The evening world. Newspaper, October 11, 1918, Page 20

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 11, 1918 Eight Months at the Front With the American Army LARGER THE ARMY THE SMALLER THE LOSS i777 +i The Proportion of Casualties to Men Engaged in the| ig Sort of Warfare the Allies Are Waging Decreases | j as the Forces Gain in Size—Furthermore, the} Larger Our Forces in France the More Speedily| Will Victory, With a Complete Cessation of Cas-| 2 ualty Lists, Be Achieved. A Full Subscription to the Fourth Liberty Loan Will Enable the United States to Send More Men, More Guna, More | Ammunition and More Aeroplanes to France —and| Shorten the War. By Martin Green (Staff Correspondént of Phe Evening World.) LEADING lawyer of this city who doesn't know much about military affairs but has a professional and social standing which tends to clothe his declarations or conclusions on any subject with au- thority, advanced at a luncheon a few days ago the theory that the more men we send to France the heavier our casualty lists will be. His assertion was not made to support any argument against sending all the soldiers we can spare to France but as a warning to the people of the United States that our casualty lists will grow as our army grows, and that we must take the growing casualty lists as inevitable consequences of our increas- ing activities in the war. Of course our casualty lists will grow as our . forces increase. If we bad no army in France we would have no ¢ Ity Nets. But, as a matter of cold, sub- macy stantiated fact, the proportion of casualties to men en-| gaged in the sort of warfare the Allies are waging decreases as the forces | gain in size; furthermore, the larger our forces in France the more speed- | A | | | {ly will victory, with a complete cessation of casualty lists, be achieved. Since last July the Allies have been) ~ — | carrying on offensive warfare. There) dition of the American armies to} «| the Allied forces. 1s ecarcely a military prospect (Mat) “Noy rtelens, our forces will ever again be engaged) the Iren throughout the war} # maintained a) in any extended defensive vpera cannes Bey 94 op co ter ate ~ ustol of | We will have to stop counter the war will show that the rapid| tacks and we will at times encounter resistance which will halt our ad- vance but we have sufficient mobile reserves to overcome any temporary advantage the Germans ™ gain at any point from the Swiss border ‘o the North Sea. As America’s are craft and ordnance ald increases, the advantage We already possess in num- ber of fighting men will be stiffly Speaking of reserves, yes- Sicays cones stated that an entire movement of French reserves saved the day for the Allies more than! one occasion when it was beginning | to appear that the Germans could not be stopped. ‘The writer has witnessed | battles on the western front whieh Were hanging in the balance until Lhe scale was suddenly turned by the ap- pearance of great forces of French reserve troops who appeared to spring out of the ground. On the day Chateau-Thierry was evacuated by the Germane—they got | out early in the morning--comparu tively small fore of French troop win wars. Sir Eric SOME OF HIS EARLY EXPERIENCES, WHICH, COUPLED WITH HIS PRESENT RANK, SUGGEST Geddes’s ‘‘Pinafore’’ Career HIM AS THE “SIR JOSEPH PORTER OF THE KING’S NAVEE.” KENTUCKY LUMBER GEDDES IN A ire ef HE WORKED IN THE CARNEGIE STEEL MILLS SIR: ERIC GEMES LORD OF THE: ADMMGAL TY: ENGINEER OW THE B.2O. RAILROAD “I'm never, never sick at sea.” FRIDAY, OCTOBER 11, 1918 From “Jobs” .in America Sir Eric Geddes Climbed To Head of British Navy Now First Lord of the B,itish Admiralty, at Top of Career the Foundation for Which Was Laid in the United States When He Came Here as a Young Man of Seventeen and for a Period Embracing Five Formative Years Worked: " FIRST—In a Rolling Mill in Carnegie’s Steel Works at Homestead, Pa. NEXT—Tallying Logs and Inspecting Lumber in Southern Lumber Camps. THEN—‘“Serving His Term’’ as Signalman, as Train De- spatcher and as Engineer While Learning Practical Rail- roading With the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad. By Marguerite Mooers Marshall Copyright, 1918, by The Press Publishing Co, (The New York Evening World), 5 is not a politician, he is merely a genius.” That is one accepted description of Sir Eric Geddes, First Lord of the British Ad- miralty and certainly the ablest naval administrator the war has produced, who has gust returned to America w confer with President Wilson and Secretary Daniels - on @ joint naval programme for Great Britain and America, But the story of Sir Eric's preparation for the high post he fills with such distinction suggests other name for him—the Sir Joseph Porter of the King’s Navee. The real hero “Pinafore” always earns a laugh when he sings the story of his life: “When I was a lad I served my term As office boy of a hardware firm. I dusted the office and swept the floor And polished up the handle of the big front door. I polished it up #0 careful-lee ‘That now I'm the ruler of the Queen's Navee."* But is @ career with a hardwero firm a more humorous preparation for the Job of ruler of the navy that rules the waves than a varied experienc of lumbering, steel making and rail- road work?) Perhaps Sir Eric Geddes can truthfully echo Sir Joseph's boast, Per- haps he need not qualify this proud | assertion with Sir Joseph's apologetic “Well, hardly ever!” Yet it is a fact that his whole past career has been that of a landsman, and probably when Lioyd George jumped him to the top of the Admiralty many old sea dogs considered the appointment aid to Lloyd George when the lattes became Minister of Munitions. ai (he great little Welshman, wita ual calm slaughter of trad.- tion, kicked Sir Edward Carson u; stairs, last July, ana | made Sir Eric Geddes—who was |even a member of Parliament of the King's Nave Wins Spencer Churchill, it 1s generally mitted, was an utter misfit for this | Job. Geddes has proved a supreina success, The first thing he did was to uo his sharpest wire-cutters on much of the red tape with which his dep a@ year ago “ hich has been “mios-) were Visible in the avoa imi < | ‘ » 2 ever ¥ 2 re / French army, which bas bees "Mims |south and’ west of the a jas humorous a misfit as anything ever | ment was enmeshed. Quietly. bi ing” for some time forces. The evacuation of invented by Gilbert and Sullivan, swiftly this brilliant busin Pe ‘ showing the Allied operations, M48 /‘ijerry had not been fore . Sir Eric, however, has been increas- |! just over forty introduced th, suddenly appeared in Bern tae aires aiank, arye Witt be Ger- ingly successful in handling respon- | Principles of efficiency which hav igian| mans ¢ < etire P 1 1p wilftoo-operece with the Lelgiun) mane cell & ‘strategic retirement sibilities which proved too much tor! made him a marvellously success! offensive, and northeast which threatened to several other distinguished men, And | Administrator, with which—or so we SIDE ON OFFENSIVE HAS FEW-loenguif a great German force in the | Americans must be especially inter- Americans like to believe—he beca EST CASUALTIES, Chateau-Thierry salient, ested in the remarkable story of nis| acquainted as a young man in this ~ e correspondent ode Oo | An attack which reaches Its ob}eC= | te eet moon after the Get a —-—— —_ = - — — a —- | career not merely because he is now| country, tive is not Cott Meret le pieet mane started northward They fede 9 ry ‘* is “ce a eB | this country, but baoyes hia vis: | The first great thing for the navy that it reaches its objec. eet lin from their camp, nearly thirty f if ie truly a “return.” In America the {to accomplish was the Lion eEEnS ociue aoioas oF te cueing, Sricaro] miles away, over winds “what wor HIE § LLCUC. £YeSton Gloson O. e marines OP LAUTES \ioundation stones of hia success were | submarine peril, In February of thin wi , pomp: clear, American troop ‘ % viest losses, An attack | Woy Ag anil entann A : 5 ey : . laid. year, seven onths after bh K ’ Beets te Bete Ceriie cbjvcuve,wa| Gare cromane the Marne ain entering The Life of a Social Butterfly Was Too Insipid to Suit Him—The Roll Top Desk Boor cisee ec tnavenateh exvans |Otieh Gin EribLWas ANle Go aah Be eer iaia far oye RUSERIOR eT ee, enone eta Had No Lure, but War Has Given Him Not Only Decorations for Bravery and a toon, According to one atory, he "THE submaring is eid.” A few 4 ¥ Ton oak ahiad ur onjece| re i “f shal ei -y Ser A A : 7 ° one ied ba ‘ after MOnts later he was able to 1% Arames Dave TeMcied a tt Ars |Cumbered the main roads, Commission in the Marines but Also an Opening for a Life Career to His Liking WEIROE Dik WOH BEFOEH AOS BEEF | ies Allied wavien onat ae tives and even in the Fores Ar; AN ILLUSTRATION OF SECRECY fi 3 landing he found a job under Andrew | st Jes conti to sink gonne with its eT eet hes OF MOVEMENT. By Robert Neville | United States Supreme Court, He 18] Carnegie in the steel works at Home- | Pe German submarines than the Of German defensive positions o : related to Mrs, William F, Draper, ‘ mgr ory | @emy can build." comp vel 7 | relat > Mra, Willid ‘|stead, Pa. He worked a year there | °M man ent through wath comparauvely | within twelve hours, after the HE battalion has replaced the | whose husband was formerly Am-|t; a 7 ling mill | The First Lord of the Admiralty's wa Ve our evacuation of Chateau rry # . , ; r a ‘oll . ihe s Up to this time we have won Jn OW) Hidin Toude leading in from the w cotilion and the — patriotic | bassador to ltuly, He has had two te aias worked in Boweaes lumber | rd Of construction ts on a pur offensive movements because were choked with Frencn resery speech the play In the life of | unsuccessful ventures into matri-| Ne Se eT ketiae |e h his record of destruction. He skilful tactics of our com infantry and artillery, miles and miles] Lieut, Preston Gibson of the Marine |mony. In 1900 he married Miss Minna] Camps, tallying logs and ecuing | has been # consistent upholder of the otticers and the ayperion Guay wajand tiles of infantry aud antiliors |Corps, ‘The Lieutenant received his niece of Marshall Field of|!umber, and those who know him oy | “build more-ships" programme, Dur ung men, eque Jand miles and nutes and ie pe rech sti e. Dur- our Tghling rough, the German (aid miles ond miles and miles fl commission in the corps yesterday, | 0, after a romance dating from | that traces of Southern eget) stilling his first year of oflice the world’s Hanes with forces inerior to those of | Pylerry-Paris road, a highway al | within three moths of the time that ja days. After the couse were|linger in the Later einarry ; otal shipping gained 100,000 tons a month the enemy. it will ve much easier) ay wide as Coney Liland Moulevard,|he had enlisted as @ private, for val- | divorced he married the be.le of the} ‘and's First Lord of the Admiralty.|over that destroyed by the U boais Mune care Poe sical Fe eee atte. tee cout |aable service 19 recruiting, | sea She was Miss Grace] Then he had three years of pra & result due to increased building as ee Fagoen. Wptery, Heiae tARe Selies : 3 Ch n Jarvis, ° xperience in railroading with the | we, i ased building « “'The more overwhelming the force! ypondents, moving westward In th Licut. Gibson, the most dashing | MoMillan Jarvis, a niece of Lady | Itimore and Ohio Raliroad, it is| VC! 98 t© the success of the war on the quicker anu more dec the |jate afternoon, were unavie to travel |!eater that New York's soclal set has javringion and a granddaughter altim d Ob \iroad, ithe undersea boats, ‘The British Ade recorded that he “served his term’ 8 victory anu the shorter the b thel faster than five iniles sur. {had in years, at the same time that }\he late Senator MoMitlan of Mich- |miralty designed ¢ sinate fewer the casualtion, Hor iveiier| Another national highway WINS | he took his new oath yesterday made igan, ‘They were divorced in 1917, | slanatman, as train despateher and 8! aimpte tyne of ahie yh ed & tion take the case of Laos fwoterithe Marne w also jam with Yow te ninneit wink as (he Malitital Lhe new Lieutenant is a successful] engineer, Altogether his experience) 9). 414 tay of ship whieh could be who goes | ring with a@ man! french reserv & vo elt suc e hs ‘e Mshorpee sys) al fu ‘ lucky, |couettucted with a minimum of who Is pretty nearly his match. He) Whore did they come from? On the|Templars and Knights of St, John NSP WTIERY Bad BthOr, se DAS Wills | wan Ceti et SMOMBARAR (Of PINCKY: | sktiied anor, he number of o, vay win the victory but It will take aiy pofore 1 had covered a deep! nade of old, B iced on roddway.and hia Ken |eractical young Americans who Be-lerg auued to British SP anne i wih tAB8 | 4, ‘ ered a deep! ‘nag produced 6 nd his Ken. ‘ e ddec f BBall him @ long time and in the course sirvtch of territory south of the| He has retired from the life of lux lucky negro st gained great| sin at the bottom and are not afraid] ray 7 Lieb kaalaste of the proces he may got a black | Marne over tw in rouds and sev-| yy moe bite priarity, Ho wrote a war book |of anything that goes under the name |) “nd Marine engineering works tye and a sia. ‘and a tin) Mar aa eatin Tada and se! ury and gayety, and has adopted tho Pea Macon nie) eetiad gern lok eee |during this period wan 36,000, ear and a Bur Mf divisions and had seen only a few! insignia of the Marines for 1i He Burop lee { It was during Sir Eric's tenure of this same fighter nto the ring ren oldivrs, Olver correspond- | is no longer an aristocrat but a demo- vr text work, however, has| Long before the war Sir Erie/office that there taok plac Hee with a man his inferior In streneth ents had covered all the roads west of rat, and his tife Is consecrated to onr| recruits for the Ma-| achieved @ reputation in Great Brit-|ing ang dos er Een te and skil} he will win in qu mc atte front inthe Suimi My . 3 r thirt & one n, but alwe nd emphatically alto pore saVonal British attempe ' THE BIGGER OUR ARMY THE tected a sum ef French movement he Maring Corps is the finest) LIEUT, PRESTON GIBSON, “BEr ORE AND AFTER TAKING” THE record ¢ in andsman's reputation. He did Im-!ioaded cruisers the German naval SOONER A VICTORY. ji pondents bad come out | service on earth,” he declared to-day TONIC OF WAR THAT Gave cin WeEW AMBITIONS. ission in towns portant railroad development work 11 |basey off the coast of Beimrura An American army the Bovmoler carcand they, reported that | ut Ws the Anent Ute arth, too, In ie er ate boa Mavic Site {RM oGR Activace onthe. At f Kou? | India and later became ¢ A most important 5 of our present ariny w al Renan Were decnetaa "fact, it's the only life, and I intend! So peatiin ana ; pik in ha @AA dal solad Ge a 000, ager of the Northeastern way in! the Admi was the bit the Germans twice as lard Yet, here they were, tens of thou-|to remain in it the remainder of 1uy'| tne qomoerat ie private and gave up the comm * » his work with tRe| Mngland. At first, after the war be-| dination of the Briti a thus reduce by 60 per cent the time! sands Hench acials riding In| days, le democrats, . private and ga , ty and Reeruiting gan, his patriotic service was of al sea fighters, Thanks iargely to tho enauing until he is nally knocked out jotor trucks toward ChateaueThicrry, | When 1 was in the French Army I, Lieut, Gibson is the son of the late! yices immediate future, but| Smiter nature, He was Director Gen.| Sorts Of Bir Eric, and douct | for the count. ‘The more men we have) Most af theny acleep Core ant mee |__{'l reaily never‘was strong on aocial| met iftord Cochran, an extremely |! Randall Lee Gibson of Lou-| it is always with the hope that he| Be BREUER) or el to the knowledge he gained in this the fresher and more offvetive were covered with White dust, Horses |lfe except in the newspapers. Now| wealthy New Yorker, and a private Ssiana@ and @ nephew of Chief| will be sent “over there" to get in:o| eral of Transportation for the armies| couniry of American methods wit # be our actua attacking unite. Some) drawing cannon moved along with |I'm through with all of it. Of galiree | the annie ¢ sential aes e buward Db, white of thelthe fight |in France, He also served as ch Ainerican psychology, this deli of the merican divisions Now €N-! heads down and some of the men rid I don’ L me le regime! aigeing ¢ " + --——— — — een a _—_ means Sees | iinisen fh bee: bear nee ; ’ ; 4 a jon't expect to give up my friends. = Penay jaison has been managed with th " * gaged on the Western front 1 The HoMete Wan calaae tr enele zene one day, and he stopped me to ask If A , DC , Tact henurae ened wl ‘ FeSa tn action or on the move from] maddion, Wie movee ad Ae ote wien | But the idle lte—yeat I bad & newspaper, He wanted tc THE WOODEN HORSE SHOW ON THE F. A. C.O. T. S. DRILL FIELD, ¥imost harmony. “He announced 1 ' ope battlefield to another continuciisly| they came from, It was a military| “The war ia going to do the samal see if his mare had won the Futurity Drawn by Candidate ARTHUR (“BUGS”) BAER, 13th Training Battery. ‘American activity In which co-operne see months ney are entitled | scoret, anyhow thing with a great many other men.| back home. It waa the st ri tion and comradeship are more for thive jn : sd i t De “many other me ck hom was th anc ude pre A full subscription to the Fourth A ' of the year, with stakes of pc Trerked gpd more complete thas ia TAverty Loan will ena the United he Fl f h All d N $20,000, and the owner was swe s ie accer ary aferts transl enable the United) T ags of the le BtlOnS Peon ee Fie Or Ce lead A more ammunition and more aeroplanes By T. L. Sanborn centro of the white atripe instead of] Lieut. Gibson was one of the f | record of this acit-made--and partly ; ¢ . ne five stars, these being placed | ce sik eure erican- ma When we reach a stage of numeri-|NO, 11,— HON DU RA S| amare on the lowe Dee are ect] Americans to get into the Europena Bie atuprenti: a hed sneniiale cal superiority which will enable us i) Monduran Tepusia fs cas oF t of arms war, Ho entered the French Ambu- fo preparation ie one of the great lit to actually kick the German out of| A Lien | Londur -of-arma is in-|lance Corps shortly after Belgium Gividunieontevatante atine wae’ oe any position he tries to hold our cas-| seven nations wh ve made | , Resting aga nst a minge of! was invaded and for the next th perhaps we had better not laugh ar ualty percentage will steadily de white and blue the color acheme| mountains, with” trees 3 native| BAAS OR: AE FAR DART ee more at Sir Joseph Porter of the : crease. The theory that the lar of thei banners, | Wellings ‘In the foregeound, stands | Yrs served constantly with that hardware firm! 2 the army the more men there @ The national Nag| #8 O¥al shield encircled with an in-| Service and the American Ambulanc 25 . Y. ed enn’ Bain 1p an aitac Ip f rap pe no | scription reading, in Spanish, "Repub-| Corps, He received the Croix ¢ N Thi ‘ Ss A y a ‘apidly over eo ay entrall tie of Honduras ee vereign, I Guerre with two notations for conduct whelmed that he hax no time to Amyrican coun. | dependent—Sept, 1 ‘The shie! b ’ cet ewest I hings in Science deliver bis blows and when he starts) ne Jivided | displays a pyramid on which tg rep-| {> the Battle of Chemin dea Dames, Sweden has about 1,200,000 she to run he is harm!ess, y Givided| resented the sun rising. behfid 'a| 88d Was cited for bravery in the at the property of some 300,000 person It follows matura'ly that a full sud horlaontally (Mt0| mountain peak, which towore above| tack before St. Quentin a year Ree ans ption to the Fourth Liberty Loan three parallel! the sea, Over the shield are two gold- 1 August he y we shorten the war nie | ue at|en horns of plenty, tied with blue rib-| When he returned to America } In the top of a new toaster for gua eserves ne Rritieh en he returned to America he lost the Gallipoll “sho becouse the ve i lacked available reserves. They lost the middie and blue again at the bot- the first Cambrai “show” becau in, In the centre of the white atr they lacked available reserves. Prac-| are five blu arranced in three | tically every reverse the British and French suffered in, the firat three and a half ofithe war was dus flag was adopted in 1 reservee—a Inck The war flag or ens; ‘beak Simiaaiad Uy the tenia te rows, two stars in the rows and one in the st and third ond, This of Honduras and tr Honduras folk her neighbor Gui war on Germany [pattx three mont entry into the struggle. fousth Central Join the United Daal Come eae es te Ley elk, pouring flowers and forth 1 wea uscious fruits, »wed tho example of h of applied for a commission was given @ captaincy in the and nal Corps. emala and declared} AS he expressed it: on sly | 1918, ox I have always been an active ns after Guatemala's : ) an -chair-feet-on-des ‘Nhe is the| M&M and the ‘arm-chair-feet-on-desk’ ‘American nation to| life didn't appeal to me. 1 knew I States as a belliger-' should be unhappy and consequently Oh he were. am ieleu Wold He Med stoves is a recess in which eggs can | be boiled. a 8 46 Seventy-eight per cent, of eno Swiss canton are embroidery workers, ier wer The tongue which retains the pen in place in a new holday i# threaded des onny rouwveal, ‘