New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-11-01
THE APPALLING

III recent wars, what 20 INC man a' nome
| = mos. distressing was the destruction of
T.. He measured the Importance of the con-
/ r.. bv the daily lists of killed and wounded.
b.. !, chose wars. except human life, there
L. little else 10 destroy. The war in South
/ kioca WAS fought among hills of stone, across
L,,,-. stretches of prairie. Not even trees
Z b.. oesrroved. because there were no trees.
h. he district over which the armies passed
IA.-. were rot enough trees to supply the
me with drewood In Manchuria. with the
h,n, oese. we marched for miles without seeing
,v,t mud village, and the approaches to Port
At III were as Gesolate as our Black Hills.
r., Italian Turkish war was fought in the
.,,,s Of desert. and in the Balkan war few
lh,d heard OF the cities bombsrded until they
rad thew were in flames. But this war is being
ws7 i- ttat pay. Of the world best known to
4 tbe ,st os The world.
I 4, -ry summer hundreds OF thousands of
I ar-,ic1ns. on business or on pleasure bent,
,-sv, led 10 the places that now daily are being
,ssef o. retaten, OF are in ruins. At school
/ .hey bad read of these places in their history
hook er5 later had visited them. In conse-
ouenee. in this war they have a personal and
an intelligent interest. 1t is as though OF what
IS being destroyed they were part owners.
A GENERATION OF MASTERS HAS ITS
FIRST OBJECT LESSON IN WASTE.
Toward Europe they are as absentee land
lords. was their pleasure ground, and their
market And now that it is being laid low
the utter wastefulness of war is brought closer
70 this generation than ever before. Loss of
lie in war hes not been considered entirely
wasted because the self-sacrihce involved
robled f. And the men who went out TO war
knew what they might lose. Neither when, in
the pursuits Of peace. human life is sacrificed
is it counted as wasted. The pioneers who
were killed by the Indians, or who starved to
death in what then were deserts, helped to
carry civilization from the Atlantic to the
Pacific. Only ten years ago men were killed
in lesrnine 70 control the "horseless wagons"
and now 6O-horsepower cars are driven by
women and Young girls. Later the airship
took IFS toll Of human life N67, in view of the
possibilties of the airships in the future, can
if be said those lives were wasted But, ex-
cent life. there was no other waste. To perfect
the automobile and the airship no women were
driven from home and the homes destroyed.
No churches were bombarded. Men in this
country who after many years had built up
uade ir Europe were not forced TO close their
mills and turn into the streets hundreds of
working men and women
THE EXPANDING KAISER STRIKES
FAR AFIELD.
1t is in the by-products of the war that the
waste, cruelty and stupidity of war are most
apparent. 1t is the most innocent who suffer
and those who have the least offended who are
the most severely punished The German En-
peror wanted a place in the sun. and having
decided that the right moment to seize it had
arrived declared war AS a direct result,
Nary Kelly, telephone girl at the Wistaria
Hotel in New York, is looking for work. 1t
sounds Ike an o. Henry story but except for
the name Of the girl and the hotel it is not
fiction. She told me about it yesterday, on
Broadway.
I'm looking Tor work" she said, "and ]
thought if you remembered me you might give
me reference. used TO work at Sherrys,
and at the Wistaria Hotel. But lost my job
through the war How the war in Europe
could strike at a telephone girl in New York
was puzzlng; bur Mary Kelly made it clear.
The Wistaria is very popular with Southern
ers," she explained They make their money
in cotton. and blow it in New York. But now
they can't sell theit cotton, and so they have
no money, and so they can't come to New
York. And the hotel is run at loss, and the
proprietor. discharged me and the other girl,
and the bellboys are tending the switchboard.
I've been month trying to get work. But
everybody gives me the same answer They're
cutting down the staff on account of the war.
I've walked thirty miles a day looking for a
job and I'm nearly all in. How long do you
think this war will last?" This telephone girl
looking for work is tiny by-product of war
She IS only one instance of efficiency gone to
waste.
BELGIUM AND FRANCE BEFORE THE
DAYS OF THEIR DESOLATION.
The reader can think of a hundred other
Instances. in his own life he can show where
in his pleasures, his business, in his plans for
the future the wa. has struck at him and has
caused him inconvenience, loss or suffering.
re car then appreciate how much greater are
the loss and suffering to those who live within
the zone CT fire. In Belgium and France the
vacant spaces are very few, and the shells tall
among cities and villages lying so close to-
gstner that they seem to touch hands For
hundreds Of years the land has been cultivated,
the fields. gardens, orchards titled and lovingly
cared Tor The roads date back 70 the days OF
Caesar. The stone farmhouses, as well as the
Stone churches. were BUILT TO endure. And for
Centuries ttr.,1 fl;c came thew had endured.