The Springdale news., 1915-10-22
WHAT IS WAR
The Real War That is Now Going On In Europe That is Not Ap-
 gearing in Print,

The following stories, relative to the present great European strug gle. are taken from the September issue of Tine Medical World, which was handed to The News by an interested subscriber, who desires to give the boys and young men of this section, who are clamoring for War, true inside story of the strug- gle, taking off the veneer and varn- ish, and leaving nothing but facts. Stories such as these seldom find their way into the newspapers, and must be taken from some profes- sional magazine. The first story we want to publish recently appeared in the New York Evening Mail, and was written by Arnold Bennett, we'll known war correspondents:
 War only persists because people do not realize what is. People object to realizing what it is, and their delicate sensibilities are care fully respected by practically all newspaper correspondents and writ CTS of private letters home.
 The following facts were given me by Dr. A. \. Martin, q surgeon of repute. and who is well aequaint- ed with such horrors, and who is now at the front in Germany: "
 l was called at the double to at Itend some wounded in a narrow road under shell fire two weeks ago. The scere defied description. was absolutely silent with the ghastly horror of the scene In the road lay mangled and bleeding men, mangled and bleeding horses, dead men lying in all sorts of eonvulsive attitudes, upturned wagons, smash ed and splintered wood. Add to this the agonized groans of our wound ed men, the screams of dying horses. and that impalpable, but neyerthe- less real, feeling of standing fer a moment in the face of the Creator and one can perhaps then feebly picture the scene of carnage. of the solemnity of death. and of the pitt less wee of the devastation.
 \ cavalry ambulance accompanied by two officers came by. When the ambulance was abreast Of tie men Gle Germans landed a lyddfte shell directly under the horses feet. Eight men were killed outright on the road One doctor was killed out right. The other deotcr had his an kIe and foot smashed. Ten men were badly wounded. two died the s4me night. Eight= horses were kill cd, and three horribly maagled happened To be the first doctor at hand, and dressed the wounded and tttd them conveyed 10 the shelter of q gravel pit near by They were all in very great pain, and all of them were given morphia hypodermically.
 As a surgeon, of course, what ap- peals to me is the state of our wounded and dying The wounds caused by bursting shrapnel are most severe. The shrapnel rips, tears, lacerates and penetrates the human tissues in a horrible manner. and our work consists in repairing and making good as best We can Our best, alas, is too often of little avail In the face of the anatomical deyas- tation produced
 One man, for instance, had his low CT jaw shattered to a pulp and his tongue cloven in two. Another man had his skull smashed and his brain yelling over his face. Another has the front of his abdomen ripped open, and his bowels prctrude. An other has knee joint blown open. a hand smashed an ankle shatter- ed, and so on and so on One could multiply and enumerate without end
 But perhaps that is enough
 The wounded receive scant treat ment for hack of proper means and facilities. No army medical corps is prepared to attend to the enormous number of wounded that fall in battle over a large territory. The indes- eribable suffering resulting makes raEolting and hideous spectacle.