By Anna A. Maley
(Prominent Socialist speaker and writer. Socialist nominee for Governor of Washington in 1912.)
Wars will cease when the conditions which cause them are abolished. The present war is no more of an “accident” than have been the wars of the past. But it is terrible and far-reaching enough in its effects to warrant a reconstruction of our political and industrial systems.
The Prussians in Poland
By Laura de Turczynowicz
(Nee Blackwell)
(The story of an American woman, the wife of a Polish nobleman, caught in her home by the floodtide of German invasion of the ancient Kingdom of Poland. From “When the Prussians Came to Poland.”[16])
“Manya did not come when I rang—for Jacob.... A long time afterward my cook came. She had difficulty in controlling herself, but finally made me understand. The doctor had taken Manya—not yet seventeen! God help her!...
“Four days after Manya’s disappearance, news was brought that she was in the house of an old Jewess, a cigarette maker. Leaving the cook with the children, and hardly able to drag myself along, I went with Jacob to find her.... After many difficulties we finally found the place, and paying no attention to the soldiers about, pushed our way into the room where Manya was—what had been Manya. When she, poor creature, saw us, she threw herself on the floor sobbing. An officer came in to ask our business with the girl.
“She is my maid—stolen! This is her father. I have come to take her home.
“‘I am very sorry, but you are not allowed to take her, she belongs to the soldiers.’