The evening world. Newspaper, November 12, 1918, Page 18

UESDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 1918 Nineteen Months in War, U.S. Helped Bring Victory _ By Getting Big Army Ready - To Help Strike Final Blow 4 From a Standing Start, With a Small Standing Army, Uncle Sam Speeded Up a War Machine Which, in a Little Over a Year and a Half, Had I+Produced and Transported Across 3,000 Miles of Water an Army of Over 2,000,000 Men, Nearly 1,000,000 of Whom Were Fighters for Service in the Battle Lines ; ved the Mammoth Engineering Problem of Con- structing on a Huge Scale Terminals, Docks, Railroads, Warehouses, &c., of Materials Most of Which Had to Be Brought From Over Here; Had Trimmed Into Shape From Raw Material Citizen Soldiers Who Fought Like Seasoned Veterans, | Amazed a Whole World With Their Dash and Courage, and Carried the Banner of Victory Everywhere Forward in the Van of the Allied Army. By Martin Green (Sta Correspondent of The Evening World.) 1918, by The I ‘The New York Bvening World.) 8 Americans we may say, in all earnostness, taat we won the war, As Americans we must say, in all truth, that we could not have won the war had not the heroic Belgians, the dogged British, the indomitable French, the volatile Italians, the uncon- querable Serbians, tac wonderful, never-say-die, lb- erty loving peoples of middle ‘ope set the stage for us, We came on in tho last act and dropped the cur- tain on German defeat, Tho part wo played was bon orable and vital It is worth while considering that, at the close of the war we had, on the western front, or available for j service at the front’in tac shape of mobile, effective | reserves, thirty-four divisions amounting to 918,000 fighting men, We didn’t need them all. We used in Lorraine two drmies, and between Lorraine and Flan- ders we popped in, as occasion demanded, a division And everywhere, when the finale sounded, the American bor a, there, « | troops were going forward; so were the troops of all our Allies, for that matter. . q M&ny Americang at home are dis-| facilities of our sister republic were; [posed to take all the credit for the| in bad state, France wag in no con- q | clean-up of German autocracy, Tech-| dition to take care of our supplies. - nically this attitude is right. If we} She could furnish us with cannon and} . Yt jumped in (wen we did the | munitions and England could furnisty) fe: situation in qapect of the war » would be pretty badty scrambled to- » But, as Admiral Schley suid after the battle of Santiago, “There Is © glory enough for us all.” us with untfor s and shoes and cer- tain eatables and we could get onions from Spain, but speaking Ma as it were, the An \ by and} erican Ex-) peditionary Force in France was int ¥ Speaking frankly, the decisive part}almost the same shape as if it were | i? the,Ainited States played in the win-]on a desert island, 7 nimgiof the war was out of proportion] Anybody whe tries to quote statis- fy to tte sacrifices we made, O@r total] tics in this ecstatic time should be PY) cabdlties are less than 70,000, Great} enthusiastically assassinated, but at [Britian lost 21,000 men in one week.| the risk there must be something 4 > Jeseethan two months ago, Our vic-| said about what the War Depart+ toffous forces are coming back prac- | nent did in the autumn and winter , D) Mealy whole—lossex less than 8 per [of 1917-18 in making France safe for Cems) The world is our debtor. His- the United States Army, Sufficient PD toryewill give us credit for what we)to say that before we could make ay { 414, But for no more than We iid. move of importance on the feld of 5 And now let ux see whit we did,/ battle we had to start building in| i P worfhat we may view our achieve France a system of docks m exe P mets with clear, unblased minds. | tensive than the Bush Terminal in} | Theiquestion as to whether we should | south Brooklyn, a system of ware-+ 4 heave entered the war houses, which, placed end to end, ; aut hostilities, against would serve a8 a tunnel for the New © 9m.9927 is a dead question. York Central Railroad ft Ne ' HOW UNCLE SAM “GREW” IN ’ 2). ; ONTHS. York to Burlington, Vermon rail- 4 ' NINETEEN M i | road yards which make the great 4 ‘The fact is _Just nineteen | Pennsylvania terminal in Long Isl- menths after Uncle Sam threw Nis! ang City ‘ : Mp the ring, German officers, car- bes ity, Fesemble, by vompariaon, nat i the side track leading to the most ) tyinm.a white flag and pursuing a S course mapped out for them by Mar B) BHAP Foe, crossed No Man's Land| a gigned the terms of an armis- | “teerdictated by the Allied powers— | | terme formulated in United States, be With scrupulous adherence to the p dépancies which should prevail in in- | th tercourse bet mn nations, the United States waited until it had declared |°Ver $000 m war before waging war, We went ) from a standing start with an urmy| almest as “contemptible” viewpoint—as didn't waste ar "conspicuous grain elevator in Wee- | hawke repair shops, — which, srouped, would size up with the at steel plant at Gary, Ind. and ories, lee plants and works of all kinds employing enough people to ate Staten Island, And most of naterial for (hese necessary ad- ‘junets to the army was transported of submarine infested ean. Discouragements! Nobody dn the from the| United States, outside of men in the ngland’s| Know in the War De time, | realize the sic! ment, can ngress, and the election| that piled -up in those days, Our certainly do carry a glorious | military establishment in France was Menmage to those of us who sat in]anything but uniform in personnel thespress of the Be and | and execution thi "House presentatives in the reports which used tol Swamer of 1917 and witnessed cer headquarters in irance trom B tain migguided statesmen throwing | Washington—expeciully about monkey wrenches Into the machinery | planes and ordnance. ©f government. The people, who are |AMERICAN INDUSTRIAL EXECU. S glways right, took the measure of| TIVES DID THEIR BIT wome of them lust Tuesday; unfor-| But Gen, Pershing Hufiately, there are a few left, but the And horrible to a de- were the ‘ome aero- nd his aldes |kept plugging along and trom the | people will get them next time, | United States to France went many dm June, 1917, » Pershing, gfter| wonderful executives stripped from BiWeverish experience in England, | our great industrial enterprises ¢ in France with the little van-| service in ald of the army ve Far be it from this writer who was ble for keeping the brakes on Amer-| {mpatient spirits in those times whe 4 guard of the American Army, Th © French had their ideas about what © they were going to do with the to say | respons E poldiers and the English had|fussia having crumbled and ¥ Sheipideas about what they were | through treachery, having gu ed a Being to do with American soldiers | tremendous setback the outlook is and square-jawed John J. Pershing few ideas himself along those Mines, The American van-|on until we were Was sent away down to south-| nor declare ourselves re 4) until we France, about three jumps| were ready all along the line—trom y from Switzerland and put into| the docks at Bordeaux and B: A France way dark and dreary, The main thing is the brakes were kept ready and we did t and under French direction, Saint walre clear across France WO MAKE READY IN FRANCE | and out to the front lines in the FOR ARMY. Vosges, in Lorraine, in Champagne d a long succession of dull,| and Picardy, ning discouragementa|* , (ee \ WW \ ANNWATT WA YING ist A Farewell Letter Co the Kaiser From Every Woman By Kelen Rowland, ; Copyright, 1918, by The Press Publishing Co, (The New York Erening World.) AISER WILHELM. Somewhere-in-Europe. My dear Mr. Hohenzollern, As I write this little line, Vi one flags are flying, and the bells are ringing Oyer Here—for ictory And I know just HOW you are feeling— But, I want to thank you, while I think of it— And before it is “too late’— For all the things that you have done for me and EVERY WOMAN, In these tour long years of toil and sacrifice and suffering—and regeneration. (Oh, | know you didn’t MEAN to do it! But never mind! You have been the ALARM CLOCK, which wakened the world out of its ween Rowiane lethargy. And we “love” you, as every one loves an alarm clock! I thank you For having given me back my faith in Humanity, and in the ultimate triumph of the good and the right, and human justice! ‘You have restored and strengthened my faith in Divinity, and in a Divine Provi- dence, which allows NOTHING to happen.in vain! You have shown me, in all their fairest colors, The soul of the American MAN, and the spirit of American WOMANHOOD! Into the dull round of my tight, little, commonplace life, you have sent tragedy and sorrow, But WITH it a ney and vital spaw®, a glorifying flame, Which has burned Out all the old materialism and smug cynicism, And awakened all my dormant ideals, all my old romanticism, all my Sleeping visions, of beauty and nobility and heroism! You have aroused and strengthened my love of my Country, and stirred in me a glowing patriotism which shall never die! You have starred my horizon with HEROES, Until a dull world glitters with their deeds of valor, and shines in the reflection of their undying glory. (And, to a woman, what is a world without heroes and hero-worship?) You have torn the veil of materialism from a commercial age, And shown me that great souls, and great men DO exist, And that “there are GIANTS,” even in these days—great men, like Woodrow Wilson, and Lloyd George, and Clemenceau, and Foch, and Diaz! Super-statesmen, with a broad vision, and a selfless devotion to humanity! You have given me the ballot and the rights of citizenshi But, best of all, you have stirred me out of my selfish lethargy, strengthened my brain and soul, and muscles, and taught me the usefulness of WOMAN! You have given me a deep and vast respect for my own sex, And an admiration and respect for MEN, which nothing shall ever shake. In short, you have made of me a NEW WOMAN, in a brand NEW WORLD! A finer, stronger, wiser, sweeter, broader, tenderer, happier woman! Yes, YOU have done all this—unconsciously and quite unintentionally, of course— and you didn't MEAN to do it. But, you see, it sometimes takes the greatest forces of EVIL, ‘To awaken and stir up the greatest and most powerful forces for GOOD, And so, to meet all the EVIL, which you started, All the BEST in all the hearts of men and women, all over the world Have ARISEN! And ‘God is still in His Heaven,” And Peace shall reign on all the earth—at last! Thank you—and farewell! EVERY WOMAN. country threw a shock into Germany | the by lining up with the Allies, The First Division of the old regular army | went to the front from down along | the Swiss border to train in the wet test trenches in the worl —anyhow all the soldiers who went into those trenches will maintain for the rest of | the their lives that they were the wettest | July id Gen, Gouraud trenches in the world, contradictory | “We were three weeks stopping the statements from veterans of the war|March offensive of our enemy. The re notwithstanding \next offensive was stopped in seven fted by and we |@ay8; the next was stopped in five French and British military au- thorities can tell, We mays diverge a moment here to recall a speech the writer heard Gen. | Gouraud of the French Army deliver | to the staff and line officers of the 42d Division at Vadenay, France, on Fields of Chalons, on the 20th of} from which we started later on into the St. Mihiel salient. Along the French and British Ines from the Marne to the North Sea sped the word: well, But let British and e Americans are fighting!” How we stopped them at the Marne, at Chateau-Thierry and to the east- ward of that town in May, how we counter attacked in Belleau Wood and at Bouresches in June, how we were spearhead of the great offen- sive launched by Marshal Foch on in Fland Well the winter dr been condemned an Ways the started to move to the front in posi | ble information if you are planning & generous, GERMAN MARCH OFFENSIVE Aoi. which had been held by the | tittle Beam of Yous wen fermoarriags) The practic % ad may last a lifetime, who kee, he WELL-TIMED MOVE. French in front of Montdidier, Lf she has very long, Smooth ftingere,! has rather lon, | . German offensive in March way|LAST SIX MONTHS BROUGHT | with the tips inclined to be square, gers, prominent bo safely turned over to her, for, with all her tenderness, she ts’ practicat ond will see that the bills are pata, ; regarded by French and Amertcan| way. Chaperoned by the French units military experts. For three weeks the of the First Division, we took Can- German hordes swept to the west and|tigny, At about the same time Con- southwest from in front of their bases| necticut National Guard Regiments Practical things. her husband, and her children will be, advice days. Our soldiers sifted! We did not begin to figure actively into France. Our military|in the war at the front until Novem- found that the railway ber, 1917, seven months after our proud of her, jsmall thumb, If the warm fingers you caress are| ‘clinging vine’ of medium length, tapering toward narrow Up, and with medium in Belgium. They were stopped, but/of the 26th Division stopped a Ger- by what superhuman efforts on the man raid on our trench positions in part of France and Great Britain only the Toll sector, bard by the spot French great emotion does belongs sort, in whose dainty a preperice no map is responsible for ' acts, tT sensible word and a secret, his, to history too recent of achievement to warrant recital here, We did our jab} 8 not forget that the were not idle through the disturbance which led to the German collapse, In conclusion it Is no violation of! ang at heart is opposed to the cle- confidence to say that if one had told} ments that in the past have ruled an officer of the American Army in France in August that the war would be over before Thanksgiving the per- son making the assertion would have + fond of music, Kindly and woman, nd a large not blind her to If the tiny hand you hold is soft Such a woman holds the affection of and scarcely larger than a baby's, is Useless, with the FSW TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 1918 Story of Friedrich Ebert, Harnessmaker, Who Became The Ruler of Germany Intimate Sketch of the Newly Appointed Chan- cellor Given to The Evening World by Daniel Blumenthal, a Former Member of the German Reichstag, Now Stopping in New York, and a Forecast of Conditions Which May Follow in Germany When Soldiers Return From the Front. RIEDRICH EBERT, present ruler of Germany and Chancellor by F appointment of Prince Max of Baden, is a passing figurehead whose power in the Kaiser's late domain will be more short-lived than that of Kerensky in Russia, according ‘to Daniel Blumenthal, for ten years 4 member of the Reichstag and for more than a decade Mayor of the City of Colmar, Alsace, Mr, Blumenthal is stopping at the Hotel Vanderbilt and will return in a few weeks to his home in Colmar. Riot, bloodshed, rapine, murder and inconceivable disorders will prob- ably sweep the German Empire before anything approaching a stable Gov- ernment can be established, Mr. Blumenthal believes. The terrors of the French Revolution and the red horrors of the Bolshevik regime in Russia will fade to pale insignificance compared to the great upheaval that can be expected to convulse Germany when the armies return from the fighting fronts. While a roaring, shouting throng swirled and gyrated in a mad peace celebration beneath his- windows in the Hotel Vanderbilt, Mr, Blumenthal told an Evening World reporter yesterday of his ten years of intimacy with Chancellor Ebert and of his many meetings with the Kaiser, “Friederich Ebert is a man who has risen from the pavement,” said Mr. Blumenthal. “He was a harness- maker by trade before entering polit- ical life. He is a man of some capa- bilities, but has always been a cats- The Kaiser has used him when there was paw for some ono higher up. some imperial end to be gained, as thave others of the royal household. He is a man who lacks initiative and who seldom acts until he has heard bis master’s voice. “His ability as a statesman is neg- ligible, That he could measure up to the situation that confronts Germany to-day is inconceivable. “In the rapidly revolving political and social situation in the empire he is but a passing figure, That situa- tion will ravolve faster and faster as the true import of the Government's collapse seeps into the intellect of the people. “The great upheaval within many will not come until the m n |who have been in the trenches return and begin to think other thoughts than those of killing Entente suidiers. When they do begin to think these thoughts they may conceive the idea of another kind of killing. purpose of throwing a bluff. “The soldiers will return from the } Pipe Oe cod that 1 was Mayor hghting lines with only one instine” | oe Commar the Kaiser visited the city tive method of sett'ing © question | oo made a speech from the steps of that of force: They wilinot realise ll. Gio ac) ig denice wan to ime the full scope of thelr dofcat Unttl | eT ite the tact that the they get home. {City of Colmar, its history and tts When) THRy Mb SAUGAO TEIM CANE ee ree crue tea ap pegin to consides, the monumental |4o Oi ina on the way to the dty sacrifices they have been making to |), had a secretary couch him on the no end but defeat, disaster, hunger | oi. history and the local matters on and poverty, they Will begin to 8€€ | Wiicy ne was to refer in his address, red and lock for some one upon WhOM | wso6 time elapsed between the In to wreak vengeance. struction period with is secretary and “{n my opinion they will not OnlY line moment that he spoke, and Wili this upon whatever form cf) i415, managed to forget most of the to be existing at linings he ed about Colmar However, he went on in his hearth manner, and the things he said about Colmar astounded about every one wiv heard him, including his secretary. Phe Kaiser would never have abui cated had he not been sure that his soldiers were no longer loyal, Whe he says he abdicated for the good of Germany he says something that must cause well-informed Germans to laugh He might have abdicated three years ago to more advantage, “The great trouble with the Kaiw: was that he would never listen to any idea that had not been previously con- ceived in his own mind, He had a ere refused to face the truth or believe in realities if they dia not happen to coincide with his own view of things. He Was intelligent and had a super- ficial knowledge of a vast number of subjects. This knowledge on these | subjects was acquired simply for the wreak government happens the time but will hold the civil popu- lation to blame as well. They will fig ure that in permitting the Govern- ment to continue with Its mishandling of the nation’s affairs the people were ag guilty as the imperial rulers them- matt was elected to the Reichstag about 1912 gnd remained in the sub- merged background until war condi- tions made him a useful tool for the and other men in power, He n about forty-five years old | Kaiser is a mal Germany. “Being a man of Imited intellect single-track mind of his own, gnd on himself, he has been jealously op- | that single track ran his own opinions, posed to those men of Germany who | And they were absolutely unalterable : ap lb to hav - nave represented the*best minds of} “He would deny the existence of ab- didn't do much, T Division, | 42 aed fourth of sive was! july 18, how we went through St./examined, ‘The Pee pes ae ee He has catered to the | solute facts if those facts were mais which includes the old New York |StoPr iis apes sli my friends, Mihiel and drove along the valley of knew that the morale of the German the 60 its, the rich and the inteliee- | nis liking. Toth, after moving up and down a|hie fifth offensive, which he had the |the Meuse until we reached Sedan|Army was fading; they did not know ey we rly because he had to in ordcr| “At the present time no man can sector in France like a doctor's buggy |«frontery se start on the Fourteenth |just_as the Germyina surrendered is it had coljapsed, tun cinvain his position foretell accurately what will happen in pally got to the front to stay, Shel st ose ads, there will never be an- site ce igi ean However, #9 108 the Kalser|Germany in the next few weeks, The ith Division, of New Hngtanders, (it ea offensive." Study Your Sweetheart's Fingers remained in power Ebert never per-|whole situation hinges on the attitude Uae apatite ape caraael| “Gen, Gouraud was right, Three 5 8 sited bis true feelings to interfere |of the soldiers when they return from also got a stiff trench assignmne | ame ; : eenrse yuh K H Di a vything the ‘All Highest’ de-|the front, ‘The goldlers at present tn to TGecond Division, old regular montis aidig Half after his! deolarw ey re Keys to Mer Disposition 3.2) h nim. Me wax notbing| Berlin and on Inland duty’ represen urmy, which includes the De a anitlaatl arantalin eitnatian: ‘das ONT hold your swetheart’s bana) cultivate your imagination and hei nore than a tool in the bands of the| the poorest elements im the German Fifth and sixth Marinas went Into| Ho oritioal wea Hie situation de. D in the dark, js the latest advice | Prepared t0 tell her hourly how. mu Pees that were. Army. The manhood of the nation ts the Verdun sector, March waa 8] 1 oben it oe United Blates tak a to urdent young men, It may| 24 {ove ber ., Conan eis the broath| Pore ac this man will do now, with|not yet at home, When it does get pretty drab month In France f6r it ining Jump into the war und Gen, | U° Pleasanter, but you miss a chance! Is sn thumb short inch ws reat power that be himself con-|home we may look for startling events was in Mave that the Garman bist Pershing sent the old reliable diet |t learn some helpful things, Chooso| } 2, Ite possessor lives he ei. something that remains to be |'These men have been trained in crime sure * western front! Paris, Remember this was but {OU Bently | oft, dimpled) siender and firm to the touch, succeeding elements of radicals seems|their home cities, ‘hey should deciay stretch himself on the Western ont ee ann ean to-day when the ,Palm, carefully observe the size analits tip and that of the firme Anes to be a foregone conclusion, |to uphold the radicals, we shall prob. launched the & ome atve, wh First Division, after munouevres in| S!4Pe of her fingers. ‘These show her| slightly flatter This is the emo. 2 ae Oe the man to meet a crisis|ably see an eruption more cruel than wee to end the war—and did—Dut net ne nse way Duck of the fnea (character and personal tastes; valua- fichal type, both in love and in re.|He ,| that which shook sia after the ab- like the present one, Liebknecht more fitted for the job. He is a man ot brains, executive ability and vision, Hie would have much more of a =| chance of bringing order out of the |dication of the C: de dal WHERE IT BELONGED. While traveling through Ohio |few years ago Prof. T. C, Menden a probably the best timed, best eon- OUR “BIG PUNCH.” and a long, rather slender thumb, not, thumb, fattened at the top, She may| chaos that Germany will know in the!nat) of the Worcester Institute con e made) a 10 eas han BIN red eopa- i = He . " see COM sy Mpa~ " six peeks. | se! 7 7 celved and best executed move made} But it was not until less than | You found the anly woman, thetic, but thia, only because “far | next six Weeks. a sented to address a few remarks to by the Germans on the western front|months ago that the United States | sympathetic and opt ; the true mind’ controls her h She Gi] “The passing of the Kaiser may|¢he pupils of the district eotael ea during the war; at any rate it was so|really kicked into the war in a big | homemaker, Your pi ype may capable of ¢ on, but even! mean the absolute disintegration of he had attended when a boy, the German Empire and the setting| “Did sayof your jhe asked, “ever see an elephant skin?" up of @ number of small republics, 1t 19) MO id up his hand certainly marks the end of German|gied excitedby. 2 and wric- militarism, ees sald ihe. professor, “I have met the Kaiser many times ave," said the boy, and in my opinion he was one of the “Om se dent neat? least informed men in Germany, its real “On an elephant,”—~Woman’s Hom, He Companion, 2. 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