Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1913-10-17
HEROES DAY PAST DOGS LIKE HUMANS]
Fighting Now a Matter-of-F act
Business.
since War, Has Been placed on eus'-
meas Basis Victory 10 to the sclert'
lot and Mechanician-Just Like
q 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 Heroes are out OF
date.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 for
employment anywhere than to an army
or a navy. The only spotlight Is the
searchlight that you turn ON your
enemy.
War has become business, as mat
ter-of-fact as department store, says
writer in McClure's Magazine Its
victories are to the scientist, the mech
anician and the organizer-to the lad
oratory. the card index and the tele-
phone
while l have the chief OF stan on
the telephone this evening, l will ask
him to give you pass to 90 with the
army" said the prime minister OF Bull
garia, in the midst of the war OF the
Balkan allies against the Turk.
1t was as simple q matter az the
New York office of corporation call
ing up it's Boston office. Savoh. the
chief Of staff, was not at the front. He
managed the war without ever being
near battle. Surrounded by his de-
partment heads and experts, he was
situated IN town well to the rear OF
the army, where any vital Hello, CEN
trail" would instantly reach him.
Bravery alone did not win for the al
lies. The Turks also were brave. But
their concern went to war with 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 a strike, stock heavily
watered, and short term notes due IN
a panic, with call monsy 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 it should be the most
up-to-date. 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 it's real test only in war.
A private corporation may be out OF
date and keep on doing business for
while. 1t 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 ap-
pears, you will find the fighting forces
of the world the first to use it if it has
any possible application in their pro-
fession.
The most dramatic moment in re-
cent military history occurred when
German military dirigible had to de-
scend in France because Of engine
trouble. The French officers had
peep at the great German mystery.
and found, to their delight, that it 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
tons demand the ablest detectives.
Not long ago the plans Of our new bat
tleship, the Pennsylvania, not to men,
ton the plans OF a new 16-inch naval
gun, disappeared from the navy depart
ment. The plans for the first dread
nought, which the British navy tried
it's best to keep secret, we're 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 score of regiments to the Bull
CARS 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 battleship and organizing bat
lteship's crew, than there is in perfect
ing automobile motors and organizing
an automobile manufacturing plant