Show TRACING GREAT BITTERNESS Rudyard Kipling the embittered Kipling recently gave to the publiC another bo lt ot of stories and poems Debits and Credits has been s said id and printed about barbed shafts In this vol vol- volume volume ume which the author evidently IntI America These shafts concern the war and the part in It which played That and the American attitude In tome ot of the wars war's 8 Damnation to All Neutrals Is the title over oer one story In tho II bouk a story about a villain ob- ob obviously ob obviously American trying to sell oll to the central powers In the year 1915 7 It Is strange Ini y Kipling's first novel first saw aw the light of day In an American magazine To tho sale all ot of his writings American vor ff gave x a marvelous Impetus In III his hia fortune there are aro many American dollars He IIo lived happily In America for fora fora a time and married Caroline st rl ot of Vermont Once as ho lay grievously In an Amer Amer- AmerIcan American ican hotel prayer meetings for his recovery were held all over the land What then la is th the caus cause o the feeling he seems to harbor barbor to- to to toward ward Ivard tos this us-this near English of the tho gifted pen 1 The answer perhaps Is found In Inthe Inthe done the history ot of the fighting by the tho Irish guards la In the World var In the appendix there Is n list of the guards who were killed In action And there thero Is this significant line Second Lieutenant Lieutenant- nt J 9 1915 1 That perhaps s Is the wh le pathetic stor story The light lIht went out lr f I Kipling when hel bis handsome foung young son as j John Kipling died In the battle of Laos Loos The Irish guards had gono to the fr front nt la In the first months o ot the war The battle ot Laos LOOI came caroe In September 1915 Youna Kipling at wai re- re reported ported wounded and rols missing Like many other fathers Kip ling hoped against hope Then The came the tho day when the war corrected the first report to t killed in action LIre Life h has ls been ashes In the mouth for tor the famous father ever other English Englishmen since Like some roen perhaps he holds America reo Had America entered the war at atthe the beginning or or even early In 1915 the live ot o hundred ot tb thousand u sandi might have hae ben been sned That the way the thoughts of o ome ome men run you cant can't argue with men who think like that that They have been too deeply hurt They hint have lost their only sons |