Grand Forks daily herald. (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1914-1916, 1914-11-11
CHANGES WROUGHT
BY GREAT FIGHT
Thoroughly Awake
Now to Importance of
Vast Conflict.

Vast Conflict.
London, Nov. 1.-Two months ago
2 London newspaper described Eng
land as "a nation half awake" and
~contrasted the unruffled aspect Of
London life with the transformation
that war had cast over Paris and
Serlin. Since then England has be.
come a nation fully awake. This
awakening has been more Of an inner
tnan q surface change. and only those
who know England from within can
realize how great the change has been.
The most remarkable feature Of re-
cent British events has been tho on.
tire absence of excitement with which
ton OF profound and thoughtless
peace to q military status, which per.
vades all the activities OF ,life and
seems almost to have BROUGHT upon
the scene a harder and soberer nation.
Sports, politics, "society'-the three
absorbing interests Of the population
three months ago-have disappeared
the talk OF the people. and have al
most vanished from existence.
The contentious word "~sufrrasette"
a disappeared from the English
vocabulary. The suffrasist bodies
have turned their efficient organiza-
tons to the care Of Belgian and other
war victims. Votes for women" is
passers on every corner. and in every
depot and restaurant by young women
wearing the tri-colored ribbon OF
purple, green and white.
The suffragist papers, like many
others supported by special interests.
have suspended publication. People
read about nothing but the a
Home Rule forgotten.
Home rule Is a forgotten thing for
debate, except as echoes Of recrimin-
atoms come from a few die hards in
Ulster n the Sim F'einers OF the
south of Ireland. All that is left of
the absorbing passion for sport is the
football games and a majority OF the
first class professional teams are drill
army. n 1t would be a bravo man
Of military g who would be seen
carrying his bundle Of golf sticks on
the street these days.
Streets and trains everywhere are
filed with soldiers. khaki is con-
%spicuous in all tho restaurants, the
gilded and the cheap. and military
equipment and uniforms fill the shop
windows. Recruits are drilling In all
the parks, in public squares. on the
lawn OF the temple where barristers
work and live. in all the little open
places among the stately law courts,
and in the court yards Of the national
academy, sacred to art and science.
Groups Of men and women stand
ments quietly n respectfully. Small
boys acquired with papers, wooden
guns and tin drums, are everywhere.
Companies OF recruits, some fully
uniformed and shouldering their
rifles, others in civilian clothes and
bareheaded with blankets slung over
their shoulders march about the
as they march. Traffic is held up while
they pass, the people stop to look.
occasionally al old mar raises his hit,
but strangely enough to the American
spectat6r there is never any cheering.
This is not apathy: it is the English
way. The Briton has sentiment, but
he conceals it carefully.
prominent Englishman explained
when an American asked why the SOL
diers did not stir the ~populace to
demonstrations. The reserve battalion
of the London Scottish. the most
popular volunteers in London and the
first to be put in the firing line in
France, killed and with bagpipes
pSNy AAt5 SNck q 4xS
crowd around Victoria station last
night and never raised a shout.
But there Is another side. The
wealthy classes have given up their
~luxuries and their pleasures without
a grumble. London was a city Of
restaurants and theaters. of dinner
giving and receptions and balls. All of
this life has vanished. Halt the the
aters are closed. Most Of those which
keep going are giving American plays,
and others are producing REVEALS of
old successes because they cannot
afford to spend money in mounting
new plays. Many have reduced their
prices.
Society Disappeared.
Society" has disappeared. There
are no social columns In the ews
papers because there are nc social
events. to record. There is no dinner
giving and there. are M balls or shoot
ing parties on country estates. Fol-
lowing the hounds has been aban-
doned. There is plenty of money yet,
but there is, no desire to spend 1t in
fashionable and humble, close at 10
O'Clock. Drinking champagne is as
strictly tabooed as carrying golf clubs.
Millionaires and dukes appear at din
ner in public when they appear at all,
in khaki or old clothes and drink
WnlSkey ana 6Oda instead OF their
favorite vintages. The Duke Of Nor
folk, Lord Gladstone. Lord Robert
Cecil, clubmen and members OF par
Lament who are too old for military
duties, spend their time at the rail-
way stations and refugee headquar-
tiers meeting frightened and dirty
Belgian peasants. giving them coffee
and sandwiches and distributing
clothes. Others are looking after re-
cruits and wounded soldiers arriving
from France. a.sS:
st. James palace is the center O.
Red Cross work and q fleet of moto
ambulances, most Of the cars donate,
by individuals. surround. 1t day an,
night. sc
The stately house Of the Dixie O
Devonshire is a Red Cross ONCE and
wooden buildings filled with uniformed
men and women with the>Red Cross
on their sleeves fill the town. Cas-
ties and country houses throughout