The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1915-06-16

er than IL brave man. When his rcgi-
ment is called into line he does not go
in with a heavy step, but steps in as If
| there were ladies' present.
The German "Goose Step"
| The German regiment goes into line
like regiment of cavalry They wear
heavy shoes, and all their feet come
down at once, making the scene Impress
i've. They give what is known through
out the military world as the goose
step" / attempted to describe the goose
step once before and will make another
effort. 1t is not a joke; it is not bur
lesuue: it is not Il sidestep. 1t is step
forward or u stride without bending the
knee, bringing the feet down with the
greatest force. The goose step is given
when the regiment passes in review. 1t
is a salute. A large command giving
this step makes a thriller.
Readers of history will remember that
| "thrillers' have had much to do with
war. Cromwell used his cavalry for the
purpose of making noise and thus max
ing Il thrilling impression The confeder-
ate army had what has always been
called the ''rebel yell" and it was a
thriller without a rival in it's day There
fore, when I speak about the goose step
of the German army it is only because
technical military discussion has made 1t
| possible, and the step world famous.
/ saw regiments of German soldiers
with clean uniforms give the goose step
| in Brussels, where the German control
is complete: I saw a regiment of German
prisoners give the goose step at mill
tary prison in southern France. l saw
regiment passing in review IN Berlln
with the goose step When the word
forward" is given the regiment comes
to attention and every foot is IN It's
place, and when the word march is
| given every leg is extended forward with
ont bending the knee and thus the reg
| Whom the feet all come
down it would seem that every bone IN
their bodies would be broken. If regi-
ment of German soldiers were to march
up Walnut street and were to give the
goose step with all it's force and weig ht
it would be more impressive than any
thing that has passed up Walnut street
since the torchlght procession of the
Blaine and Logan campaign. The goose
| step assists in making the German army
| a machine. A man goes into line as one
cog in Il great wheel. The German sol
der comes nearer forgetting his own
personality than any other soldier in
the world. This is regarded as the
highest achievement OF the military
spirit. ~.
| Great Britain was supposed to have
had Il small regular army at the begin
ming ofthe war, and that regular army
was made up Of the Britishers made
famous by Kipling, and the world knows
him as Tommy Atkins" and the song,
l
Col. Swalm's long residence at South
ampton he can beat British soldier
singing Tommy Atkins" though the
colonel is German. He says he is for
the United States all the time and ev-
Ierywhere.
The British army is said to be more
than three million strong. Lord Kitten
ener is the commander in chief; he d.
reefs everything and has been trying to
make soldiers out of clerks and all sorts
Of young men enlisted in London. Liver
pool, Manchester, Birmingham and the
other cities of Great Britain. Lord kitch-
ener has demanded time within which
| TO Drepare an army. The London news
! papers have assisted him in promoting
patriotic enthusiasm and voluntary en-
lliStmentS have gone on successfully Inc
have gone as martyrs to the military
demands. lt
Patriotism at oxford. Ia
! visited old Oxford university, where
| there are twenty-siX colleges in group;
out Of the 1900 students only 1000 re-
main out of the army: A Yankee stu
dent from the state of Tennessee told me
that all his chums and roommates had
not only gone to the war, but a major
ity Of them had been killed. He lost both
of his grandfathers in the confederate
army and l had to scold and scold him
to prevent his enlisting in the british
army He was swallowed up by the war
spirit The streets of old Oxford We're
Il likerthe patRWasatsE OF the oesiu. me. sssHae
! scenes could have been witnessed at
5lCambridge. aTfe British nation repre-,
Isents a strange problem. They are
strange people. l have thought Il was
difficult to love a British man, although
somewhat easier to love a British wo-
man. But the British have their quail
ties and are not disposed to change
them. The average British man will
close his place of business at 5 O'Clock
and never open it on q holiday If his
own recreation is served by these ar
rangements. He'will stick to his straight
:. whiskey without regard to what any
body else says.,t.4ut he is brave. as all
, the. battlefelds sOf the world testify
But the British man in getting ready
for the present war represents Harry
LADDERS famous song: 1T is nice to get
UP early in the morning: but IT is nicer
nice thing to fight, but it is better not
to fight. | refer to the British man and
, not to the professional soldier, Tommy
/ Atkins. Tommy Atkins is fighter by
trade, regardless Of sand or sunshine:
, He is homeless, and what they would
. call in Japan wandered or wave
! British Training Camps.
The British training camps are in all
parts of England. The men look like
they would make good soldiers The Brit
, ish to the extent Of $4,000 were in the
battle of Mons, Belgium, some months
t ago before the retreat of the allies
through france Inc dlieS were deledteu
. at Mons Later the British fought on
t both sides of the river Marine, near Paris
, and did heroic work They had but $4,000
men, while the French had over mil
lion men, The British fought a few
: weeks ago at Neuve Chapclle. and suf-
fered tremendous loss. The victory
and the gain were expensive. The homes
in Great Britain that were made to
mourn by the battle of Neuve Chapelle
are their first sorrow of that nature.
No other country in the world could
successfully go through what Great Brit.
ain is now going through. The discord
| in regard to the use and non-use OF
, liquors and the failure of the working
men to be willing to work early and late
in the making OF. the munitions OF war
and the general disagreements among the
various political factions would disrupt
and destroy any other country. The dis
tller refuses to make any sacrlfce, anC
the workingman refuses TO cut down
His beer The leaders of all parties are
ceeding better than the masses The
) English problem worries even that stolc
people.
The English histories of the war would
indicate that the British have done the
principal fighting on behalf of the allies
but this is a mistake. The French have
done the fighting in the main. These lit
tie Frenchmen have gone into battle I'M
complainingly and have had no press
agent to relate that they are fighting for
their homes, because Z per cent OF
France is in the hands of the Germans.
The reader must not understand me
to be assuming the right as an. an AMER mel
tries. These wars are not our wars. we
did not provoke them Like the state
OF South Carolina at one time-we sim