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WEDNESDAY, JUNE 11, 1919.
CONTEMPTIBLE LITTLE
GENERALS
“After the armistice was signed the
Americans occupied Coblenz.”
Thus Field Marshal Haig in his offi
cial report. It is the only recognition
he accords the soldiers that saved
him from disaster when his “back was
to the wall” in Flanders and he was
crying for help. It is his only men
tion of the men who, after the debacle
in the spring of 1918, were the first,
with the aid of the Australians, to
break the Hindenburg line.
We had it in mind to voice with
some bitterness the growing resent
ment and scorn of Americans for the
conspiracy of silence that seems to
have throttled all generous words in
the throats of men who boast of their
fair play as if it were somthing akin
to a religion. But the words that
surge within us to be uttered die on
our lips.
Our vision goes back to that “con
temptible little army” that fared forth
out of England to hold the Hunish
hoards from Belgium and France, back
even to those gallant days when As
quith declared that England’s honor
would not permit her to stand aside
and make a bargain of self-interest
with the barbarians of Prussia. Those
were inspiring days and the blood still
thrills when one thinks of the British
army, “The first hundred thousand,”
that crossed the channel to battle for
the foemen who had measured swords
with them in every century from be
fore the middle ages down almost to
our own times. It was an alliance to
make the heart throb and the eyes
grow dim. What names fired the brain
with immortal memories! One seemed
to see the Black Prince and the long
line of warrior kings flaming through
the clouds to lead that dazzling host.
And on the other short one seemed
to glimpse the ancient chivalry of
France and at their head Bayard and
Joan of Arc in blazing armor.
And then came Mons and Charleroi
and the terrible retreat of the Gallic,
Celtic and Saxon hosts. Their swords
were broken, but their spirits never.
Fighting for the best there was in
civilization, for the ideals that still
ennoble the hearts of the men of
Merry England, for liberty and for
honor, for the things that make hon
est and good men grip hands where
ever they meet whether by the shelt
ered rivers of England, on the burning
Africa sands or amid the fatal snows
of the Antarctic.
We had it in our hearts, we say, to
utter words that sear and kill. But it
that pass.
Tomorrow perhaps they will need
our aid again. Tomorrow, perhaps,
the Stars and Stripes will start east
ward from the bridgehead at Coblenz
to lead the way for our men fighting
beside the men of England and of
France. And if that high call shall
come our soldiers will think, not of
the petty generals of England, but the
heroes of Mons and Charleroi, of the
“thin red line” that held the coast of
Flanders when the tidal wave of Huns
dashed forward in vain, of the landing
at the Dardanelles, of the campaigns
in Mesopotamia, of the cool intrepid
ity which ruled the oceans while the
ships of England were sinking on ev
ery hand, struck to their hearts by the
Bneaking torpedoes; of Ypres, Mas
sines, Vimy Ridge and Cambrai, of the
sea fighters who volunteered for al
most certain death when the order
came to block the harbors of Bruges
and Ostend.
The kaiser spoke of the “con
temptible little army” of the BritonB,
hut he was thinking, perhaps, of Eng
land’s contemptible little generals.
Had Great Britain, in her gravest
crisis, been blessed with great gener
als her army would not have stood
with its back to the wall in the spring
of 1918 and there would have been no
necessity for an American army to do
even so slight a thing as occupy Cob
lens after the armistice was signed.
Soon Birdmen Will All Be Machine-Made Aviators
WASHINGTON.—A machine that enables you to experience all the physical
sensations of flying and to test your fitness for aviation without once
losing your hold upon the earth, has just been adopted by the war department
Tor use In training its pilots. It Is
probable that this device, known as the
Ruggles orientator, will be a feature
of all flying schools, and will enable
civilians as well as soldiers to de
termine without risking their lives
whether they are fit for flying.
The machine consists of two sets
of steel rings, the larger one of which
Is 12 feet In diameter. One ring re
volves In the horizontal plane and the
other In the perpendicular plane. The
rings are driven by small motors sc
mat tney revolve witmn eacn otner. me uoai, in which tne pupu sits, is
suspended from the Inner ring, and Its movements may be controlled by either
set of rings. The motors which control the boat may be operated from within
by the pupil or from the outside by the Instructor. The prospective pilot seats
himself in the boat while the instructor sits, with his hand on the control
alongside his machine. The Instructor can put his pupil through all the
motions of a machine in the air by operating the controls, which are connected
to the machine by means of wire batteries. After several demonstrations ol
looping-the-loop. dipping, gliding and volplaning, the punil Is permitted tc
operate the machine by the controls in the boat. The test is even more severf
than that of actual flying. If the neophyte has anything the matter with his
heart, nerves or stomach which will disqualify him for flying, the orientatoi
will bring the fact out at once.
It used to take a hero to tackle the game.
Soon the blrdman will be machine-made.
MANY DEVASTATED TOWNS
CANNOT BE REBUILT
PARIS, June 11 (by Associated
Press).—Investigations by the commis
sion which is examining the devasta
ted regions of France are confirming
the previous evidence that many of
the beautiful towns and hamlets of
the battle area are so totally ruined
that they never can be rebuilt.
Vauz, of immortal fame, has taken
its place in the long list, and the
mayors of two other historic villages,
Douamont and Fleury, have recently
notified their people, who are refugees
in various parts of France, that these
places cannot be reclaimed. Not only
is the soil in such shape that it cannot
be cultivated for many years, but the
ruined hamlets are filled with hidden
explosives and other dangers.
BRITISH SHIP CARRIES
RECORD CARGO FREIGHT
GALVESTON, Tex., June 11 (by As
sociated Press).—The distinction of
carrying the largest cargo ever con
tained in the holds of a vessel is
claimed by shiping men for the Brit
ish steamer Indore, which left her
tor Liverpool with 28,386 square bale
of cotton. This was accomplished b;
a method of scientifically compressinj
the bales until they occupied minimun
space. The closest approach to th
record was made by the Russia]
steamship Omsk which in Decembei
1917 carried 27,130 square bales fron
Salveston to Liverpool. A strict new
censorship would not permit mentioi
of that record.
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