Grand Forks daily herald., 1915-05-29
GIRLS, DOGS and COWS HTCHfD
TO PLOuGHS N GERMAN FIELDS
While There Plenty Of Men in the Cities Women do
Greater Part Of the Farm Work BY Helping
Animals Pull Machinery.

ing the team OF cows. A man was
walking behind the drill, handling the
levers. A woman followed with =
hoe. apparently covering the seed the
drill sometimes failed to bury. Just
outside of, Cologne we, ran into the
baby buggy belt. Hero the. women
workers brought their infants 70, the
buggies would be. parked together.
under the care Of some infant who
was herself hardly able to toddle. 1t
was here, too, we sAw for the first
time something which had pathetic
significance. Many Of the women
workers wore frilled and rutfled white
which hinted At city. origin. instead
Of going boldly bare headed as the
peasant. women do. These were woin-
en- from the towns
Another definite sign that the men
who can be spared are being called
to the colors was discovered at Col
ognc. In the hotels and restaurants
there the walters are In great part
mere boys. So are the walters in the
dining cars--unless they are old men,
glance assures one that the same thing
might have been noted elsewhere in
Germany. But the withdrawal of the
sturdier waiters--the substitution Of
second crop servitors for the raw ma
terial of the trerches--had been ef-
fected SO gradually that it had es-
capped attention.
All Mon Go to War. in Time.
But It is important that the wrong
deduction be not made from these
facts. Germany's land will be all seed :
ed this year. It will be a. we'll seed
ed as in any previous year. So far as
one could observe from the car win
dows, the ground had been as perfect
ly prepared by these women and boys
and girls as though the men Of the
farm had themselves walked between
the grips Of the plough. Nor have all
Of Germanys available men been call
ed in. Not by any means. The walter
and the guard and the. chauffeur will
II 60 next month" said the Irish
looking waiter in the Excelsior hotel
in Cologne. Every one Of these boys
has had his notice. We will all go
sooner or later" .s
If there IL q shortage of man ma
terial in the fields and streets. there is
none in the fortress. Wherever one
goes one sees men drilling-marching
doing painful setting up exercises
we hardly saw score Of soldiers. Our
itinerary took US from the places they
were apt to be. And yet there are
$4,000 men drilling at Lubbock. Eigh-
teen thousand who have not yet seen
the trenches. Cologne IL a fortified
town and inquiry was impracticable
and dangerous. But for miles about
the city dull, gray-Ereen masses shuf-
fled along the country roads. It seem-
ed to me that ct every station we
passed there were from six to two
score of youngsters. wearing the flow
ers or the sprig Of greenery in their
caps which marked them for begin
ners at the work Of man-killing. All
through this part of Germany, too.
preparations have been made to resist
possible invader. The. most for
inidable.--wir lentanElemsnts L have
yet seen surround Cologne. At con-
siderable distance from. the city we
glimpsed bits Of concealed trenches
on which huge guns had been mount
ed. We were told that every possible
line Of entrance to Germany had been
similarly fortified.
For the first time. too. began to