The evening world. Newspaper, October 10, 1918, Page 20

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 10, 1918 Fight Months at the Front | With the American Army DO NOT U NDERESTIMATE GERMANY’S MAN POWER Statements That Germany’s New Soldiers Are Weak and Inefficient Not Founded on Facts—Foe Is Drawing to Colors Every November 500,000 Boys eS THURSDAY, OCTOBER 10, 1918 Highest Patriotic Duty | For Mothers Often Lies | In Their Own Homes Three of This Fall’s Novelties OF SPECIAL INTEREST TO THE WOMAN WHO LIKES TO ADD SOMETHING “DIFFERENT” TO HER WARDROBE. They Can Serve Their Country by Devoting Their Time to Training Their Children to Become Good, Democratic, Who Are for the Most Part Healthy, Well Disciplined and Well Equipped. By Martin Green (Sta Correspondent of The Evening World.) NCE my return from France I have heard many Americans declare! that Germany is played out in man-power; that the young men called into the army every autumn when they reach the age of eighteen are, undernourished, undersized and generally undesirable as soldiers. Persons making theee statements have no first- hand knowledge of actual conditions at the front. I find upon inquiry that they have obtained their ideas from soldiers’ letters, scattered newspaper or magazine articles or from statements or lectures made or delivered by civilians or statesmen w2o, by virtue of a pull, have taken what is known in the army as a “Cook's Tour” back of the front and have swallowed all the fantastic yarns that have been floating through all the Allied armies since the beginning of the war. ' weece “But,” these unconscious propagandists of alleged German military weakness insist, “the new German sol- diers MUST be weak and inefficient. They have been starving for four years. The health and thw teeth and tie comfort of the young boys have been neglected. Germany's new man-power material is bad,” | On the contrary, Germany's new| “Oh, yes,” he answered, “Many! ™an-power material is good. This) were bigger and stronger than I.} @ssertion is based on actual contact! ‘They were older.” i with numerous young German pris-| “And you received new equipment?" @ners taken by our forces and by| the Major inquired the French. We have taken, since) “All new,” was the answer. June, hundreds of prisoners who on-| The boy said that the next class to tered the German army in the cia#s| be called in his village would equal of 1917 and they are uniformly strong, | in num the class of which he was healthy, well disciplined and w«ll|/a member. He was the son of a small equipped youths—excellent fighting| merchant, he sald, and his family, materia!. while on short rations, had enough to One of our divisions captured, early | eat. | fm June, in the Chateau-Thierry sec-| FEW KNOW REAL REASON WHY)! tor, swarms of German boys who had WAR 18 BEING FOUGHT. 1 been called to the colors in November,! oy after boy was put through the! 3917, When the war broke vut these! Kindly, gentle mill of interrogation. | boys were from fourteen and a half to| vew of them knew anything about’ fifteen years old. The American In-| the causes of the war and none of telligence Major who examined these| them knew anything at all about young soldiers is an American of Ger-| world-wide aspect of the Man dlood with perfect knowledge of | Although many were immature, they | the German language and wide un-| measured up, in prospect of physical Gerstanding of German character, For) development, to standards which| obvious military reasons he took par-| would insure their reaching the aver- ticular pains in his interrogation and| age German manhood, height, weight! @earch of the youngest troops in the) and strength, and German army, They were a smeary looking lot he struggle. | the average Ger- man soldier is far from a weakling. | German boys captured by the. when first brought in; dirty, ragged,| French in other sectors of the front Unshaven, red-eyed, weary and dis-| and representing at least a dozen Ger- eohsolate. Their appearance was due| man divisions were about the same, to the fact that they had deen fight-| from the standpoint of military ma-| hig for five days and nights without| terial, as our prisoners, The officers @eep or provisions from cheir rear. |of our army and the officers of the! Bleep, food and an opportunity to| French and British armies do not elean up transformed them into| subsoribe to the theory that the new straight, well set up, snappy soldiers.| material for the German army is un-! Many of the privates were quite ig-|dernourished and undesirable 1 morant and nearly all were stupid.| GERMANY CALLS 500,000 BOYS TO | But they knew the soldier game and COLORS YEARLY. their answers to imwiries, afterward 4 ehecked up and confirmed, showed| Although an eminent French mili- that in getting into action they had| “ry authority insists that Germany covered distances on foot equal to|%&s @ reservoir of youth from which! records made by some of our units|She can draw 700,000 new soldiers a ef which we were quite proud, year it is considered more reasonable ONE GERMAN BOY SOLDIER’S|‘o estimate her reserve man power STORY IS ILLUMINATING. | Supply at 500,000 per annum, Now let One tall lad, the back of whose head| Us see what, on this basis, has bap-; fan straight up from the back of his| pened to the German army since we! neck to meet the top of his head at|entered the war in April, 1917. almost right angles, proved by his! @nswers to questions to have some- In November, 1916, Germany talled ble as “Working for the Government,” in Positions Which Can Be Filled by the Women Who Have No Such Home Responsi bilities. By Nixola Greeley-Smith. Copyright, 1916, by The Press Publishing Co, (The New York Evening World) - VERY now and then some mother of children drops in upon me, and E as she rounds the toe of an olive-drab sock recites a plaintive tale that I have come to know by heart Marian Jones is driving an ambulance in France, Mildred Burns {is a nurse with the Fifth Base How | pital unit, Ethel Smith {s making $101 a month in the Government service. But what really clever women aid they have n can I accomplish, visi Amanda only : Billy eleven and Mabel fourteen? I knit, of course, re and roll bandages and make ‘panties’ for the little * Belgians, but what does all that amount to? I want to do something worth while, I may not have ‘rains enough to earn $101 a month, but I am sure I could What shall it be? And though I discourse eloquently the most essential of all the industries and declare that driving aun ambu- lance, nursing the wounded or even earning $101 a month of Government money—a simple performance which women have never earned money view with pathetic respect—are all of less importance than bring- ing up three future citizens to be worthy of our part in the war, the dis: gruntled mother goes away wearing the same baffled and with which she came. Motherhood is by far the most aim cult of all professions in which women 1 do? They are children. What seven years old, oe earn someting, She pauses. for half an hour of who uncertain look partment equentty is the tgno- standards be- ring inevit- admire, be- baby-worshippers nin But it is also tho pro- | rar most , fe ably wha come far too ofte Joan engage. wh ssion in which slacking is easy There are, for instance, mother | j ‘ f the Golden ¢ |who give all their care to their ¢ Fe : ; has alway seamed to me ¢ |dren's physical being and, even while me ¢! they follow conscientiously the com- Amer ave bragged about tt Pp wrong virtues, that we were cast | mandments of the body and air and diet them acording to Holt their minds to the chance contacts ot |schools and streets and permit their souls to be stid-born, Is the! any- thing more dreadful than to be the flown about the things which should exalted leave 1s and exulted over the should cast us There is nothing more admirable in pr ving the richest things which have down man in the world th sther of a little snob? And yet some growing the ibs ald ANG ah largest pumpkin 4 to: have: women encourage snobbishness in| ° b ‘ hildren, deliberately insti in |Steatest nun f millionaires them that it is more desirable to be |™ merely that we have the great. est number of men whom (ts pas- ts to fanatiolsm Yet we have always bragged about jour rich men. Meantime our great surgeons, our superb architects, our splendid pa | friends with certain playmates than with certain other playmate sion for money amon | Now and then a well-to-do moth |who thinks herself very advanced announces that boys should go to public schools and learn to be demo making Amer- ica famous everywhere except in ts, but that she cae send her! America, which was content to know |giris to private establishments | its poets, its musicians, its artists of | ferentially to learn to be snobs. Yet every sort in comic section jokes Jie really far more important fF | about their poverty and long hair. |giris to learn while young to be|Americans who had grown up outside for whatever nonsense a|the mystic circle arou vetimes had mocrats. the golden stility costume, devel | 1iMiculty in find- calf boy acquires at home or in school is |Caif some shad Suit o i ones y blue serge and black Aah | '* ing things to brag about, no matter Sult of silver cloth, In two tone a blue 8 .. sure to be knocked out of him by lite | how passionate! the loved tht brown and tan, Beaver collar and satin, The novel feature is the cl oy aoa alata steerer eh a Rau large pearl buttons afford attractive ng the place of pelt a pantalette, tal “protected” from | To-day we have something we can all be proud of together, the unpate~ alleled idealism which took America into the war, the matchless valor of our young men, fi & as only cru- Hl saders for lib fight, and the Sime Now and then we read about “igM0- jract that this country will’ live for- eAitichaltcadesi rant mothers who wean their bables jever in the hearts of men as the most fortunate as to be trimmings influences, and so corrective | preserve her foolishness intact to the grave Oldest Travelling Salesman “On the Job’? at 90): ie 8 Mito etn” ee llealth strives ceasele: y and effect- It is really the most material always being will have to be worthy of this ideal, of these men, of this shining record, leno. (and it is the task of mothers to make ied it worthy. Why then should members of the most essential of all industri nst and destroyed. The envy nurses and ambulance drivel John B. Clayton, Who's Been Selling Shoes Out of New York Sixty Years, Totes a Twenty-Pound Sample Case Over His Territory, Never Comes Back Without Several Orders, and Expects to Be **Still Going” for Fen Years More. | vely against it gible form of because it is rusaded aga | to the colors 600,000 boys. In Novem-| FOHN B. CLAYTON, probably the) rising are the only regular things of appeal to Gppetite or whatever! a He « t admit that he nost dangerous ignorance because it | !n France, or war workers ‘o thin thing in the nature of brains in the| per of last year she called 500,000 more J oldest active travelling salesman] his life, Ie goes to bed at 10 ¢ tunis haa ohahared. tok ihekle (ATOM INR, O18 use he doesn't be the hardest to reach is found on | country? For thelra ts the biggest of front half of his cranium. His papers! ang next month she will draw on her In the world, was given a silver He amokes, and has for seventy-five! teve Mt. t he's fired, he de- | with Avenue quite often a8 in|their hands full just living up to it ebowed that he elghteen years! reserve for 500,000 additional soldiers| loving cup by his fellow employe , ' He shawed tomcos for Stvivice vanes 1 Street i_in_ expensive 'for the next forty years.” and one month ol¢ | bu vd who will be ready to take their places |Y in the front’ line next spring. We will have 2,000,000 soldiers Mm France next] “You were taken before you were| eighteen,” said the American Major. “I was just seventeen years and six months when I was called,” replied the boy, “You see I was in my spring. Of that number, it is esti- | ¢ m able for use on the fighting frout, birthday anniversary ted, about 60 per cent will be avail-|been in the she York City since 1858. esterday In honor of his ninetiet) up that habit re eats tl Dr. Louise C. Ball, N. Y. Woman Responsible For Sound Teeth of Soldiers in Last Draft He is connect ‘5 of Merritt-Elliot . Street, and has \k at business in New \ \ d with the firm mpany of Duar \ % f k f r 1 eighteenth year, Other boys in my : ivi - \. ‘ a bie © Government needs a village of che same age were calied| Between April, 1917, and Aprit, 1919,) Mr Clayton looks like @ man sf A t ¢ for the wh Y Killed radio- technicians, in November. we will have sent to France, roughly |OMlY slaty Ave His ene | xf —~) tto and think best, And for his hundred trainéd dentists’ clea « hearing 1s good and he re he » be ve ten y t the ex of en “We went into training and were |#Peaking, 2,000,000 men. In the same [2h clear Lat tlvind var aay ae pa 4 BS wk sen 808 tke the places of en called to the front in April, For! Period Germany will have thrown into | Works from Daly a atcon oF nls 4 : en, otf ® more than one month we were in re- | her army as reinforcementa from civil | !thout fatigue, Only ete Ween Olayt unks am he olde i corps of workers to oulde es any indication of the : r 1 ecth serve far back of the lines, In May life approximately 1,500,000, It will be [Moulders gives any indication of Us vativ was born fx the teeth of we received orders to proceed to the Seen from this that the American | ¥¢%" of time ; “A ae a My} No. IMM \ tain 1828, 8 nee drafted men, or front, and our division travelled by|forces are still far from overwhelm: |‘¥¢!¥ ro is La TSAR ue otime t ! xtend me one to # train to w city the name of which I| ingly overcoming the German army |reat-krandeniidren, some of (he tal) Cana \ hom ’ , isberty Bonds do not know, for we did not enter |i”crease in numbers, American optim. | '*" yea agit re y He spont h i Uncle Sam has a the city, but disembarked outside. is apt to consider @ job finishea| "1° ™ os bine aero ‘ ag aN Re Se habit of calling on Then we marched for three days and | When it in only half accomplished, | Rwi0n only Pai Bowen se ud that now the most va i Dr. Ball, a pioneer rested until May 26, when we moved| American ciizens who spread, no jue thi ibe var a in hae 1 n the worl, and sit er } in the movement to, again, this time into the battle. We !matter how innocently, the impression | retired long before the age of nevent n ‘ ' Dr wouset. a\natiiute, ‘wom entered the front lines five days ag) that Germany's man power js inem 4 if work , ‘ y\bay. He + \ Galt abor for man and fought until we had to surren-|cient, that Germany is beaten t aise Pg Hapoel gah Frank that haired pow help solve a jermany is beaten ora yesn’'t change jobs. But Me ” w New Y knew ted. He) 4 Just problems. she wants to mahe peace or that Ger- | Clayto Imself right in theld a himself in an extra 1 : isn cloth, DRUPAL BI POA you koow you were fighting| many wanta peace Because aho tec | Cee ot ta ne ent H work ! t , And to Dr, Ball goes a great deal Amarioana?! asked the © y a she be-| prime of life, and ready to make 0} ' amor us 4 ef anne ie. or a8 ; eas ps ; Jeves herself beaten are hurting the | good with am . 7) wh . And ' 1 va pirit ¢ ¢ . Lalbsabaee ow Ne | good with amy firm he might fa He ea 1 <4 We heard so,” answered the boy: Fourth Liberty 1 phe | New York left this country with sound ‘ an, Germany wants |Vifteen years ago his friends gave ; A But it did not make any difference| peace hecause has in Nee ear |e pore 840. he: eA pany ‘| f Al] a Nat evi qantas as “Were all the boys you met wholand Finland and ck ane ne: ORR SITY | 7 S gs, three on eit wiry. t ' was Dr. Ball who con ‘ a and and a diy slice of | Last week when they made plans for] By T. L. Sanborn " were called in your class as strong) Middle Europe and has not ain : iiey, Toads a tt aa Ghia toch ; © tacked | ceived oak in ino and healthy as you?” asked the Ma- the Russiana invaded Austria, been the tering Sup i econ ney ; NO. 10 HAITI wo rifles, @ drum, af \ era urse in mout Jor, insinuatingly and smilingly smanailed ta Rest »’ byon | truly eMolent they should prepare fk HE negro Republic of Ha ie S agiiny ta it os aa oral . ‘ y peli ht on the territory |his one hundredth anniversary ‘ 4 The boy blushed with ure atiof the Centr Em ‘ | > | ¢ 1 blue and red as the ¢ left m tree s course, pr to Co the implied compliment ? ai Empires, There is| Regularly, twice » month, Mr, Clay- | of the nati g, which 1p ut ward University Dean of pa i cally plenty of fight in Germany yet, |ton packs his sample case and de A teoraigel Baia E ' Sop narepenr ORAL HYGIENE CLINIC CLEANING TEETH OF DRAFTED MEN. 18 IDEA, Gurr ¥ ~ {parts on a tour of Jersey and West flag is di- “4 lao beara. th : ie Orr ptr puaipale 7 clal dental clinie and will give all,techniclans to handle portable ma- pee 0), 1 BETTING HER NONRY!S WonrH, | chester County. He carries the twer Reagan | at | 1 force’—(union make ae vernment asked for as-|PUrses embarking from New York |chines in base hospitals and on the “Are you interested in prison re-| Mrs. Rankin—Mre, Giddigad says ahe| 7 7DOUnt case himself, and he nev fa) haniannte merchant flag of Halll hearslcetance wae the teeth of the| /Ast-minute instruction fleld, Dr. Ball secured a license to term? takes @ lot of comfort out of her new| comes back without several orders pe of biue|mer the horizon biue stripe - Hite carviee, Dr. Ball's| While Dr. Ball was perfecting her/teach radiography. Through co-oper “Not particularly. Of course I admit | maid He works on @ commission, and z save a: the red, the white squ ang] Me r4 ete cre Me experience | Work in oral hygiene she was search ation of Dr Louine M. Wobster, Di (hat there 1s possibly much room for) Mrs. Phyle—But isn’t « maid a great | Considered one of the good selling men a= 1, and aya /SOAh Ce AtiaA REIOR Omitted. | | Teena ee yeiane to care fore iarge\Ne about for & saw opportunity forlEchon or ihe Mecactment att maiene fmprovement in the conduct of ourlexpense to a person in her circum-| of the establishment HAITI atatth ents a8 WAL O)h. vi ors women in war work. She found it inition, she need the oheclne aime Prisons, but my own idea is that it |stances? | on a white square | 1917, as one of the Allies. Occupying| number of drafted men, Recently, 4 ion, she announced the opening of @ would be cheaper and better in the end | money's Duty? SAYS She gets her When working in New York City he! in its center the Haitian coat of arms, |Part of a rich and beautiful iople | py, Ball has been asked to organize a|the neod of radiographers. Learning |¢ nurse, fOr omen ; radiography, ; te reform our young folks first #0 that |""°Hiow ‘ commutes regularly to Westfield, N.| ‘This coat of arms shows @ palm| jyspublic dominates A position of | war-course in oral hygiene for nurses|tbrough conversation with doctors} , pinata, newest, patriotic work ere would is no necessity of ever ine Set’ is so praity, vy oft them J. where he lives bey: a Hagel tree surmounted with & crimson Lib. reat strat os as active workers in @e fending them to prison: always 60t seats on the cars” ‘daughter, His hours of retiring and erty oap and flanked by six Haitian| standpoint, ¢ Value from @ naval|who are to sail overseas for hoaspital|Who had returned from overseas ser- |), duty. She will bave charge ot & ape-|vice the difficulties in securing radio) Fourth Liberty Loan. Uh Rc ae 5 To ene wasn etna ema te i ili) anaes wrenraserncsereesvethgareny Diyas dasraanatat i astabiliCie American Citizens of the Future, a Seryice Just as Valuas-t f\ if ‘