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HE Iron Cross is the prize peace story published this 
summer by the Christian Women’s Peace Movement, 
whose headquarters are at West Medford, Mass. The 
author, James Church Alvord, s ys in the preface: 
“The writing of this little tale, ‘The Iron Cross,’ has 
Gome wrom the tragedy of my owri life. I have lived 
during late years very much in Europe; so that one of 
my most intimate friends is in the English army on the 
battle-field, another in the German labyrinth, an Austrian 
lad beloved by me is marching into Russia, two of my 
cousins are fighting for Great Britain in the French 
trenches. J have not heard from these friends of mine 
for months—they may be dead. 
“T came fresh from Rome last November and possess 
hosts of friends among the officers of the Italian bat- 
talions. When Italy entered the war she sent these, who 
are near and dear to me, up among the Tyrol mountains, 
every pass through which I’ve tramped, and—to death. 
“With me this war is a personal woe.” 
The story opens with the arrival of a new orderly 
a! the Strassburg quarters of a German captain. He is 
a Jew and comes from “everywhere” he announces. He 
preves to be a good fellow and makes a good servant, 
but has some stiff principles for which the captain is 
forced to punish him at times. The first offense was at 
the execution of a spy, “‘a confounded Frenchy who had 
been discovered masquerading among the ranks.” The 
new orderly, Josephsohn, refused to shoot at the spy 
when he had been placed in the firing squad. Upon be- 
ing reprimanded he answered, “It is written, Honorable 
Sit) hou shalt not kill’” He declares that he is nota 
suldier by choice, but that he was drafted, that he belongs 
to The-Brothers-of-Peace, who do not kill, and who are 
forbidden to take human life. The captain orders him 
flogged by the peasants. During the flogging he says 
“Father, forgive them; for they know not what they do.” 
The other five in the firing squad now refuse to fire upon 
the spy. They are sent to quarters to await court-martial 
and others shoot the spy. To the captain’s amazement 
the orderly showed no resentment towards him but was 
the same faithful servant. 
A time soon arrives when this strange orderly rend- 
ers a valuable service to the German army. It happened 
at a little hamlet near Brussels, where the burgomaster 
was executed by the General’s orders. The Dutch peo- 
ple flock from their picturesque homes and form an 
angry mob in the square. Josephsohn goes to them, 
quiets them, and standing by the scaffold on which 
dangled the body of their beloved burgomaster, he 1s 
heard by the captain to say, “Brothers, blood of our 
blood, when you are beaten, don’t strike back, my 
brothers, my poor wronged brothers.” He then tells 
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them that the Germans, too, loathed the war, were driven 
te it by centuries of hates and superstitions, that the men 
who marched in the ranks had been stolen from their 
ficlds, that two wrongs do not make a right, two murders 
a sanctity. The mob disperses. The captain wants to 
give the orderly a promotion or a decoration for this 
service, but both are refused. “Then follows a’ conver- 
sation showing the captain’s delight in war. He says: 
“Kkilling’s my trade and I wish to practice my trade. 
sides, how can I gain promotion—show I’m clever and 
deserve high place—except through war?...... the dead 
monotony of a garrison town, the doing nothing all day 
but drill—drill—drill—I can’t endure it. Why there 
was not an intelligent man or a pretty woman in the 
whole village where I was \stationed; I was bored <9 
death. Anything was better.” - Then follow incidents 
bringing out the saintly character of this strange peace- 
loving orderly. One shows him fighting vigorously and 
driving off seven German lads who were attacking a 
young girl of the street, but who would have nothing to 
da with them because they were not of her country. 
The captain hears that he is promulgating peace 
principles throughout the army. They come to their 
first engagement and five hundred men refuse to fire 
upon the enemy. They are ordered out of the trenches 
and at a council a soldier tells of the preachings of the 
orderly on peace among the men. Josephsohn is brougiit 
before the council, but makes no answer to their ques- 
tions and beratings. He is condemned to be shot. Then 
he is dragged by the peasants to a large wooden cross 
from which the crucifix figure had been removed in the 
general devastation of the place, On the cross he is 
shot, exclaiming only: “Thou shalt not kill! Father, 
Be- 
forgive them; for they know not what they do.” The 
General cried out: “Oh, my God! He looks——,”. but 
did not finish, for all knew whom he resembled. ‘Then 
follows the scene of the soldiers by the thousands pass- 
ing the dead orderly and throwing their rifle and cart- 
ridge belt at his feet. Even one officer did it, All are 
stupefied in the General’s quarters. Peace was thus en- 
forced and the Allies were generous when they realized 
the facts. 
The author says in his preface: 
“Tf anything I have said here can make war one 
bit more hateful to the race of man I shall feel that these 
lads have not died, nor I suffered, in vain.” 
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