Logan Republican | 1915-08-12 | Page 4 | Dread Action with Bayonet

DREAD ACTION WITH BAYONET Women Whose Loved Ones Are at the Front Pray They May Not Be Forced to Use It. "In a houso which I visited recently," recent-ly," writes a correspondent from Paris, "a lady whose son was about to lenvo to Join the colors spent days In anguish and prayer, not over tho parting, part-ing, not over fear for her boy's safety, but in dread lest ho should havo to fight with his bayonet. That ho should bo killed, sho was prepared to meet, that ho should drlvo his bayonet into a fellowboing was moro than her motherhood could support. Her pray crs wero answered. Her son was detailed de-tailed to tho field tolcphono service, a position ot far groater danger than in a trench, but tho mother Is happy. It was all sho asked of God and her country. "I know another woman, a poor laboring la-boring woman of tho people, who says, 'I pray every hour of tho day that my husband won't go to tho bayonet, for I don't know what tho poor man would do. He could not.'my husband could not kill a man whoso face ho looked upon.' "Among many women this Is tho greatest terror, that their loved ones will bo forced to kill at close quarters, i It Is a strange point ot view that I confess con-fess I hod never thought of, probably tbecausa I havo no ono Involved, but it seems to mo to Indicate that civilization, civiliza-tion, tho advancement of tho race, is not In tho hands ot governments and kings, but In tho hearts ot women like these." .