The evening world. Newspaper, May 2, 1918, Page 20

1 } 4 2 i ‘ THURSDAY, MAY 2, 1918 NF; irst Time Under Foes’ Fire, and Howa Raw Soldier F eels, Is Told by Austrian Officer } Ditferent Attitude of Two Leaders Toward Their Soldiers | Vividly Portrayed in “Men in War"—Word to | Advance Welcomed Afler Sus- pense of Waiting. By James C. OW does a man feel when he goes i That i that almost every ¢ ¢ of us has asked himself. Perhap: complete tha can be found this side of the t is to be read in the pages of { “Men in War written by Andreas Lat Austrian officer, and since it Young » battle a question | 5 the most) itilefield It was recent a new book calle ko, an translation into English has attracted much attention, The book wa published in this country by Boni & Liverig York, and bear the somewhat unusual dedic To friend and foe.” Not only does the book present a vivid picture of life at the fre tions which certainly could exist hand of autocracy. ut, but it reveals ¢ one ruled by the irony condi- in no army sav This Aus officer ry must be regarded as one of the vitalf documents of the war, And any one may read between the lines his own distaste for embattled militarism, with all that it represents. His book is particularly notable for its illustration of the effect that war has upon different natures. | half an i} self, and tho whistle of the shells passed almost unobserved. “They were at the top of the rid “The company rested for hour at tho edge of the woods," the writer, in beginning a chapter says Beaded “The Baptism of Fire.” Thev/ joy, ‘Below tho field of battle Capt. Marschner gave the command stretched far out, cheerlessly gray to start. Ho was pale, in spite of| a01) hole upon shell holo yawned the killing heat, and he turned bis gown there, Black pillars of earth eys aside when he gave Licut, Weix ler instructions. Whenever he left Weixsler loose on the privates, eve rything went like clockwork, They trembled before this lad of barely twenty as though he the devil leaped up and for moments hid small parts of this desert burned to ashes Amid the fury of the bursting shrap nel, Which fell here as thick as rain| in a thunde Marschner orm, Capt were himself up to his D guve rage against Sncarnate. Since they had come), world that had inflicted euch a within close sound of the fring tiny on him Weixsler had grown almost merry, even talkative, impelled by a nervous geal, like an enthusiastic hunter who has picked up the trail “Capt. Marschner took deep breath and looked up at the sky with wide open eyes that had a peculiarly “He raced the steep slope entrance trenches Lieut like In the valley at the| the communication Welxsler presented | himself in strictest military form and) announced the loss of fourteen men. a madman down to Marschner heard the ring of pride in intent look in them. In the fore-\n1. voice, like triumph over what Ground, beyond the steep Lill that) 2g heen achieved. ‘The Captain has-| still hid the actual field of battle yoiud on, past Wolaler, If only hol from view, the invisible guns were beating in haste; and scarcely a fathom the edge of the slope small, yellowish eee did not have to see him, he told him: breathless seif—it only he did not have to meet above the contented gleam of the man's 1 eel eyes, Suddenly an unknown face ge 8 | white packages floated in : je ae is emerged directly in front of him, It ters, like enowballs flung high in the yi6 4 Corgeant, who was staring’ at! ain—the smoke of the barrage flrej) i io eric arent tavared | thropgh which he had to lead his men. Assuredly no small task for a egmpany of reservists, for respect- able family men who had been in the field but a few hours, and who junce were only now to smell powder for] vd fi the first time and receive their bap-|, tiem of fire. “LAeut. Welxsler, red-cheeked and radiant, came and shouted in his face that the company was ready. It} sounded like a challen, The Cap- tain could not help hearing in the} gleaming eyes in a deathly pale face For a moment he lyzed, then stood as though vi mouth openéd his hands his wide, he clapped into the like d off. ‘Relief! | Lieutenant! ‘The relief party aud air a dancer he shouted, “Men streamed toward him from| every direction, stared at him and| vechless lips formed the word | — until at with 5 relie length one of them) ane nt roared out @ piercing hurrah, which insolent question ‘Well, why a ..| Spread like wildfire, you as glad of the danger as Tam] wwii the othe ad gone the Every drop of Capt. Marschner's blood rose to his temples. to look aside and his eye shelling soon began. Then it s | Weixsler sprang back, topped jostled against He had wandered When the Hohenzollerns Sle, pped Out lo Slip t the World the Old Razzberry They Forgot That There Is Many a Skid Between the Chinaware and the Chin Maroon colored th skunk a EL en ee 1918 HURSDAY, MAY 2, AR Rapidly Passing; iF our Years May Wipe Out Paris Models for Spring and Summer Gowns PRESENTED TO THE EVENING WORLD’S READERS THROUGH CO-OPERATION WITH THE DRY GOODS ECONOMIST Sams i K roe coat, d with large bone buttons, and jhax novel collar \/ and Dialted ‘side shirt whi te tl | seal. 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If) 104, ana camo neater, their rifles e : only he could have driven them back) i tt the a ae hae UY out in to their own people and gone ahead) ied savantit’ it was a pleas y of M i slone! With a jerk he threw out bis| . 1) ang when the call “ iat lor mesaien es gen Ud chest, fixed his eyes on a medal that) went through their lines it changed! c. pelea : ‘ ' i @ man was wearing, and said: \to a dull, thunderous roll ie yon? “ ‘Boys, we're going to mect the! wrne aout hand grenade flow intol to 11 f mpery ORs 7 oounh Bpon cach Of! me trench. The Captain saw {t come] me nothing of you that the ir ROE aocaciein culateatoned dene mi _ our fatherland and your own intér-|" oy sit sane the beating, of thel Ww : est and the safety of your wives and) te ee tua f malaren do not actually require.) i" ae : ks ms Ft | 4 ae ne luck! And now—forward,| °° RET PMG Na a eae Nl ey merch" out there, sprang {nto the air and! # Let's Into the ra he boom, the ©%-) 1164 over cach other. At that moe] % i ny ‘ meee Of artiller sped sud~| rent @ jubilant hurrah roared| dozen denly © new tone. A fow fect away) uo ough the trench, rising from a w the HI a Mw whirl of dust was puffed up.| sq throats, The ettace nay b fnvisible hallstones slapped| eo nutaed! : ose upon the grass, Shrapnel! | om Capt. Marschner looked around and| gipgt AUTOMOBILE PATENT. gaw all tho men’s eyes fixed on him 1K first ay ution for a patent = as thouw. asking his advice, It was alr for an automobile was filed in ' bis business to set the men a good t United States Pa’ on example, to march on carclessly|»¥ George HB. Selden 29 ye without stopping or looking up en was & patent la ind ' After all, it made no difference what] °° N.Y» when he first began t w one did one way or the other i. ‘ greet cs 1 : 1 fe “Nothing but @ spent shot! Fors) ..g : Pip if ward, boy he cried. But thel, and t . ' words were not out of his mouth pe t 1 when other shots whizzed' through | # . and the pa the air. Gorn until ! t A “Forward, run!’ Le shouted, His\" ety thigh se ' men stormed forward as if relieved.| fortune for t (eh Palys eh ' The tension left their face each | Rey and n t lominat & mq Was couchow busied with bim-! Ni, si . Urea suns cig roll vimo Dewey n sober off, A ng su h side of tt By w that we cheated need into Manila m its ¢ And there | yet. But celebrating on the edges. That ugh-house, the a small war that 1 out the comp ad industry which wahill pull, 1 ne " Why hat Brutus forgot | + Cac tead of a the Kiel Canal, whe quest, Withahalt | Take the Anchors Of Your Bank- The Liberty Loan Must Bubble Over the Top. Arthur (“Bugs”) Baer 7 a Last of the Old Soldiers | Movement on Foot to Make All Fi ighting Men of United States Eligible for Membership—But Veterans Cling to Their Glory as Their Very Own, and Famous | Organization Is Likely to Disappear. By Jack Drouillard Grand Army of the EARING total depletion of the ranks of Republic by the progressive increase in the death rate among its i movement has been started to perpetuate the princi f the historic institution founded in 1860, time inevitably cycles by, the army, once 2,000,000 g, has thinned until at the present day only 170,000 G, A, R. vet+ of the Civil War are alive. During the month of March 4,866 G.'A. R. members passed away, ?ension Ofte The rate cannot decrease. and it is now calculated that of Bull Run, Antietam, Gettysburg, most four years to according to the United State: As time goe j the men who { | Chancel on the oid soldiers grow older, in the battle: a hundred oth | live. th 1¢ idea of a complete obliteration of the organization has caused | persons in New York State to support passage of an amendment to the constitution of the Grand Army of the Republic in order that all | American soldiers and sailors in the present and past wars be eligible. If the amendment 4s considered | favorably the organization will con tinue; if not, the G. A. R. will be a glorious memory of another day | which tradition alone will transport There { to be a New York veterans are a nto the future ni-annu May 20. to parade. meeting in when the And this year will see eat reduction in the familiar line jof men marching to the battle tunes In New State, and particu larly th n Mar an and Kings County--and the s the same in every part of the United States—death has cut down the mem bership roll to a pathetic figure ome of the posts have an enti ne only, for death has claimed hem all \ Post Lafayette, which twenty-eight years ago had a total of 541 mem bers in good stat now has 17 Post Burnsid same period of twenty-two out time has lost of a Louis N. Aarons, 98th Regiment, N. total membership of twenty-five. ¥, Volunteers: 2d Scott Life Guards; Three veterans remain, and all are Post Jarves C, Rice, No. 29 threescore and ten Post In the basement of the Clty Hall James C, Rice for had 157 are offices of the Memorial Commit- members; it now has seventy-six.'tee of the Grand Army of the Re- ‘ | post Gen, James McQuade had sixty- public of New York. Members con- <a gregate there daily, The other war / \ s ten—almost—and the tople $ nt war, T old soldiers, vale, hearty and vigorous heir age, are fired with trivtic a zeal and Jove of country as jthey were in ‘61. The mous in saying: “We but we will g' | Adjt. H. G sch is In charge of the committee, having been ap- it pointed by William Kirchner, |Commander for New York State. | |He served four years and three | months in the Civil War, but he ts the amendment of their making all American to the G. A. R. He yn of most, if not all, soldiers eligible voices the of of the ve But H. G. Fritsch, Adjutant Memorial td dase Committee of New York City. after these grizzled heroes are r forgot t L between the naware five members; eighteen remain Post} Sone who is going to kee p alive the mid! (nav AGING ANA: Soh ave skidded worse than @ | Gets, Shields-Corcoran, whose mem-|"&auization? What will become of freshly ofled eel trying t d a | bers constituted the old and famous|'Helr records and relics and docu- And every Liberty bond you purchase nother skid under the | 69th Regiment in the Civil War, the Se, Oe Kaiser, Tuke the anchors off your bankr The Liberty Loan must | ine regiment that is now distin ttc ig ie bubble ove: a tea kett pall six cylinders, How | jussning itself on the western front [00 x do you expect the Buddies to go over if you go under? in 1890 counted on its rolls seventy Kit It’s too late now to buy bonds for the War of 1812, but it aint |fiyg men, Only fifteen, all of whom too late to load up on the bonds for the War of 1918, Paste that in your live {n Manhattan, have lived to see havie you wear an over a number six, And forge! War of | their exploits in the struggle between 1812. ‘TH wel rack with empty’ sardine cans and |in9 North and South emulated on other solle ‘foreign soil by men 1] Major Bill] If you w Ka p like a bust out | Donovan, Corpl. Plant, Private Mc n i sp with Li bond Cormick and Private MeNiff, If America Di you and you are not supporting Amert |Back from France with decorations ye enough t under a hschund without taking off yo {on their br 8 ‘ It ane 1 ; y another bond tor [eight years ago had a complement of| your ¢ m | 12 veterans. Nineteen are left. Post] u v bought a | dames H. Perry has beea cut down r buy a tond or ta xt boat home from 155 to thirty-four, Post U, 8.] - — - — —- {Grant had 320 members; there are | Fla: i C3] now 200, Post Phil Ke has onl Nahant agship Sull Afloat Beas aut oe Guatal’ ot aie tes M, 8. VICTORY, Nelson's flag.) directed the formation of the English| i" 1890. Post Sumuer has thirty H ship in the memorable Bate ugar,| seven members left out of a total of a4 © of Trafalgar, has been | Sp wed | 1 i state of preservation | by 1 and] Post William D, Kennedy {n 1890 8 rhaps the old- | Spain, It was from her quarter deck] jad a mem hip of ninety-elght Hharmery ¢ Ww t at Ei Md) it now has eighteen, Post Reno dur i idli aaah } pian A ad eaten Gommander John Schmidling, Post u e mortally | cen reduced from 232 to thirty men,/ ments and their old battle flags? Ri eal tc ho lag severat| The veterans of the organization do Better they should be preserved by ty: luding| not seem to welcome additional mem-|the boys when they come back vie ar ny bers, for, as one of them said, “the! torious from the we n front, add- \ 1 1 smal we get the more imposing ing to history that has been made. ted ‘4 we " And, like the veterans of Mar better that the Grand Army of lthe War of 1812, they will silently) the Republi 0 and continuous N await the coming of the last trumpet|and pass on to @ Anibela a Harb Y manijcall and leave as thelr bequest al than to sink into oblivior me eer ARN PUI ho tage of fame for those of us in'be a Grand Army of the Ropublie “Tt wad Grou the Vigtury Lbal eleva javier at Balin ‘future gouoralions, forever,