The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1915-08-03

forms of productive industry. The
energies of the world have been large
ly diverted to making war. Factories
of all sorts have been turned owe to
the making of war munitions, men
taken from mill and field, to be re-
placed by women, old men and chill
dren. Economists assert that for gen.
e%ratiOns to come the world will feel
the effect Of the huge losses in the
burden of taxation and otherwise, and
sOciOlogists make conflicting predic-
tons as to it's moral, physical and psy-
and to come.
! Neutrality Affected Too.
Neutrals as we'll as belligerents have
gency which followed the outbreak of
war was worldwide. The United
Staets, in common with other neu-
trails, has been confronted with the
threatened abridgement of it's rights,
particularly at sea, and has sent notes
of remonstrance to England and
Germany, the complications with the
latter country following the sinking
of the Lusitania giving special con-
Germ.
The war has been attended with
many unexpected features, one of
Wich is it's p~rotraction. 1t had been
believed that such a struggle would
w VI Al dtlfCly SlOTI uOTdllOH,
on account of the cost and loss Of life
it would entail. AT the outset it was
commonly said that within less than a
year the nations involved would be
compelled to seek peace through
financial exhaustion, if for no other
reason. While each side has won it's
Victories, no final results have beer
reached in any of the campaigns, with
a Few minor exceptions of the lesser
operations in distant colonies. Over
the greater part Of the Franco-BeI
gian front the opposing millions are
facing each other in the same posi-
lions as last September. Movements
on the eastern front have been wider
but with no signs of an approaching
decision.
n German plan is generally as.
sumed to have been to deal first with
, France, in the early weeks of the war
$ before the Russian army, slower tt
r mobilize, was able to present a seriou.
and then to turn on Russia
f The fierce resistance of Belgium ant
the Unexpectedly quick mobilization
OF both the French and Russian arm
les prevented the full fruition of Thu
: plan. Nevertheless Germany ha;
s oeen able to hold her own on Doth tn,
eastern and western fronts.
Number of Separate Wars.
I In reality the struggle of the eleve,
4 AiiSo c III -
separate wars, related to each othe
: in only a general way. The who'll
held OF military operations may b
O summarized as follows:
y In France and Belgium Germany i
e battling with Great Britain, Franc
|. and Belgium. In August Germany in
vaded Belgium and France, pushin
r southwark almost to the gates @
IL Paris. Following the battle Of tn
Marine, perhaps the most importan
j. contest of the war thus far, the Ger
he mans were compelled to retreat an
0. nave since held an entrenched lin
Is from the Belgian coast to Alsace, re
tanning possession of northeaster
france and most of Belgium. In thi
On theatre the war has been so even thu
w the capture of a group of houses or
n rev yards Of trenches has been cor
sldered a victory worthy of mentio
IN the official reports. The Germa
attempt to break through to the Ems
e. hsh Channel; the British victory !:
ga Neuve Chapelle, the German triump
AT at SCISSORS, while calling forth 8,
preme efforts, did not materiaIl
ny ehahg the relative positions of tt