Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1915-10-27
German Soldiers in Poland En-
dure With Patience the
Crime and Misery That Is
Part of Their LOt
EUROPE BY NO MEANS
A DEGENERATE LAND
Building OF an Enormous Steel
Bridge Across ViStuIa AC-
compIIShed Under Almost
Incredible Difficulties.

tBN JAMES ODONNEII BENNITp
tcopyfight. 1915. Ry Tho Chicago rrihure
Czenstochowa Hussia sent ~
ID takes great deal of character to
maintain good Will and good spirits in
the face OF the conditions under which
the Austrian and German soldiers now
occupying Poland have been living
for months. ] mean the conditions
which ! tried To describe In the last
letter-the hot days and the cold
nights. ana the flies, and the all-per-
yldiug CRIME.
These are the things that take the
heart out of soldiers Wounds are
honoral le. Living i'm the middle Of a
grease spot that is edged with dust
and mire is merely disgusting Men
who. like the Germans come from the
best ordered nation i'm the world. cam
not find n other than horribly ink
some But they don't talk about that;
they Just so on doing their days work
of defending their country. not groan-
ing over the task but pushing ii TO
completion.
You in America are sorrier for
these soldiers han they are for them
selves, because v"" t0'C thc neu-
rotic point of view ana they take the
point of view of men of convictions
who have an important work i'm hand
ana the grit to face IT,
"DegcnprntcS" rs Bridge Buildtrs
Yor talk ahont "daoone,.,ta Fu-
rope" and the "effete mouarchies Of
the old world | wish you could
have seen some hundreds of the ciu-
zens of degenerate Europe raising the
pnDru4Gre etstl hrfTua ,t-bfah ortgate
the Nistula river al Iyangorod They
We're out on pontoons under the bla2-
ing sun. and because this is war time
they were doing the work under
heavy handcaps and with primitive
facilities a group was crowded onto
enc swayius platform that was sup
ported by pontoons Beside The plat
form rose huge derrick equipped
with a pile driver There was no
steam power 10 raise the driver and
releasc Il for it's fail but maze Of
ropes led downward from the top of
the machine and each rope vl raised
and lowered by dozen hands. II was
hard work and monotonous work but
" you had only heard it und not seen
il yOu would have thought 1t was
some kind Of game For these men,
who have been WORKING since dawn
it is now midforenoon-saug as they
worked and laughed and splashcd wa
ter on each other between gaeps. and
mode the weary business one Of the
most cXhlarating sight imaginable.
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