Indianapolis Times, Volume 41, Number 108, Indianapolis, Marion County, 14 September 1929 — Page 18

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C%fJ> TER XXI (Continued) They ought to be put to thrashing. reaping, and apple picking. TTiey look just as kindly as our own peasants in Friesland. It is distressing to watch their movements, to see them begging for something to eat. They are all rather leebie, lor they only get enough nourishment to keep them from starving. Ourselves we have not had sufficient to eat for long enough. They have dysentery. Thetr backs, their necks are bent, their knees sag, their heads droop as they stretch out their hands and beg in the few words of German that they know—beg with those soft, deep, musical voices, that are like warm stoves and cosy rooms at home. Some men there are who give them a kick, so that they fall over, but those are not many. The majority do nothing to them, just ignore them. Occasionally when they are too groveling, it makes a man mad and then he kicks them. It only they would not look at one rc—what great misery can be in two such small spots, no bigger than a man's thumb—in their eyes! They come over to the camp in the evenings and trade. They exchange whatever they possess for bread. Often they have fair success. because they have very good boots and ours are bad. The leather of their knee boots Is wonderfully soft, like suede. The peasants among us who get titbits sent from home can afford to trade. The price of a pair of boots is about two or three loaves of army bread, or a loaf of bread and a small, tough ham sausage. But most of the Russians have lcng since parted with whatever things they had. Now they wear only the most pitiful clothing and try to exchange little carvings and objects that they have made out of shell fragments and copper driving bands. Os course, they don't get much for such things, though they may have taken immense pains with them—they go for a slice or two of bread. Our peasants are hard and cunning when they bargain. They hold the piece of bread or sausage right under the nose of the Russian till he grows pale with greed and his eyes : bulge and then he will give any- j thing for it. The peasants wrap up their booty i with the utmost solemnity, and then gee out their big pocket knives, and ; slowly and deliberately cut off a slice of bread for themselves from | their supply and with every mouth- j fui take a piece of the good, tough j sausage and so reward themselves with a good feed. It is distressing to watch them ; take their afternoon meal thus; one j would like to crack them over their

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i pates. They rarely give anything away. How little we understand one another! CHAPTER XXII IAM often on guard over the Russians. In the darkness one sees their forms move like sick stork?, like great birds. They came close up to the wire fence and lean their faces against it; their fingers hook round the mesh. Often many stand side by side, and breathe the wind that comes down from the moors and .the forest. They rarely speak and then only a few words. They are more human and more brotherly towards one another, it seems to me, than we are. But perhaps that is merely because they feel themselves to be more unfortunate than we are. Anyway, the war is over so far as they are concerned. But to wait for dysentery is not much of a life either. The Territorials in charge of them say that they were much more lively at first. They used to have intrigues among themselves, as always happens, and it would often come to blows and knives. But now they are quite apathetic and listless. They stand at the wire fence; sometimes one goes away and then another at once takes his place in the line. Most of them are silent; occasionally one begs a cigaret butt. I see their dark forms, their heads move in the wind. I know nothing of them except that they are prisoners, and that is exactly what troubles me. Their life is obscure and guiltless; if I could know more of them, what their names are, how they live, what they are waiting for, what are their burdens, then my emotion would have an object and might become sympathy. But as It is I perceive behind them only the suffering of the creature, the awful melancholy of life and the pitilessness of men. A word of command has made j these silent figures our enemies; a word of command might transform them into our friends. At some table a document is signed by some persons whom none of us knows, and then for years together that very crime on which formerly the world’s

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again he sways the instrument to the rhythm and smiles across to me. He plays mostly folk-songs and the others hum with him. They are lire a country of dark hills that sing far down under the ground. The sound of the violin stands like a slender girl above it and is clear and alone. The voices cease and the violin continues alone. In the night it is so thin it sounds frozen; one must stand close up; it would be much better in a room; out here it makes a man grow sad. a tt o Because I already have had a long leave, I get none on Sundays. So the last Sunday before I go back to the front my father and eldest sister come over to see me. All day we sit in the Soldiers’ home. Where else could we go, we don’t want to stay in the camp. About midday we go for a walk on the moors. The hours are a torture; we do net know what to talk about, so we speak of my mother’s illness. It is now definitely cancer; she is already in the hospital and will fc operated on shortly. The doctors hope she will recover, but we never have heard of cancer being cured. “Where is she then?” I ask. “In which class?” “In the Luisa hospital,” says my father. “Third. We must wait till we know what the operation costs. She wanted to be in the third herself. She said that they said she would have some company. And besides it is cheaper.” “So she is lying there with all those people. If only she could sleep properly.”

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My father nods. His face Is broken and full of furrows. My mother always has been sickly; and though she has only gone to the hospital when she h%s been compelled to, it has cost a great deal of money, and my father’s life has been practically given up to it. “If I only know how much the operation costs,” says he. “Have you not asked?” “Not directly, I can not do that—the surgeon might take it amiss and that would not do; he must operate on mother.” Yes, I think bitterly, that’s how it is with us, and with all poor people. They don’t dare to ask the price, but worry themselves dreadfully beforehand about it; but the ethers, for whom it is not important. they settle the price first as a matter of course. And the doctor does not take it amiss from them. “And the dressings afterward are so expensive,” says my father. “Doesn’t the invalid’s fund pay anything toward it, then?” I ask. “Mother has been ill too long.” “Have you any money at all?” He shakes his head: “No, but I can do some overtime.” I know. He will stand at his desk folding and pasting and cutting until 12 o’clock at night. At 8 o’clock in the evening he will eat some of the miserable rubbish they get in exchange for their food tickets, A Good Business School Strong business, stenographic, secretarial and accounting course*: individual instruction in major subjects, large faculty of specialists, ip their respective lines: Free Employment Service. Fred W Case. Prin. Central Business College Pennsylvania and Vermont. First Poor North V TV C. A. Indianapolis. Ind

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