Farmers' champion. (Elgin, Okla.) 1912-1922, 1913-10-15
HEROES DAY PAST.
Fighting Now a Matter. Off act
Business.
Since War Has Been Placed on Busl.
ness Basis Victory 10 to the seient
let and Meehanician-JustL Like
Department store.

The glory. the sport and the romance
OF war are dead. Heroes are out OF
date. They Interfere with team play
Dashing leaders will please apply Fer
employment anywhere than to an army
or navy. The only spotlight Is the
searchlight that you turn on your
enemy.
war has become a business, as mat
terof-fact ms a department store, says
writer In McClures Magazine. Its
victories are to the scientist, the mech
anician and the organizer-to the lab
oratory. the card index and the tele-
phone.
While ! have the chief OF stan on
the telephone this evening. ! will ask
him to give you pass to 20 with the
army" said the prime minister of Bul-
garia. In the midst OF the war OF the
Balkan allies against the Turk.
II wac as simple matter as the
New York office of corporation call
Ing up Its Boston office. Savon. the
chief of stan. was not at the front. He
managed the war without ever being
near a battle. Surrounded by his de-
partment heads and experts, he was
the army. where any vital Hello. cen.
trail" would instantly reach him.
Bravery alone did not win for the al
lice. The Turks also we're brave. But
thei- concern went to war with a dead
lock among the board of directors, one
set OF orders from the president and
another set from the general manager.
the plant In disrepair, the shipping de.
partment on strike. stock heavily
watered. and short term notes due In
"A panic. with call money at 100 per
cent.
An army Is a great industrial corpo-
ration which moves most of Its plant
on wheels and legs. Its functions are
the most inclusive and complex Of any
corporation. and 1t should be the most
uptodate. Other corporations get
their results from month to month and
year TO year In profit and loss. They
are In touch with the test of scales. An
army gets Its real test only in war.
A private corporation may be out OF
date and keep on doing business for a
while. II may travel on prestige, dis
daining improvements and letting OF.
fee dead wood continue to gum the
wheels. but no army and no navy can
be unprogressive and stand the trial
OF war. Whatever new invention APP
pear" you will hnd the fighting forces
OF the world the first to use II II II has
any possible application In their pro-
fcssion.
The most dramatic moment in re
cent military history occurred when
German military dirigible had to de
sceEd in France because ~ engine
trouble. The French officers had
peep at the great German mystery,
and found, to their delight. that II had
not a single appliance that was not al
ready known through the hidden pro
cesses of the French intelligence serv-
ice. Therefore. the military corpora.
tions demand the ablest detectives.
Not long ago the plans OF our new bat
tlcship. the Pennsylvania, not to men
tion the plans OF Il new l6-inch naval
gun, disappeared from the navy depart
ment The plans for the first dread.
nought, which the British navy tried
its best TO keep secret. were in pos
session of every first class European
navy before its keel was laid
A single invention may decide bat.
ties. The fact that the krupp recoil
for field guns was not so good as the
French. in the actual test of war. was
worth a score of regiments to the Bul.
gars armed with Canets. while the
Turks were armed with'Krupps. There
Is no more martial romance in perfect.
ing field gun, or In assembling parts
OF a battleship and organizing a bat
lteship's crew, than there is in perfect
ing automobile motors and organizing
an automobile manufacturing plant
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