Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1919-09-14 | Page 24 | Horrors Found in Old Tower

HORRORS FOUND IN OLD TOWER fRed f- f Red Cross Girl S Shudders hudders at Medieval l Idle ral Hunger Vl Well Wellin ell ellin in Bohemian Ca Capital Pital With the tite C cho cho Commit Commit- lon Ion American Red Cro Prague Czecho Sept 1 I well b bv by mall With vi n h oho stone slone UJ there is in a tower within tho the tower a circular cell within the cell n a pit within the pit JIll a smaller pit within that only horror and unfathomable s. s One Red Cross worker the full rull effect of or it all She had hall gone sono Into Pra Prague ue the capital of or Bohemia ahead of oC the tho Slovak Czecho commission of oC the tho American Red nerl Cross and wanting to know the truth about food conditions conditions conditions condi condi- there had lived U with a private family famil instead of ot at a hotel Tho The first days day's menu wa was this MorninG one cup clear tea no milk one slice broad brond no butter noon ono one plate plato good soup five lve small pancakes pancakes' night one ono slice dr dry war bread two cg eggs s. s There Thero were other days of ot about the tho same sarno sort Bort some somo fatter some leaner And nd t then one ono unseasonably cold rainy da day kind acquaintances voluntA volun- volun f t tA c o r T. t c d 1 t r. h V- V t h V. n si ol t. t of the thC I c t o so ow w her o 11 0 b I Gates in the wall with their marvelous marclous marvelous mar mar- clous bronze coats of ot arms s. open in from that thal stone stono passa passageway c aY known kno as the Street o of Gold God that runs from irom to toward toward to- to Prague's medieval castle down ward the elt city Itself The tower is the D named after Its most mORt famous prisoner the I Icell Icell cell 1 is I the place where tho the condemned condemned con con- chained maybe for or their natural lives 11 maybe mabe for or a brief brier span to be terminated with torture the I pit was a place where an occasional I victim was pushed down to die of or hunger hung nn and tho the smaller pit alt at Us Its bottom was for tho the victim to toss his predecessors predecessor's bones hones into l If ho he dl did not nol like their close company compan Tho Red Cross worker stood it all till the they lowered a n candle into the I hunger well well so AO th that t she aho might got tho the full tull benefit of or Its gruesomeness Then she turned an and ran ron to tho the tIe window inthe in In tho the brick wall Hunger Hunger Hun HUn- gC ger and tho the hunger well together other were too realistic When sho she got 1 I she straightened straightened straight straight- ened out O a IL hit bit hlf Thank heaven it was wasl all aH Just lust a a. dead ant and gone Bono thin thing from Crom the tho middle a ages JC I sho she said and I nothing havo-nothing o to do with it It Then It suddenly dawned on her that tho affair was not altogether of or tho the middle n ages es and that she sho had hall a lot to do with It Austria h ha hul it l for tor 00 years walled up Bohemia and tho other lands that now make up the Slovak Czecho re republic republic re- re public within tho the iron ring of or her tyranny tyranny tyr tyr- anny anny inn during tho the war Austria had hall tried to make mak of tho the land a hunger well by taking its HJ supplies for tor her her- sc self r And now It It was t t t lC tha le business I of oC America to hol help holf by going In and rendering its services as a symbol of the fact tact that hunger and hunger wells are arc to vanish forever before a unity of ot world t c effort C rt for tor world good