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AW 4“e -: : | ‘ 769 beffer the Soldjer ‘lbe beffer tHe Salvle l “HHONORABLE m'. Daring the battle of Verdun a man who was horribly wounded in the stomach crawled a half mile, holding his intestines in ptace with his hand, to deliver a message to the colensl of his regiment, writes Karlo Kim bus, in “The Houston Chronicle.” Referning to the incidemnt in a let ter home Ivan D. Nock, of Detroit,, & member of the Foreign Legion Jater killed in action, said: “It is unbelievable that such a high spirit should perish with the body it drove. | “Sometimes 1 dread the return te ordinary life after the war. Here one sees soo much of devotion, high endeavor, forgetfulness of self, so much of ‘honorable advancement of the soul’ that one fears a great re wvalsion of feeling at the sight of the men reverting to everyday selfish ness. “Nock, as stated, died in action. Several million Nocks are returniang bhome. lln the semse of returaing to civilian labor I, too, am ome, With out stint I gave to the winning of the war all the energy that was in. me. The mere incident of .giving _ lite itself is trivial. i “With the thought of the world suddenly changed from ‘war’ and hastening back te civil pursuits, I have tried to picture in my own mind what must also be in the mind of’ millions of others. And without = single exception 1 am disposed to be- Yeve the chief thomght is “Life itself will be transformed.’ *“Now the truth of the matter is, lite has not been transformed and it is not going to be transformed. Life will go on quite the same—with its frailties and its inducements, its re wards and rebuils, because strug gling and contending is inbred in men, and without such chemicals in the days’ happenings it would cast us as a people in the mold of inaction and passivity. “Dur service in the army got us away from selfishness, habits of easy spending, the coddling of luxurious mess, profit moagering, class hate, loose and thoughtless living, and the better self was put in command to meet the emergency. It was because we learned to master ourselves, to gubject ourselves to authority, that our army became the best inside and ountside in all the world. “Any doctrine or dogma which places ‘self’ first must kill ambition,. turn men into automatons, produce narrow, selfish minds, breed egotism and jealomsy and stifle the love of progeny—in fact, make of this world ‘an exaggerated Spartan republic where the cripple and the feeble minded were cast from the rocks into the abyss of destruction.’ ; “Men returning and men whe never went have to ook at life sanely during these times, not wildly de stroying what countless generstions have spent 50 arduously and thought fully in building up. “There is mo city, ner towm, mor village but would be leveled by the madness of Russia because the life of the home (if thers were homes) would have of necessity to be stand ardized. Our whele business world owuld be wiped out, faulty as it may Lo IRREH | B e : > - ; il b A RIHEIHT L ': i ; . & \ RGL PR |- At " ; {ll'. %‘ —4! d, y A YUI £ Fa- 1 SIS SY. (RECY) At i;;.&,n'(-?;.';;,g;.j?,.w;:z_‘j_“%‘ x*.s‘.b ;} - gE Ty i .'3 !‘ - &"’ ’ | ?:;:é s A ‘)"‘ : -l TRENCH AND CAMP be in distribution, but marvelons when compared with pioneer days. “Man is first and foremost an in dividual, and he is individual because he insists npon opportunity fer per sonal advancement. Democracy is individual in that she accords to herl citizenship the privilege of individu ality and personal advancement, re-l stricting him to the limit, however, of | not abusing the rights of others. Our commercial order of things is a school of discipline. It gives to all lm opportunity to become leaders; not with the idea of exploitation, but of service. Compared to other days when men were enslaved and to pio neer days when men suffered incal culable hardships, the man or woman teday has a better opportunity of an massured return on their labor from day to day than ever before in the history of the world. “Commerce today is not ideal. Nothing can be ideal which deals with stern facts and raw products and the business of feeding and clothing the world. No one contends that it is ideal—but it does perform a service, prompted by individual imitiative, which Russianism could never prompt in thousands of years. “There is no man alive but what does not look to a higher authority for direction. It is not a weakness, {but perhaps the greatest strength: which the race possesses that it should do this. i | “There can be no greater absurdity or hypocrisy than to preach that men are equal in mind; when we know that they are unequal in bodies. We are egual before the law, but equality ends when we stand before initiative. ‘“The average man and woman to day may have from their corner grocery what a king might not have had 1,000 yearsago. Their rooms are lighted with an illumination which| the ancients worshipped as it flashed in the sky and the same miraculous power gives to them the telephone, the simple and economical devices of heating in the kitchen; it has given to them the gas range, the electric range, the quickly heated water coils, street cars, subways, automobiles, moving pictures; in fact, the man and woman of today, rich and poor alike, are so surfeited with ease and luxury that the majority are noet advancing, but standing still. “A fundamental error in our think ing is not the service which we might ‘perform with wealth, but the destruc tive luxury in which we might live. Our business as plain, commonsense Americans is not a destruction of commerce and a leveling of endeavor, but to escape the childishness of cov eting possessions and power toward which we have put forth no effort to “Just as the body is sustained by a healthy flow of blood so the world is kept healthy by the flow of commerce. Ceommerce is not an artificial thing, Dut as natural as breathing and as in evitable. Discontent arises not from the fundamcntal soundness of com merce and not the fundamental soundness of labor put forth in pro duction, but because of stupid and inefiicient management. “What commerce must do, and she bas been doing it in many of her departments, is to avoid the waste of man power in flelds to which that man power is um suited and unfitted. It has been a long practice and an evil ene to place lmen at tasks which are foreign to . their natures. These industries which | study their laber, cull out these not | adaptable to one field and place them | where they are adaptable and develop their man power with the same care that they add to their mmechanical equipment, are the imdustries which move smeocothly and censtructively. ‘“We have today a multitude of fields of endeavor and a multitude of men $0 work in these fields. Where men and women are badly placed and work is turned into dérudgery, ‘the nat ural result is trouble and still more trouble. ' ‘“The writer knows of a number of instances where industries have made a study of their werkers along psy chological lines amd the result has been a tremendous improvement in output as well as a complete elimina-. tiom of discomtent and dissatistaction.. Hardy and vigoreus as man seems, he is a “sensitive creature” and when his mind is unsettled and disturbed, his work will be also. “It is also proper that the man whe has the privilege of sharing in cem merce should thoroughly understa that commerce accords recognition to the man or woman who, through ini tiative, add to the efficiency and ser vice of commerce. Too frequently we regard ourselves with magmifying glasses instead of the ordimary lens of every day existence. The trath of the matter is that the gquality of men’s minds and men’s initiative 4if fers continuously and our civilization today is not the result of the initia tive of the mass but the initistive of ' men who, for lack of any ether term, 1 call ‘gemius.’ “One man gave to us the practical adaptation of electricity; one man thought out the incandescemt light; one mind conceived the phonograph; one man conceived the telegraph and the telephene; but even more impor tant onc man conceived the stone hammer. The rest of humavity seized upon the idea like fertile soil will seize upon pregnant seed. So it may well be said that today few of us think—it hes all been thought for us; it has all been done for us. “The product of such minds as Hoe, Fulton, Stevens, Newton, Morse, Bdison, Marconi, Howe, Cartwright, the Wright Brothers, has literally al tered the face of the world. There were not millions of Edisons and Hoes and Fultons—but one and one alone. The men who have done crea tive things in music, science, art and commerce may be named by any stu dent advanced in thinking. They gave to the world their uttermost; those who took their ideas and en larged upen them gave richly, too; but the outstanding fact is that des tiny in directing the flow of commers . (the blood of the world) calls here and there after long passages of years for guides and leaders; and what has been witl always be; and no amount| of false teachings and wild philos ophy will change the order of things." THE WEARING OF SERVICE STARS In regard to the wearing of divi sienal decorations amd other special imsigaia, now often seen in cities, the War Department has issued the fol lowing memerandum: “Special regulations No. 41, War Department, August 15, 1917 (and subsequent amendments thereof) are the regulations for the uniferm of the United States, referred to officiaily as the uniform regulstions. ‘“l'he statements by an officer or soldier that his regimental, division or other commander has authorised him to wear any ernament, insignia or decoration mot prescribed in said uniform vegulations §s of no wvalue whatewver. : “All articles of the uniform, in cloding garments of headgesr, foot gear, ornaments, ingignia, buttons, fecopations and other articles herein specified, will conform in the qualty, design end celor to the sealed pat | terms in the office of the guartermas ter general, who will fgrom time to | time publish descriptions and specifi cattons of such pstterns. “The wmrticles of equipment fur wished by the eorénamce departmesnt | will comform to the patierns in the ofMoce of the chief of ordnance, who will from time to time publish de scriptions and specifications of same. “No cdivilian decorations or jewelry, watch chains, febs, etc., shall appear exposed en the uniform. “No campaign ribbon of any de scription, for service im the war against the central powers of Europe, has as yet been authorized by the War Department. Hence any ribbon purporting to show ‘oversea service,’ “pervice with the allies,’ etc., is abso lutely unwarranted and forbidden. “Silver stars are worn by general officers of the army to indicate rank, “The War Department has not au thorised the wearing of either gold or silver stars by anyone else or for any other purposes. “Hence a gold star for the ‘first hundred thousamd’ and a szilver star as 2 mark of the volunteer are un warranted as well as absurd. “Certain articles of uniform were autl orized in orders of the American Expeditionary TForces for oversea wear, but these articles are expressly forbidden for wear in the TUnited Btates. “It heas been observed that seme officers are wearing a belt known as the Sam Browne belt. There is no authority for the wearing of this belt within the limits of the United States, and until such authority is given this ‘belt will not be worn. “Units reterming from France and wearing special insignia to imndicate their unit will be permitted to wear such insignia until demebilization. Officers and enlisted men who return as casuals or in any way except with their units and who wear their unit imsignia will be required to remowve such insignia. “This decision was net received until January 16, 1919. Many mem bers of the Dixie @ivision and sewéral of the Rainbow Division had been dis charged prior to that date and had been permitted to retain the shoulder device. Any such individdals who read this circular should conform to the War Department ruling and re move the divisional insignia. ““The fouragere or shoulder cord worn by members of a French organi zation that has been cited in divi sional or higher orders has not been authorized for American soldiers by orders of the American expeditionary forces and is therefore unwarranted and absurd when worn in this country.” “Manners Maketh The Man” “Who salutes first, the enlisted man or the officer?”’ of course, a Ifoolish guestion to be asked in Army circles, because everybody learned the answer long ago. But “who salutes first, a major or a major?” is something else, and has been the subject of heated debate in more officers’ messes than ome,” says the “Stars and Stripes.” “You cannot read in a man’s face whether or not his commission ante dates yours. He may be a fair haired second lieutenant, you a gray tressed one, but he may outrank you all the same.” Therefore, as far as we can find out from official and non-official sources, the best rule to fellow is to salute first, anyway—to give the of ficer of ostensibly the same rank as your own the benefit of the doubt, to err on the side of politeness.” g F Y ,‘H_\‘E; %Q‘ 1 A AN 7B < oo F , M | e L 2 M oo "'"M%'f RN t.&i\ . ’ . PTG ke S & & ’ % ‘‘}f | A B 3 ; A o a4 = A | F% e 3 S o ._'} /’(’.“‘A é S )G S E" ¥ A % e lg ._"7“7/ ; B gbf-é ; Lo | TS, Foa AN d-é