Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1915-06-04
||on EXPERTS Do It
German Administration in Bel
GUM Model of Efficiency.
Public and Private Activities Are Di-
rected by Soldiers Who, in Peace,
Are Bankers, Lawyers
and Scientists.
BY OSWALD F. SCHUETrE.

by 70" HIO r. SSrlSC =.
Correspondent Chicago Daily News.)
Brussels, Belgium.-Germany's ad-
ministration of the civil affairs of Bel
GUM presents a new picture Of the
German reserve officer.
The reserve corps of German Off
GERS always has been the admiration
of the military world No other ma
ton has been able to call out from
civil life an aggregation Of men so eff
ficiently trained as officers for the vast
reserves needed for war. But the
military training of these men is only
one side of their qualification. In pri-
vate life they are the learned pro-
fessional men of the nation. They are
the lawyers, the physicians, the bank
ers, the engineers, the directors OF
big enterprises, the scientists VINO
have given to Germany her peculiar
industrial efficiency.
Now they put on their uniforms and
their shoulder straps and march on to
the front. But there are many things
to be done in war besides leading
armies against the enemy. Not the
least of these is such a problem as
that of Belgium.
Here is a nation, of alien race and
tongue, bitterly hostile, with indus
tries paralyzed - another invading
power must not only restore peace
and order, but call back to life the
crippled industrial organization. No
merely military organization could do
this.
And it is here that your reserve Of
f1cer shines Governor General Won
Kissing had only to denote the de-
mands of the work to be done and
he had the greatest experts OF Ger
many at his command.
Personal influence has disappeared
entirely Personal gain is not even
thought Of. LET us do something Of
which we shall be proud" said Gen
eral Won Kissing And his assistants
have been living up to that motto.
A catalogue of the experts who
wear military uniforms while they
work out Belgian civil problems would
make en- American governor jealous
Here is director of the reichsbank
at Berlin-one of the greatest flnan-
ciers of Germany. He is major OF
the reserves, but he hangs his sword
on a coat rack each morning and goes
to work with pen. Major Won Lumm
is now detailed" as the general COM
missioner of banking" in Belgium.
His first task was to reorganlze the
whole financial regime of the king
dom, found new national bank and
invent new currency. Mere trif1es!
Then there is Captain Won Kessel.
who is a member Of the Prusslan
house of representatives and famous
authority on municipal government
and social economics. He is now the
adjutant of the military governor of
Liege, Lieutenant Colonel Won Rem.
ner. As such he has worked out the
great industrial problsms of that big.
busy city and mas started things tc
work again. Each day he finds new
way of opening up factory.
Probably more interesting is Cap
tain Drape, who was director Of the
gas works of Lueneburg when the war
broke out. He was wounded at
Liege. When Antwerp was taken he
was hurried there because the water
works had been destroyed in the bonn
bardmeut In FIVE days he had dug
w an auxiliary pump in some factory
and had the system in operation again
"a vital matter in a city the size OF
Antwerp.
Then he went to work on the street
cars of Antwerp. In three days he
had them running. The same speed
put the gas works and the electric
plant in operation. In IA days he had
Antwerp at work.
A man who could wave magic
wand like that deserved bigger field
and he was detailed to Brussels to
take general supervision over munich
PAL, gas, electrical and street railroad
plants in the kingdom. Incidentally.
aIscIhe received the iron cross.
Aith Captain Drape there was
- to Antwerp Baron Won Pletten-
first lieutenant Of reserves.
Eivate life he is managing director
e North German Lloyd-a fine
ing for man whose duty.it is to
the commercial life Of the great
of Antwerp.
10 you can go down through
Aand find expert after expert
- technical knowledge and
play an important part
Misunderstanding, but always
The uniform of an officer
"A yes.
18th in Years Fatal.