
' and endorsement by all organiza
tions and persons favoring interna
tional reconstruction, the league
made it plain that the program did
not intend to solve the details of
world organization, but suggested
the principles merely as a basis for
discussion and criticism.
League's Platform.
The league's platform follows:
N "The war now happily brought
fo a close has been above all a war
to end war. but in order to ensure
the fruits of victory and to prevent
the recurrence of such a castrophe
there should he formed a league of
free nations, as universal as possible,
based upon a treaty and pledged that
the security of each state shall rest
upon the strength of the whole.
The initiating nucleus of the mem
bership of the league should be the
"-nations associated as belligerents in
winning the war.
"The league should aim at pro
moting the liberty, progress and fair
economic opportunity of all nations
and the orderly development of the
world
"It should ensure peace by elimi
nating causes of dissension, by de
ciding controversies by peaceable
means and by uniting the potential
force of all the members as a stand
ing menace against any nation that
seeks to upset the peace of the
world.
. "The advantage of membership in
the league, both economically and
. from a point of security, should be
so clear, that ell nations will desire
to be members of it.
"For this purpose it is necessary
to crtate:
"1 For the decision of justiciable
questions, an impartial tribunal
, whose jurisdiction shall not depend
upon the assent of the parties to
the controversy, provision to be
made for enforcing its decisions.
"2 For the questions that are not
justiciable in their character, a
council of conciliation as mediator,
which shall hear, consider and make
recommendation, and failing acqui
. escence by the parties concerned,
the league shall determine what ac
tion, if any, shall be taken.
"3 An administrative organiza
tion for the conduct of affairs of
common interest, the protection
and care of backward regions and
Internationalized places, and such
matters as have been jointly admin--.
istered before and during the war.
"A A representative congress to
formulate and codify rules of in
ternational law, to 'inspect the work
' of the administrative bodies and to
consider any matter affecting the
tranquility of the world or the prog
ress or betterment of human rela
' fions.
"5 An executive body, able to
speak with authority in the name
of the nations represented, and to
report in case the peace of the worLJ
is endangered.
- "Such a league must be formed at
the t.me o. fthe definitive peace, or
T the opportunity may be lost for
ever." Herrmann in Ignorance
of the Offer Made to Taft
Cincinnatrr Nov. 24. August
Herrmann, chairman of the national
baseball commission, said tonigh. he
had been unable during the day to
g.t into communication with B. B.
Johnson, president of the American
league, and that aside fron- news
paper reports, he knew absolutely
nothing relative to the offer said
to have been made to former Presi
dent Taft to become sole member of
the commission.
, French Cross Awarded 20
U. S. A. Ambulance Workers
Paris, Nov. 24. Twenty members
ot the section of the American army
ambulance service commanded by
Lt. Martin Owens, formerly a New
v York policeman, have been cited in
a divisional order of the French
army and awarded the war cross
with silver leaf. Seret. George H.
Lowe, Lt. Owens' assistant, has
been promoted to a first lieutenancy
" Stuff -the bird with
PostToasties
(rUd of Corn)
Makes "the finest
kind of dressing
says
Adds
Flavor
AT THE
THEATERS
MAKING over successful farce
comedies of former years into
equally successful musical
comedies for the present day is be
ing carried on to a considerable
extent. It argues for the influence
of music and dance, and with ad
mitted potency. In "The College
Widow" the framers of "Leave It
to Jane" found everything ready
and waiting for them, so they had
only to sprinkle on the tunes and
provide dances and lyrics to fill the
interstices, and all was done. The
company which offered the product
at the Boyd last night is capable
of giving life and snap to the affair.
and works with admirable vim to
achieve the effect intended.
Of course, friends of Edward
Lynch gave him a reception, so per
sistent he had to emerge from the
role of Billy Bolton for a moment
and say a word to those who noted
his return. It is not easy for those
who recall the dignified young men
he used to play to reconcile him
with the role of a souk and dance
artist, but he sings wel and dances
with real grace and dairies off his
scenes with Jane with aplomb.
Rae Bowdin, in the soubrette part
of Flora Wiggins, is the real cutup
of the party, and she got away with
honors last night. Her song about
Cleopatra is the best thing of the
bill, although she takes part in a
rough and tumble trio later, one that
is certain to Drove oonular because
of her participation in it. Eva Oliv
otti is quite capable as the athletic
girl, and Lea Lature, blonde and
handsome, makes a very effective
"college widow." A siren song, led
by her and Miss Olivotti, is one of
the most enjoyable of the many
numbers.
Ed Foley, who has the part of
"Stub" Talmage is an ideal colleee
comedian, for he never quits work-
i ig at it. utners ot the incidental
characters are well presented, While
the chorus is good to behold a,nd
very willing to work.
Music and danciner predominate in
this week's Orpheum program.
none .Miiiership, remembered here
as one of the Miiiership sisters,
leads off with Charles O'Connor in
Joseph Santley's musical ollering,
the Curl on the Magazine." A
bevy of young women in bewitching
attire and several pretty stage set
tings make this act one of the best
of its class seen here this season.
Gladys Clark and Henry Bergman,
vaudeville favorites, are back with
a new act which they style, "A Ray
of Sunshine." The scene, music and
chatter are appropriate. El. Brendel
and Flo Bert in "Waiting for Her,"
have a nonsensical skit in which
Brendel presents a new type of un
sophisticated Swede. Wolfe Gilbert
and Anatole Friedland made a hit
with their own compositions.
Bessye Clifford was well received
n her series ot poses. She fits into
each picture thrown upon a screen
and yesterday's audiences were
quick to appreciate the cleverness
of Che idea. Lasova and C. Gil
more offer a neat song and dance.
divertisement. Nate Leipzig, card
expert, seems to De good tor an
other visit over the circuit. The
official weekly allied war review and
the Orpheum travel weekly are the
usual motion picture features.
Little Ben Alevanrler tlio f
old actor in "Hearts of the World,"
s soon to be featured in a film pro
luction now hpinc imdp hv T) W
Griffith for the Artcraft manage
ment. Little Ben is one of the
most compelling figures in "Hearts
of the World," his acting calling
forth rounds of applause. He made
his screen debut nnrlpr Mr Griffith's
direction, and the famous producer
expects great things from his ju
venile "find." "Hearts of the World"
is the attraction at the Brandeis all
this week, twice daily.
Fun. music and dancine varv the
sketch of Doc Baker and his "Mag
azine Girls," the headline feature on
the Empress vaudeville program for
the hrst halt of this week. Miss
i'olly Walker is seen in the leadinsr
role. "The New Hotel Clerk," pre
sented by Regan and Renard. is an
oddity, catchy and entertaining. The
Dreon girls dance and sing their
way into popularity. Steve Dreda,
an all-round entertainer, dances and
plays the guitar. His selection of
songs is left to the audience and to
say that they were pleased with his
efforts Sunday would be but a mild
description. Tom Mix in "Fame
and Fortune," and the . Keystone
comedy, "A Mixup in Affinities," are
the features on the photoplay program.
"A Tailor-Made Man." Harrv
James Smith's comedy, which kept
levv York in a hubbub of excite
ment and merriment for one year,
will be presented by Cohan an4
Marns at the tsrandeis theater tor
five performances, starting next
Sunday night, December 1. This
comedy will be presented here with
an excellent cast.
The Abandoned Room
By Wadiworth Camp.
One of the outstanding features
staged by Dancing George Stone
for this season's edition of "The So
cial Maids" is the dance carnival at
the finale of the first act. Five or
six dancing teams exploit as many
varieties of endeavor at the Gayety
this week. But it remains for Mr.
Stone himself to display the real
mastership of the graceful art of
footology. Ladies' matinee daily.
beats ire selling for Thanksgiving.
Today finds a novel display on
in one of the windows of a drug
store on Sixteenth street. It con
sists of 1.707 smileage books, the
payment for which ($l,707y was
collected by chorus girls at the Gay
ety theater, tomorrow Chairman
Vierling of the smileage committee
will forward this great collection
of smiles to the Young Men s Chris
tian association huts at Camp
Dodge and Camp Funston, there to
be freely distributed to the Omaha
boys in those camps. The coupons
in the books are accepted in ex
change for admission tickets to the
theaters and movie shows operated
m the camps solely for soldiers.
"Flu" Bad in South.
Mexico City Spanish influenza
struck Mexico hardest in the state
of Guanahuato. Official reports
ttate that in the one city of Gon
lalez 80 per cent of the inhabitants
vere afflicted and, for three days.
there were 100 deaths a day.
i
The Bee is the best paper in Ne
brasksl Ask the person who reads it
CHAPTER VII-(Continued.)
"I figured, since the murder had
been made to look so much like a
natural death, that he'd come out
hre some time today, expecting io
carry it off. I wanted to go to the
station, anyway, to find out if he'd
been seen coming through last night
or early this morning. While I was
talking to the station agent I had
my one piece of luck. I couldn't be
lieve my eyes. Mr. Robert walks
up from the woods. He'd been hid
ing around the neighborhood all the
time. Probably had missed his
handkerchief and decided he'd bet
ter not take any chances. Yet it
must have seemed a pretty sure
thing that the station wouldn't be
watched, and it's those nervy things,
doing the obvious, :hat skilful :rim
inals get away with all the time. I
needed only one look at him, and I
had the answer to the mystery of
the footprints. I gave him plenty
of time to come here and change
his clothes, then I manoeuvered him
out of his room and went there and
found the pumps he'd-worn last
night and today. You see, they'd be
a little smaller than his ordinary
shoes. Not only did they fit the
lootprints exactly, but they were
stained with soil exactly like that
in the court. There you are sir, I've
made a plaster cast of one of the
prints. I've got it here in my poc
ket where I intend to keep it un'.'.l
I clear the whole case up and turn
in my report."
Graham's tone was shocked and
discouraged.
"What more do you want? Why
haven't you arrested him?"
"No good detective would ask
that, Mr. Graham. I want my re
port clean. The coroner will 'tell
us how the old man was killed. I
want to tell how young Blackburn
got into that room. One of the
windows was raised a trifle, but
that's no use. I've figured on the
outside of the wing until I'm dizzy.
There's no way up for a normal
man. An orangoutang would make
hard work of it. His latch key
would have let him into the house,
and it would have been simple
enough for him to find out that the
old man had changed him room. I've
got to find out how he got past
those doors, locked on the inside."
He chuckled again.
"Almost like a sleep-walker's
work." V
Bobby shivered. Was that where
the evidence pointed? Already the
net was too finely woven. The de
tective continued earnestly:
"I'm figuring on some scheme to
make him show me the way. I've
a sort of plan for tonight, but it's
only a chance."
"What?" Graham asked.
"Oh, no sir," Howells laughed.
"You'll learn about that when the
time comes."
"I don't understand you," Gra
ham said. "You're sure of your
man but you keep no close watch
on him. Do you know where he is
now."
"Haven't the slightest idea, Mr.
Graham."
"What's to prevent his running
away."
"I'm offering him every opportu
nity. He wouldn't get far, and I've
a feeling that if he confessed by
running he d break down and give
up the whole thing. You've no idea
how it frets me, Mr. Graham. I ve
got my man practically in the chair,
but from a, professional point of
view it isn't a pretty piece of work
until I find -out how he got in and
out of that room. The thing seems
impossible, and yet here we are,
knowing that he did it. Well, may
be I'll find out tonight. Hello 1"
the door opened. Bobby from
his hiding place could see Paredes
on 'the threshold, yawning and hold
ing a cigarette in his fingers.
Here you are, he said drowsily.
"I've just been in the court. It
made me seek company. That
court's too damp, Mr. Detective."
' His laugh was lackadaisical.
'When the sun leaves it, the court
seems full of unfriendly things
what the ignorant would call ghosts.
I'm Spanish and I know,"
The detective grunted.
"Funny 1" Paredes went on. "Ob
servation doesn't seem to interest
you. I'd rather fancied it might."
He yawned again and put his
cigarette to his lips. Puffing placidly,
he turned and left.
'What do you suppose he means
by that?" the detective said to
Graham.
Without waiting for an answer he
Graham went after him. Bobby
threw back the rug and, arose. For
a moment he was as curious as the
others as to Paredes's intention. He
slipped across the dining room. The
hall was deserted. The front door
stood open. From the court came
Paredes's voice, even, languid, whol
ly without expression:
"Mean to tell me you don't react
to the proximity of unaccountable
forces here, Mr. Howells?"
The detective's laugh was dis
agreeable. "You trying to make a fool of me?
That isn't healthy."
As Bobby hurried across the hall
and up the stairs he heard Paredes
answer: '
"You should speak to Doctor
Groom. He says this place L too
crowded by the unpleasant past "
Bobby climbed out of hearing. He
entered his bedroom and locked the
door. He resented Paredes's words
and attitude which he defined as
studied to draw humour out of a
tragic and desperate situation. He
thought of them in no other way.
His tired mind dismissed them. He
threw himself on the bed, muttering:
"If I run away I'm done for. If
I stay I m done for.
He took a fierce twisted joy in
one phase of the situation.
"If I was there last night," he
thought, "Howells will never find
out how I got into the room, be
c:use, no matter what trap he sets
I can't tell him."
His leaden weariness closed his
eyes. For a few minutes he slept
again.
Once more it was a voice that
awakened him this time a woman's,
raised in a scream. He sprang up,
flung open the door, and stumbled
into the corridor. Katherine stood
there, holding her dressing gown
about her with trembling hands.
The face she turned to Bobby was
white and panic-stricken. She beck
oned, and he followed her to the
main hall. The others came tearing
up the stairsGraham, Paredes, the
detective, and the black and gigan
tic doctor.
In answer to their quick, ques
tions she whispered breathlessly:
"I heard. It was just like jast
night. It came across the court and
stole in at my window."
She shook. She stretched out her
hands in a terrified appeal.
"Somebody something moved in
that room where he he's dead."
"Nonsense," the detective said,
"Both doors are locked, and I have
the keys in my pocket."
Paredes fumbled with a cigarette.
"You're forgetting what I said
about my sensitive apprehension of
strange things "
The detective interrrupted him
loudly, confidently:
"I tell you the room is empty ex
cept for the murdered man unless
someone's broken down a door."
Katherine cried out:
"No. I heard that same stirring.
Somebody moved in there."
The detective turned brusquely
and entered the old corridor.
"We'll see."
The others followed. Katherine
was close to Bobby. He touched
her hand.
"He's right, Katherine. No one's
there. No one , could have been
there. You mustn't give way like
this. I'm depending on you on
your faith."
She pressed his hand, but her as
surance didn't diminish.
The key scraped in the lock. They
crowded through the doorway after
the detective. He struck a match
and lighted the candle. He held it
over the bed. He sprang back with
a sharp cry, unlike his level quality,
his confident conceit. He pointed.
They all approximated his helpless
gesture, his blank amazement. For
on the bed had occurred an abomin
able change.
The body of Silas Blackburn no
longer lay peacefully on its back.
It had been turned on its side, and
remained in a stark and awkward
attitude. For the first time the
back of the head was disclosed. ,
TheMr glances focussed there on
the tiny round hole at the base of
the brain, on the pillow where the
head had rested and which they
followed Paredes from the room,
saw now was stained with an ugly
and irregular splotch of blood.
Bobby saw the candle quiver at
last in the detective's hand. The
man strode to the door leading to
the private hall and examined the
lock.
"Both doors," he said, "were
locked. There was no way in "
He turned to the others, spread
ing his hands in justification. The
candle, which he seemed to have
forgotten, cast gross, moving shad
ows over his face and over the face
of the dead man.
"At least you'll all grant me now
that he was murdered."
They continued to stare at the
body of Silas Blackburn. Cold for
many Hours, it was as if he had
made this atrocious revealing move
ment to assure them that he had
indeed, been murdered; to expose to
their startled eyes the sly and dead
ly method.
(Continued Tomorrow).
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0 U IV ER FOB BILIOUSNESS.
L 0 PILLS. FOR COtfSTfMTTC.
flflZLsf' f off COMPLEXION
Mrs. Thomas G. Winters
Will Address Luncheon
at Fontenelle Hotel
The luncheon to be giveh in honor
of Mrs. Thomas G. Winters, second
vice-president of the General Feder
ation of Women's Clubs and chair
man of the women's committee of
the Minnesota Council of Defense,
in the tea room of the Fontenelle
hotel at 12 o'clock today, is open to
both men and women and is not con
fined to members of the clubs.
"Reservations should be made as
early as possible by telephoning to
Mrs. T. H. Tracy, Webster 750; Mrs.
J. W. Hill, Harney 3863, or Mrs. F.
B. Bryant, Walnut 1850.
Mrs. Winters has been appointed
one of the official speakers on the
League to Enforce Peace, of which
ex-President Taft is president, and
in her various capacities has spoken
in 16 different states this fall, so is
well qualified to speak advisedly on
her subject, "The Newer America."
Following her address there will
be a general discussion in which all
may take part and express their
I
"PHOTO PlAY' OFFERINGS FOR TODAY "
PORTRAYING a role that cuts
to the-quick of life itself, Theda
Bara, the famous screen ctar, is
on the program at the Rialto thea
ter in ''When a Woman Sins." the
drama of a Magdalene. The story of
"When i Woman Sins" is in the life
of Lily Marchard, first a nurse and
later Poppea, dancer and notroious
woman.
A love story, with just enough
action and an ending that will please
any one is the photoplay, "Every
body's Girl," starring Alice Joyce,
that was shown at the Strand thea
ter Sunday and is again on the pro
gram today. "Everybody's Girl" is
a picturization of one of O. Hen
ry's most widely read stories, "Brick
Dust Row," and in presenting it on
the serpen none of its delightful
charm nas been lost.
Montague Love in one of the
strongest stories he has ever made
was shown ' yesterdaw and appears
again todayat the Sun. In "The
Grouch," Mr. Love plays the part of
a man who has been unjustly treat
ed, even to the extent of being sent
to prison by his divorced wife ona
charge of which he is innocent.
When he get's out he is soured on
the world, a sullen and none too
pleasant man. And his regenera
tion is worked out through love of
a girl, of the swamp squatters of
the country where pirates once had
their rendezous. Dorothy Green ap
pears in the role of Flourette, a
girl.
Marta, a litlle seamstress, hp head
turned by her desire for fine clothes
and beautiful surroundings sacrifices
everything to her ambition, includ-
On The Screen Today
Klalto THEDA BARA, In "WHEN A
WOMAN SINS" '
Strand ALICK JOYCE In "EVERT.
BODY'S GIRL."
Mil COR INN E GRIFFITH. In "MIS.1
AMBITION."
Sun MONTAGUE LOVE, In "THt.
GROUCH."
Empress TOM MIX, In "FAME ANl'
FORTUNE."
Lothrop 24th and Lothrop J. WAR
REN KERRIGAN, In "I'RISONEKS
OF THE PINKS."
Grand lfith and Hlnney I). W. GRIF
FITH'S "THE. GREAT LOVE."
I Maryland 13th and Pine PEOGY HY
I.ANP, In "BONNIE ANNIE LAU
RIE." MACK SKXNETT COMEDY.
Ornhrnm South Side S4th and M
NORMA TALMADGE, In "HER
ONLY WAY."
ing love. And then dissatisfied, she
sacrifices everything that ambition
has obtained for her and wins love.
This is the story portrayed by Cor
rine Griffith in "Miss Ambition),' at
the Muse. There are many highly
dramatic situational well carried out
by Miss Griffith and her company,
which includes. Walter ' McGrail.
Betty Blythe. Templar Saxe, Fred
Smith and Harry Kendall. "Miss
Ambition" will show again today.
The Bee announces with pleasure
that Imogene Devore, well known
newspaper writer of Los Angeles
will furnish the motion picture sec
tion of The Bee with newsy items
direct from Los Angeles, as an ex
clusive service to our readers.
Corrine Griffith broke in the
'movies' through being a winner in
the Mardi Gras contests in New
Orleans in which she took a promin
ent part as a girl.
Pershing's Men Will
Have Plum Pudding
for Christmas Dinner
If any soldier in Pershing's army
fails to get a generous serving of
piping hot pudding for dessert at
his Christmas dinner, it will not be
the fault of the Knights of Colum
bus, who, last week, sent overseas
25 more rolling kitchens, which, ad
ed to the big fleet already in K. of
C. service abroad, will make it pos
sible to serve many soldiers with
Jack Horner's favorite dessert,
Christmas.
Truck loads of puddings will be
available and roller kitchen ovens
will be working overtime during
Christnws-New Years week, heating
delicious puddings for the boys.
j
r V.:
Social Democrats and
Peasants in Majority." r
in New Polish Cabiniet
Amsterdam, Nov. 24. The newf
Polish cabinet set up by General
Pilsudski, who will assume the port-1
folio of minister of war, according
to a Warsaw dispatch, consists P"n-,j
cipally of social democrats and mem
bers of the" Peasants' league. An-
dreas MoraczewskI, the socialist!
leader in Galicia and a former mem
ber of the Austrian lower house, is
nrmiier. The foreicn minister is
Leon Wasilewski, formerly on the!
staff of a London newspaper, inree
portfolios are reserved for Prussians
Poland. I
DREAMLAND
ADVENTURE
By DADDY
"The Phantom Army"
view3.
HYMENEAL
Backus Ryan.
Miss Jessie Backus, daughter of
John Backus and Bernard Eyan
were married by Rev. Charles W.
Savldge at his residence Saturday.
They were accompanied by Mr. and
Mrs. Paul .Meckna.. Miss Anna
Havlik, daughter of Peter Havlik,
and Christian Straub were also mar
ried by Rev. Mr. Savidpe Saturday.
Will Burn Church Mortgage.
Tuesday evening Trinity Lutheran
church will observe its third anni
versary with a Thanksgiving and
mortgage burning festival, when
Rev. C. E. Bengtson, Red Oak. Ia.,
will deliver the principal address,
The Ladies' Aid will serve refresh
ments. '
A Bad Cough
if fir1tctL often, leads to serious trouble.
Safeguard jour health, reliere your distrea
and tooth your Irritated throat by taking
(In former adventures Peggy and Billy
Belgium have assisted In recruiting a Pis-eon
army In France. They have also been
f service to Ben and Bill Dalton. Ameri
can soldrler boys. In several or tneir aa-
ventures they have been awed Dy uoiick
lty leaves, which make them Invisible,
large or small and enable them to travel
anywhere at lightning speed.)
CHAPTER I.
Called to France.
HTM going to France to visit our
I Fighting Boys. Do you want
gy
to come along, Princess Peg-
This was a strange message with
which to awaken a little girl who
was sleeping soundly in the middle
of the night. Peggy's eyes flew open,
only to stare into deep blackness, for
her room was pitch dark.
It is I, Billy Belgium, I have my
double seated airplane and Golickity
Leaves to make you tiny. Jump m-
"Down! down! You're right in The
path of the shells.
to vour khaki suit and fur iacket
and away we will go."
ieggy needed no second invita
tion. In another instant she was
hurrying into her clothes.
"I'll be there in a minute," she
called to Billy Belgium, who was
seated in his airplane just outside
her window.
"I have received a wireless air-
gram from Carrie and Homer Pig
eon." exnlained Billv. "Thev sav Ben
and Bill Dalton are surrounded by
Germans and need our help to save
them."
The exritinc news caused Peeev
to hustle all the faster, and soon she
was at the wtndow ready to go. She
could only faintly see Billy, it was
dark. He pressed a pair of Golickity
leaves into her hand, and she chewed
upon them, at the same time repeat
ing the charm, that went with them:
' Golickity slow, Golickity last,
Oh when it comes fall, why sum
mer is past."
The effect was that she was made
so small that she easil, fitted into the
toy airplane to whicn Uilly iieigium
guided her.
"Isn't this a lovely new machine,"
she said as she seated herself.
"I call it speeder," answered Billy
proudly. Then he gave directions to
it. "France, Speeder," he said, just
as calmly as a banker would say to
his chaffeur "home James."'
The airplane rose, there was a be
wildering rush, and a blinding glare
of light, as they sped out of the
night and across the ocean to meet
the Hnwnino- dav. Peepv closed her
u O J - l . ' r
eyes involuntarily. When she open
ed them a second later it was to find
the sun brightly shining and the air
plane sailing slowly among fleecy
clouds. A heavy pounding roar was"
coming loudly from far beneath.
"France!" shouted Billy Belgium,
Dointinz downward. "We are right
over a big battle." .
Peegv looked over the edge ot the
airplane. Below the clouds was a
beautiful land bathed in the rosy
glow of early morning. At .least the
land seemed beautiful at first glance,
ut as Ppccv's eves became accus
tomed to the distance, she saw that
it was also a and of destruction.
with ruined villages and wrecked
buildings in every direction. As she
looked the earth seemed splotched
with sudden bursts ot tlame and
smoke.
AnH a; earb nf these bursts came.
something that had stood on the
place where it had stood would
abruptly vanish, a tree, a house, a
barn, a church. With a quick thrill,
Feggy realized that she was seeing
the work of the big guns.
"Whir-r-r-!" something ripped
past them. "Sque-ee-ee!" whistled
something in the opposite direction.
And then there was a regular ranid
fire of "Whir-r-r-r's and "Squee-ee-s
all about them.
"Hnvvn. down! Get out of this!
You're right in the path of the shells
cried voices, as two feathered bodies
plumped down on the airplane. The
ailteH weicrlif tinned the nose of the
machine to.vard the earth and it
dove swiftly toward forest covered
hill-, far below.
A thev darted out of the Stream
of projectiles. Peggy and Billy turn-j
ea to greet men pdsacuKiis.
were not in the least surprised to
find them Carrie and Homer Pigeon
but they were surprised to see how
thin and exhausted they were, iney
were surprised, too at the tremen
dous excitement with which the
Birds were quivering.
"Fast! Fast!" cried Homer Pig
eon, "the lives of Ben and Bill Dal
ton depend upon it.
(Tomorrow will be told what Peggy and
Billy find In the forest.)
Mexican Bars Down.
El Paso, Tex., Nov. 24. Suspen
sion of the wartime regulations and
restrictions on travel across the bor
der to and from Mexico was an
nounced today by F. W. Berkshire,
supervisor for the immigration ser
vice in this district. The new ruling
will permit tourists and others to
come across the line on business or
pleasure.
Generals and Giant Cannon Far
Away Win Victory by Telephone
Herewith is presented the sec
ond article , in a series specially
written for this newspaper by
David Wark Griffith, the author
and moving picture director, who
has so recently returned from, the
actual fighting front in France
and Belgium. Mr. Griffith was
afforded opportunities to witness
the allied troops in action such as
no other civilian has been granted.
Following is a -recital of some of
his personal experiences and ob
servations. "Hearts of the World"
is being shown at the Brandeis
theater twice daily.
By DAVID WARK GRIFFITH,
(Who staered his latest master-
piece, "Hearts of the World," on
the battlefields of France).
Sneaking generally, in a modern
battle, fhe i.earer you go the less
you see.
Men who saw Gettysburg and
Wlterloo were thrilled with the
spectacle of cavalry thundering
across the line of fire at a full
gallop; of .the chareine infantry
mowed down by shell fire on the
open plain, and generals on foam
covered horses, waving " their
swords and rallying their troops.
Battle flags were captured and re
cantured. There is no such thrill in a
modern battle as the advance of
the Old Guard at Waterloo or any
thing like Pickett's charge at
Gettysburg.
From the front line trenches in
a modern battle you look out
Across an open field of desolation.
There" is no enemy in sight noth
ing but ragged tangles of barbe(J
wire, shell holes, tumbled and torn
"round with an occasional pitiful
heap of . storm-stained clothing,
which shows where some poor fel
low lies unburied ' in No Man's
Land.
A modern battle is fought with
a fearful anonymity.
The infantry seldom see whom
they are shooting at.
the artillerymen never see their
targets. They sight the guns by
mathematics at the behest of air
men, who give signals as they go
weaving figure eights through the
air.
The general on the foaming
charger is replaced by the crisp,
dry sputter of the wireless or by
the desk telephone.
Most of the generals do not ride
horseback at all. When they are
fighting a battle, they sit in an of
fice with an oil cloth map upon
which two draftsmen are at work
with water color paints" laying in
the changing positions of the
troops.
4
D.M GRIFFITH
There is a new and terrible mys-'
tery to'it Shells come from uo-
where and snuff out your life. "
The actual front line trenches
are less interesting, although more
dangerous than the portions of the
line, four or five miles back.
As you go back from the front"
line trenches, especially during a
battle, the scene becomes more ac
tive. '
You are then with the guns..
The work of these guns is a ter-;
rific spectacle. I was permitted to,
use one of the batteries as a set
ting for one of the scenes in
"Hearts of the World."
There have been pictures whose
promoters boasted that the settings
had cost a million dollars. The set
tings for this picture would , be
cheap at a billion. 1 4 ,
In the artillery attack that I
spoke of we saw thirty-six guns
standing wheel to wheel roaring
out shrapnel and explosive shells.
Back by the guns you get into
the real sphere of interesting ac
tion. Ambulances are tearing along
the highways filled with wounded
men often screaming, in their ag
ony. Prisoners are being marched
by to the rear. Ammunition
wagons and ammunition mules are
hurrying to the front.
I met a young professional man
who had left an office in London
to become a surgeon in the army.
He told me he hadn't had so much
time in years for outdoor, recre
ation. Like the troops, he had oc
casional periods of intensive work;
then came periods of sport and liv
ing in conditions by no means un
pleasant, with plenty of good food,
good clothing and pleasant com
panionship. - ;r
The families of our boys now in
France can console themselves with
the thought that, on the whole, it
was a pretty good experience for
their boy.
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