The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1915-04-29
HOW EXPERTS Do It.
German Administration in BEL
GUM Model of Efficiency.
Public and Private Activities Are d.
rected by Soldiers Who, in Peace,
Are Bankers, Lawyers
and Scientists.
BY OSWALD r. SCHUETTE.

Correspondent Chicago Daily News)
Brussels, Belgium ad'
ministration of the civil affairs OF Bel.
GUM presents new picture Of the
German reserve officer.
The reserve corps Of German Off
GERS always has been the admiration
Of the military world No other ma
ton has been able to call out from
civil life an aggregation Of men so ef-
ficiently trained as officers for the vast
reserves needed for war But the
military training Of these men is only
one side of their qualification In pri-
vate life they are the learned pro
fessiona men of the nation. They are
the lawyers, the physicians, the bank
ers, the engineers, the directors Of
big enterprises, the scientists who
have given to Germany her peculiar
industrial efficiency.
Now they put on their uniforms and
their shoulder straps and march off to
the front But there are many things
TO be done in war besides leading
armies against the enemy Not the
least Of these is such a problem as
that of Belgium
Here Is a nation, Of alien race and
tongue, bitterly hostile, with indus
tries paralyzed another invading
power must not only restore peace
and order, but call back to life the
crippled Industrial organization No
merely military organization could do
this
And il is here that your reserve Of.
ficer shines Governor General Won
Kissing had only 10 denote the de-
mands Of the work to be done and
he had the greatest experts Of Ger,
many at his command
Personal influence has disappeared
entirely Personal gain Is not even
thought Of Let us do something Of
which we shall be proud" said Cen
eral Won Kissing And his assistants
have been living up to that motto.
A catalogue Of the experts who
wear military uniforms while they
work out Belgian civil problems would
make an American governor Jealous
Here Is a director OF the reichsbank
at BorliD-on OF the greatest imam.
cicra OF Germany He is a major OF
the reserves, but he hangs his sword
on a coat rack each morning and goes
60 work with pen Major Won Lumm
IS now detailed" as the general com.
missioner OF banking" In Belgium
His first task was TO reorganlze the
whole financial regime OF the king.
dom found a new national bank and
invent a new currency Mere trines'
Then there Is Captain Won Kessel
who Is a member OF the PrussIan
house Of representatives and "A famous
authority on municipal government
and social economies. He IL now the
adlutant Of the military governor OF
IieBe Lieutenant Colonel Won Ren.
ner AS such he has worked out the
great Industrial problems Of that big,
busy city and has started things 10
work again Each day he finds a new
way OF opening up n factory.
Probably more interesting is Cap.
tain brape who was director Of the
gas works Of Luenoburg when the war
broke out He was wounded at
Licgc. When Antwerp was taken he
was hurried there because the water
works had been destroyed in the bonn.
bardmont In Eve days he had dug
UP an auxiliary pump in some factory
and had the system In operation again
"a vital matter In a city the size Of
Antwerp
Then he went TO work on the street
cars Of Antwerp. In three days he
had them running. The same speed
put the gas works and the electric
plant in operation In IA days he had
~ interurban railroads that center at
Antwerp at work
A man who could wave magic