SALEMITE
THREE
Mrs, Lindsay Patterson
Speaks To History Club
(Continued from Pagi
safe in his plans,
Russia was sunk in a great
lethargy, and was full of treason
and overrun with spies. Eng
land was absorbed with the idea
of maintaining peace and quiet
in her vast African possessions
and in India. The plan was to
go through Serbia into the great
unexplored and unexploited
territories of Asia, rich in gold,
silver and oil. The idea of world
empire would undoubtedly have
been carried out
America’s response to the call of
France, “America, for God’
sake, hurry! Our backs are t
the wall!” and for her ready
supply of men, money and food.
America stopped t)
America saved civilization, and
the world gave America the
leadership of the nations,
ways before, world leadership
has been won by blood, anguish
and death, but it was voluntarily
given to America, who is i
prepared to take it.
The next question arising
“How did Serbia happen to be
the pretext for war?” and the
answer is the far-famed valley
of the Vardar, a short-cut to
Asia. England, as mistress of
the seas controlled the Mediter
ranean. Germany could not go
through bleak Russia or hostile
Italy, and so chose Serbia,
ducing the distance by
thousand miles.
Germany, strange to say,
afraid of one thing—public
opinion and w'aited anxiously for
some excuse for war. All at om
the Archduke of Austria had
desire to visit Sarajevo. In
mediately the Serbian secret
service began to function, and
spies in Bosnia, then
Austrian province, learned of the
plots centering about his visit.
They immediately notified the
government, and the men
parently most interested in
Archduke’s welfare, but he
not warned, and in being allowed
to go on with the royal progres
sion was practically sent to his
death.
After the first attempt at his
assassination, he reached the
hotel in safety and was prevailed
upon to promise his wife to leave
at once; but the governor
announced, and argued with him
that the press was anxiously
awaiting his action, and that if
he ran away now he would be
branded by the world
coward. This convinced the
Archduke, and he consented to
finish the royal progress. In less
than ten minutes he and his wife
were both dead.
The blame was thrown
Serbia; the Kttle country
stunned, and had no time to get
word to the world of her posi
tion. Almost immediately the
world was plunged into w
and the allies were fighting
their knees, almost at the end of
their resources, when America
entered the war and saved the
world.
The map of Europe was made
over, and Serbia, a little nation
of about four million, was made
a part of Jugo-Slavia, consist
ing of fifteen million people.
Mrs. Patterson went on to tell
the interesting story of her ap
pointment to go to Serbia.
She spoke of the conditions
brought about by war, how
everything was stopped, includ
ing transportation and com
munication, and how typhus was
raging. She was requested to
go to this part of Europe and
Salem Girls Take
Life Saving Test
Mr. Longfellow, Red Cross
field Secretary of the United
States, who spoke in chapel
Wednesday, has been givmg life-
saving lessons at the swimming
pool of the R. J. Reynolds High
School. An opportunity to take
the lessons was offered to Salem
girls and several of them took
advantage of it. Charlotte Sells,
Dorothy Frazier, Lilyan Newell,
L,ardner McCarty have been tak
ing the instruction. At the end
ot the course a test is given, and
all who pass are allow-ed to
otricial Red Cross life savers.
mvestigate conditions among
the war sufterers, widows and
orphans, and bring back recom
mendations to the Linited States.
After deciding to accept the
commission, the next step was
to find out how' to go.
W ashington was entirely
ignorant of the best way, and
suggested only that she go
Faris first and then find a way
to go on.
t rom Paris there were three
possible ways to Serbia. The
best road was through Germany,
and Mrs. Patterson thought that
she would not be especially
popular there just after the
ihe next way was across the
Mediterranean, but in the first
place there were no boats
ning, and in the second place the
water was full of mines which
would explode at the slightest
provocation. The third possible
way was across the Alps, but
Italy was on the verge of war
about Fiume, and turned back
everyone at the border.
There was no other alterna
tive, so Mrs. Patterson took the
way through Italy, and finally
did get through to Serbia. A
friend recently back from
Russia advised her to take in her
supplies a plentiful amount of
tea and Nabisco wafers, and
these formed the greater
amount of her supplies, with
saccharine instead of sugar.
On changing from the fairly
comfortable Italian train to the
little Balkan train, one first
knew what poverty, death and
agony really were. There
light, no conveniences of any
sort, and all along the way
misery and starvation abounded.
After accomplishing her mis-
Mrs. Patterson went
visit the beautiful queen Marie
of Roumania, sometimes called
the mother-in-law of the
Balkans. The rest of her talk
largely concerned with
personal reminiscences of the
queen and count.
Queen Marie has often been
called the most beautiful woman
Europe; she is a combination
of English and Russian, and is
always careful to surround her
self with beautiful and appropri
ate things. Her life is not an
easy one by any means, because
queen must work hard.
She was very gracious to Mrs.
Patterson, as a representative of
America, because she was con
vinced that her country had
been saved by the United States.
She told some harrowing tales
of her war experiences, both in
the hospitals, and in a train
surrounded by Russian Bolshe
viks, when nothing but a ready
smile and hundreds of packages I
of cigarettes saved her from aj
horrible death. j
Delightful descriptions of the:
•oyal palaces, of the birthday
banquet of the crown prince,
when Mrs. Patterson was given,
place next to the King of'
Roumania, and of the royal
gardens, set in the midst of the
Carpathians, held the interest of
the club for the remainder of
the talk.
Mrs. Patterson described
detail the unusual and artistic
furniture of the large palace,
most of it designed by queen
Marie herself. The queen’s bou
doir, all in blue and gold, and her
bed chamber, in blue and silver
—an imitation of moonlight—
intrigued the fancy of every
listener. They were especially
interested to hear of the lights
to represent the moon and the
stars, so the queen can turn on
the lights of the firmament at|
any moment she likes.
At the smaller palace, there
only room for the immediate
members of the royal family,
and each guest is given his own
little villa, with his own
servants, private flower garden
id everything complete.
The rose garden was given
particular attention: it is a
plateau cut out of the mountains,
filled with every kind of rose in
world, and with dozens of
fountains sparkling in the
light—or moonlight. Instead of
ordinary garden wall, the pillars
are pink fuchias, looped with
pink sweet peas, and the effect
quite unsurpassed in natural
beauty.
Mrs. Paterson ended her talk
by congratulating the members
of the club on studying history,
they will soon be voting and
have the burden of civic
sponsibility to bear, whiph they
cannot do without a knowledge
of the past. She advised them
to specialize in the study of
Asia, with her ancient religions,
her art, literature, architecture,
her ancient empires and mighty
ies. Asia is now awakening,
and America is the only country
which can meet her with love
and friendship. The conse
quences of the awakening will
determine whether the white
or the yellow race is to be
dominant.
“America is the foremost
country of the world, and she is
vastly ignorant of China and
Japan. What is best to be done ?
The question is being asked
young voters, and they cannot
answer without a comprehen-
of the history of these
countries.”
After the conclusion of the
speech, a rising vote of thanks
was given Mrs. Patterson, and
the meeting adjourned.
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Ellen Peery, Tazewell, Va.; Jane
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