The copper era and Morenci leader. [volume] (Clifton, Ariz.) 1911-1929, 1915-08-13
TAKES WAR LIGHTLY
Russia Shows Little Evidence of
Great Conflict.
Dissemination to Win and Break -sr-
man Milltarism is the Spirit of the
Cars PeopIe-No End to
His Armies.
: BY SLOAN GORDON.

Dy SGOfAN 0ShOSN.
Correspondent of the Chicago News.
Petrograd, Russia.-How the great
war has drained the human reservoirs
Of France-how the boulevards Of
Paris are manless wastes; how the call
to arms has taken male Germans from
the farms and the villages and the
cities; how rare are men of fighting
age upon the streets of Budapest and
Vienna, and how, even in London.
there is noted marked falling on
in the number of visible male beings
all these evidences of the effects of
international blood letting have been
set forth In countless columns in the
newspapers Of America for months.
That the stories are true of those
German and Austrian and French and
even British centers there can be no
reasonable ground for doubt-the nu-
merous authorities attest their accu-
racy. But it may be set down that
this is not true of Petrograd. To all
outward appearances in this war cap
1tal there is no war There are evil
dences here and there of great mill
tary activity. There are daily drills
upon the public squares and there are
Red Cross signs in great profusion.
But of men, or, rather, the absence of
men-there is no such thing.
Great, mysterious, brooding Russia
the unfathomable Russia-goes
about her daily ways with a noncha-
lance that is battling to the western
mind. Her streets are crowded-the
streets of Petrograd and Of Moscow
and even of Warsaw, where the fight
ing lines are but a few miles distant.
Tens of thousands, literal hordes of
men Of all ages jostle and crowd along
the famous Nevsky Prospekt from
morning until night and far into the
night. The hotel Hobbies are jammed
with men and women in furs and
finery.
''Is it always like this?" exclaimed
an American who has spent many
years in Petrograd and other parts OF
Russia, ia response to inquiry. well
just about. wouldn't know there was
a war going on If it weren't for the
newspapers.
Russia he continued, lis going
about this war business with an air
Of confidence that have never seen
before. It is not quite the same con.
fdence that your typical Britisher dis
plays, the sort we always associate
with the English and which has been
variously classed as bullheadedness
arrogance, egotism and plain nerve
It Is none Of these with Russia. II
is merely concrete national example
Of what Is really underneath the sur
face-a Russian individual character
istic. Your Russian is a fatalist in
great crises. When it comes to
something really big he settles down
to an imperturbable calm, shrugs his
shoulders, and takes his medicine"
That the general attitude Of Russis
toward the war has changed since hos
Titles began is testified to by those
who have observed.
In the beginning OF the war; sait
one Of these observers, Russian mer
chant with large interests in Petro
grad and Warsaw, I'VE felt that we
were fighting only to repulse an en-
emy-to prevent invasion Of our ter
ritory. There was little show of bit
terness against the Germans. But II
Is different now. This war has dons
more to make Russians think and Il
draw them together than anything
that has ever happened In the history
Of the country. Today there is Q flxet
determination to fight 1t out to {
finish and to end the probability of fu
ture conflict by destroying Prussial
militarism. That may sound strangs
to those who have looked SO long upor
Russia as a military nation, but 4
Ia nevertheless true. A new feeling
Of patriotism has been born"
"And do you know" he added, much
as though it were q matter OF course
that 1t is impossible for Russia tt
lose-for the allies to lose this war
Russian resources Of men and money
are too vast. Why, there are q mil
lion young men arriving at military
age every year. Russia could lose .
| million every r. months, which Is in
/ conceivable, and still keep her armie!
In the field In undfminished number
Russia can feediher armies, aad never
feel it. ALL the b1ockades in the work
cannot affect usI We raise our owl
food, and caa and win make our owl
supplies of every sort, If necessary
We have the money, we have thu
men, and, by heaven, we have thu
spirit"