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Show THE SALT LAKE JRIByNE, SUNDAY MORNING, MAY Not Forgetting 30, 1926. turn mn.i:ii By FANNIE HURST WORLDS inGIIEST PAID Author of SIIORT I STORY WRITER Copyrlrt. ISt. ty tho McClure Newspaper Syndicate. nrHE night that Seumus Shinn ti elected mayor of Springfield, mott eeUar to attie. All tho naturally, waa a blare of lighted window from houae fairly ahooted crary old ell ' and tower of th meandering frame ith illumination. Indoor, three or the marjied Shinn girl, ten o ra dozen grandchildren, non and podaughteraln law, eouaina, friend, neighbor, litical allie, reporter and old lady Shinn heraelf and out jn black taffeta and luce capurr-ie- jn anatched of room, unhooked jangling telephonea, room table, quick sandwlfhea from off the dining ahook hand with on another, tuned on the radio for latest reports, ripped open telegram, shouted from room to room. It had been a long, valiant fight. Two of th Shinn girls, leaving their children with their tours grandmother, hid made whirlwind speaking of the town for their brother. The etrongeat political machine in ten years, aided and abetted Of them, by funda from the eofera of every Shinn had been built up In Seumua behalr. had a clean city, A clean adininiatration: .been the slogan of the whirlwind campaign. The town of Springfield rang with th name of Seumua Shinn. A special crew of men worked connecting the Shinn homestead with political by private wire, t headquarters Roman candle shot into the night.' street the down Motor cam sped up and sinking horn, and filled with houtmg, tinging campaigner Beunius had gone into ofties on a landslide. - The Shinn embraced on another hand and to makeeath beginnings that are and wrrung one another held their ehildten to the telephone making this night possible to Uncle to shout congratulation Mother, therss a bunch Seumua at th other end. of telegrams it from the poatof-ficcrowd and look, her .one The Shinns, dating back to th dav when old Seumua Shinn and hla- from the CSvie glub eay, maybe Spring- this state isnt ringing tonight with wife, Balinde, had com to red kerthe name of Shinn. field with their trunk in a toola chief, and their eole A motor car streamed paat the to risen had brick brace, bouse to the battering of tinpans. town. of the office th first A reported dashed np in a Ford No wonder Balinde 8hinn, In her to beg a baby picture of Seumus thst lac black the cap decent black with the old lady with her trembling, in hsd to unearth quivering on her white head and effectual fingers her frail band palsied under their from a secret old box that smelled whit frilling, could only acrew her of lavender, whli two of her young old mouth into a twist and try to danghters and a and a hold back the tear. deperately ager young reporter "For heaven 'a sakea, Jla, cried stood by and bit their lips with ImFile, who lived at home with her patience. four buxom children and her handIt was a curious little old photosome husband who operated three ga, square-facegraph of a heaven's for in the town, rage youngster seated on a fringed pillow akee, whats the big idea trying to and about to pucker up to cry. make a funeral of it! If that isnt Sv, that s a wow! My papex-l- l like Mai Leave it to her to wet spread blanket even a night like this. Tour give that a "That a where he looks most like eons mayor, Ha. Explain th his father. The old gentleman, after tear! hard davi wort, was never too "Tour father, aaid Mrs. Shinn, atired to f' "how he would have enjoyed this In. Out. Up. Down. . No time alghtl to listen. No time to pause. "Now, Ha, 1? that Isn't the limit, A hamper of roses arrived from to like a this spoil night trying the florist association and crowded "Im not, Elle; yon wers too up the hallway with a thick, hot young when he died to know or fragrance. Somebody took a flashear all th children were I re- light photograph of the houae from member the night little Seumus was the lawn and a ahower of gaudy born he walked five mile and got lightning played oi'er th darkness. chilblains that lasted him through The children, noisy, exeited, overlife to get me a midwife. Spring-fiel- strained by nnllahaioo became un warn t then what it is now governable, sliding down bannisters. your poor father- - he struggled with Dickering, bawling, trailing at the life soul snd hie ins end his blood knees of their elders. d e wide-eyed- " three-colum- - woman and erony of old woman eame over with eooklea a great fragrant hamper of them ana th children began to delve and ahout and even the older one to bit into the goodies with of ecstasy all due mock gesture to the The over excitement. "It a a grand occaaion for you, fried Mrs. Finn of the Balinde, cookies, snd kissed her old Cronv snd wiped swsy th tears ami spread her skirt sad seated herself in a rocker. the "Maggie you remember night little Seumus was born if he could have livid to see this night me old man hi father Ahhh-h- , s I live it's a eske made to look like Seumua thevve sent up from the confectioners' association eay, now, if that aint a sight to remember look at the icing for shirt front, will yqp, snd the . rsisine for eyea! So it waa. A cake in the image of the mayor of Springfield. The More children crowded arouud. 'A jihotog-raphe- r telephone jangled. leveled a camera at th confection. And then, nothing would do but that the mother of the mayor, old lady Shinn, pose for a photograph. It blinded her eyes, the flash of the explosion, ami made them tear. The next thing that rent thia frenzied night waa th incrediole bedlam of the townspeople bearing home their hero. On their shoulder. Outside the torches flared and the th A neighor over-strai- just-arrive- tin herns brayed. For a far down the old street ae the eye and th ear could reach came noise and color. The return home of the hero. Here conies the mayor. How the daughters and the grandchildren and the and the neighbor! and the friends began to seurrv. Upstairs. Downstairs. This window and that, for better view! Look! I can see him. Oh, boy ripp ripp here's our mayor oh, lala hurrah, hurrah, who are we! We love the mayor and the mayor loves we' "Lookiet Mother. Come, here's window for you. a chair in the Mother Ma! "Where 'e M! lant that just like her! Off somewhere making a funeral of itl Isnt thst ju$t like her! Mother come This is where th old woman was Off in a room in the wing of the bouse thnt was originally the cottage before the family began to trow and they bad to build on. ell bv ell. In n little room, dank and chill now from disuae. A dingv room of leak stained roof, enormous a with brown bedstead coverlet brought from s d Dublin. A waihstand with an cut- - vouhg woman snd th soffemil of which read, IS. broidered back-dro- - and two horrific X The other waa of a square-faceBonnie Lassie, cellar that bit crayon portrait that hung between young man in hitallneck. th window, cruelly up Into On waa of Balinde, when (he waa It waa before thia portrait that fair and had the aoft bosom of a the old woman huddled as the p 'Wars are built upon secrecy and lies, and the sooner tve American women grasp that fact the better. Demand that the documents relating to the war be made : We can understand them jm--t as well as our diplomats can. : public. y- peace-lovin- a u ' e A!?'"! e -- -- ot-e- Afterward, thone few who earnd if tha truth. ho think about tho war had their fil hastily-constructe- ?' pt , u t And afterward, no on! remember, questions, ao ona hold them Th te their promisee. inetant a war is over all begin to do our beat to wip the memory of it entirely away. Magazmee won't print war atoriee, dianer table art ai K of the tulject, olire drab enat that cost a gay, eaeual 80 eaa he bought In any slopshop for 88. Isno on - taxes went np in tb south, after the eiril war, taze went even higher in the victorious north! I'id yon ever ae n photograph of Belgian flu) tree with their hands eut off, von d.dnt, in 1914! No, of four sad neither did anvone eiee. I of fered a tukativ. rzritel man IIOK) for each a photograph in that year, but he sever eiatmed it. g praised and glorified. The poor widow could not, aad nor bey got at far as a Now Jersey camp, and died there of tbq fin. But that isnt th point, the point that having takon th pool boy, with th avowed plan of risking hi life, with th nnderatanding that he might, of court, lose hi life, that he would be shot if he deserted bit own eountry, and ahot if he faced say other, having done all thia quite aimply aad ealmly, and placed him officer delightunder newly-mading in authority, and not at all concerned with hi welfare Then ths authorities were concerned with th poor boy, bat turned their august sttenffoa, snd spent months ia expensive debate abont war income tax about how much they dared take away from the snillioaairss, th plutoctgu, th real ruler of th world! awav from hi On boy, take life, hi all, kia health, hi pro pact it a future wkea he ahould hv f hi own end no wife and bov hack talk about ii either, nnleae he wasted to go to jail! On boy taken Sway from th mother wh loved him a dearly, (the had noth tug ela that waa voung snd hopeful and loving, in all her werld. Other bon adroitly engineered into taf deportment position, tad resell tlr given military title! snd ecoraiiona And the queetloa delicately raised tf just how mneh money the government dared ask from it multi millionaire. who were piling up fortunes while th bloodshed "raged t Do we want a more startling example than that to prnv to n that whin we let thaa fool ns, and lie to ns, aad hep ns in th dark, aad frightea ns into wart, w ar ail mnrderers together! Yon women elubt, all over Asms led, why aot make thia week, in wMrk spring smilea all over onr week of dub prowasted gravea. about wr! gram TX Sat rould w greater aerrlr really do pose aad democracy t much rn-pl- e ..... - I have seen a and only turning veteran, wearied but children with their hand- eut off are kindly there children in th Congo.- But that firmly refused employment; nothing are new boys, strong and perfect, for was dona in peace, and has to do with th subject, of course the world of money to hiro now! of the illustration At-. and rule a it perfect Money rulot wars, I am everything, and a long ai w coun- real ruling element in war,who retenance wars, we are selling the bod- going to ask thoa of you member 1917, and th entrance of ies and th lives of our children. country into You don't quite believe itl Well, our own to consider think then. Thiiw about it. Were the European conflict, happened In our block. We you every really afraid that our late widow with enemy, that th nations who made had an enonnoualT rich and very our toy and wrote Our songs, nd two aona, in eur block, Th latter gay us our Christmas , taint, wert poor woman, with ahop. a few kept snd rape waa not strong: really going to overrun'-uaind burn and pillage Chicago and boardere, aad lived for her aon he New York and Salt Lake City! Did was her world. When conscription came, th rich you ever realize that prosperity in didn't change widow bought immunity for her two Alsace and Lorrain hands ix 1870, add that although bays, and they went to Washington dollar a year" men, aad were long-haire- ... -and democracy are victories of the spirit they have nothing to do with and hate. What- greater service could we really do peace and democracy : : : : help the new generation to see war as it really isl nniniinnimnimmiag iniitiinigg to see it of gooda from th country tjiat had photograph of little to help th new generation Peace murder than to BY KATHLEEN NORRIS COMEHOW the curiously miscalled "Civil-Wa- r still acems the moat of ,th picturesque of our wars, and on Decoration day I always-thinagitated wives and mothers of th old south, in hoop skirts and riugleta, soldier bidding tearful farewells to in skirted blouse and baggy trousers Blue or gray, it didnt matter the, two patriotic youngster who were presently to be my grandfather wore both. Their aworda and epaulette have now sealed a permanent peace, above our dining room mantel.' Picturesque now, just as Washingtons ruffles and and the teem picturesque, thought of King Georges soldiery, "in their acarlet regimental ranging through New Enrather than a sickengland woods, i a stirring ing memory. But the Spanish war, and the day Of Dewey and the Maine do not form so charming a recollection. There were ugly phases to that war, even to a girl eye. There wae talk of intestinal frT-r-r poisoning from bad canned meat, and unnecessary detail from exposure and 'neglect, and there were sickly, kollowed-eheekelooking invalid limping and staggering frightened home through San Francisco, in tbs place of the aplendid, eager boyi who had marched away. Ones heart ached vaguely over that war. Why waa our great and glorious martial under of and to beat th the music, of country, splendid the banners, whv waa our country sacrificing these delightful Bobbie and i Jack and Billie anyway, turning our into nd dancing partners bhpd 7 , sickly and embittered old men before . -their' timet What waa it all about! Howard hatred and waste and a thirst The . We never knew, of court. tnythi-Somwomen of a country never do know, for revenge. Storieo-pur- ely men tell them one thing, were and handed threats, some another, and they can jwavs systems The troop her were f o out broadcast. query: Gerbabies off hands the rar the cutting you want the Spanish man or the Chinese or th Mar--( troops there' had nailed a man alive If tiana pouring in here, outraging to a door! And all the while the band played vour girls, and burning your chiland the blew in the dren and your home before your furiously, flags sunshine, and th glorious boy in eyes t "Of course, one falter a horrified their olive drab, with their bodies out of college, and their brains "Nor to thia, and turn dutifully just for Kill in the nursery," caught one in do fhe rolling of bandage Ton embraces, and laughed: young limbs at yet untouched manly want me to be a alaekerV It's by. blood and gangrene' and the dont nd for democracy sons dead ia their hundred. careful preparation of anaestaetica for America it - for splendid bodiea that a yet do it1 to protect you' snd th kid 'a the rtute of pee snd brotherhood for valor honor glory it and democracy still unattaiaed, still rot know the twisting agomea that it for lasting peace' Just thia once unattainable by bloodshed aad ha.e. await them. and then peace as it hae always been, and always AU war are Vmilt upon- - secrecy just this last ailtime over world th will be! and lie, and the sooner we Ameri- everywhere The great wear cost 8.000,000 live, can women grasp that fact, the bet- forevermore!" remembering oa the field aad in the camp. There ter for the children who come after it. One heart aiekenj. the way we dram- are twice that many maimed aad n. No war could ever be rf th atizedRemembering th nonsense we talked auffering victual still liviag Aad simple facts that rauae it were mad about it,it,remembering the glorv and hew many more are there that will and the men and Women who beauty w tried 'to fling about the never be counted women who died muat fight it given a voir. cruel, mercenarv, afcupid wjckedneaa of sorrow and thock, European ehil Since the greatest of all Wars, of dren who died like little wolves since the hideous vear between few who earod for food, old the Afterward, the and November, 1918, It to think about it had their fill of ranging who praine died of Iheer despair person rappens that I have lived m aeverai the truth; w had our fill of mnddy, at aeeing all their world awept awav foreign errantries, in both hemlf icr trenches, with th young bodii in few bloody months of horror! And if anything could be of dlora epberes. Detnocrwcv! But peace Peace! ia them, our fill of rotting wit! in th connection great amusing camps, wbn the and democracy are victories of th war, it wouid be funny t note thia f.u eaiie, and tha flatcar piled wit! spirit thev have nothiag to do coun-tr- r ene truth; that every eoffina moved paat our door day af with murder and hate' At well tTr was' different rea- ter day after day. thinks there to biuid a houee by aetting F.re to St, ' Our sons, who had never hated as son for the great war of 1914 191. try to create world peace bv Aad the reason for thia extraor- anybody, who had been reprimanded worl! war. Calculating, mercenary, their dinary dn ergenre of opinion Is, of for very friendship with tbnee eupid men make war, pouring young that th citizen of every other simr-l- boy aero the barri fieh and blood into th era!, to dir cadre, whom not" even th machmerv hold Hie balance of financial internuntrv aetuallv were given hate had made them est. to adjust or iffe-- t or corner the frert reason were given the rea of the enemy; oar great money market of th world. Sue that would incline ttrn most willing to rail ' - t k il (Copyright, 1926, by the McClure Newspaper Syndicate.) THE FAITH THE BEST WAY TO tj born, hadjwalked five mile through the snow for a midwife. Seumus Shinn, out of whose years of labor taip minting: Eilltllllll FT parade came banging up and sacrifice had been begot a gTeat mayor man. The mayor of 6pnngfiela. the atreet. The old woman squatted before Th portrait of Seumua Shinn, who the night that th new mayor was hi portrait not forgetting. as it really ii, and a it always it, the triumph of greed and atupidity, th sacrifice of youth and of real peace! Begin your program with a slme debater The Causes of the You for example. Wsr, will be stupefied with surprise when the four or six or eight women you- - tsk to prepare for this discussion begin to talk. Every eeperate one will have a distinct and different iden of the whole thing it wae actually possible for ne to lay a world m ruins, and yet to have but a hazy and indistinct idea of what it was all about! Or, if you ars afraid of debate, get someone to contrast th historical inachievements of war with th of peace. finitely greater triumph Th dominant tribes in our great eitiea and all the cities of the world, today, the race that rule more than half our industriea, didnt come with fine snd slaughter, ' No, It crept in peacefully and humbly, through thes and basesteerage, with meat shops. t Or, again, consider these twy pointi, and perhaps havs the club make a motion regarding them. First, do not underestimate our power, W seven million club women of America, if w decided to try a boycott, What next time, instead of a war. if w had the courege to say tpat we would not bur one cents werth rat shoe-string- wronged our Own! Just suggest it, If you want to see all th merchants and financiers of your town turn raving patriot back to citizens agaib, if yon want to see how they cringe, the Instant you begin this bloodless way of warring on war. And second, we may at least demand that the documents relating to the war be made public. No more intimation and hint about tlueati aifd danger' that they do' not W can hear anyreveal. dare thing, w can understand it just as well as onr diplomats ran. We, who bear them their soldiers, have the right to know whether we are really fighting for democracy, or really fighting for dollars. In' Gods name, I say in all reverence, and in memory of those ulent boys, whoa laughter, whose hammering. eager feet vanished from our homes so many years ago, let u4 make Memorial day. really a day of memories, and of high resolves, and of prayer. And when we put the flags and ths roses on their green mound todey, let ns promise our soldier martyr : For your sake, ether beva ahall itay witn their mother. For your sake, we will somehow find our way pekce-lovin- to, real g peace.- (Copyriiyht, 1925, hr th vndieate, Inc.) Its good youll like that tangy wintergreeTi! Bell |