Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1917-06-08

nlSsSOOQ stan WORK, TO De maue DIlS-
adler general in advance of the colonel
who never sat at desk in Washington
and who never has viewed the gols
links from the veranda of the Chevy
Chase club?
Personal Element Enters.
It should be said, however, that the
mere fact that a colonel has served in
Washington a long time and has played
golf at Chevy Chase or has sat on it's
veranda drinking the ambrOsial tea at
sharp four in the afternoon, does not
prevent his being a better soldier than
the man Who has been at Fort Woolly
Woolly in the wild West most of his
career. Desk wor-I, planning work and
advisory work are just as necessary in
the army as field work and this fact
is we'll recognized by army men and
civilians.
There is, however, another side to
the matter. 1t was not so long ago
that a good many army officers owed
their details to Washington to what
the vulgar politician would call pull"
It was hard to dislodge some of these
gentlemen. Things are much better
now because the so-called Manchu law
and few other things have tended to
bring rotation in duty.
1t is still true, however, that with
the four years detail at Washington
the men so detailed get into personal
touch with influential ones and the
personal element enters into army life
as it enters into everything else. SO,
generally speaking, it is likely that the
soldier on duty in Washington will
have q shade the better of the man
who has never seen Washington when
it comes to question of promotion to
general rank.
Officers in Olive Drab.
The city is full Of uniforms, the
army officers having put on their
olive garb some days ago, drop
ping their civilian attire until the
end of the war. No army officer will
appear in full dress, except at White
House affair in case there should be
one, from this time until hOstilities
cease. Evening dress within few
months will be foregone by Washing
ton society, if the indications today
point Alright.
Olive drab is not dress uniform. 1t
is just between khaki and what is
called social dress" 1t corresponds
in a way to the sack coat of the CT
william. At dinners, teas and receptions,
such of them as they can attend, Uncle
Sans soldiers appear in their olive
drab. Society in war time follows the
army. Already civilians are appearing
at dinner parties in afternoon and even
in so-Called morning dress,
Washington women are discussing
this dress matter, and already sim
plicity and even plainness of attire is
in evidence at affairs where usually
the ultimate extreme" is in order.
Elaborate entertainments are beng
foregone. Dinners in houses of social
note are now likely TO be of three or
four courses instead of six or eight
as formerly was the case. The coming
seriousness of the war is in the minds
of Westinghouse.
Had to Dig Out the Uniforms.
1t was not until the British army Of
ficers arrived that The war department
issued its order to put all officers sta
toned in Washington in the service
uniform of their country. There are
some major and brigadier generals and
colonies in this town who have been
here for years and who have worn
no uniform in all that time except
when appearing at an army or navy
reception at the White House. and
then their attire was the full dress of
the service.
1t was simultaneously said that it
is greatly to the credit of these Off
GERS that when the order came out to
appear in olive drab they were. found
to be possessed of such uniforms. One
general appeared in his Of
fee at nine o'clock in the morning af-
e IL T.