The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-01-24
Marines operating a field wireless telegraph.

pcrcd a woman in front of me. never
taking her eyes off the figure in the car.
\ moment later and the crowd was dis
persing as quietly as ii had assembled
There had been no display of enthusi-
asm, not so much as a cheer. L, might
have been a religious procession which
had passed. And think that for thou
sands of Germans the royal house has
taken on a sort of mi-diyinity; very
simple, very austcrc, 10y war made, and
by war maintained.
The Kaiserin had been like high
priestess to the temple. praying for the
success of the German arms.
The whole life and thought Of the
nation has been warped to the one end
Of making war y monograph fac
tory turns out shrapnel shells. farm
ing machinery company makes gun car
rilges, the C,n,hng trades turn out
nothing but uniforms and other mill
tary supplies; life insurance companies
loan money on policies In order that the
holders may give it to the Kriegsan-
lehe; the canning factories all have
been taken over by the Government, the
palace where the Rcichstag meets is
headquarters for the Red Cross and Is
thronged every day with East Prussian
refugees who have been driven from
their homes by the advancing hordes
Of CossaCks; churches and sChoolhouses
and hotels are hospitals railroads are
highways for the armies; all books
now being published are upon the war,
| and all tracts, newspapers and maya
zines.
The shop windows are full of field
postbrief wrappers (ield parcels post
| in which liebcs abcn Glove gifts) may
| be sent directly to the soldiers in the
| field. Many shops give substantial re-
ductions on goods thus sent. There are
endless varieties OF military gloves, boots,
pulse warmers mutticrs brust beuteis
| tundervests), underwear, linens, pencils,
| cigar lighters, knives, postcards, sc.
| all tempting tender hearts to buy.
| But IL Is to the resourCefulness of the
| Red Cross that take off my hat. Every
| hotel lobby, every restaurant, almost
every shop, every railway and subway
station, every old fashioned bus Las its
Red Cross box. one sits down at a table
in a fashionable restaurant. At ones
right is a wine bottle, sealed at the top,
with "A slit cut in the side for Red Cross
contributions. At ones left is IA cylin-
drical Tin box duly labelled. requesting
| contributions for the relief of women
and children left destitute by the war.
While one is at luncheon two young
girls who look like Salvation Army las
sizes at home come in with collection
boxes for still another sort of Red Cross
work. At the door as one goes out, one
sees a German soldiers helmet lying On
a chair. There Is "A narrow slit cut in
the top of the helmet, and a paper is
pasted beside it asking one to give to
the Red Cross. One gives and gives
and gives
That is the spirit of war time Ger
many-the spirit of complete giving
the spirit which oversubsCribes huge
war loans and overcrowds the ranks Of
the volunteers, the spirit of humble self
sacrifice which has SO often upset the
plans Of cautious and cynical leaders of
men. | confess | cannot understand II,
hut not even the Germans themselves
understand n. They are constantly
amazed at their own spirit.
They never tire of talking about it:
the unanimity of feeling regarding the
war; the enthusiasm with which the
nation leapcd To arms, That Socialist,