Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 274, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 November 1914 — NO COUNT OF DEAD [ARTICLE]

NO COUNT OF DEAD

Germany Ready to Sacrifice Best for Fatherland. * r ' Teuton Writes That Victories Over Allies Have Stimulated Business — Capital of Empire Resumes Almost Normal Life. Chicago.—Claims of victories over the allies have greatly stimulated business In Germany, according to a hotter received by Jacob A. Rosenfield, from his cousin, E. C. Frank, who is In Constance, Germany. “Business is picking up,’"'says Mr. Frank. “We do about half the usual amount and manage to keep • afloat. We still eat three meals a day. There are some branches of industry, -especially those catering to foreign trade, that do suffer, but the government takes care of the unemployed and of the women and children whose pro* viders are in the field. The erftps help us wonderfully. “Germany is the only country involved In the war which is getting along without a moratoriums We pay as .much as we can, and eo do bur customers. Today it is considered in the business world a patriotic duty to fulfill a financial obligation. “One wonderful thing I have noticed—the perfect disappearance of different classes. I speak of those left behind who were kept apart all their lives through political opinion, religion, fortune or other things. Today you find neither poor nor rich, neither employer or employed, neither Jew nor Gentile x. they are all united, welded together, to do what they can to save their vaterland. “And now about our dead. The best and the noblest ones have already fallen; even In our little town scores of them In the prime of life. If you pick up newspapers all over the lanfi your eye sees announcements" Jlke this: “‘On the 15th of this month fell on the field of honor my only son,

(Name.) (Signed.) “No more, no less. “Condolences are out of order, and there is no desperate mourning. The nation is ready to sacrifice the best they have to defend their home against a barbarian enemy. Germany today does not count its dead.” A correspondent of the Chicago Dally News, writing frffin Berlin says: “Life in Berlin is growing more nearly normal every day. It is beginning to be realized by. those who were confident of a quick and Crushing defeat of the allies that the fighting must progress by inches against a hard-necked foe. This has long been realized by the army, but people far from the front and as not faced by the frightful cost of war had to see the city filled with the pitiably wounded and had to wait for weeks without inspiring news before realizing the bitterness of the conflict. “Though the enthusiasm may be less noisy, there is no lack of confidence in the ■ final victory. General von Hindenburg remains the hero of the hour and it frequently is said that the conqueror of the Russians will be made a prince .after the .war. “The 'socialist newspaper,- Vorwaerts, recently published the striking statementthat after taking a census of socialist trade unions at the front it was found that up to September 7 the number was 590,000,"