Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1915-04-25
Highest Type of Class That
Constitutes Creative Factor
in Scientific Development
Of Agriculture.
MAN OF AFFAIRS WITH
PRACTICAL KNOWLEDGE
0'DonneII Bennett Gives Fas-
cinating Picture of Nephew
of Iron Chancellor From
First hand Impressions,
my JAMES o'boSSELL BrNsErr)

Copyright; 1915 BY The Chicago Tribnnep
Graudenz, Germany, March 30.--l
don't know that you could call Won
Bismarck of Jarchlin-nephew OF the
famous haneellor-typical of the
class of junkers or young gentlemen
farmers, of Germany.
Perhaps he is too poetic and Zine IL
bered to be wholly representative Oh
those hale and intensely practical
saulres but one may consider MN
the highest type of a class that with
her soldiers and manufacturers Is the
bulwark of modern Germany.
Sometimes, however, when / OBJ
served his accuracy of statement, MS
passion for method, and his quiet, ex-
ecutive ways of performing the mll-
tary service to which he has been as
signed, | wondered whether II we're
not the sensibility of Won Bismarck
and Of the young sqpires like him that
makes these men so emphatically Gre
atlve factors In the scientific develop
ment of German agriculture.
Love for the Soil.
They have a sensitiveness for the
soil. The neglect of 1t they regard as
"A sort Of proclamation and consider
themselves as in some sense conse-
Grated to the task of preserving It's
fecundity by the most careful rota-
tion and fertilization.
Hence a practical man OF affalrs,
this cadet of the house of Bismarck
knows countries and men and meth
ods, and so has horizon.
England he knows thoroughly, haV-
ing visited there for considerable pc
RODS knows her in her strength ana
nd IN her f30lft~
tions: in her spirit of dauntless plo-.
neering; in her superciliousness, her
flabby love of comfort. and her IA
tuous wastefulness: In her houndiess
resources and her dreadful poverty.
Such poverty, even in these rigor-
Gus war times, does not exist In Ger
many. | have been In the country
nearly four months out Of the SIX, be-
ginning last September, spending
hours and sometimes days in fifteen
of the large cities of the Kingdom OF
Prussia, and l have never been ac-
costed by beggar. No man could
spend fifteen minutes any evening In
Piecadilly without being waylaid by
one.
Gentlemen Farmers.
The Class of which Won Bismarck
is a high expression arc gentlemen
farmers in the sense that many OF
them are men Of gentle birth.
But they cmphatically are not ollie
tante farmers. They have factors
and head farmers, but they know as
much about cattle breeding and the
working Of the soil as their factors
and head farmers know
An eightyear course in agriculture
is part of their preparation for taking
tt4r - ,nf
Land that an illinois farmer would
not plow they make to produce with
amazing bounty by a system Of liberal
and scientific fertilizing, and when
they discovered that the war would
reduce the imports Of fertilizer to af-
most nothing they turned with con-
fdence to the German chemists, ana
the German chemists are producing
fertilizer out of the air.
These men acknowledge heavy re- |
sponsibility to their lands ana TO the
people who work for them. Most OF
them try to live UP to that RESPONSE |
bAity.
All go to War.
Forty-three men on the fommer- |
anian farms of Bismarck of Jarchlln
have gone to the war. SO has he. or
the forty-three, three or four have
fallen in battle. The master of jar
chin continues to pay the wages OF
the living and the dead in full.
AN Of us do" he said, seeming TO
take It as matter of course.
These proprietors are men of large
fortune. and when they turn them
selves and their automobiles over to
the empire to be Incorporated into the |
imperial volunteer automobile corps
fhaxf ff1n1I- |
ismus" as we'll as great amount Of
proficiency to this important branch
Of the military service.
Thousands of them brought their
ehauffeurs along with them, but II
N an emergency chauffeur Is lack
ing they run their own cars Next 70
playing the pipe organ in coid
church during an off duty hour, Mr.
Won bismarck would rather run his
own ear
Sd when these men take the conr-
iers' brown portfolio under their arms
and jump into their cars for l5o-
mile ride through a snewstorm In thel
enemys country they constitute an
extraordinarily trustworthy set OF
couriers, men not always as hardy as
trained soldiers, but Of the highest
probity and purpose and of more than
average resoureefulness. ] have seen
them swaying on their chairs with
sleepiness after a long nights drive.
and ! have also seen them shake
themselves, together in an instant
when orders came.
Rich Men DO Humble Tasks.
sapd owners. manufacturers and
mlfibnaires are in this service. and
some men OF fortune from the world
OF art Max Won Schiliing. intendant