The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1915-01-26
Motoring Along Battle Line As
Guest of The Kaiser
Continued from Page one.)

freshly ploWed fields sSoWn IN winter
wheat and the extent OF the acre
age again under cultivation Is thought
provoking.
The German Great General Stan,
which is overlooking no bets, You ais
cover. has seen to il that the harvest
has been gathered in, and is further
seeing TO it that there shall be a har-
vest next year The corps command
ers have orders TO induce the rural
population TO get on the job again
and till the soil, and the sight OF a
fighting General like Won Emmlch
concerning himself with farming
strategy and barnyard tactics was one
Of the bright comedy touches of the
war.
Among other measures, we are
lending our army horses to the farm
ers to get their pfOWlng done, Won
Emmich told The Times correspond
ent, pointing out that the fact that,
since the French strategic railways
We're again running almost right up
to the German trenches. thousands of
horses that formerly pulled transports
were now freed for feldwork. 1t
isn't pure philanthropy, however; the
German Great General Staff. is not
primarily a Rockefeller Foundation.
The Bavarian General Zoellner, who
is not only its specialist on Americana,
but also one Of its ablest economic
strategists. said succinctly: Amer
leans are bushes men, and will read
lily understand that it is not to our
interest to have starving population
at our backs. Both in France and
Belgium we are taking energetic steps
| to put agriculture on its feet again,
! we even prescribe what shall be
| raised-no sugar beets, for instance,
but mostly breadstuffs. There was
no hypocrisy about purely hunani-
! tartan motives"
| Germans Make Roads.
| 1t is military interest, too, that is
| debating the extensive "good-rOads'
| movement you notice everywhere
| throughout German France. You
| pass miles Of cracked stone, steam
rollers and gangs Of natives working
| industriously, Shepherded by uni
| formed soldiers Of the Road Build
| ing Companies" Road building in
| France strikes you are first as work
| Of supererogation. till you reflect that
| the world-famous French automobile
| highways We're not laid out with a
| view to facilitating a German military
| invasion and occupation.
The idea evidently isn't to provide
work for the jobless, though it un-
| doubtedly serves to keep potential
| France Tireurs out Of mischief You
y
impOrtance-af it when on a good
straight stretch you pass q gray col
unn OF twenty-three fve-ton motor
trucks racing at thirty miles an hour
toward the front. The speed and
cheapness with which mud is being
| q nightmare to a Tammany cOntrac c.
tor. You also take passing note Of 9
gang OF military surveyors laying
out new branch railroad across the
fields, the line Of telegraph poles, al
ready up, running straight as an ar.
row toward the trenches.
Around Hirson, the 1,0O0-foot rail
, way tunnel is worth looking into-lit
orally, for you climb the hill and lool
/ down a deep, yawning we'll which thu
: German railway company duf
, ! through the top of the tunnel bette
! to attack the debris caused by alice
/ dynamite. One track has again beer
f opened for traffic in the tunnel.
: Uhlans in France seem to be a,
e rare as the dodo: you cant recall hav
t ing run across a single one of them
r though you met a handful in Bel
d GUM. But at the village of X yo,
d did see some Of the oft-decmate,
Deaths Head Hussars who appar
| emily thrive on being "cut to pieces
. and even seem to increase and null
s tiply. Their Colonel, the Duke Q
5 Brunswick, is unfortunately out O
n | town, or you would have INTERVENE,
: him on the subject. So you motor O.
t without stopping, and note Ga fey
:. hundred kiiometers away that nc
O every church in this strip Of Franc
IS has been shot up by one side or tn
n other, for in Notre Dame de LESS
= the old concierge is still selling pic
r | ture poStalS as if the American tour
II | list season were in full food. and n
h bursting shells have scattered the So
t. | cred relics, which are all there, ir
IL Guiding the alleged shoe Of the Vi!
n gin, 'venerated here for ten cent?
l. RES according to the ia blet beneath
if Motoring to the front, you can a
~ ways tell when you are "gettin
Iy warm by the fact that long lines {
a ammunition trains and YnisceIIaneor
y, transports nearly crowd You off tn
As road.
G. These 'kolonnen' are a revelatio
Ill Of system and order Each e-ra
IL | wagon is )eSihIE StopCi1o6 ~