Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 89, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 April 1918 — War as a Leveler. [ARTICLE]

War as a Leveler.

Witlrparents, limousines, chauffeurs, a new recruit arrived at the training camp, was registered, and assigned quarters. The chauffeur caught up the luggage. The held up a restraining hand. “Mr. So-and-So is now tn the United States service; he will attend to his own luggage and find his own quarters.” And thus, with no more aid or ceremony than a bricklayer would have received, the son of a man who could have bought the camp and all its appurtenances entered the American army. Not wealth, but what a man proves himself to be, places him as a soldier. Men start on the same leveh save when they have had special training. The work of the war in breaking down class distinctions and occasioning the mingling of classes on more democratic terms has often been noted abroad. The English assistant has learned that Tommy Atkins possesses those virtues of honor, loyalty, courage, chivalry supposed to be instinctive through heredity in those of long and well bred descent. The great wind of the revolution blew a good deal of 'flunkeyism out of France; the war is removing its vestiges.—Detroit Free Press.