Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1917-02-27
ENGLAND AT WAR. HI.-The Fighting Arsocracy 81

lonely awful thing is that the old men of it are all
gone"
feeling of this young aristocrat, an officer Of
Englands small regular that he would be looked
upon as a Stacker, even though illness had
compelled remain at home, is the feeling in the
breast Of every young Englishman of old family who
battle by the refusal Of the medical officers
to pass him as Mt for military service. The most
unhappy in England today are the aristocrats
so-caIIed if you will. who must stay away from the
front while their fellows are lighting
There are thousands of older younger
sons of the old English houses who dead the
field, there other thousands who will return
keep up the old houses and the old homes. They will
different viewpoint from which to look life
Only in five, perhaps must drop it
little and four meets death on the battlefield So
it will be that in physical the males Of
the English arstocracy will be wiped by the
war. The aristocrats, however it has said. will
back democrats, and so they will. Why?
In London paper recently there was quotation
from American officer who speaking in
behalf preparedness. This is There
democracy like that Of the dog tent"
The dog the little shelter the army.
said Of it be said just truthfully
of the trench the the hospital and of everything
connected with the field where men fight shoulder to
shoulder. The aristocracy of England to
know the brotherhood of democracy. The titled
have learned the value of the untitled Social
disappears under fire and under the hard
ships of campaigning. British arstocracy a result
of will become British democracy.
1t has been the custom centuries in England for
the sons nobility army. The oldest
has succeeded to the estate and the title. The
younger have gone into the army the church,
into the diplomatic into other profess
sion which English tradition to be a proper field
for the exercise such man of birth may
possess So it that the first army which out
the army of 10000 which the n
first onsets of the war Differed virtually
entirely by men of social position.
the past, perhaps present. British officer
violates every action. OF seeking
shelter for himself he really ought to do when
exposure is unnecessary, chooses make mark of
himself in order to give heart to his This
why many officers belonging old British
families have to their deaths during this
The British soldier the so-calIed lower ranks of
society heretofore always had demanded sort of
right be by a rank and social posi-
tion. Non-commissioned officers in the British army
have refused commissions because they thought their
would follow them give them the instant
and ready obedience that they accorded to the
the so-called officer class"
Things have changed. The British Tommy also has
learned the democracy of the battlefield He feels
self in all things pertaining real the equal
of any other man who faces death with him. has
learned to put full value not much rank and
social position ability to lead today
officers in the British army great numbers
who have sprung from the people.
The true aristocracy has not suffered by the war
1t has been changed into something much higher and
much better. 1t would appear If something new
to into the world which might be called
aristocracy, as England is con-
cerned the two words made material companions are
also spiritual companions.
1t has been said in England that the man Of the
lower classes has found himself palpaby truer
to that the of the upper classes has found
himself. Aristocracy has found democracy has found
the field of battle rejoices today in It's
discovery.
You can get plenty Of stories of the England
you people intimately. far as the members
of the old-estabshed English families are concerned
the tales of heroism tell are ALWAYS
tales of the members of other family. They have
pride in the deeds of the class but they
never make them personal to themselves