Salt Lake Telegram | 1928-03-24 | Page 12 | The Call to War

The Call to toWar War f ft I f t T THAT THAi I T rather out of date date b but t gorgeous IJo Iio k Bill Nyes Nye's Comic History of the States there was a v ry catchy re- re ark about the battle of Bennington After C e battle Nye said th the Continentals counted reir prisoners and found that they had and a Hessian This was in line with what we were in iii the old s school hool histories Ve We were ven to understand that King Georges George's red- red ats were a a collection of s scum but the Asians the the hired German mercenaries who tight for him were him were painted as brutes hew bev bew be- be w v even that level a Now however a New York theatre has with a play wl which i li presents the Hes- Hes ins uis Ins in a sympathetic manner It gives a of the way they themselves felt bout ing ling across the sea t to fight another mansir mansur mans man's ir ur It brings home the f fact c that of all the figures of the Re Revolution luti n none norie was as ore pitiable than the Hessi Hessian n. n r These Thes mercenaries naturally knew noth- noth of what it was all air I about bout Th lh petty in inces es who ruled them had Contracted with s British to furnish troops f and their re- re sergeants dou doubtless I painted glowing tures lures of campaigning campaigning in bountiful lands yond the ocean stirring longings for travel d adventure in Jn the breasts of peasants' peasants ns as and city loafers who had never been ten les front from their birthplaces Sp they came came to America and fought with dit A great many of them were shot to and a great many more mor morel probably ht nt back to Hess Hesse to nurse slump lump legs orter or Her fter ter about sightless for the rest of their es And at this distance e w we cant can't help ling rather s sorry try for them 1 4 Yet after all the Hessian of l' l 1776 is not atly different from the s r of lie fhe th century in any ay nation The men of join join they build armies live at p peace ce in busy I ies or on sleepy until one one day I I t out their anticipating it bugles aie are blown d flags are waved Skillful peals to all that is all that is proud t is fine in th m and presently th they y marching g or or sailing off to fight with wHIt othern other n gathered men nien distant distant fields whose m in s they never heard before aIn a- a In other words v we if stand today for all r scientific and cultural advances precisely ler w we stood a century and arid a half ago ago I far as international relations go We Ve settle settler r differences exactly as t they ey settled theirs e p e have not been able ble to fi find di better a-better way icy did it in the mo mot t way wasteful vay p possible d so so do we I Ir hr the next few d decades decades' c de des humanity f faces I higher h ther or more mor important task than the k k of ding ng a better e t solution T 4 a S