Jasper County Democrat, Volume 21, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 April 1918 — HERE’S PLEA FROM FRONT [ARTICLE]

HERE’S PLEA FROM FRONT

Lillian Gish Says You'd Buy Bonds if You Saw War Itself. By MISS LILLIAN GISH, [Movie Star Once in War Zone.] If you had seen the war as I have, you would buy Liberty bonds. I have seen a mother standing in the doorway of her little home, and in the room into which she looked were the mangled bodies of her two babes. I have seen between two and three hundred mothers massed ontside a schoolyard gate, screaming and tugging at the '‘Bobbies" to let them enter. In the wrecked schoolhouse were the torn and battered bodies of school children. A Hun raider bad bombed them. In London, on the Strand. I have seen row after row of stretchers bearing the broken bodies of -men and women on a street strewn with shattered glass. These were civilians, not soldiers; sleeping in their homes when the building fell. These things I have seen. I have heard all night long a terrific cannonade in the world’s greatest city, the burst of shrapnel and the sound of bombs. Outside my window I have heard the cries and moans of dying human beings, victims of the enemy in the air. , This is not talk. These are things T have seen and heard; and yet I have seen and heard so little It is hardly worth talking about. But It makes me want to buy Liberty bonds.