| Show THRIFTY DUTCHMEN TURNED INTO desperadoes BY WAR Gli mine Quine shook shock he has s come to those who in old days adamu ed industrious hollander whose only occupation now Is in deeds of daring and alid robbery country Is now paradise for thieves the hague to those who knew tile the hollander before tile the war as an a quiet well behaved thrifty and indus arious soul sent content tt do pursue the even tenor many of hin him way an and sticking mail to orderliness and rood good behag to lor his I 1 transformation cana formation since the RIM lug ing of the last hi november member will come came as am A germ germaise lise shock bulk prime in the prewar davs dais was waa at its ita ni minimum in holland list her at ad jug ing army of some same was ina corn com posed of young rare men who re served c d their allotted time in the mil I 1 lary set service vice of their country with the minimum of grumbling cm hung earn returning A g cheerfully to the plow or the dairy or the a fisheries as own boon as their term of army A sen ice was over except ter for an ever watchful eye on oft her frontier holland aked a cut calm contented existence turning out her world famous cheeses and her po perhaps more or infamous team no g gins her citizens delace in the M feeling that theirs was a land nell where re the law was ams observed where thel their r chattels were safe even though their front doors deal rema old ned un no locked and ad where aber the infrequent reque I 1 A offender cast the ile dennl code could not at liopo top to get ills full time dame in the papers much less id hi photograph with A pretty b border ader around it 1 all 11 this thin 1 la chanced pro from a add a dof of safety fet holland it lias be been A trans tran f mald formed lot into a land ad of danker and the H hollinder that Is if ile he who he la I 1 depre anted 1 in the real of t the ideres Ide plow rep boy the driver of the horse home or dalie doniev along alone the tow path pain the churner of the butter and the team contain tile tam farm hand or the millera miller a allisma assist allis mt antIi has a a hem been transformed lot int a shiftless a inzy my its orderly ne er dawell whose principal occupation curon Is illary I glary it hanew I 1 t new crime burglary he fi RII fielland fi olland Iral we was not at a usual time ime in a ill taft fir prewar ar days that fact makes the present wave van of lawless Innie ste new ness all tho wave more striking the great truth that taa m A dawned upon the man coun try 11 1 Is ill that I 1 the rhe ORD helium hollanders ill who bathas have beep R doing military service ni as non 1 since I the beginning of the war at have come came to hate work and 0 o to hate hat having hating to provide tor far their own min after rojo enjoying Y in a fund food cloth 1 ing 9 in fad shelter at government expense tot fail nearly atar y five years aben lien holland mobilized her young manhood middle aged co manhood hand and ad fullgraf tull full grown manhood during the first also ix months of the war when there waa momentary salary danger of germany suddenly any getting it into h her er disordered brain to invade and despoil I 1 the neth erlands arld as well wall am aa belgium the dutch goc government ment provided for the support of the families of the soldiers w whom he mile he as well an for far the support I 1 port of 0 the soldiers themselves in her well ordered house holland could old not at see SW families in want because male made supporters n were cre taken take for the defense of the father land she provided th this IS support as punctiliously and a na carefully as she provided for the thou thousands ends of bibid belgian and ad french fennell refugees who he haie lived on the coutras count cout rys ban bounty n ty from the day of the siege of ant antwerp auert to aba th 0 do pium that marshal foch handed his ivoun tain min pen to eGerman th the zerman armistice corn com and maill bald gig sign ith the that br began g buchic iR the latter days of last no bovein her bar th the it discharged ill A cited Bold idler lera I 1 found it it alk to resume their duties as ai tarn tam fly providers instead of letting wit wil belmina do it the plow did not net ap p plot nearly so much an the light ii held equipment alone 1 mc the frontier tile long ions hikes bikes along tile the towpath we were not nearly so re attractive no na ill the stretches between amary out pat a a on the border between eastern ter provinces and the ft A or r country it we was I 1 found it A hard matter to ret get the hollander back into a el chilian ilian job not net because the job ob aa was not there them hut but bemuse because the erst erat while thrifty dutchman no longer large cared red for far the lob jb food shortage Shoil mig a cause for many mum months a now life for fee or the low law abiding it filing dutchmen Dutch mun and tila his family he has be been an ath thine l but a paradise and ad the shor 11 art K I 1 of if food be hns been but a 1 I matter U in the grand total of this general call p pines tile the principal thing that has haa been I in holland has haa been the bur bud glar 0 ile ho be has since lure before the chil christ st ma inns s bo holidays eye become became a sort of nation a al 1 institution n like ill the e cheese and ad the gin acts of violence are of dally daily in fact ct of hourly occurrence jn in the country districts as well ell as aa in the cities III not alone most mii st cl boora n be As securely locked jacked and bolted at night light hot but it if during the dul the household or er turns or ill his bar back to look over his nl chicken in A the bar barnyard vard without firt fart closing g his front door he will mot most likely return to the prank kander kamer parlor unit only to end every article of at intrinsic IN value has disappeared the theft of gliver silverware jewer jewelry clothes clothe and exen een puts pots and ii pans na from the kit kitchen chest Is reported to the police in eiery eory town and hamlet on an aver aee 11 of 11 11 every cry hour halt during daring the 21 do hours of if the im day ahe do flow of corn com paints 1 Is so an steady that in most li places lies on one m an 1 Is assigned to do noth ill ink 19 hut but retail these the part of bur bar glardes of course it would mould be fir t to bay my that aery every one of the told soldiers Bold lera has turned burglar after recoiling I 1 his him discharge train from the actie it Is safe to ea an that on one half of the troops has turned its atten attan JIM alon to elther either burglary petty or grand I 1 larceny or highway rubbery robbery am aa a meny means to keep the wolf elf alma the time door without t an undue amount of physical R exertion erti th the visit victor in nol holland laud although he be la 1 still 1111 much in the minority because of the IDA p passport pact met restrictions illus ill us lima has learned to keep his han hand d on his wal let pocket and hla his fingers firmly around armund the end of a steel about cane an when eer ter he ventures out into the trust street or along a country path once nee hollands land delight and the safest fast promenade I 1 in the wide ida world daring highway robb ham the k who used to sand in proper awe of the well dressed man or woman ill ih the public thoroughfares of the city rum now openly slid and brazenly snatch at match chains ladie indies bag bags or pocket hooks books that are carried in the hands by the ladles ladies nine times time in 1 ten t the culprit age the to mike make a clean getaway in the crowd of sim sympathetic pathetic ruff ruffians larts uha ho gother gather quickly at the first sign of ill disorder der in the street children sent to the stores by their mothers d er are often the victims of the thieves J dees who he take away their penalties penn lei and market lm busketa am on ill the way to the ex expectant he very tory often go astra troll and ultimately reach the dens HAS MANY decorations I 1 a GENERAL LEROY UPTON ge gen teroy rent apt upton who rho recently recen tl r turned film prance france has he received the service in cross nod ad medal is del the aroix its de guerre with we two palms palma and ad the 1 cross 11 1 of tile the order 0 of o st michael and ad st george for far gifted service to ta the war nee of uie the underworld now a ran menow in tile the economic rod and civic life of the tb netherlands the same spirit sp b rit or of disregard 0 of the hie conventions that obtains obtain throughout ghoul the country as 3 tar far as tile the tight rights ol of others othera Is concerned obtains in the no na tion 8 parliament tile alie stanten gen braal 1 ultra fr members or oc cupy call Y sent scabs la in the loner at chamber and openly ian advocate adv cate doctrines which a year before the war began in 1914 would not at haw have been listened to by any self respecting dutchman the self re specking spec ting dutchman must listen to these than doctrines now for they are am preached on an every street corner comer aiom efto the forums and train from the platform of the governing body w li enever uie he return radical wing gets a chance bance to give lo 10 ene volum voice to it its sentiments to blocked at the frontier the government does it a everything lin in manly possible to prevent the influx of tile the radical element from germ germany an y ind every day dozens of would be in be they bols helst or sparti cus us are am turned back at the frontier with the admonition to go east but melv sup slip through with wit the result it that this formerly foran orly quiet orderly had Is fast at b being tug pal poisoned by the seed of all violence nee that his has hem been planted io its fertile all from the verv day that uie the onetime one time kaiser entered the country M as a a refugee fam and the onetime one thas crown crew prince took up it s involuntary abode bad a on the island of there them Is enough of the regular army left to present any serious art cone concerted movement by the forces at ad the met mal content on tents especially ns as they are not at organized unit and no linder kader has yet put pat in an appearance appear the police in the th various or districts I 1 too still run observe the street discipline ot of the prewar prevo pre war cir do adnia although they have not been bee very suc MO ce in 1 stamping sleeping out ont the lawless cawi R ness that la Is ever eve hire evident they are at least holding the unruly aly ele 1 ment 1 in check and ad to a certain cartel de orso gree holding I 1 it in ho awe we ot of municipal authority luthor tty the principal hop hope if the better ed educated class of Holl hollanders anderm ile lira in an early curly restoration of a the regular channels of food importation now new lee land d of unrest just now the hollander 1 la raychem but tractable timetable he will aill drop his hia hummer air his all shovel at lila hoe or his him chum lug ing handle at te the drop of it a luit tri or nr the do ibus whisper of a labor bar agitator he imagine that he to la the under dog of eve every ry man who possesses a nickel more than he ile does I 1 prom a land of calm ba pence fal seething quiet hoilund has changed lot into a 1 land ad of unrest it oozes out of the very ground at every step one no takes I 1 ack of grains keeps the grist mills idle which all fall fail to provide work work tor for those who might he be induced to alake take up the broken broke strands of their taska and ad do don the snow white of the miller for the blue of tile col sol dier stagnation in shipping 1 wing owing to the placed upon t the be count country by the allies has haa had bad it ian natural rural of ef feet upon hollanda holland a intend inland mimms commerce with the result that thou hou codrea banda of alth men who A were employ rd it ap oya 1 along I the 1 numerous I ve c canals I 1 both bell nal nfl b boatmen an and ad in tow drivers bat before the 1 war nor now thal find th lr hr it a gone A this la is another important industry Indu atry i which if it could resume its ita bonnal 1 I I 1 I 1 proportions A would old smarty greatly wide the h number be of the unemployed over oer everything hoer team the th one law large fact th atthe formerly correct cormet cora hollander could 10 a readily b changed into a A man ian wit with b criminal la j i and to such much an extent A g til 4 I 1 tanks the entire eco country J A sinkhole burfe turn perm alume aa 1 |
