The evening world. Newspaper, March 25, 1918, Page 14

i ‘A ‘MONDAY, MARCH 25, 1918 The Most Striking Things I Saw on 15 Battle Fronts In the Big World War B.Thomas © urtin, American War Correspondent, Who Has Seen More of the War Than Any Other Man, Tells Evening World Readers of His Most Impressive Experiences. — By D. Thomas Curtin. JAMES W, GERARD, former United States Ambassador at Berlin, Ree vouched for the authenticity of Mr. Ourtin's information and writ dnge in the following words: “My acquaintance with Mr. Ourtin began when he visited with me while I was Ambassador at Berlin. I discovered then that he had an tatimate and thorough knowledge of the private and official Ufe of the German people and their rulers. Liter on I found that Mr. Ourtin wae telling the facte about Germany and tte people as no other journalist or publicist was doing. © * © I know too that because Mr. Ourtin has been on all fifteen fronts of the battle line that he has a knowledge and * @ perspective which few men can have.” 1, The Austrians Launch Their August, 1914, SCENE in Schabatz, when the Austro-Hungarlans attempted to flank Belgrade, impressed me in a way that I shall never forget. I was in the shambles of an overgrown village. The blood of both armies flowed in the streets and the wine from broken casks and bottles flowed in the cellars, soldiers walking in it up to their knees, The street was deserted save for an unter-offizier who was passing. An old woman, bent and shrivelled, her white locks escaping the yellow Sash around her head, tottered from a tumbled mixture of whitewashed mud and thatch, saw the enemy soldier, sank on her knees and extended her bony arms for mercy. He drew his sabre—still a relic of war. “A little stage play, and magnanimous pardon,” | thought. 1 was mistaken, The sabre whistled and slashed the outstretched arms, the woman’s shriek cut me like saws and knives, and I turned away bewildered, I came face to face with the man a few minutes later. He was not drunk. He did not look like a wild man from the hills. He was a Viennese, the kind of man that I had seen on scores of occasions loliing in @ cafe, mild and gentle as a kitten. He looked mild and gentle now. “Why did you do it?” I had to ask. “She was a pig-dog Serb, an enemy of my country. I did my duty.” And he said it in a manner that showed him satisfled in his conscience that he had done what was right. I realize now that I had had my first war time ex: ample of the fruits of the German system of education. The code is that anything done in tho name of the sors, Fatherland 1s correct, A man can be educated in a cer- i « tain way so that he will wipe out “crawling verminous pests of his country” with as little compunction farmer would rid his fleld of potato bugs. I have seen enough of this phase of war psychology to fill a book. It finds its greatest expression in the scientifically fostered hatred among the Germans for the English, In the early days of the war f once asked \ German schoolgirl {f she thought it would be right SC Heyer to @ over to London and throw bombs anywhere to kil] women“ind children. “Any- thing 1s correct against the Englis sweet when she sald it. Il, I See Germany’s Might—East Prussia, September, 1914, HD first war month was drawing to close, Tannenberg had been T fought, thousands of Russian prisoners were moving into Germany, while other thousands were sinking to unspaded graves in East Prussian bogs, Hindenburg had become an empire's idol overnight, Sam- sonov'’s army out of the way, he was now following up Rennenkampf {nto Russia. I was with his army, and J saw {t sweep along with all its parts like a powerful, well oiled machine. I talked about German effictency to a little knot of private soldiers at Weblau, and we fell to comparing Germany and Russta, for whose army these men showed absolute contempt—as they did for other armies at that time. They discussed the ‘reasons for thetr successes against the armies of the Czar with an analytical thoroughness worthy of their professors. “Yoy see, Herr Korrespondent,” gaid one, “we dofeat the Russtans, not because we are physically stronger men, or because we have, prepared for the war morg than they. Not because we have more artillery or more troops. In fact, their hordes outnumber us. We defeat the Russians be- cause our heart is {n our work, and we work intelligently, very man in the German Army is educated and knows why he ts fighting. A murmur of essent, and w comrade continued the conversation. “I used to be a Social Democrat,” he sald, “who believed even that Germany should be a republic. 1 now see my nilatake, ment {s right. Just look how we are winning Attack — Schabatz, she sald, And she looked pertectly I realize that our Govern. France 13 a republic, and AN AY French ‘‘ Liberty’’ Painting for President Wilson BELLECOURT’S CANVAS SHOWS STARS AND STRIPES JOINING FRENCH TRICOLOR—TO BE EXHIBITED AT FORMER HOME OF MRS. VANDERBILT FOR FUNDS FOR FRENCH WOUNDED. MONDAY, MARCH 25, PICKING A MANFOR SUCCESS--No.2 Men of Muscle Fit Jobs Which Require Activity, Unhappy and Consequently Not Fully Efficient if Chained to @ Desk Indoors, but Builders of Empire if Opportunity Gives Them Their Chance in the Open. Katherine M. H. Blackford, M. D., co-author with Arthur New comd of “Analyzing Character,” “The Job, the Man, the Boss,” ond inventor of the Blackford employment plan, has authorized The Bue ning World to reproduce from their books a series of articles desorth ing how to fit each type of man to the jod which will bring him evo cess. THE MUSCULAR TYPE UST as there were, doubtless, thousands of men too frail or too com J pulent for physical work who were compelled to do it in the days when practically all men were either farmers or carpenters and | | builders, so to-day there are thousands of men far too active for clerica¥ work who are compelled to do it because certain circles in society have a prejudice against manual labor. There is a type of man whose bony and muscular system predominates in his organization. This type of man loves the out of doors; freedom Is to him a physical and moral necessity. Dr. Blackford’s Diagnosis , MictoRy. . HENRI! TENRE | Hi asp OG | aR ‘ +) 6 Meath lead ge as pe ee mane eae eit al STIR ER RACES ay LUCIEN: HECTOR JONAS. ON GUARO FOR LIBERTY By) BERNE Brie LOURT, x3 To PAE. PRESENTE be a4 Pee IDENT WOR SON, No Long Range Guns, Just Squiblets see how we are beating her.” ‘This ‘was the only kind of soctal democracy that I could discover in Germany in the early part of the war. The minority outbursts of extrem- ists that cama year and a half later were the result of dissatisfaction caused by food shortage. In fact, the amount of democracy which Germany will have will be in inverse ratio to her martial suocess, IL. Britain Fails at Antwerp—and Learns—On the Scheldt, October, 1914, ITHIN ten days after being with the Kaiser's whirlwind forces in W Hast Prussia, Death's Head Hussars and all, I was falling back from Antwerp with the soldiers of King Albert, Holland supply: ing the geographical link which made possible the change. Analysis of impressions is ofte: nd I vividly reca!l how poignant were mine at that time. I had come from armies manoeuvring perfectly in all their complex parts, above all, supplied with the mechanical paraphernalia of twentieth century warfare, flushed with victory, and I found myself trudg ing along hour after hour with a battered collection of men, Bure, but not constituting an army in the German sense; clad in uniforms out of kee} with up-to-date war, and quite unprovided with the ma ehinery in keeping with up-to-date war, And yet upon them fell the task of defending a vital part of the Allied line, for the German possession of Flanders and {ts coast means a continuous threat to the very existence the British Empire. I was wondering brave, to be of where, when and how the Belgians could hold up the German ons!aught when in the night I came upon little knots of men with sailor hats, footsore, confessedly bewildered, but cheery and thoroughly game, These men of the British Naval Reserve were some of the best fellows whem I have met during the war, but they would be the last to aseert the y had been in’ the least prepared to hold back the ecte ntifle, highly trained ‘army against them. Some of the scraps of conversation Unger me new, scraps uttered while we stumbled along in the dark before the enemy with oneSBriton, an untiring young glant, tolling mile after mile with a Belgian soldier on his back, both the Bi un's feet shot off, “30 you hay n travelling around a bit,” sald one to me. “What te the news about the war?” The spotlight of the interest of the world was on the Windows? First Robin Lamped This Spring Makes a Political Note That Doesn’t Do Any Hgrm to the Democratic Administration—Slill, Instead of Rapping the Ser- 7 Board, the Mayor Would Do Just as Well by Rapping the Ouija Board— Does the Interborough Want Ti.ose Six Cents to Defray the High Cost of Dust BY ARTHUR (“BUGS”) BAER Copyright, 1918, the Press Publishing Co. (The New York ning World), XPERTS can't fgure how the Kalser sends shells 60 far without paying postage on ‘om, ’ aor rumored that the mysterious Beautiful Turk was espionaging arolnd trying to find out how many New Yorkers had worn low shoes under spats this winter, First robin of spring was lamped yesterday, which ain't bad for @ Democratic Adininistration, Instead of rapping the Service Board, the Mayor would achieve as many results by rapping a Ouija Board, Vermont woman gets a divorce bi an ivory bedroom set to mateh her he: Two big mysteries of Lif ause her husband purchased her yed Jady can knit sox focussed on us, but such is the complexity of the great struggle that per spective 1s not always easy, They made no excuses for the fact that they were retreating instead of advancing, and they told me in @ straightforward manner of how the Ger- mans had got the beet of thelr particular group. All war was new to them, and they spoke only with interest and not with reproach. At dawn they saw the enemy advancing under a white flag. Apparently they did not consider it in the least extraordipary that the flag had to be escorted by whole companies, At length the Germans substituted the red, white and black for the flag of white and rushed the fort Suave qui peut rang out, and the Httle group escaped, These men somehow reminded me of an | American college football team after a hard game, as they moved along bunched together with thelr coats thrown jauhtily over thelr shoulders |ike blankets. But they had had a first hand lesson that Germany 1s nut | playing football or ert From first to last she ts out wth the gloves J off to win the war, and if she fails tt will not be through lack of trying every device of selence, Ingenuity and trickery on her fronts, behind her fronts and behind her enemies’ fronts. (To Be Continued To-morrow.) for a bow-legged soldier, and who are the mysterious people on the other side of those food slots in the Automat, The Interborough now wante to tax us six pfennigs for dangling off a-subway strap. Don't know what the extra pfennig is for, but maybe it's to help defray the high cost of dust of the car windows, Why not sokk us seven centimnes and use the extra two cents to pack us in Oil Uke all good sardines? With the new German guns shooting seventy-five miles, the Harlem Home Guard have only 2,925 miles between them and trench feet, Connecticut man ewho claims to have eleven relatives in the war is all right, but that’s one thing they don't make medals for, Nobody has yet invented @ bullet-proof cloth, but Senator Thomp- son claims that 60,000 officers have bullet-proof uniforms, Spring ts here. ‘The chocolate sap 4# gurgling in the sodawater straws aud the ice ts off the radiators, WHO WON? A FRIEND once asked “Uncle Joe" A LITERARY CRITIC, ITTLE six-year-old Allan, scion of a bookish family, had mas- tered reading so efficiently that his first glimpses of storyland were srowing hazy in his memory, One afternoon he confided to his mother: “Mildred was showing me her new book to-day, and it’s the queerest thing you ever saw! Why, ft just says: ‘Is {ta cat? It is a cat. Can the cat run? and a lot of stuff like Cannon for taformation as to A politiclan at that time hought to be “on the ragged edge.” ‘He seems to think he's getting on ul right,” sald “Uncle Joe," “but sthers entertain a decidedly different »pinion, His situation brings to mind the story of the woman up In Maine, When she was asked as to the where- \bouts of her husband the dame re- plied: “If the ice 1s as thick as Hen-| that! ‘Course I was too polite to say ry thinks it Is, he is skating; if it 1s| #0, but {t didn’t seem to me the style as thin as I think It ts, he is swim-| was @ bit julcy?"—Rochester Post ming.”~—Lippincott’s, Express. Ile hates and even grows irritable u activity; his muscles call for exerci Yet this type of man, by thou behind the counter or chained to a broad, square shoulders and is well j@lastic, exceedingly energetic type, with muscles like steel springs and sinews like steel wire—very agile, very skilful, very quick and some- what jerky in his movements—or he is tall; raw-boned, strong, enduring, graceful, easy in his movements rather than quick, and yet with con- siderable manual skill. * Or he may be of the short, stocky type, with broad shoulders, short neck, short arms, short legs, with big, round muscles and an immense capacity for endurance. The rall- roads of the early days, in this country, were built by Irishmen. They were either the large, raw- boned type or the quick, agile, wiry type, These active men usually have square faces. That {s to say, there is @ good development of the outer corner of the lower Jaw, wyich gives to the faco a square appearance. Oftentimes their cheek bones are both high and wide. As a general rule, they have large, aquiline or Roman noses. When they are of the enduring type and capable of long-sustained muscular activity, they have prominent+chins. Their hands are square. Their feet are large. If they have mechanical and constructive ability, as most of them have, thelr forcheads are compara- tively high and wide just above the temple. Professional baseball players, pro- fessional dancers, middleweight and Ughtweight prize fighters, most avi- ators, automobile racers and ath- letes belong to the wiry, springy, medium-sized type of this particular class of men. While men of these types may make brilliant successes in purely mental vocations, a> the result of the development of their intellects, and may keep themselves in a fair degree of health and strength by games, exercise, mountain climbing, farming or some such avocations. nder restraint. He demands physical ise; his whole physical being is keen for life in the open, with plenty of activity. usands, Is sentenced to spend his Mife desk! He is as unhappy there, and aimost as badly placed, as if he were, indeed, in prison. The active type of man is, of course, easily recognized. He has’ mused. He is either of the wiry, they are, nevertheless, never quite 4 80 well satisfied as when they have something to do which not only gives them opportunity for the use of their intellects but also involves & certain degree of physical actiy- ( {ty a8 a part of their regular work. Their vocation should supply them with the necessary physical exercise a8 part of the day’s work. There is plenty of ‘oom for the mental capacity, the executive abt ity and the splendid organizing genius of this typs of man tn out- door work. Our great forests a fields are not producing 25 por cent. of the amount of wealth they should. Produce. under even such sofentific methods as are known at present. The world's greatest opportunities to-day, perhaps, Me within the grasp of the men of this active type. In- stead of pioneering in exploration, |® {n former years, they are needed to ploneer in production, These out-of-door men are fitted by nature to take the scientific truths discovered by those better fitted to sit indoors and make practical ap- plication of them to the problems of increasing the wealth of the race. The man who discovers @ way to make a hundred bushels of wheat | Srow on an acre of land where only twenty-five bushels grew before is as great a benefactor of the race as the discoverer of a continent. The man who can find a cheap and easy way to capture and hold nitrogen from the air will add more to the wealth of the race than all the die coverers of all the gold mines, The man of bone and muscle—the restless, active, pioneering, cons- tructing man—would do well to con- Sider these things before determin- §\ ing upon his vocation. The world has need of his particular talents, and he should find his greatest hap- piness and greatest success in the exercise of them fn response to that need, RESIDENT WILSON Is to have P @ picture presented to him by France, It {8 a war canvas from the brush of the well known modern French painter, J. Berne’ Bellecourt, and ts to be one of the features of the ldatest and newest war relief enterprises to be launched in New York, an ex hibit of autographs and sentiments from the famous people of France and a collection of modern French paint ings, largely on war subjects, painted in many cases by artists now at the front, for the benefit of a Frencn philanthropy that hitherto has been but little known here, La Protection be held tn the former residence of Col, and Mrs, Cornelius Vanderbit, No, 87? Fifth Avenue, and will open, if yesible, early next week. “Heroes Without a Halo” ts the name that M, Bricux of the Academie Francaise ha given to the suffering Frenchmen that are to be benefited by this new exhibition, There are to- day 400,000 soldiers sent back from the front, “not lucky enough to be nit,” denied the solace of a badge of courage—men not wounded but af- fiicted with tuberculosis, heart dis- Var Painting for President V7ilson, “On Guard for Liberty” du Reforme No, 2 The exhibit will) ‘ ease, rheumatism, neurasthenta, abeoe lute wrecks, unable to care for thety families, The picture that 1s to be prem to President Wilson is a very atrik- (ng war scene, showing in the fore- sround @ soldier with his arms rossed on his gun and looking grimly into the distance, with the Prussian cagle, Its feathers torn and despalled, lying dead at his feet. Behind him @ fag in tatters, In the background at the left war ts seen raging and cities are burning, > the right the sky te rT, the Bartholdi Statue of Liberty ding In New York Bay is clearly defined, with the oceap in the disey and coming up to meet the ding soldier a vast horde of an American army headed by the Amer. fean flag, Among the notah who are represente le French artists din this collec. tion are Jean Enders, Hen Alfred Renaudin, Lucien” Fs) Jonas, J. Berne Bellecourt, Jules Ribeaucourt, Mme, Breton Demog! Paul Roux, Maurice Lelotr, Plerrt Jacques Pelletier, Ziem, Leonte Michaud, Cyprian Boulet and Jeanne Amen, i) d