Newark evening star and Newark advertiser., 1915-11-12

pitals in various parts OF Germany
He dweIls particularly on the psycho-
logical effect of the strain Of mod
arn battle on the private soldier.
There Is frequently he observes,
"a strange, almost awful, look IN the
faces of those who have been in bat
tie They are stili willing soldiers
some of them eager to get back to
the trenches. but the more highly civ
ilized man is the deeper his feelings,
the more does he bear that indelible
something In his face, the sign that
ne has seen terrible things. Physical
IS, these soldiers may be hard as iron,
bnt psychically they are not intact.
The officers nearly always develop an
nncanny. marble, staring look, as
though they had grown accustomed
10 look unshudderingly at Abe terrorH
and desolating orgies of destruction,
and finally felt that their eyes had
become a mirror of the horrible
Among the thousands of Belgian
soldiers now in hospitals in England
and in France, detained IN camps in
Holland Ind prisoners In Germany
there is q widespread need OF good
books and a committee that has been
formed to enlist American aid in the
money for their purchase will be re-
ceived by Pierre Mali, Belgian Con-
sui General in New York. The men,
bers of the honorary committee in
elude Emmanuel Havenith, the Bel
gian minister at Washington; Joseph
Il. Choate, Charles ]. Bonaparte, Rev
J. +. Stillemans, of the Belgian Re
lief Fund, and Louis de Sadelier, min
ister of state for Belgium, who is in
New York.
The tally hoi" of a coach horn,
blown by an American, calls out the
people Of the villages in the vicinity
of The Hague two or three times a
week just now, as a well-equipped
four-in-hand swings along the roads,
the team also "tooled' by an Ameri-
san. 1t is the war which is response
bic for this unaccustomed slgnt in
Holland. The entire proceeds of the
coaching trips are handed over to
various societies for the relief of
refugees from Belgium and other nom
co1nbatants OF all nationalities rem
dered necessitous by the hostilities in
progress in the neighboring countries.
The coach itself Is appropriately
named "Relief" The idea was
worked out by Marshall Langhorne,
secretary of the American Legation,
and some colleagues. He one day
found q mail coach relapsing into
decadence in a livery stable. The
sight of 1t took his mind back to the
old coaching days in Virginia and,
as he soon afterwards met Aurei
Ratonyi, the American whip" who
had Just come through from relief
work in Belgium, the idea of coaching
IN aid of relief work and at the same
time combining with it an element of
snort was born instantly.
An enthusiastic tribute to the Turk
as an honorable fighter comes in a
letter from an Australian officer to
relative in London.
+The Australians win hear nothing
said against the Turk" he writes. ''I
want to warn you against the tales
Of Turkish atrocities in Gallipoli or
elsewhere. We know all about the
Turk. Haven't We fought against him
for months7 He may be q colored
infidel, but he fights like Christian
gentleman One of our fellows went
out to get Turk sniper. Something
went wrong and the Turk got him.
But he put up a good fight against
numbers, and the Turks were SO
pleased with him that they dressed
his wounds and gave him a bottle If
wine and water and sent him back
10 us"
Houipping railway trains for hos
pital service is a new development OF
charity in France in which Americans
are taking an active part. During
the recent reorganization of the entire
hospital service the need for properly
arranged trains to transport the
wounded from the front to the hos
pitfalls located throughout France be-
came evident The first step in inn
proving the service was the addition
to each train of a car equipped with
an operating table and surgical sup
plies, so that wounded soldiers might
be treated during the journey from
the front TO the permanent hospital,
perhaps hundreds of miles away. One
Of the first cars so attached to a train
was a freight car rebuilt at tho ex-
Dense of Mrs. Washington Lopp. She
contributed the money to Command
ant r. Loiseleur, in charge of the
temporary hospitals at each of the
railway stations Of Paris and of the
construction fof yards of the State
Railway, and then requested others
of her friends to provide money for
the same purpose.
TO date a number of Americans
have helped. one car having been
fitted up by money sent from Hawaii
through DIR. James r. Judd and
friends. Among other Americans thus
contributing are Walter B. Hardy, of
Chicago, and Mrs. Emory r. johnson,
OF Philadelphia.
'sOur pension laws will necessarily
develop an Importance equal TO those
IF the United States after the Ameri-
can Civil War" says Deputy Pierre
Masse, reporter for the pensions COM
fnftfee of the French chamber Those
laws" he adds, will carry such
greater inf1nence-social and politi-
eaI--than all the social legislation of
recent years"
Two important reforms are proposed
In pension bills that the committee
has reported favorably. The pensions
Of widows are to be increased proper
tionately to the number of orphans
and pensions will be granted to moth
ers for the loss of sons who were their
main support. The rates provided for
the new Law are from 563 francs
($f12) for widows of private soldiers
running from that figure through the
various grades up to $3.50 france
(S1.050) a year for the widow of a
general Of division; these figures be-
ing subject to increase in the case of
orphans. II the soldier OF officer died
of wounds not received in battle or of
disease contracted while on duty the
pensions run from 375 francs (s75) to
$500 francs $1,000 a year.
The word mother" which saves
lives and spares the honor of inno-
cents in the melodrarna, has actually
restored reason to a soldier In France,
"a - ,,,f.-A 1,od haar, laff a hIan1r NV