The Detroit times., 1915-06-29
Plenty Of Food and
Good Environment
Make Men Strong
WORKERS WELL {
TAKEN CARE OF
Rulers See to It That
No Laborer in En-.
pire Starves

~ cHARLGs EDWARD RUSSELL
Newspaper Editor, Magazine Writer
and Economist, Who 10 Writing
gxcluslvs Articles From the War
Zone Tor This Newspaper.
(cepy right, ists, BY the Newspaper
Enterprise Assoelatlen.)
LONDON. July NEXT to the
wonder OF France In this war II the
wonder OF Gcrmany--next. but with
IN interval and In q different way.
France offers the spectacle OF =
nation spiritually exalted by IN
ideal and rising 10 amazing heroism
and sacrifice. Germany II q spec
tacle OF scientific precision and a.
tute preparation.
The greatest thing In each coun-
try V the people. Oermany's pre-
vision deserves all the marveling
awe II has aroused. but what do you
suppose II all would amount to II
0ermany's men In the trenches
were not physically At for the huge
labors and incalcuabls strain put
upon them'
That 10 the point. Germany has
done all these wonderful things be-
cause, first a generation Of her best
minds has been engaged In studious
planning for them: and because.
second. her nine million fighting
men have been reared In sufyiciency
and the environments Of health.
We have, then. for the final and
greatest lcsson OF this war. the per.
feet, unanswerable test OF two sys-
TENS OF thought and government
policy.
England has stood for one idea In
government and Germany for anoth.
Or. ENGLAND has been the worlds
conspiruous exponent OF individual.
ism. Germany has stood for the
theory that the interests OF the state
transcend any Individual will or
preference and the state must in
terferc with the individuals ways
and manners whenever the welfare
or the interests OF the state 90 de-.
mand.
IN England the controlling idea
has been every man for himself: In
Germany It has been every man for
the state. or something to that ef.
feet.
30 now We can see exactly hog
the two opposing theories work out
In practice.
Contrast some OF the absolute
facts about the two nations without
regard to the causes OF the facts
whatever these may have been.
In England ten months Of war
have passed without the forming
Of IN adequate army nor anything
like Il.
Ia Germany an army OF over.
whelming strength was under arms
and moving 10 the frontiers three
hours sitter the order for mobilixa.
ton.
In England thousands Of recruits
slept IN parks or In the streets and
were fed by private charity or not
at ell.
In Germany every man was from
the nrst Uc0snt properly clad. ade-
euatcIy fed and comfortably housed.
In England an appalling percent.
age Of those that offered themselves
for enlistment was rejected because
OF physical defects. and another ap-
psiling percentage was accepted
that should have been rejected.
In Germany the physical defec.
tivee among those summoned TO the
colors averaged less than ave per
cent.
In England the physically able
that went to the front were Of the
prosperous and well-to-do classes.
OF the rest. men came from the
slums OF manufacturing towns.
whore for two generations the work.
ins populations had lived In dark.
unsanitary and dismal dwellings,
their bellies filled with unnutritious
food and their lungs with poisonous