Trench and camp. [volume] (Augusta, Ga.) 1917-1919, 1918-05-22

other week in New York, Carlson depart
ed for Hamburg with satchel hiled
with documents and a sealed letter from
Won Haupt to Damroach, leader IN mill
tary circles. The steamer had hardly
touched the dock when an army officer
came on board and asked for carlson
The young man was taken charge Oh I'M
mediately by the officer. The pair walk
ed off the boat together, arm IN arm,
discussing the Balkan situation, air de-
Tense and other subjects of military m
terest. Finally, after all Carlson's bag
gage had been disposed OF by corps
of porters, he and his friend stepped into
one of the government automobiles ana
sped to the railroad station where they
boarded train for Berlin. The oitlcer
had provided a compartment Tor the eX-
American and the two sat together, con-
versing the greater part Of the night. II
was a strange, yet wonderful thing that
a tutor in southern California couId m
state his formal pupil in the very heaTt
of German military circles, but that pack
of documents Won Haupt handed him IN
New York seemed to open the arms OF
military men of Germany.
When George Carlson signed up at the
German military college he was directed
to sign-not George CarlSon-but was or
dered to use his middle name so the
signature went down Frederick Karl
SON.
young American into a Prussian. He
was forbidden to use his native tongue
in conversation English was a loathed
language and any people who spoke ENG
fish were loathed. A small American ;a
flag was tackled to the inside of his
trunk. Karlson gathered his companions
about him and amid the cheers OF his
fellow students and professor, ne tore
out the stars and stripes, burnt the nag
which he had loved as q boy replacing
it with a German banner. His hatred
for Americans and anything American
was stimulated and encouraged by fellow
students and teachers alike, while Ger
many and things German We're lauded tc
the skies
One evening while seated in a restau-
rant with his companions, party OF
American tourists entered and took 9
table beside his. young girl passed
the remark in English that the Germans
were so blunt" Karlson arose and the
old temper coming back to him grabbed
the girl by the hair and struck her across
the face with his glove. A policeman
interfered but Karlson knocked him dowr
with a beer mug. The outcome OF The
! affair was that the policeman was dis
missed and Karlson was given mark Of
merit for patriotism
| The great war is the outcome of per
! feet discipline. faultless drill. and year!
| of military map making. In the mill
tary school it meant little more thar
harder study and longer hours at drill
| "Gott NIT uns" satisfied millions of igno
| ramuses and thirty years of military per
| lection gives confidence to a few hun
bred imperial military school boys. The
beginning of 1917 found young Karlsor
near the front line trenches in command
of a machine gun outfit. After year,
| work in the tactics office behind thu
/ lines, he was considered capable of hand
| ling ten guns and the day his gunner
went on the first line, the Allies knew
that an unusual commander was at work
| Not only had Karlson instilled into hi
men the rigid principles of Prussian dis
cpline but he gave them a touch 0
| American pluck and grit that made hi
unit gain much notoriety, so much tina
when he finished his turn, decoration
awaited him at headquarters.
| Americas entrance into the great wa
came to many Germans as the snap Of ;
cable after super-loading it time ant
again 1t was as the spring of a tige
| hunted and hunted To most of the Ger
mans, however, it passed as a "pape
entrance" and the American people wer
regarded as q commercial nation-afrait
| to fight, thinking little of national homo
and thinking all of national prosperity
Karlson accepted the latter opinion bu
really knew the former to be the tru
condition of his home nation. He rea'
and reread the American bulletins, pa
pers given to army officersand edited a
| the intelligence office.
He carried rage in his heart, ha
! tired for the nation who had refused hi
| services as an army officer. This rage
stimulated by German education and eve
! To be concluded next week.