Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1914-08-26
WAR SPIRIT IN
ENGLAND REUSED
PEOPLE UNANIMOUS IN APPROX
AL OF CouNTRY's ATTITUDE.
ALL CLASSES SEEK SERVICE
Shopkeepers Organize Clerks Into
Fighting Forces and All Are En-
thusiastic Over Prospect of
Going to War.
BY HERBERT TEMPLE,
European Manager of the information
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London-Shopkeep of London
now are organizing their clerks into
fighting forces. Every evening in the
streets of the business districts may
be seen companies of shop employees,
earnestly drilling to be soldiers. They
are getting ready to change the yard
stick for a musket and the counter
for the trench. In the big department
stores, where there are many en-
ployes, whole regiments have been or
ganized In lesser establishments,
companies are being formed, and
where there are small stores with only
a few clerks, two or three employers
are putting their men together to form
a company.
Apparently, all of the clerks are en-
thusiastic over the possibility of going
to war. They seem to take to the
drilling with interest, and when they
are being put through their PAGES, the
streets ring with good-natured shouts
and laughter
This military organization of clerks
Is not a haphazard movement. 1t is
being supervised by the government
and the men thus enlisted will form
a fifth line of defense. The companies
thus formed are in addition to the
thousands being recruited for the reg
ular army and the military organiza-
tons in the various cities.
From the appearance of the recruit
ing stations, it would appear that all
male England is trying to get to the
fighting front. Men of all classes and
degrees besiege the Offices, standing
half the day in long lines in the
streets, silk-hatted peers rubbing ell
bows with grimy laborers.
Consumer Benefited.
1t is an undoubted benefit to the
British consumer that war was de-
layed as long as possible. 1t did not
come until the first sheaves of the
home crop were already in stack,
while SO much wheat land was ripe
for the harvester that scarcity of
food could be at least but matter of
days. Had war broken out in June,
the matter of harvesting the grain
would have been far more serious
problem.
The days when British ports held a
months supply of wheat and ample
reserve Of feeding stuff for stock ap-
pear to be past, and trade profits In
time of peace are now so small that
there is now no longer margin for
carrying charges, for paying for the
warehousing.
That flour and wheat have risen
even slightly in price since the war
scara became apparent shows what
might have been expected had war
come when the harvest was two
months off instead of two weeks.
The first but least important issue
of the war is that of the British mar
kets being cut off from certain arti-
Giles much in demand, but not absolute
lv necessary Austrian rolls have al
ready disappeared from the dinner Ia
BILE and the fine Hungarian -four, so
much in demand for pastry has gone
ND 100 per cent 1t is doubtful If Aus
tria-Hungary will continue to export
flour. for the wheat crop of the dual
monarchy, even had there been no
war. is very short this year. The
eastern part of the empire, that near