The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-09-26
WAR ECHOES

| war upon the citizens of this happily neu \ tral and peaceful country Is the with
 drawal from our tables of the more ol less fragrant and toothsome imported
 cheeses. The supply on hand is almost
 exhausted. The bland and creamy neuf-
 chatel, the mottled and pungent roque- fort, the rich and runny camempert, the
 stout and startling limburger. the heavy
 holey schweitzerkase-to these and many
 another delectable fromage must the | American epicure bid a fearful farewell. l However, it is not as bad as it seems at l first glance. We are discovering that
 more than passable limitations of each of these foreign chooses can be manufac- I tured right here at home. Take roque- fort, for example There is a legend to i the effect that this cheese is put in caves
 to mold. and that the proper kind of mold grows only in the peculiar dampness and
 gloom of this dellcacy's native soil. How
 ever that may be, there are a few cellars ] in this continent where mold of the same
 shade and effect may be produced
 And even limburger-or 'limburger styie''-can be and is being made in vast quantities in this country Illinois and Minnesota make most of it, and foreign born citizens are said to have great diff ficulty in detecting wherein 1t differs from the kind upon which they were brought up from infancy. People coming within three miles of some of those midwestern limburger mills, when the wind was right. have been known to sniff the breeze ctn&s rl,~ rs.I- $a,x nu that ineffable fragrance waited them back across a thousand leagues of sea to the homes of their childhood, Such is the power of our American imitation. With Swiss cheese, We have not quite so much success, it is said We have not yet learned the secret of making the
 holes so large. But, after all, what is a hole?
 | There is still room for cheer. York state cheese makes the best Welsh rare bit, anyhow; and there are other native varieties that go better with apple pie
 than any foreign kind possibly could. New York World: Let not him that
 girdeth on his harness boast himself as | he that putteth it off.
 l A few hours after Winston Churchill, I first lord of the admiralty, made a speech at Liverpool boasting that if the German warships did not come and fight they will be dug out like rats out of hole.''
 three British armored cruisers were sunk I by German submarines in the North Sea. I These cruisers were 12,00o ton ships and their destruction is the heaviest loss thus | far sustained by the British navy in the
 war
 | Mir Churchill boasted too soon. His | speech resembled the swaggering German | assurances that the Kaiser's army would | be in front of Paris on Sedan Day and France would be beaten to her knees.
 Neither the British navy nor the Ger
 many army has fulfilled the extravagant expectations of it's admirers. Although
 the British fleet, by sheer superiority of weight and numbers holds the command l of the sea. it has not lived up to it's traditions in offensive operations. The
 fight in Heligoland blight was brilliant piece of work. but the British odds were so overwhelming that the net results
 could hardly have been less. and German | sea power was not seriously crippled by the losses. The Mitish navy. with all its I advantages, has done nothngsso daring | as the exploit of the German submarines which sank the three British cruisers yes- l terday. and the moral effect of this ex- l ploit is much greater than the military effect.
 | The German army has likewise failed to justify its peace-won reputation as the l greatest fighting machine of all history. 1 The smashing advance of the right wing I in the rush toward Paris was wonderful l demonstration of mobility; but 1t led l straight to a German defeat in the battle l Of the Marne and general retreat all along the line. German newspapers are now progressively silent about Der Marsch mach Paris" The French and the Germans, but on the whole they seem
 to have surpassed them in generalship
 and the higher strategy os war.
 l The Germans held the British army in contempt and the British held the Ger man navy in contempt; yet the British troops have proved veritabe stone wall | in the path of the German army, while the latest exploit of the German navy
 has cast thrill of horror" as the dis patches say throughout London.
 l War destroys many things. It is well | that it should also destroy few myths | about invincble military supremacy. One of the oldest lessons of human history is | the folly of despising your enemy. Yet l both British and Germans have been compelled to relearn it.
 l oswald F. Schuette, in Leslie's: The Eu- ropean war has thrown upon the United States the greatest diplomatic task ever l undertaken by a nation in the history of
 the world. For the United States repre- sents. in the capitals of the nations that are at war, practically all of the opposing bellgerents. Every declaration of war has added to this task, because with to by both sides to have our diplomatic and consular officers guard the interests of their nationals in the nations involved. This means that we have in our diplo- matic care the representation of more than 9O0000,0 900 people. We represent Ger many and Austria in Russia. England, France, Belgium. Servia, Montenegro and Japan. We represent England, France, Belgium, SerWa, Montenegro and Japan, and to a certain extent Russia, in both and ministers in the capitals of these 1 countries are responsible for the inter- ests of all of the hundreds of millions of