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TnE 3IORXIXG OKEGOXIAN, MONDAY, AUGUST 28, 1916.
GERMANS
REVIVING
BELGIAN
NDUSTRY
Work of Restoring Country
Devastated by Invading
Armies Going On.
KEEN JOY FELT IN TASK
ATTRACTIVE YOUNG NEWBERG WOMAN WHO HAS SUDDENLY
DROPPED FROM SIGHT.
Administration of Densely Popu
lated, Highly Productive Coun
try Is Marvelous People
Move In Freedom.
JAMES O'DOXSBIi BENNETT. I
BRUSSELS, Aug. S. The story of the
German oooupatlon ot Belgium Is
unique In tha annals ot military con
quest. It is tha story of a land that Is
being administered alone; tha lines ef
the most solontlflo and Most modern
social service by an enemy who less
than two years ago was fighting his
way across three of the richest' prov
inces of the kingdom from the steel
and iron capital of Liege in the north
east to the coal capital of Mons In the
southwest.
It is the story of an enemy who Is ex
pertly doing a most thorough, tedious,
and thankless work of reorganization in
eight out of nine Belgian provinces,
while in the ninth his guns still are
raining shells. Belgium is a land at
work and a land at war.
.When the wind Is right there is not
one of its provincial capitals that can
not hear the rumble of the allies' guns
either at Ypres or at Verdun, and yet
every one of those capitals has derived
and is deriving some benefit, sanitary
or commercial, from the German ad
ministration of Belgium.
War in Only One Section.
In the southwestern corner of
Flandre Occidentals destruction con
tinues. But in all the sister provinces
system prevails. Six-sevenths of the
population of Belgium is irked by the:
rigors and vexed by the strictness of
military occupation.
Only a fraction of the province in
habited by the remaining seventh is
really a war area. But small as Is
that fraction it is sufficient to create
a situation without a parallel in his
tory. This country, which is less than 200
miles wide at its greatest breadth,
knows part of the German soldiery as
commanders of 21 centimeter guns and
part jot it as overseers of every phase
of industrial and agricultural life from
diamond grinding works, coal mines,
and coke ovens to dairies and breeding
farms.
On the heights by Ciney In the prov
ince of Samur a German officer Is su
perintending the model dairy and the
peasants call him the commander of
the cow cavalry; In the hollows below
Clney a German officer is keeping
books on the output of the quarries.
Marvel of Administration Remains.
Whatever the world may think of
Germany and of the Germans, the mar
vel of the German administration of a
densely populated and intensely pro
ductive country, a country hostile to its
heart's core, remains. False accounts
of the German advance through Bel
gium in the first weeks of the present
war not only gained credence but
found favor throughout the world.
The. account of the work of rehabilita
tion in Belgium will gain little credence
and less favor.
That work is fraught with lessons in
social economy for the whole work. It
is scientific; It is thorough; It Is com
prehensive, and It is done under the
most disheartening conditions. If the
moralist Insists that Germany should do
penance for Its violation of Belgium
the moralist may in some degree be
satisfied, for Germany is now doing
that penance, in the form of hard, prac
tical work, mainly undertaken with the
Idea of helping the people of Belgium.
It is work that requires the time of
thousands of military experts who
might be at the front and of hundreds
of civilian experts who might be busy
in Germany. As to the cost in money,
it must run daily into hundreds of
thousands of marks.
The satisfaction with which the mor
alist will view these tasks of expiation
will be a little tempered by the fact
that the Germans are not carrying
them on in the penitential mood which
the moralist would consider appropri
ate. Joy la In Tank of Germans.
Born with a passion for hard work
. and schooled by the great elector, by
Frederick AVilliam I, and by Frederick
the Great in the minutiae of adminis
tration, they go at their present tasks
with a gusto which no rebuffs can
dampen and no discouragements lessen.
Their Joy is in their work because it
is work; their reward is in the con-
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They keep account of every penny ex
pended and every penny produced, of
every field restored to tillage, of every
factory put back into operation, of
every branch line and canal restored to
traffic, of every coal shaft reopened.
At night, after a hard day's riding, they
study and tabulate these figures and
prepare "Report 7S3-D" and find their
reward.
It would be fantastic to suppose that
the Germans either expect any or re
ceive much gratitude for their social
work in Belgium. You cannot blow a
breach In a man's wall and trample his
kitchen garden and his flower beds and
then expect him to display any special
ardor when with one foot planted firm
ly on his neck, you set things to rights.
Respeot Paid to Competence.
The Belgian man of affairs especial
ly the manufacturer and the mine
operator pays to the German that re
spect which mankind, half grudgingly,
half resentfully, always pays to the
competent. That tribute Is about the
only one the Germans receive, and they
love It.
When a Belgian manufacturer said to
a member of the German civil adminis
tration (civilverwaltung) in Belgium,
who is the chief of the oil. fat and
fertilizer distribution-for the l'Utgdpm:
'When you Germans go home you must
nevertheless leave us your organiza
tion," the sentence traveled from prov
ince to province in a few days and
brought a complacent grin to the coun
tenance of every German in the admin
istration. It was not praise, but It
was recognition, and the Germans en
joyed it.
The world still thinks and speaks of
Belgium as a stricken land. Such in
many ways it is. It is stricken in Its
nrid and stricken in Its initiative and
stricken in Its pocket. It has been
stricken by death and by shocking ma
terial loss. In soul, mind and body it
has suffered. No man of sense could
refuse it his pity and no man of feel
ing his affection.
But life resumes. Belgium is at
work again. The fires are lighted.
Wheels are turning. Colossal engines
are lifting and crushing. Every day
for many days I have heard the forges
roaring and the machines humming
heard the rattle of blasts In the qtiarr
ries and the creaking of the cages
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MRS. FRED PATTERSOX, FOHMERL Y MISS VEDA DORRASCE,
bringing the men up. from the coal pits
at evening.
Raw Material Problems Solved.
I have seen the glass furnaces glow
ing at Jamappes and Jumet, have
laughed with the pretty girls who bend
with a flower between their lips over
the bobbins in the cordage factory at
Gembloux, and have watched the
women going about the weeding of the
fields of Namur like connoisseurs go
ing inch by inch over the design and
fabric of an antique rug.
I have come in contact with work
men in every department of the king
dom's manifold industrial life, from
the poorly-paid diamond grinders in
Antwerp to the pitifully-paid boys and
girls who roll cigars in the factories at
Vilvorde, and I have seen them making
plows in the province of Namur and
pottery in the province of Hainault,
I have watched the Germans strug
gling with, and wonderfully solving,
the problem of how to get' into
the country the raw materials required
to keep this multitude of industries go
ing a problem which the blockade ren
ders gigantic.
In the last two years it has been my
privilege to - know Belgium In three
aspects, and its present aspect is the
most fascinating and most instructive
of the three. I knew Brussels and Ant
werp and the gay, dissolute, busy peo
ple before, the war. I knew the central
and the southerly provinces in the bit
ter days of August, September and Oc
tober, 1914, the days of ruin and death
and disorganization when the cottages
of Brabant and Hainault were still
smoldering and the cottage floors were
wet with crimson stains.
People Move In Freedom.
Those were days of enormous inter
est. But alike for wonder and instruc
tion these days surpass them, and the
outstanding marvel of them is that of
how a population can readjust and re
sume, and how normally in its physical
essentials life goes on in a region
which the rest of the world thinks of
as a place of mourning and privation.
r or all the ordinary activities of ex
istence the people of Belgium go about
in freedom. The fields are cultivated
more intensively than ever before, and
the prices of produce are hiKh. The
agricultural population of Belgium is
making money, and, if it were not for
the inhumanity of the thought, the
people of the almost exclusively agri
cultural province of Luxemburg would
confess that the longer the war goes
on the richer they will be.
Last year many people living in the
areas of destruction refused to rebuild
because they said the French would
surely come soon. But now they say
they don't want to pass a third crowded
Winter in the homes of friends or rela
tives whose houses escaped destruction.
and so the brickyards are busy.
YOUNG WO MAN LOST
Mrs. Fred Patterson, of New
berg, Seemingly Vanishes.
POLICE SEEK CLEW IN VAIN
Sunday's War Moves.
GERMANY and Italy are at war.
Italy has ended the anomalous sit
uation that has existed for months by
declaring that from Monday she consid
ers herself the enemy of her former
ally.
Heavy fighting continues between
entente and Teutonic allies in the
Macedonian theater from the region of
Lake Ochrida eastward to Kavala.
Berlin reports that Bulgarian forces
operating to the west of Lake Ochrhla
have captured Malik, in Albania, and
that along the Struma King Ferdi
nand's men are approaching the mouth
of the river. '
Paris admits the Bulgarians have
taken all except one of the forts at Ka
vala. on the Aegean Sea, but says they
have come under the fire of the Brit
ish warships. Paris says also that
along the Struma French artillery is
bombarding the enemy, while west of
the Vardar and near Lake Ostrovo the
Serbs have put down vigorous attacks
by the Bulgarians.
Husband Expresses Fear Wife May
Xot Be Fonnd Alive Mood .of
. Despondency Suspected at
Time of Disappearance.
For two days the husband of Mrs.
Fred Patterson, missing Newberg wom
an, aided by City Detective Hawley and
the police, have searched vainly for a
single clue to her disappearance. The
fear .felt for her safety has increased
until doubt is expressed that she will
be found alive.
Mrs. Patterson came to this city with
her husband on Friday of last week.
While he attended to business matters
she shopped. Late in the afternoon
Mrs. Patterson went to the Y. W. C. A.
and telephoned to her husband, who
was at the residence of a friend in
East Portland.
In their conversation it was arranged
that Mr. Patterson should call for his
wife at the Y. W. C. A. building. At
7:30 he arrived and asked for his wife.
She had left there scarcely 10 minutes
before. Mr. Patterson sought for her
for several hours, but without avail.
Then he notined the 'police, and ex
pressed his fear that Mrs. Patterson
had wandered away in a mood of de
spondency, to which she was subject.
Mrs. Patterson is 24 years of age.
of fair complexion, and has blonde hair
and blue eyes. She Is five feet two
Inches In height, and weighs 110
pounds. She was dressed in a white
shirtwaist, checkered skirt, with small
checks, white felt hat, without trim
ming, and buttoned patent-leather
shoes. Before her marriage she was
Miss Veda Dorrance.
The husband resigned the search to
the police last night and returned to
Newberg;
XELSOX WILCOX IS LOCATED
Father of Portland Man Returns to
Cornelius Home.
Inquiry at Cornelius, Or., yesterday
morning allayed the anxiety that was
felt over the disappearance of Nelson
Wilcox. 80 years old. who was reported
on Saturday to the local police as
missing. Mr. Wilcox had returned to
Cornelius without notifying relatives
in this city.
He had been visiting his son. Lyman
T. Wilcox, at 620 East Twenty-first
street North, for several days, and left
his son's offices in the Board of Trade
building Saturday. When he failed to
appear at the residence the family felt
keen apprehension for his safety and
search was made.
Despite bad weather there has been
considerable fighting and a renewal of
mine warfare along the British front in
France. London reports the capture of
200 yards of a German trench Satur
day night north of Bazentin-le-Petit,
and a further gain northeast of Gin
chy. Berlin says that British attacks
Saturday south of Thiepval. northwest
of Pozieres and north of Bazentin-le
Petit were without success.
Paris records the repulse of Ger
man attacks along the line held by the
French.
Russian efforts to cross the Dvlna
River southeast of Riga and' also at
Friedrlchstadt failed, according to Ber
lin. On the remainder of the Russian
front r.o Important fighting has been
reported. In the Carpathians. Petro
grad chronicles a fresi advance at Ko-
verla Mountain, near the Hungarian
border.
Petrogrsd reports a Russian success
over the Turks along the Masladorusi
River. Hard fighting is in progress
near Blarbekr between Russians and
Ottomans.
Infantry fighting on the Isonzo front
lis at a standstill, but the Austrians are
heavily bombarding Italian positions
along the river and at Vallone. In the
Carnic Alps the Italians have taken
several Austrian prisoners.
Official War Reports
Germans on Western Front.
BERLIN, via London, Aug. 27. The
War Office today issued the follow
ing statement:
"North of the Somme yesterday and
last night British repeated attacks
south of Thiepval and northwest of Po
zieres were repulsed after desperate
fighting. One officer and 60 men were
captured. Enemy attacks north of Ba-zentln-le-Petit
and assaults with hand
grenades near Foureaux wood were un
successful. "In the Maurepas-Clery section th-j
French advanced to futile attacks with
heavy forces. North of Clery enemy
troops which had penetrated our lines
were ejected by a swift counter attack.
South of the Somme some hand grenade
attacks from west of Vermand Ovlllers
weri repolsed.
"On both sides of the Meune the en
emy displayed Increased activity at
times. Attacks near Thiaumont and
Fleury broke down under our fire.
"In the region of the Somme In aerial
engagements an enemy aeroplane was
brought down near Banaume and an
other west of Wlsel. Our antl-alreraf t
guns also brought down one aeroplane
west of Athles and northwest of Mesle.
Enemy machines also -came down in
our hands northwest of Peronne and
near Rlbemont, southeast of St. Quen-tln."
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EDITORS COMPLETE TOUR
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THE DALLES, Or.. Aujr. 27 (Spe
cial.) E. E. Brodie, president of the
Oregon State Editorial Association and
publisher of Tie Morning; Enterprise at
Oregon City, and Phil S. Bates, pub
lisher of the Pacific Northwest, of
Portland, arrived in The Dalles Satur
day after a tour of the cities of East
ern Oregon in Interest of the state legal
rate law which the newspapers of the
state are interested in and which it is
proposed to place before the Legisla
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