The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1919-01-25


age they would be quite a little diff
ferent from the clothes that you
wear now And if you could find
out what their parents wore when
they were the same age, they would
be more different, and that's the
way it goes, so many changes and
yet things are really still the same.
Clothes are just clothes and are
worn by boys and girls who though,
living a hundred years or more a.
part, are very much alike, after
all.
That's the way it is with the
Great War--it is still the same old
ugly war, thing that is cruel and
hateful, but it is dressed up in diff
clothes and stalks forth with diff
ferent gait to ruin and destroy great
numbers of people and all the in
dustry and art that their hands
have made. All kinds of new ideas
of scientists, inventors and other
thinkers have been used to
make the dress of the war very
different from that worn by its pre-
decessors, although many are the
styles revived from ancient times
You have read about them; the
great system of deep, narrow
trenches, underground rooms made
of timber and concrete as bomb
proof shelter, the miles and miles
of barbed wire entanglements, shell
craters, hand grenades, mining,
trench mortars, steel helmets and
gas masks. We have perhaps seen
some of these things, at least pics
lures of them. The "pil boxes" gun
emplacements made of steel and
concrete which are defended by
men with magazine rifles and
machine guns, have been an i'm
portant part of the fighting sys-
TEN. Our other new word which
we say so proudly, 'camouflage,"
was far more than a word to the
fighting men. 1t has been used
with trains and boats. hills,
trenches, cannon, in fact with al
most everything that the soldiers
used, and with every place where
they fought. 1t is simply great
big April Fools trick. Remember
the time you tied up brick to look
like a beautiful present Tor per-
haps you didn't do it, and then
someone tried to pick 1t up. That's
all "camouflage" is, making some
thing look like what it amt" but
it certainly was successful.
And guns! There were all kinds
of guns which were used in all
kinds of ways. Some were used
for smashing steel and concrete
Notifications, some for destroy
ing wire entanglements, some for
slow siege firing, and some for
rapid-firing. The French word
"barrage" has become part of
our language, too, and just means
a barrier, made by shell fire to
cover or ward off an attack. 9th
er new things used in fighting are
tanks" and the poison gas and
liquid fire, which cause so much
suffering.
Balloons and airplanes of all
kinds have been used for observa.
ton. scouting, directing, firing, and
bombing undefended towns. The
Germans acknowledge that their
airplanes and submarines fell far
short of the destruction they hoped
these inventions could accomplish.
Automobiles and trucks are used
by the thousands in moving the
great numbers of men and the i'm
mense quantity Of supplies. The
wireless telegraph and telephone
have played an important part in
waging war.
Besides all these lifeless things
that have played such important
parts in the carrying on of the war
at the front, there are the thous-
ands Of our four-footed and feath-
cred friends. the dogs, the canar-
les and the pigeons which have
saved SO many. many lives, even at
the cost of their own.
Then the mobilization of the peo-
pie who stayed at home. the older
and the younger men, the women,
and the boys and girls. for keep
ing up the nations industry, solv-
ing the food problems. the finan-
cial problems, has been accom-