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Show "MISSING" Among all the terrors of the war, the one which falls healest upon the non-combatants, for the most part women, is the long, hopeless uncertainty as to the whereabouts and fate of those dear ones who are accounted among the missing. The widow of a war hero has at least the solace of a certain prestige, but the woman who is neither wife nor widow, the distracted families of those about whose fate nothing definite defin-ite is known what hope or comfort is there for them? This war has set in operation, apparently, as many agencies of mercy as it has those of destruction. Among them, we learn from a Lausanne Lau-sanne correspondent of the Living Church (Milwaukee), (Mil-waukee), are two whose sole purpose is to find the missing, to ascertain definitely if they are living or dead, and finally, if possible, to bring them back into touch with thein friends and relatives. rela-tives. Both societies are Swiss in origin. One, a branch of the Swiss Red Cross, traces missing I soldiers; the other, an Independent organization, endeavors to bring scattered families together and search out the wanderings of isolated fugitives fugi-tives who in the panic of flight have hidden away and lost themselves in strange communities. There is no doubt of the great need these societies so-cieties fill. As a member of the former remarks: "Imagine the most terrible catastrophe that can strike you, of which the name alone may make you pale; when it has come and you have lost all hope of escaping it, it loses some of its terror; its very coming brings an element of relief. re-lief. At last, you know. But what gnaws is not-to know; to turn in one's mind the thousand thou-sand suppositions which make out of the hope itself it-self one grief more. That is why those who are obliged to remain at home and to wait, often suffer more than those who are in the thick of the fight." Literary Digest. |