The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1915-04-22
HIS QUIET EXECUTIVE WAYS or
PERI M G sERvIcE
STAMPS HIM As ONE
or COUNTRV'S GRE
ATivE FACTORS.
Bismarck's Class Are Gentlemen
Farmers, but They Know as
Much Of Agriculture AZ
the Mar In Charge
OF the Farms.
BY JAMES o'DoNNEII BENNETT.
Special Cor. OF The Intelligence.

Copyright. 1915. by Chicago Tribune.)
GRAUDENZ. Germany. March 30
I don't know hat you could call Won
Bismarck OF Jarchlin-nephew OF the
famous chancellor-typical of the
class OF junkers. or young gentlemen
farmers. OF Germany.
Perhaps he is too poetic and fine
fibered TO be wholly representative OF
those hale and intensely practical
squires. but one may consider him the
highest type Of q class that with her
soldiers and manufacturers Is the bull.
wark of modern Germany.
Sometimes. however. when I OBJ.
served his accuracy OF statement, his
passion for method. end his quiet. ex.
e~cutive ways Of performing the mill
tary service TO which he has been as.
signed. wondered whether IL were
not the sensibility OF Won Bismarck
and of the young squires like him that
makes these men so emphatically ere
alive factors In the scientific develop
ment of German agriculture.
They have a constituencies for the
soil. The neglect of IL they regard as
a sort Of proclamation and consider
themselves as In some sense conse-
Grated to the task of preserving It's
fecundity by the most careful rotation
and fertilization.
Hence a practical man of affairs.
this cadet OF the house of Bismarck;
knows countries and men and meth
DDS. and so has a horizon.
England he knows thoroughly, hav-
ing visited there for considerable pc
RODS: knows her in her strength and
her weakness and In her contradic-
tons; in her spirit OF dauntless pi-
oneering: in her superciliousness. her
fiabby love of comfort, and her fatu-
GUS wastefulness: in her boundless re-
Such poverty. even In these rigorous
war times. does not exist in Germany. 1
have been In the country nearly four
months out OF The six eginnin last
times days In fifteen of the large cities
OF the kingdom Of Prussia. and i have
never oeen aeeoS'ee oy 1890: 80
evening In Piccadilly without being
The class OF which Won Bismarck Is n
high expression are gentlemen farmers
in the sense that many OF them are men
Of gentle birth.
tante farmers. They have factors and
head farmers. but they know as much
about cattle breeding and the working
Of the soil as their factors and mad
An eight years course IN agriculture
IS part OF their preparation for taxing
over the launA OF IheiF AnceNtofn
Land that an Illinois farmer would
not pillow they make to produce with
amazing bounty by a system Of liberal
and scientific fertiiizing. and when they
discovered that the war would t-ussa
the imports Of fertilizer to almost moth
ing they turned with confidence to the
German chemists. and the German
chemists are producing fertilizer out OF
the air.
These men acknowledge a heavy re-
sponsibiiity 90 their lands and 70 the
rtople who work for them. Most Of them
try 70 live up 20 that responsibility.
Forty-threc men on the POmmeranian
farms OF Bismarck ~ Jarchlin hav-
gone 70 the war. So has he. or the for
ty-three. three OF four have fallen IN
battle. The master Of Jarchlin contin-
ues 20 pay the wages Of h living and
the dead IN full
ali % o. do" he said. seeming 70
take ~ as a matter % course.
These proprietors are men 81 large
fortune, and when they turned them
selves and their automobiles over 20
the empire 20 be incorporated into the
imperial volunteer automobile corps
they brought the German tdealiEmus
- we'll A. a great amount % proficiency
60 this important branch OF the Military
service.
chauffers along with them. but N IN an
n chauffeur IL lacking tsry
run their own cars. Mex 70 plying the
pipe organ IN a cold church during an
or duty hour. Mr. Won bismarck would
rather run his own car
SO when these men take the couriers'