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Show THE SALINA SUN. S A LINA. UTAH - cr--- Jff SCORES PACIFICISM jjj KEEN denunciation of pa- clfisni was the subject of Rear Admiral William S. Sims message to the American Legion national convention held In St Paul recently, and said In part : "We deceive ourselves if we think that peace Is assured for the Immediate future. We must get the public to realize that If we attempt to muddle through another war ts we have past contests the necessary loss of You men life will be terrific. of the Legion have experienced the horrors of modern war. You know too well the many sacrl- flees of valuable lives on land and sea that were the direct re- suits of our unpreparedness for the great war. You know that owing to a lack of efficient or-ganlzatlon we spent thousands of millions for artillery and ulr- planes built too late to be of service, that due to lack of train- ing we were In the war a year before we fired a shot on the You may not western front. know that our fighting forces have been subjected to the same conditions and been obliged to make the same sacrifices In all our wars. What Theodore Roose- velt called the hurrah of his- tories of your school days have not told our people the truth about our Invariable unprepared- ness and Its disastrous results. " jjj Copy for This Department Supplied by the American Legion Newt Service.) jjj a. 11 - The Old, Tender Mocking Voice $ A jjj -i jjj $ jjj $ $ $ Faina Tale By MARGARET WiDDEMER C (, Pace Doubleday, ft Co.) TM NOT sure I wanted to come back," said HOUSEWORK HOT DRUDGERY Daddies Euenmcr Ar j -- Kittys voice the old half laughing, voice, wholly casual. He turned. It was really Kitty, JOHNSON HONORED lying back In her chair, with one white-clad- , foot on the fender In the BY FIVE NATIONS old luxurious way. The firelight glittered on her hair and made rosy shadjjj Bolshevik battles, a czar of all the ows on her flowered govv n. And yet Russias murdered with Ills family In four years of absence and silence lay a lonely provincial town, the historic jjj jjj between this moment and their last retreat of Czechoslovak forces from jjj western Russia to the Pacific, clah jjj parting. He cried out, "Kitty after clash for five months with GerKitty, darjjj man and Austrian war prisoners and jjj ling! Russian Reds, cold, hunger, the slow "Really I, Cliff, said the old, tensk jk withdrawal of allied troops with all I jj, der, mocking voice. .She smiled over at him. the hardships of panic, food shortage, Jjj "But you always knew our love was and broken down transportation all elernul. That I would never belong of these, woven together Into the story to anyone but you. . . of Col. B. O. Johnson, Legionnaire, He reached out his hands to her, make of it a veritable Arabian Nights tale. little and slim and rosy In the big Colonel Johnson, now resident at jjj chair they had always called hers. jjj St. Paul, Minn., but formerly of Livshe said, lifting her No, dear, Jjj jjj ingston, Mont., was appointed chairhand, the bracelet he had given her man of the transportation committee a little chilled.. He wanted to touch Jl. jfc for the national convention of the 3c her and hold her, now she was here jjj American Legion. lie Is a vice presiagain and his. But she had always dent of the Northern Pacific railroad. jjj been like this elusive. He inus be In the fall of 1917 Colonel Johnson putlent. He would reach for the little went to Siberia as a member of a railhands, the little body, when she was way engineers outfit to move military jjj jjj talking Intently and off guard. And supplies from Vladivostok on the Pashe would laugh and yield caressingly ,r in the old cific to the Russian front, rinding way. that the front was collapsing, he was She leaned to him again, talking in sent with a few other American enthat quick, earnest way he had been WAR AND PEACE TO gineers to leain conditions. After waiting for. It always came, slipped miles across north Asia, they BE BIG QUESTIONS In between her laughter. learned that Russia was out of It and "Cliff, did you dream about me Problems of International wnr and helped to move 50,000 Czechoslovaks, lately? oh, Cliff, do you remember, Serbs and Rumanians across Siberia permanent world peace will come In when wed only been engaged a week, to Vladivostok. For five months they for much attention at the hands of how one I dreamed that we were battled with 000,0(H1 enemy prisoners the American Legion during 1925, as In a woodnight together, talking and of war, aided by the Reds. The prisa result of the mandates laid down by and we promised In the dream oners were returned to camps, the the national convention held at St. that we would always come to each Trans-Siberiatailroad was controlled Paul. when we needed each other other and a way opened Into Austria. This does not mean, It was pointed nnd that night youd dreamed It, too? Colonel Johnson was with the out at national headquarters, that the "Yes, I remember, he said, thrilled. Czechs as they surrounded EkaterinLegion will diminish Its activity In "We did that five times. And we alburg, while Czar Nicholas and his other lines which have engaged Its ways found out that we had had the attention constantly since Its creation. same family were prisoners there. He Indream. terviewed many Russians who were In National Commander James A. Drain "But hasnt it come to you since the city when the Imperial family was has announced that the chief quesShe looked at him wistfully. murdered. He got at first hand a story tions which will occupy the Legion lately? "Because twice lately it has come of the assassination, which appeared reduring the coming year will be in the press. He Is one of a few habilitation of the disabled veterans to me. He stared at her, Americans who have stood In the very of the war, care of the orphans of Such dreams had been very far from room where the last of the Romanoffs, those men who paid the supreme sacwho ruled Russia for 300 years, met rifice In battle or who have died since him since Kittys departure. He had fought all dealings with the unknown, his fate. the end of the conflict, and the manis those half-gay- , affairs After the armistice In 1918, Colonel fold activities of the Americanism with borderlands the that Kitty had Johnson, with American, British, Japcommission. s anese and Chinese engineers, was Questions of war and peace have led him into. A man drops such tilings as he gets older. And yet how did placed In charge of the Trans-Siberiamerely been advanced by the action of railroad to transport supplies to Adthe convention to the rank of lending she know? It was true. Twice lately with miral Kolchak In his buttle against activities of the Legion. Commander he had walked in a dream-wooKitty, whom he had tried to forget. Drain was directed by the convention And now he did not need to forget to appoint a world pence committee of ten members. This committee Is her now she was here, and his for always ! to consult with other organizations, Twice, lately, to me, too, Kitty, he for consider their peace, study plans carefully the world situation as It is said awed. "Then we were right. She laughed out, as a child does, for and then report to the convention at Omaha In 1925 the most practical plan sheer happinnss. "Yes, we were right. Our love was for the Legion to work for peace forever . . . but we always knew among the nations. it was. By mandate of the convention, one We Yes, he echoed her gravely. of the major activities of the organialways knew it was. Aid yet . . . zation for 1925 will be work towards Theres no yet theres only the passage of the universal service act which would give the government always ! And after a time she suddenly rose. power to call men, money and mateI must go now for a little while, rials Into Its service. In case of war, she said, smilingi She flushed a little on equnl terms. With the favorable reception which the policy has met as she said it. Her crisp summer and with its endorsement by the great frock, thin, white, with its printed political parties. It Is expected that pink roses, nearly brushed him, and her eyes looked thoughtfully into his. the bill now pending In congress will be passed In the very near future. I wonder why I thought you needed The Legion will also endeavor to get me so dreadfully. I always do I always will! congress to take Immediate measures Yes that way I, too. an to to But Just the up navy bring equality Col. B. 0. Johnson. with the British In the raQo of now the particular urgent thing. Dont you know? You always knew the Bolshevik government. Kolchak the Washington naval disarmament before. conference, and also to place the batswept on to within 200 miles of Moscow. Then the break came. After a tle fleet on an equnl footing with the He shook Ids head. That was a British In gun range and power. decisive defeat on the Volga, Kotrivial thing compared to the fact Further Improvements In the United that, for ever so little a while, he was lchaks forces were routed. A great evacuation movement from States veterans bureau are demandnot to see her. ed. The planning service and the cenEuropenn Russia set lo, as the But It won't be a moment now or It will only seem like a moment pushed on Into western and tral office board of appeals are strongcentral Siberia. .Colonel Johnson and ly criticized. Dismissal of inefficient before we are together for always. a few American and British engineers personnel Is asked. Our loves forever, you know, dear! between Oursk and the front had Offices of the national children's I wonder what It was you needed me welfare committee are to be estabcharge of transportation of the reso for treating army. In September, 1919, lished at national headquarters. A Kitty! He flung out his nrms to memthey passed 45 trains eastward per Joint committee of twenty-seveher, but she was gone, with a eep bers Is to be appointed by the Legion, little day. Winter came on, demoralization laugh, before he could clutch the Forty and Eight and the Legion more than grew, typhoid fever, smallpox and starher dress. . . . vation addtsl to their terrors. All alwork. to this direct auxiliary He stood up, catching his breath lied forces were ordered out. On NoCreation of a trust fund to be suddenly. Something was still in his vember 12, Colonel Johnson left Oursk formed from donations and contribuwith the last allied train and the Reds tions from numbers of the Legion or hand, a brittle something like, a butmoved in the next day. other persons, nnd to be used for the terflys wing. He knelt to the firelight Five months later the last trains nationnl rehabilitation work of the nnd opened his hand, slowly, carefully, as if in a dream. . . . Yes, there dragged into Vladivostok after as terLegion, was ordered by the convensomething In his hand it had been lay rible a winter as military forces have tion. This problem will receive much flowered muslin once; it was ashy broke attention In 1925, ns will also the raisLocomotives ever known. and crumbling now, nnd the tracery down, food was lacking, disease raged, ing of an endowment fund for the chilof roses was dingy brown. He rose coal demoralization and dren's work. reigned, welfare panic from bis knees, white nnd trembling, Bolshevik were abandoned. mines and the ash fell in Ids palm such an forces hampered and hindered. Five Numerous Mascots Left ush as muslin might make after four months went by In that Journey of shut underground. . . . years 4,500 miles. This ended allied InterConvention by Delegates There was a sound of many feet on vention In Siberia. An aftermath of the American Lethe stair, and voices calling him. All left but the Japanese. They gion convention, held recently ut St. chose to remain and the bodies for diff. she's ready now ! Helens which to howled proInul, dismally of allied efforts continready claim Its loneliness, came to light after Helen came down slowly, tall and ued. Colonel Johnson stayed on for the Legionnaires bad departed for in her going-avvatwo years, having under his control smiling gown, ready their homes. Between parades during American-traineChinese and Japafor him. . . . delethe convention various state the Ilovv could he tell how could he nese engineers. So much was accomgations parked their mascots with Dr. have knwn It was eternal; that marplished in restoring the traffic on the Elmer Berg, veterinarian. In bis staTrans-Siberiathat Colonel Johnson bles at the fair with Kitty, who had died when riage grounds. After the was decorated by the Iresldent of tumult was a first child was born? How could their Docof the thing past. China and the emperor of Japan, as tor a lonely man go through all the years Berg discovered he was the unhe had been by the French President unmarried? And yet . . . meof a possessor willing and by Serbia. He looked down with terror at the nagerie left behind by the delegates. Reveille roll call was answered by the damp ash, clinging to his fingers Classified following: Two coyotes from South still . . . called his bride's Tome, Cliff! Blackstone Did you notice the Dakota, one bear from Montana, four He went mute appeal in that beautiful girls horses from Omaha, one badger from voice from the stair-foo- t. Wisconsin, one lion cub from Nevada forward to her. eyes? Thank God! he said silently over Webster Yes: shes a dumb belle, and a nondescript assortment of dogs, and over. 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