Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1915-03-24
Though Chaos Seems to Reign
at Lowicz, Everything IS
Done Right Through SyS-
tematic Administration,
INVADERS OVERLOOK
NOTHING ANYWHERE
Same ThOrOughneSS Is Feature
of Work Done by TeutOnS
Both in Military and Civil
Government,
CBy James O'Donnen Beunett)

(By James O'Donnell Bepnett)
Copyright: 1915: ny The Chicago Trihunc)
Lowicz, Russia, Feb. 2l.--Night
had fallen. and it was bitter cold
when we reached Lowic2.
shall we ind quarters i'm the ho-
tel?" | asked Lieutenant Max Won
Wogau, the same sapient Won Wogau
who had given me the advice about
never entering the kitchen Of a Po-
lish- Russian inn.
At the question he silently pointed
across the square to the principal no
tel of the town. Half its roof had
been blown away, and there was not
a whole pane of glass in the building
The most conspicuous thing left Of
il was that portion of the front wall
lettered with the words Hotel Pol
ski"
Business was emphatically sus-
pended at the Hotel Polski SO, too,
il was ut the railway station, which
was a roofless ruin.
But everywhere else Lowicz was
active to the point of delirium, yet a
curious kind of delirium that pro-
duced extraordinarily coherent re-
suits.
Town Sea of Mud.
The town was a sea of mud be-
meath, with canopy of cold above.
From unexpected places long, white
shafts Of light swept out upon the
wayfarer. striking him with the
binding effect of blow From every
direction came ceaselessly the rumble
Of wagon trains, hooung Of horns,
yells Of command, and the shrill,
anxious whistle of German locomo-
tiyes
In the freight yards the clamor be
came pandemOnium. Trans laueH
with everything an army could want
from cannon to listerine, were bach
ing in. sergeants serving as switch
men and the first assistant 10 the
superintendent of a royal theatei
acting as station master.
Autos were rushing outward bound
TO the battle lines at Bolimow ana
Skierniewice and rushing back from
these points. Everybody was cold and
hungry and tired, but everybody from
the sergeant-switchman to the the
atrical manager whom war has MADE
a station manager. was desperately
intent upon getting his special TASK
dispatched in worSmanlike way.
Highly Individualzcd Organization.
In times past foreign observers
have written of the German army az
merely a. big machine the parts OF
which were deficient in orisihatlnt
mower. But | never saw a more high
iv individualized organization ana j
is so partly because the sense OF IN
dividual responsibility is so great.
AS the autos came roaring up t'
the freight yards all the chaufieuI
were shouting for benzoL The new
gates of the yard, lately maze ~
German carpenters. swung wide 10
them and they hurled to tank car
indicated by large wooden signs pear
ing the words:
TANKSTELLE DES
Z. X. p. 8.
Somebody else was clamorihg 10
the telephone exchange.
Very goodl .,.-,,
A white shaft from a searchHsh
swung out in front of the inquire
before he had finished his question
and descended on n big f Cstahuln
for Fernsprecher) set on post 'o
feet up the road.
So that mans troubles were oNeI
Another man wanted cow
A soldier led one out to M
from the cattle stalls in the frelsf
yards. ,
All this time frantic horses wer
plunging, lights were iiashins' el
gines were backing, railway sa.'
that guard the road We're rlslhg an
descending. and ambulances laue
with wounded were gently maneuNe'
ed over the tracks.
Intent on Duty
on a dozen occasions both py ilsl
and by day. l have watched this KIN
of thing with fascinated eyes lot
hour at n time and never could 81
why the whole business did not plo
up. ~
men so passionately intent upon du
we're there and so, behind the clam
was system. and amid the rush w
order -,
"Rechts.n and a few perempto
"Halts." and the whole thing dlse
tangled itself, the loaded WACO
moving forward in an unbroken III
and the empties bouncing over
tracks to the various supply depo
every one of which had been accu
ateIv indicated on newly design
maps issued to the soldiers. E
By 10 o'clock everybody was !
and assigned to his quarters, ana l
singing had begun. -
What "Nilitarism' Means.
The same system | have seen Wor
ing from end to end of Belgium
across northeastern France, q
every time | have seen it the thous
has come to me that TINS uIeau
"militarism at which the world