The evening world. Newspaper, March 4, 1918, Page 12

MONDAY, MARCH 4, 1918 Enemy Bombardment Needed | To Wake New York to War, Says Aviator Bert Hall Lafayette Escadrille Air Hero, Home From a Hundred! Battles, Says Women Are Taking War More Seri- ously Than Men, and Would Round Up Slackers , by Industrial Conscription, | MONDAY, My Own Experiences | In the | “Battalion of Death” | | The First Detachment Goes to the Front — Many of Its Women Keep Their “ Pledge of Death,” and the Wounded Return From Their Baptism of Blood With Stories That Inflame Petrograd. By Eva Zaintz MARCH 4, 1918 HIS PLANS TO WIN WAR, DRAFT ARMY TO BUILD SHIP: “BOMB KRUPPS OUT OF BUS. AND SWARM OF AIRPLANES TO NESS.” rinlod GROOT Le HAVE A SHIPYARD ARMY To TURN gut SHIPS: , a By Marguerite Mooers Marshall Chapter I11.—THE MARTYRS iceman. — , HE huts we occupied had been used by the soldiers from Petro Copyright ay ds ae wate i Lome Dar nate ee teemn Nyvce? | grad at the mobilization of the Czar's army. The discipline of ‘6 , LK is full o! sit ha men ae nothing. Except the camp was explained to us and our training began. It ram that you see a few fers around, you'd never know we | through a period of six weeks, There were several thousand women Ip f wore at war, You can't waik a block on Broadway that isn't | the whole camp and not one quit her duties or proved unworthy. Be erowded with bums and parasites. Yet everywhere there's a howl for fore our training was over some of women who had become most bor. I believe we've got to have industrial conscription in this coun- : ; efficient in drill were selected to take the places of wounded men at front. That 1s a tragedy of which I try If we ever expect to win the war. Meanwhile, it's up to every able-bodied American who can’t get {nto any one of the services to get out and build the; shall tell. Some returned, maimed ships or work at some constructive thing that will and wounded and disfigured. Others | help his coun Why, the women of America are mained to a fate of death—or taking the war more seriously than the men!’ worse. “I've boen here since last fall and I'm disgusted!” That was more than Kerensky Lieut. Bert Hall added, with biting candor, could tolerate. He glorified our spirit T had asked Lieut. Hall how the war can be won of sacrifice, but he said: “It ts too a A in the alr. But though he told me, he called atten: much to pay. It must be ended. No| EAS” tion to another problem which seems to me so much more of the women of the Death | More vital that I have put first his « mot being won in New York. Lieut. Hall probably has had at once a longer and a more distin- tinguished experience in the great war than any other American. He Rattalion must go to the trenche Ustic summary of how the wi v ho war is And so, we, willing and anxtous, were held back. We were not allowed to go seeking our baptism of blood. Yet) is one of the two survivors—W/iiliam Thaw fs the other—of the famous Two days after the war broke out he had of- fered his services to France, and tn his newly published book, “Hn Lafayette Escadrille we received Petrograd. rensky, when The riots against the Bolshevikt Ke- Tore, and in the atreets of| brought ft to us, And of that I shall YAir!” he tella the thrilling epic of his threo years on and above three tell iim “ fronts. He fought in over 100 battles, killed nine Germans in the air ZAINTZ @ and won seven decorations from France, Russia and Roumania. On one occasion he engaged three pianes at the same time, downing one, killing the gunner of another and outmanoeuvring the third when his own machine gun was pra Gamay PLANES onvere Tar HAVE Twtes Agwucy ome MO It was the month of May when we began training. Therefore we had the difficulties which might have come from winter weather. our Wo! os one the d lier. Wo and cheered t when they marched out of stood feally empty, ives 38 s in which there were | the camp, ‘There were many girls of Next month he goes back to fly a j bunks, three high, and about twenty- | ¢pnteon and some even younger 1p ‘At thirty-neven five women again for France, he has been told that ho ts too old sto join the alr forces of his own muzzle their tnfantry and arti. lery, while obtaining for our- solves ranges, knowlede of the were in each hut. Our : pay was that of the ordinary soldiers, which was raised from 26 cents a | the ranks: Despite our enthusiasm there was country, “But I'm perfectly all enemy movements and all the month to $6 @ month at the begin- ike etea ay Gevirheant peri h t ing of the war "he assured me, with @ other information the aviat 3 stom of ee + ae fine brown ayes net in a | Procure, With a fleet, aay, of 100 T never saw a man in the camp ex-| ism of | sending teens ce keen, thin, hard-bitten face. “Yes, | bombing planes, each carrying OOD) tite, Grill Se even) NO WOR Calon in ¢ view, ‘The story of "I've had some wounds, but wounds anywhere from three to to forty- sent in the daytime to train us We p are nothing to make @ fuss bout.” tons of shipping for every man elght bombs, we could put the Krupps out of business at Essen had drill in the tactics of the infan- tion for our rifles was issued to us, the experience diers tn the t of our women sol- 1ches runs with blood 5 try, beginning after breakfast and | 008 10 | pocket We SHOULD Bome i ‘con, We were divided {#94 horror, roves, shockingly, for Lieut, Hall has rather won the | and smash other munition facto. KRUPH Wong lasting until noon. We were divided | 11 time, that women may be as hee Fight—don't you think?—to speak | lea and depots, Such @ pro- Into platoons, @ drill sergeant 10) 16 as men, but that womer ‘hie mind, Bo 1 asked for more of | ramme will take tlme, but to charge of each. We were taught Bow! sive ne soldiers and fight mea tt me it seems the most feasible to oad, alm and fire rifles such as} yoy) On fone okt ent men, “It's ships, ships, ships that I've way of breaking the deadlock.” the Russian soldier carries, and wo] 71400. aeparad the tale 66 raed | ween talking ever since I came Must all the new Mbropianes had elaborate and careful instruc-|) 0°11 to unfold. First res Rapes ‘ Beck,” he sald, “Wo need five be ®ullt in this country?’ 1 tion in bayonet practice, Ammunt- |)" “ asked. ef despatch saying that the Bat- tt talion of Death soldiers had been tn | we send across, Just as we're It's better to send the mate- but we were forbidden to keep Our} aition and had fought slorioualy. putting an army of men Into rials and if necessary, the work- weapons loaded except when on "|Phat thrilled us to a false ides of France we could put another men to France, and let the try duty. | what was to follow. The blood of ‘army into the shipyards and make French do the butlding,” he re« In June a thrill of excitement wei Then we'd Of course the men really work. get some ships built piled. “Through dampness and other causes machines deteriorate over our camp when It was announ¢ ople of Pe ur we ‘ograd was chilled ame back. Young that soldiers of the battalion w eirls were t n nder, with their there's profiteering—belleve me, when they are shipped across the ieee reaieaied to aor tnnipaceelot| CG Gedlce een pais a T've heard enough about it as I'vo ocean, and then the completed OvR avi men who had been sent from the il and bay ry told how travelled about the country—but Parts take up #0 much room. The $c wrsap ee front, wounded, A great feeling of! thelr sts r m, had died, ail the profiteering 1# not being French have brought almost to HOO! done by capital. Perfection tho actence of plane eatisfaction filled us, |fighting first f Wo were to have a chance to prov! shoulder to s with low “Coming back from Philadel- building; for some time there oun wort; to show that our Masala n aol teriréanen aes phia the other night T shared my have been almost no accidents of death was not mere words. Every|and then for their honor, among the seat with a ship carpenter. He with thelr machines. Tho acct- woman was eager to be chosen,| 1 soldiery of the enemy. was half drunk, and he talked nts on the training flelds in “‘Oh, just working overtime, One night I worked all night— and only arilled fourteen holes at that’ + “phink of It!" Lieut, Hall com- mented bitterly. “In one night's labor he drilled fourteen holes— ‘and he probably had an electric rill to help him. Why should i any man join the Aviation Corps, with the privilege of getting killed and, until then, of earning $160 a month, which the authori- ties want to cut down? Why not turn carpenter and carn $600 manoeuvring, partly to their be~ ing pushed along too quickly in their work.” “What are the necessary nat- ural qualifications for @ good filer?” I inquired, “Firat, last and all the time he has to be game,” the fighting avi- ator told me. “He must bo a #port. A lot of the chaps who go into aviation because they think it must be thrilling get cold foot and drop out when they discover the real conditions. life The average of the filer in the alr ts twon- Corns There’s a Wrong Way to Do Everything Right, and Sometimes It’s So Wrong It Becomes Right—We Get Callouses on Our Ears Listening to the Cranks Telling How They Would End the War if Only the War Depart- ment Would Let ’Em Crank—People Living in Glass Houses Should Have Bomb Proof Cellars. BY ARTHUR (“BUGS”) BAER (The New York Evening World). Copyright, 1918, by the Presa Publishing C off a giant plate on Biscuitiess Thursday, We have bunions on our ough to make two full companies ally those were women who aad twen in training longer than we. Our com- pany was not permitted to send even Ls | ‘Teutons were encouraged “This is a great life,’ he chuckled, this country I attribute partly to of 250 each were taken on the first officers to “make examples is cast woek 1 made $126 the fact that the students have draft, Those who Were most Pro-|thoso crazy women.” How they did so 4, "How did you do it? T asked. been too crowded for proper or ficient in drill were sei a, Natur. one must only Imagine. be told, (To Be Continued on Wednesday.) (Copyright, 1918, by the Bell Gyndicate, Ine,) It may uot Winning Out Before F orty By James Wilson?” C. Young. He had just given up a $250,000 Job to become head N” long ago every one was asking, “Who 1s Wilson—Thomas B, of a concern handling more than $100,000,000 worth of bust- ont ty hours, Eighty per cent. of the OME folks are so wrong that they are right, ‘The man who insists vests caused by our vests rubbing up against our backbones on Beeficss ness every year, And he was unknown to the yan al engieart cof DRFee Miers at the front last year wore on pushing the revolving doors the wrong way {a wrong, He ‘Tuesdays, We have callouses on our wrists from dangling off Inter- public, despite an earning power of $250,000 each ARR bad her an ironical fact Killed. Vavorable mortality sta- busts into the door and shoves the right folks around like ants borough straps and bunions on our good natures from waiting for the twelve months. Now he is head of Wilson &@ Go, soley Se isw. iat I tisties for aviation are based on on a hot griddie, But he gets into the butlding, which ts all he war fJunitor to stop playing pinochie and answer the bell. Wo get buncorns one of the half dozen big meat packing organiza. wip 8 of an aviation squad of 160 men, to do, He is eo wrong that he 1s right. A man might start to go to on our: imesinations from reading the Questionnaire and ooruione tions of the world, He began at $3 @ week and Ke Instead I aaked = non cane 12 Miers and 148 Hoboken, Instr of taking the ferry at three cents per copy, ho on our skulls from trying to answer the Income Tax helrogylphics, got to the top before he was forty, | mechanics, chauffeurs, , y he In ’ ; him what he thought would wake Bavie sacar tours, @c,, who ambles over to Europe, flaps across Asia and wiggles across the Pacitic, We don't know what buncorns and cornions are, but if you can At the age of nineteen young Wilson was em vs up to the war Re aetcea ape From the Pacific he flatwheels three thousand miles across the United figure out the Incomo Tax blanks you ought to be able to figure that ployed as a clerk by the C. B. & Q Ratlroad in “The bombardment of New and nerve must be about aa ere States and sneaks up on Hoboken from the rear, He wanted to go to out too, Buncorns and corn! sty stylish, And even if thoy | Chicago, Nelson Morris & Co, ment packers, York would it baerved perfect aa they mane ene one Hoboken and he got there, He went the wrong way, which arenih atvlluh i tat ice folka'é wearing them ¢ | asked for an experienced man to check move. dryly. “And it may happen yet. | 1 not know anything about that he 18 wrong, Hut ho got there, which shows that } F | ments of the company's refrigerator cars. ‘The rath ‘The submarin n get through inlaw One ort cena) was so wrong that ho ts right, road sent them @ man. He came back and gat Reet, It would be a | e best Mors One : feria Cimnominnie of the British It wv mld 1 ever saw Was a grocers clerk Another bird out {n Bashzooka had a wrong way of curt ns $ POOR RICHARD JR { | that the Job was “impossible Tt was then that mighty good thing for Am who had not even rin an automo, | which waa so wrong thut it wns right. He would rub a little of tia bthedec Rit hs RALLY | Wilson asked to go along In his stead success In war le when he joined , ° : ; to work. | — - = t Joined the fying magic Jazrbo salve on the corn and one upplication would cause E got his wish and went to a sere | 6a W ein the ale ‘eavn tg:danettthe Dalinutaldae ana abeoone up inte Nis veat. notes sont ence? who resideth in glass houses should have bomb-procf In those days the packing in ze boean ito ’ ay lies for the re- or a fe bombs y moto: ' r rn ie * he |patr work. This gu plane. We shouldn't y Ue ‘ and you're all smear of the supernatural Jazgbo ointment and the fugitive corn would | dustry had just begun 2 " Niece Ri wave bim an {dea pla i right, or Mt doesn't wor : ; Nese om a limited business into he Company repalred its o1 more campuigns for re t li gentceee outoena work and you flee up into the sufferer's necktie The strony man should be built differently from the strong FOTO a ee ct torrip fe | WEY HOt bulld: thec sown care, a tor bobs and Ox tt" Lieut, ase ; Nan AenGnAS OURA‘E Nawal building. The strong building hath its foundation in ite sho ita present world scope, 3 > plan was for shipbuilders, or 1 sub Hail explained with a grim emt Still another rehearsal with the phenomenal cure and the galloping ra Ua : nearer pe pene rapidly that 1t| Put Into eft with Wilson : 8 rim smile, n ‘ong ma is foundatio, 7 o. was expanding so rapidl att h pre ecriptions If we're not going to be II ‘ ; corn would scamper right up into the corn invalld’s hat. All the bunion whilet the strangiman hath hissoundation tf hig ha h resambled a boy who has out- | {tending construction, Uber. Then we got around to the part © must Seer) de d to do then was to take off his hat and he was cure [eee ricthea: olive . t ZBERGER the acroplane will play in vi We Musin't be leked—he student had ing hoe ins ; of , It A falsehood standeth In front of the mirror and thinketh that grown his clothes, Everyth was a l LABER t & SONS coy. for the Allies. bef war will last glx or would have been a much shorter journey to force rr el the mirror reflecteth the truth. sixes and sevens. The stockyards, NY, another old organise. yeh ae ae ’ n years longer, south Instead of north, but the Bashzooka bird acc this atm | ee _ __ |where Wilson worked, were a fleid ton of the packing indus ‘ yaa baby a Pada — >_—— even If ho did aim wrong. He was so wrong that he was c | ¢ mud, A more uninviting place | needed a man who could ac thine supertort 1 number’ ¢ ARMORED AUTO HAS FaiL h that th fi he : 5 td not have been found. That was | mako the wheels go roy . inne ‘a vaviath Pe ED. Wo often wish the Bashzodka magician would help anv y could n und. New in machines and P arate 7 bint sakentt th | any 1VES ave Vv lt on AVES | corr eason that the other man didn’t | terests had come into the w in plained Lieut. Ha “We nood re armored automobiles or| clude a separate fF with our buntons. ur r | the r | ludl He company, at least three t ay 10,0 machine KUN motorcycles will| for bunions, All corns don't sprout on A lot of xr HEP experiment on a largo scale |Just a fow years ago the efficacy of | want the Job. ecrved that atl ee mae, mveral bankers of this planes on the western front. If 1 made for the American know have cc positions. this old w thas t | on smoothing water by means oll tilling the billows was again) But young Wilson observed tha 8 ic y hey at ® determined that we could ke t ae Ar they would be of litt The castern half of t te st pp! x t | r nade at Peter-|demonstrated when the Uranian ner in this we of mud and confusion] Wilson was ian tO start the - f rau ne Q6658 — bi ea th t . ce: | , e868 18 ving at an|wheels turr the air ov he Gern ase An front, where the} painful pluins t corn is the Jalser, but the } viki Ig | head ty thir-|V no burned in mid-ocean, When| the busin! was moving at an turn Was invites to Hght 3 r t A forea pump with ship nmoned by wiree| amazing pace. Ho decided that he|take the fF ve ell the e 9 B é ver ground criss. 6 bunion. r the w bunion y rm Maier cal tie : . refused, would dare lea around. ros hes and pitted with | Heel Lt ran ia re 1 nf reached he scene the waves| had found 4 very good place to make | Tho year t ‘8 post had paig they will not feht on she inderstood. belug . ‘tint yi used upon t so high that they could not|a beginning on bis own account, So | him $120,000 salary and as much nore plane basis; they mu tw Only the k operate over such | We ave du! 5 whine, | at tho Altho’ » the burning vessel, The|he checked ¢ fa ail kinds of|in the Way of a bonus, And his ty against one or with kreater ja wurface. Despa irere cn motors | ond We BAY seFnéiion Pho deluded | voy. w inning Wich of @ tank steamer, which | weather, and had soon worked out| ture promised we i odds in thelr fay rende Rood service during | folk# !n Berlin hay f dof n as tho 7 1 @ flood of oll upon the a system whi the thing was] Again the offer was renowed, thie pie infantry Ver wmpaign in Mexico and | r have ca son ¢ trom | toy n the troub! posible for lifeboats to coma made much simpler, Morris & Co.| timo with a substantial intersat dm ] Raat an neni nae ' 1 eanected uP ar how they would tit De- | ‘ ‘ of the took note, A little later he lent athe business. He accepted, the artillery can do nothing ud } A of tho ar o a ve 1 the pted, and there eat the. als With a ' ; i talthes Nave pin orenk Me At sea have used oll to large number of passengers and the hand in directing the shop whero! ho is to-day. But the wer. Wepiority ip planes we could proved of great value in France, 8 our fingers from tr oP a dw alor; smooth the waves with great success, crew, refrigerator cara wore ropaired, Thea Wilson & Co. * ying y Few use