Crook County journal., August 27, 1914, Image 6

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A WHO'S WHO OF EUROPE'S WAR;
SIDE LIGHTS ON MEN OF THE HOUR H
With Particular Reference
to Personalities and
Characteristics.
IN the great war, so long dreaded,
which ban uow been Inaugurated
In Europe, luvolvlug more or less
directly every one of the powers
great and small, they hare embarked
upon the fray with the knowledge that
It U a fight tor their very national ex
istence. It la this feeling, continues P. Cun-Uffe-Owen
in the New York Sun, that
has silenced in so wonderful a man
ner all party disscusions In the vari
ous countries concerned.
It Is this sentiment, too. that is Im
pelling France. England, Austria, Rus
sia, Germauy and all the other nations
concerned carefully to select the lead
ership of their armed forces, those
only who appear to them as best qual
ified to undertake the terribly heavy
responsibility of directing the defences
of the country.
Probably the least known of them
all in this couutry is the geueralissi
tno of the French army. General Jo
seph JofTre." though sixty-two years
old. Is the youngest officer of his rank
In the French service.
Like so many great military leaders.
General Joffre is a very silent man.
ratbei retiring in his demeanor. Burly
In figure, with heavy flaxen mustache
plentifnlly tinged with silver, thickly
tufted eyebrows, shading a pair of
Tery clear blue eyes that often twinkle
with merriment and are usually ge
nial and but seldom hard, be suggests
when In civilian clothes one of those
courtly country gentlemen that arc to
be fonnd in rural France. Tet be can
be very grim.
An Aggressive Fighter.
Although the cleverest mathemati
cian In the army and a scientific sol
dier in the best sense of the word.
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How Leaders of the Armed
Forces Have Distinguish
ed Themselves.
naval conflict with China. It Is to him
that not only his own country, but also
England and Russia, looks for the pro
tection of the Interests of the triple
entente tn the Mediterranean.
Jellicoe, Kitchener, French.
Admiral Sir John Jellicoe, uutll now
second sea lord of the admiralty, is
renowned as the shortest olfleer of the
British navy, barring of course the
midshipmen. His exceptional brevity
of stature did not, however, prevent
him from winning fame in his younger
days as an athlete and boxer.
Moreover, he has seen plenty of fight
ing, having been present at the bom
bardmeut of Alexandria In 1882 and
OKNBBAL JOSEPH JOFTBS.
afterward taking part In the battle of
Tel-el-Kebir as an officer of the naval
brigade, while he was badly wounded
In the attempt to relieve the belcaguer
er foreign legations at Peking fourteen
years ago. receiving a Boxer bullet
through his lungs. His recovery was
in the nature of a miracle.
As for England's military forces In
the present conflagration, they are un
der the supreme control of her fore
most soldier and most successful com
mander in chief. Field Marshal the
Earl Kitchener of Khartum, who has
been appointed minister of war. His
achievements as the conqueror of the
Sudan and as the victor of the battle
of Omdurman In 1S98, the success with
which be put an end to the Boer war
three years later, bis complete reorgan
ization of the army and military de
fenses of India and more recently his
magnificent constructive work as Brit
ish plenipotentiary In Egypt are so fa
miliar on this side of the Atlantic as
to need little more than passing refer
ence. He saw some service In the
French army In the Franco-Prussian
war of 1870-1.
Like the famous Field Marshal von
Moltke, he Is a scientific soldier, who
OBATD DCKX KICHOLAS.
General Joffre is the most determined
supporter of the policy of attack In
war.
At the age of eighteen he command
ied a battery of artillery throughout the
isiege of Paris. He took part In the
Formosa and Tonkin campaigns and
later was engaged in West Africa, di
recting the construction of railroads
there, heading the relief column which
went to the assistance of the Bonnier
expedition and penetrating as far as
Timbuktu and seizing that mysterious
city which for centuries had been the
headquarters -of the native trade of
central Africa.
He likewise had a large share In the
conquest of the Island of Madagas
car, of which he was governor for three
jears.
General Joffre's principal lieutenant,
chief deputy and alter ego is General
the Marquis de Castelnau. son of the
general of the same name, who was
Napoleon Ill.'s principal aid-de-camp
at the battle of Sedan In 1870.
Among the other generals who have
received commands at the front at
the hands of General Joffre is old Gen
eral Pau. one of the heroes of the bat
tle of Froeschvlller.
Then there Is General Hubert Lyau
tey. hitherto commander in chief In
Morocco, for the conquest of which
France is indebted to him. ne, too.
is a veteran of the war of 1870, al
though he was only a boy of seventeen
at the time.
Big Man In Mediterranean.
As for the French navy. It is under I
the supreme command of Admiral ,
Boue de la Peyrere. who m;iy be re- ,
membered as having visited the Unit-.
d States some years ago with a cruls- j
er squadron on the occasion, if my .
memory serves me. of the Jamestown
celebration. Acknowledged both at .
home and abroad as the most dlstin- I
gulshed officer of the French navy, he
has both In bis rapacity as chief of j
the admiralty staff and as minister of ;
marine completely reorganized that
nervlce.
With knowledge of warfare at wi
derived from his experienced as chief
4f stuff to Admiral Coubet in France's
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GENERAL HELMUT!! VOX MOLTKE.
prepares for bis victories by plans laid
out beforehand with mathematical pre
cision, leaving nothing to chance.
The chief command of the English
forces in the field has been allotted to
Field Marshal Sir John French.
Son and grandson of naval officers.
Sir John was originally Intended for
the church and was sent against his
will Into the navy, which he quit as
sublieutenant to Join the army as a
hussar officer, lie enjoys the well
merited reputation of being the most
able cavalry leader of the British army
and won fame as such during the Boer
war. He assisted l,ord Kitchener In
the crushing of Crouje.
There has always been a good deal of
discussion as to whom the chief credit
of Cronje's defeat really belonged, and
ever since h certain amount of III feel
ing has manifestly existed on the part
of French toward Kitchener. Wlujreas
the latter Is very tnll and soldierly
looking, Sir John is a very abort, stout
man of barely tivo foot five.
Russia's War Heads.
Russia's gigantic army Is under the
chief command of General Sukomllnod
hihI the Urund Puke Nicholas Nlcho
lalovttvh. The latter U to direct the
operations In the Held as geucrallsal
tuo, whereas the former remains at
St Petersburg us minister of war.
Pnltke most of his predecessors st
the war department, SukouilluoCf Is a
Slav and a ltiisslim Nationalist Uls
work until summoned from Klov a
few years ago to assume the task of
reorgaulxing the military forces of
Russia at minister of war was entire
ly concerned with the strategic prob
lem of the western frontiers of the
empire. He took part lu neither the
Chinese nor Jaanese wars nor lu any
of the Astatic campaign, but fought
brilliantly In the Turkish war of 1877.
Grand Duke Nicholas Nlcholalovltcb
Is probably the tallest member of the
reigning bouse of Kussla and looks
what he Is, a boru cavalryman, spare
of figure and of exceptionally distin
guished bearing. He won the St
George's Cross for conspicuous gallan
try on the battlefields of the Turkish
war of 1S77. is the eldest son of the
late Grand Duke Nicholas Nlcholalo
viteh. who commanded the Hunslan
army In that campaign. Is rated by
the German war department at Berlin
and by the military exports of Enrol
as the most clever and brilliant cav
alry leader now living and has for sev
eral years past been at the head of
the military district of St. Petersburg
and of the capital and as such responsi
ble for the safety of the cxar, the reign
ing house and of the government
Three Archdukes Soldiers.
It Is to Archduke Frederick that Em
peror Francis Joseph has confided the
chief command of bis armies tn the
present war. Very short and stocky,
he Is the eldest brother of the queeu
mother of Spain and Is on terms of
the utmost Intimacy wltb the kaiser.
Enormously rich, he Inherited the vaBt
fortune as well as the duchy of Tes
chen from his uncle, Archduke Albert,
victor of the battle of Custozza, who
for so many years was generalissimo
of the Austrian army.
Two other archdukes who are called
upon to play a role tn the present war
are Archduke Leopold Salvator, who as
Inspector general of artillery baa done
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OENEBAX. SIB JOHN FKENCH.
much to place this branch of the serv
ice on an excellent footing, and Arch
duke Eugene, grand master of the Teu
tonic order, who Is lu chief command
of the lundwehr of both Austria and
Hungary.
General Conrad von Hiaftzendorf. as
chief of the general staff of the AuS'
trinn army. Is a soldier of the Field
Marshal von Moltke and Kitchener
type. Insisting that everything In con
nection with the Austrian army shall
work with clocklike precision.
"The Gloomy Julius."
As for General Helmuth von Moltke.
the German chief of the general staff,
he In the nephew of the great Field
Marshal von Moltke and Is as huge and
burly as General von Hoctzendorf Is
short and spare. The great Field Mar
shal von Moltke. It may be recalled,
was celebrated for his taciturnity. His
nephew is In the same way renowned
for the rarity of bis smiles, while such
a thing as laughter Is entirely foreign
to bis character.
He always has an nppearance of pro
found gloom. To such an extent Is tills
the case that the kaiser always speaks
of him as "der traurige Julius" (the
gloomy Julius).
Good Will of Public
Valuable Asset to
Railroads
AN AMAZON ARMY OF 150,000,
Lady Cook Expects Englishwomen
Will Be Ready In Three Months.
I.ady Cook has launched a campaign
to raise armies of Englishwomen,
trained and armed like regular soldiers,
ready to fight for the country.
"My plan." she says, "is to have regi
ments of women wearing khnkl uni
forms, Just like men. with the possi
ble' addition of knee length skirts. I
expect 150.0C) women to be armed,
drilled, and organized Into armies In
three months.
"There are plenty of women knitting
socks and doing Hed Cross work; but
I want every woman who has health
nnd strength to use nrms so that when
the men folk are away they can de
fend their homes and honor. I'm will
ing to die on the battlefield myself."
Lady Cook believes that CJneen Anne
lie of Portugal and Mrs, Pankburst
would make good genenils.
By FAIRFAX HARRISON, President el
Southern Kellwey
EVERY intelligent man knows
that thu riiilrotuls aro in di Ill
cult ies today and knows, too,
that those dillicultios are duo in
part to the past history of the rail
roads, but in part also to tlio proc
ess of adjustment to a SYSTEM
01' PUBLIC KKUULATION which
litis boon ncwnled ns an accomplish
ed fact, but has nevertheless gone
further into details of AltSOLUTE
STATUTE LAW than any system
of public regulation, even of tlio
activities of government itself,
which the world has ever known.
AS WE RECOGNIZE THAT THIS
SYSTEM OF PUBLIC REGULATION
IS OUILT ON PUBLIC OPINION, SO
WE MUST RECOGNIZE THAT A
SOLUTION OF OUR PRESENT DIF
FICULTIES MAY BE HASTENED
BY CONSTANT EFFORTS ON 'THE
PART OF THOSE ENGAGED IN
TRANSPORTATION SERVICE IN
ANY CAPACITY TO ENLIGHTEN
OUR PATRONS AND OUR FRIENDS
AND NEIGHBORS A3 TO THEIR
INTEREST IN THE TRANSPORTA
TION SYSTEM OF THE UNITED
STATES AND AS TO ITS NEEDS.
We should bear in mind at nil
times that the proper function of
transportation agencies is service
and that, in tho language of tlio
lamented President Finley, "Ho
serves the railway best who serves
tho public best."
Invest Profits of Em
ployee In the
Business
By CEORCE W. PERKINS, Fineneier
ALMOST all profit sharing
plans luive divided profits
with employees on a rush
b;:sia ami turned the money over
to tho employees every so often,
usually ut the end of the year. Tho
result has been that if a man re
ceiving one thousand dollars a year
cs salary received two hundred dol
lars at the end of the year from a
profit sharing plan he PROMPT
LY RAISED HIS LIVING EX
PENSES from a one thousand dol
lar basis to a twelve hundred dollar
basis, and the extra two hundred
dollars meant nothing to him, so
far as increasing his activity or
heightening his intellectual ef
forts in the business was concerned.
Then if a period came along when
business was dull or poor ami he did
not pet the extra two hundred dol
lars HE WOULD FIND FAULT
WITH THE OWNERS OF THE
BUSINESS AND WOULD BE
COME GROUCHY and inclined to
lose interest in his work,
WHEN THE PROFITS WERE
HELD FOR THE EMPLOYEE AND
INVESTED FOR HIM IN THE BUSI
NESS IN THE 8HAPE OF PARTICI
PATION CERTIFICATES HE HAD
A DEFINITE GOAL TO WORK FOR,
8INCE, WITH AN INTEREST IN
THE BUSINESS, ALL EARNINGS
OVER FIXED CHARGES AND OWN.
ERS PROFITS CONTRIBUTED TO
HIS OWN PROFIT.
Women Prisoners Give
Keeper Mere Trouble
Than Men
By Dr. KATHERINE B, DAVIS,
Commissioner of Correction
In New York City
ONE HUNDRED WOMEN PRIS.
ONERS ARE MORE TROU
BLE THAN SIX HUNDRED
MALE OFFENDER8.
Before Mayor Mitchel appointed
me ns commissioner of correction
I was for thirteen years practically
an inmate of a pcnul institution,
and I know from personal experi
ences just what you men have to
contend with. ANGELS FROM
HEAVEN WOULD BE DESIRA
BLE AS KEEPERS OF PRIS
ONS. To he the right kind of keep
er every man should have the inter
est of u brother in the care of those
put in their charge.
MY EXPERIENCE HAS TAUGHT
ME THAT OFTEN A WOMAN WHO
HAS COMMITTED MURDER IS NOT
AS DANGEROUS TO 80CIETY A8
ARE 80ME WOMEN WHO ,AR1
SENT TO PRISON ON DISORDERLY
CONDUCT CHARGES.
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