Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1917-02-18
ENGLAND AT WAR iii.

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! had compelled him to remain at home.
is the feeling IN tho breast of every.
young l;nSlishinan OF old family who
Is barred from battle by the refusal or
the medical officers 10 pass hin rs 1T
Tor military service. The most I'M
happy men III England to-day ARC the
aristocrats. so-callcd IL you viii. who
| must stay away from the front while
their fellows arc lighting.
WIN View Life Differently.
There al. thousands or older sons
and younger sons OF the old English
houses who arc dead OH the field, bu,
there are other thousands who Will re-
turn Ia keep up the old houses and the
old homes. They will have IL different
viewpoint from which To look on life
only one man iii live. or perhaps ono
must drop 1, II little and say four
meets death on the battle field. 50 il
VIII be seen that. III II physical SENSE
the males Of tho English iristocr:,cy
VIII not lac wiped out by the war
The laristocrats. however. IL has been
said. viii come back democrats. and 50
they viii. Why?
In London paper recently there Was
quotation from an American army
officer who Was speaking IN bchal!
Of preparedness. This Is wha, 10 said
''Thcr" is no democracy like that OF
the dog tent,
The dog tent * the little shelter
tent or the army. what has been said
OF II can be said just as truthfully Of
The trench. the camp, the hospital and
III everything connected with the held
where men fight shoulder To shoulder
The artstocracy OF England has learned
10 know the brotherhood OF democracy.
The titled ones have learned tho value
81 III" untitled ones. Social rank dis
appears under !trc and under the COM
nHr1ghlpS T.
lah aristocracr, as a result OF war. viii
become British democracy.
l, has been the custom FOR centuries
IN Eng land for the sons Of tho nobility
TO enter III. army. III. oldest son
has succeeded 10 the estate and the
titlc. The younger sons have gone
into the army or the church. or into
tho diplomatic corps or into some 9TH
or profession which English tradition
holds to be a proper field for The cx-
crcisc Of such talents as man or
birth may possess 50 IL wss thar
the first army which went out. the
army OF 10000 'ncn wh!ch met thu
Germans III tn. first vnscts Of tho
war, Was oncnrcd virtually entirely
by men Of social position.
In tho past, perhaps at present. the
British officer violates every canon Of
action. Instead Of scck,nr shelter for
himself as he really ought to do when
exposure i unnecessary. hc chooses
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