The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-03-26
SAVE THE SOLDIER,
 GERMANS SLOGAN
Warning Nation to Guard Against Maimed and Dis
 figured After War.


 Now York, March zc.-A New York Times staff correspondent has written back from the Polish front of the Flu ropean war a letter in which he takes tIp a phase of the German army that has attracted little attention, that is, the life and limb saving organization the work of the surgeons and sanitary officers.
 The keynote of the system is the econservation of IEnbs,'' as well as life There are two thoroughly good German reasons for this policy Ger many now needs every man she can muster to fight her war, and armless legless men are worthless Germany also is looking into the future-she is guarding against defective machinery in her material existence after the war. The empire has therefore called to the colors every specialist in the lands and has laid on them the obligation of con-. serving life and limb. Germany has organized this branch of the war ser vice on 8 Big Business corporation ba- sis of thoroughness and good sense. The skilled have been made responsi- bIe-they are the heads.
 The Secret of Success.
 The correspondent writes:
 .'And right here you learned one se- cret of German success-eyery con- csivable kind of specialist, interior, exterior, medical, surgical mental and moral, is on the job constantly to set the pale for the salvage companies in their almost superhunlan efforts to lose not soldier for the kaiser whom science can save
 s'The surgeon in charge of the field hospital has just finished his report for the month. Of the 1,5S7 severely wounded who had been brought in during four weeks IT died.
 stOf the hundreds of operations per-
 
 a limb. tConservative surgeary,' he called 1t. learned that there was no post-battIe butchery by enthusiastic young surgeons the battlehelds, and that no German soldier needs to be haunted by the fear of being need 1essly madmed for life, thtt in fact, no operation was performed until it was pronounced absolutely necessary by competent head surgeon, who in case of doubt, called in the corps special ist
 From the firing line, the wounded are carried to the nearby Hauptver- bandplaetx or main bandaging places,' where operations are performed only in Efe-and- death cases. Here the wounded are sorbed out Those who can stand long distance transportation are started back toward the distant. base, and the serious eases are brought to the field hospital, where the stan of .conservative surgeons is large enough 10 give each one a maximum chance for a life or a. linb-even when a, rush is on.''
 Renaarlabae Organization.
 The correspondent also tells. of the remarkable organization for medical. sanitary and surgical work at the front-the wonderful hospitals, whose absolutely complete equipment can be packed up and moved in an hour He pictures, graphically, the scene af- ter night battle seven or eight miles miles away.
 ssThe guest chamber of the field hospital was an enormous oval room tastefuIly furnished with a straw stuff ed mattress, a candle in a tin candle stick on the floor, and nightmare provoking array of forbidding look ing Polish ancestors. a bakers dozen of them, staring out of tarnished gilt frames on the wall.
 .Everyth1ng had been nice and quiet all the evening. but the Rus sians suddenly took 1t into their heads to complete the work of the oil painted Polish ancestors and mur- der sleep. The continuous sound as of blasting in a distant string of quarries heralded the coming storm. An hour later telephone message came from the division headquarters to clear for action. as the Russians were about to try to break through. The hospital staff, who knew what was coming. stopped singing and wtistling and went to bed, sleeping like fireinen with their boots on O novice, however. is not put to sleep by this iron lullaby. Tn the morn l ing hours they began to aITfve-a fantastic procession Of swinging lan- terms coming over the fields of creak- l ing darE-gray ambulance wagons and | light Polish farm carts. freighted with bandaged bundles - the heavily wounded.''
 The man in charge was a. special ist from Frankfort whose charges for performing an operation on an Amer 1 ican millionaire would be about $10,- 0O0. All around him were eminent specialists No wounded man was maimed for life, or disdgured if there was the slightest chance for es- cape from it.
 Royal Chefs Are at Front. Another thing which impressed the Times correspo was the food. 1 The royal chefs. and such noted mas ters of the culinary art as the chief cooks .of the great German ocean liners, are in charge Of the Kitchens This efficient management extends not only through the hospital Kitchens, but through tn centre army, whose soldiers, when on the march, are fed hot food every hour. The hospital kitchen was in the back yard" says the corresp ondent. ..It was a sgou- lash cannon It is really a battery for it can simultaneously shoot a whole menu-stew or soup from the l big motarlike kettle in the center and coffee and three other hot items from small ca1tber guns at each corner of I this astounding combination cooking stove and Kitchen on wheels. The l Germans are immensely proud of thens and I can well believe the proposition that they have done more for Germany than even the sensa- tionaI forty-two centimeter mortars. The cooking was done with g1ycerin. | The huge kettle has a double wall and l bottom inside all1rain1lrrl outside con-