Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 44, Number 83, 15 February 1919 — Page 8

THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM. AND SUN-TELEGRAM SATURDAY, FEB. 15, 1919. Motor Trucks Rapidly Supplanting Horses on Farm and in the General Delivery

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EXPERTS STUDY TRUCK PROBLEM AT DIG EXHIBIT Leaders of Industry Talk Over Pressing Problems in Goth'.am. -J'r. Problems of the greatest Importance to ifi, motor, track industryreceived consideration at the Motor Truck manufacturar'a ' convention, held at the I headquarters of National Automobile j Chamber,, of Commerce on Tuesday, ; during the, motor, truck show In New I York ' . . -: . ' ; ' Half a doiea pressing problems ; which now confront the Industry were ; considered and the addresses made by ' men of high standing In the Industrly. The following addresses were made: 1. "Present Status of the Motor Truck Business," by C. A. Wales, , truck sales manager, Locomobile Company of America, Bridgeport, Conn. 'What the figures show us to past pro- : ductlon and future plans. What program should be followed In disposing of the military trucks, as viewed from a manufacturer's standpoint. Need of Federal Roads. ' a. "The Need for Federal Highway j Policies and a Federal Highway Com- ; mission," by E. J. Mehren, editor Engineering News-Record. New York tit has long been felt that the good

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should be a special department of the government to handle it The highway congress at Chicago resolved in favor of a federal commission to encourage federal plans for highway improvement. 8. "What Should Be the Limitation of Weights, Speeds and' License Fees on Motor Trucks in the Proposed Uni-

I form Vehicle Law," by George M. GraI ham, general sales manager, PlcrceI Arrow Motor Car Company. v 4. "Disposition of Surplus Military Trucks Here and Abroad," by Col. Fred Glover, quartermaster's department, U. S. army One of the important problems ;,of the motor truck industry Is the scientific distribution of .any trucks not required in military service. Will any of the trucks now in Europe be brought back? Will the trucks now In this country and in production be required for military use? l . 6. - "What New Standardization Can Be. JDoaa oa Motor. Trucks?" by David C. Fenner, International Motor Company, New York.";' ' 6. -What the Postofflce Will Require in Motor ' Trucks During 1919," ! by James I. Blakeseslee, fourth assistjfvnt postmaster general, Washington. DEALER GIVES TALK l ON r.lFAHINR fiARS

''Methods and materials for finishing the bodies and running gear of motorcars have been brought to a high state of perfection by most manufactures," says Clem ' McConaha, distributor of Studebaker cars, "but it is as well to remember that there are certain abuses against which no finish, however perfect and durable, can long endure." "No varnish, will withstand being scrubbed with a brush or with hot water. No varnish will withstand hot wster. No varnish will withstand the chemical action of ammonia or any kind of lye scap, nor any of the common washing fluids or powders, f, ''The varnish of an automobile will r.ot stand having dust or mud rubbed off, nor will it endure the grits of dust and mud driven Into, it by the water blast from a high pressure hose to which it is often subjected. Use water between 40 and 60 degrees with a soft, bleached wool sponge.- It is best to use no kind of soap unless it bu pure castile or a neutral linseed olf soap. Mud, wet or dry, should be removed with flowing water squeezed from a clean sponge or flowing water ,

from a hose with a little pressure never with a nozzle. ' "Dry off with' a clean, soft chamois. Do not rub the finish or use hand pressure more than sufficient to dry off the water. The water evaporates and leaves the finish In good condition. '. ".When not in use.-keep your car covered with a soft linen cover. All dust contains grit and all smoke is heavily charged with acid, and against these a cloth offers adequate protection."

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. Continued From Paae One.1 in itself, is an unralstakeable monument to German efficiency, and the totality of effect is unescapable. It Is as If the German had resolved that the mass of buildings should as a chorus sxclalm to the visitor, "Damn you, atop You must see that Metz is German, that Germany is greater than everything else." 1 do not know any words that I can use to give the effect, the startling, almost terrifying, completeness of this effect. Neither Hamburg nor Berlin nor Munich would seem half as defiantly German as Metz seemed from the railroad quarters .seemed from the region of the, new town, where the German had thrown down the wals of Vanbon, levelled bridges, swept . all familiar landmarks, and erected monument after monument to the great German god of efficiency. Rename Streets. To be sure the Frenchmen has come back even in these regions. In a most dreadfully impreslve avenue with its row of goose stepping German mansions, until recently the home of German generals and colonels on the retired list who came to Metz to grow Did amidst proud reminders of conquest by sword and. by stone ( in this avenue which yesterday bore the name of Kaiser Wilhelm H, derived from a statue now disappeared, the

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French have hung a sign, "Avenue of Marshal Foch." But the touch of irony is slight One feels rather sorry for the Marshal in such k a strange street. And beyond the railroad quarter by avenues which narrow as they advance, one . marches to a broad square where, in loneliness, Marshal NeyJor half a century has listened to German bugles and reviewed German regiments, until the happy hour still recent when Marsnal Petaln took his stand beside his breat predecessor and revieyed the French army returning to Metz. - So far the German is everywhere, the Gentian mailed fist, unmistabeable, in barracks, in buildings, la streets. - Where France Begins. . But across the square France begins again. One plunges into famiflar, narrow winding streets, set around with the ' architecture of Verdun or Toul. sights and even' smells of France. I know of no more sudden shock for a mile from the station to the monument Germany, nothing but Germany; then of a sudden one crosses a frontier, as impressive as the canyon between Mentone and Italy. Following these narrow, winding streets one arrives in a moment in the main place, and above one in all its delicate and graceful tracery, rises the Metz Cathedral, as beautiful In little an any cathedral in all France, and as French as Rheims was or Amiens remains and there in an instant is the contrast the railroad station with its towering and flaunting ugliness the Germans quarters with their spacious hideousness, and at the other end of Metz Cathedral, in its typically French square, with all the charm, the simplicity, the inconsequence, the appeal to the senses which are reached by the beautiful as contrasted with the challenge the bursque, imperious, dominating past of the Germa?n world behind. What They Sought. ' I wish I could make clear how much of all the story of the German idea, the German purpose, is revealed forced upon one by a simple promenade from the Metz Depot to the Metz Cathedral. The story of the German conquest of Lorraine is all written there. You can see, feel, hear; when the German came he said: "I will take this wretched little provincial town, and I will make it a world city. I will give it avenues and parks and. public buildings. I will bring it material prosperity and miserable inhabitants; these Inferior and inefficient creatures will worship me through my work." And year after year you can mark this progress, as you tell the age of an oak by its circles. The French inhabitants crept back further and further into the heart of their old town, rallied about the cathedral as a broken regiment rallies about its colors. German magnificence left the French heart cold, German buildings drove the French structures from the face of the earth, German officers crowded French men .and women Into the streets, the city grew and flourished, but the German never came at the heart of French. French Disappear. ' Yes, year by year the French disappeared. The old died and their bodies and the bones of their ancestors were borne across the frontier to be buried in French soil, young men, as they reached the military age, fled across the frontier to wear the French uniform. - There were fifty thousand French in Metz when the Germans came; there were less than twenty whe he left, and

year by year German officers, professors, soldiers and merchants flowed into Metz." They walked its streets with the abiding sense of being conquerors and each year on the anniversary of the battles of 1870 the town was flagged and filled with Germans, come to celebrate the conquest. Fill With Monuments. Beyond the city on hills toward

France v where great battles were fought the Germans filled the fields with monuments; the earth fairly groans under the burden of lions and tigers and princes and generals all testimony to the superior German greatness, each monument, like buildings on the square, instinct with the true German spirit of essential ugliness and undeniable efficiency. "We are a superior race." This even the German graves on the battlefield seem to clamour forth. Even the more the German did; they began the task of restoring the the cathedral and on the portal they placed figures of the prophets, and one has the face of William II, although it purports to be a representation of the prophet Daniel. This restless desire to express their might, their pride finds no more significant expression than in this restoration of the ancient cathedral, restoration expressed in the features of the kaiser; and the French returning, have so far spared this statue, contenting themselves with only chaining its hands. It is a pretty jest and yet one feels the enduring strength of the German thing, which defies humor, with, common sense, lies, superior to all our Western standard.' Builds Esplanade. But perhaps the supreme "German achievement is the mighty esplanade they constructed along the banks of the Moselle, an avenue with something of the magnificence of Riverside Drive, lined with statues of their heroes, bearing the portentous name of Merovingian Avenue, and providing the conquerors, with an opportunity to look due toward the forts which they had constructed to watch over the conquered land.

For all In all, everywhere, one has a sense of this German determination to express his conquest, Ills gospel of blood and iron, the advance guard of htsxefflciency in everything he built. On the esplanade the French retftrn is commemorated by a simple, satisfying symbol. : .''.- From a commanding eminence the equestrian statues of William I, conqueror of Ges, surveyed the countryside, looking menacingly put toward France, and when the French came back they overturned the statue and on its pedestal put a plaster monument of a Poilu, a squat-bodied, thicklegged, broad shouldered soldier of Verdun, and beneath it .wrote this legend: "On les a." "We've got 'em." '' - Agony Seen Everywhere. t ! So much for Metz on the" material side. One must see it to understand it. There is nothing quite like it in Europe or the rest of the world. It was a bit of oldest France when the German took it. He surrounded it with his monuments, he weighed it with his ; chains. Two civilizations, two ideas, two races cry out against each other at every turn. Strasbourg was a city of its own sort, neither French nor German, taken by arms first, but won to France in long decades of occupation, married by her own consent to France after the Revolution, but Alsatian always, possessed of her own soul and retaining it Metz was French or nothing, and the burden of its agony is written in every corner. Streets are overflowing with blueclad soldiers, French bugles sound in streets, on the forts far above, along the hills toward France, the tricolor flies. The German packed, his trophies of Gravelotte to carry home, but bis departure was too rapid, and they remain behind. , . Many Germans Left. He has left behind him thousands of Germans, who linger to attest their desire to become French, and grovel where they used to strut and domineer; but still sometimes in a corner whisper that Germany will come back with the next war five years later, and darkly threaten punishment to fall upon those people who welcomed the French. . If only it were possible in some way to picture, to represent the sense there is everywhere in Metz, of the

terrible, evil thing that has Just vanished, which is hardly gone beyond the near hills. What for nearly fifty years ground and crushed and mutilated monuments and , temples, the spirit which was in monuments, temples and human beings. - . Metz, with all its French soldiers, is like a prisoner emerging from a dungeon, still blinking in the new-found light. Liberty, Freedom, Civilization, as we know it, has begun again, but it goes heavy footed, still, with a sense of chains only yesterday removed. Had Peculiar Efficiency. Down In Paris I find my American associates beginning to talk, they say the German organization functioned even in its final stage of dissolution, German order still prevails on the Alsace-Lorraine railways, while ? in France all is confusion. The German had a way about him ; he was a master of organization; you feel the instinctive American appreciation, of it. But in Metz, the other side leaps to your sight. Efficient, yes; master of machines, yes; but with all his machine and his efficiency he made only enemies and misery. Up on the plateau by Gravelotte there stands a pathetic Russian prison camp. Thousands of forsaken Russians . lived and labored there, starved and died. They, too, were administered by the German machine, and their bones are scattered over all the hills. That camp, like the railroad station and parks, is a symbol; a monument of German efficiency. The odd thing about Metz, too. is that for once and I do not recall that It has ever before happened in history mechanically superior civilization, a better material organization, has failed, lost out, had to give place to a older and less effective order. Materialism Is Gross. The answer is simple. The materialism was too gross, the power too brutal; it crushed the soul with the very burden of its colossal works and it has failed. France is beginning again on the middle Moselle, French

spirit, French civilization you have a very odd but cumulative sense of France itself flowing back to what was anciently undisputed French soil. . But again and again in Metz I had the feeling that it was only in such circumstances that my American compatriots, like myself, could feel accurately what this German menace was which threatened all of us with material organization and spiritual death, with admirably organized towns and city blocks and parks which, while taking away our western traditions of liberty, sought to reconcile us not gently but violently, by the very size of its construction and the horse power of its machines. Soul Crushed. You can see how the soul of this little French town was crushed out just as were the Russian prisoners up on the hill. You must be German, or die; there was no room for 'anyone else. The same spirit stirred here in 1870, flamed all over Belgium and Northern France in 1914; but in Metz you felt you had resurrected the German strain; some of the things which lately terrorized the world were conceived here. Here the German for fifty years gloried in the power to tyrannize, abuse, persecute; his material atrocities of the late war were the natural evolution of his spiritual atrocities of half a century. What he did to the soul of Messin he did to the body of citizens, of Louvain and to a score of French cities. Fear German Return. I have been no such interesting or impressive city in Europe during' the war or in the world before as is Metz today. Hating the German thing all my life, I have never understood it half as well as in this tragic town recalled from the grave, still incredulous of its deliverance, hope and fear struggling, a prisoner newly come from an underground cell after half a century of torture. And you have the sense in Metz that Germany may come again. The very solidity of his buildings, the very extensiveness of his constructions, foster the illusion. ' It was not the military caste or the imperial master who worked here; it was the race, expressing its purpose relentlessly and with absolute confidence. Rome restored the barriers of,

the Rhineland against these same barbarians, but they passed it still again. You have the - sense - of two civilizations in shock at Metz, of the German once more in retreat, but still resolved in his inscrutable heart to return to conquer, imprison and tyrannize again. The story of Metz is the story of Alsace-Lorraine for half century, of Belgium and the north of France for four years and a half. This, you realize in Metz as j nowhere else, the German meant to do to Paris and to London; in time his eyes would have turned to even wider horizons. He fell short of Paris. He never approached London, but in Metz he has had his full will for half a century and the thing that he is in this world is written in . every material thing, it is- written on the face of every French citizen of Metz. Shall we build walls strongly against the later coming of the Hun, or shall we Americans be tempted by the glitter and order, superficial but expressive of his systems, seeing only the machine and not the product, revealed In Metz? Atrocities! No one could see Metz and not realize that the same race , which wrought here was bound to commit atrocities. Nor could one see Metz and not feel that the power, the force, behind the race that did ' its work there would turn it to a new attacks in its own time. I French are Hopeful. . Meantime and it is my final impressiondespite snow and cold, hardships of food and transportation, one has a sense of spring in Metz, a sense of the beginning of a new season; there were smiles on haggard faces,

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there were everywhere signs of deliverance; part of France had joyously completely returned to la patrie, statues of the German emperor and his marshals are gone from their pedestals, they no longer looked hatefully

into France, which . survived 1870; on the contrary, now after his long vigil, he still faces fearlessly eastward towards Germany and the Poilu on his Boche emplacement sets his face toward his fatherland and seems to be

calling back long departed exiles to "Pays Messin,". no longer with the mournful "Quand Memo" of the past the watchword of hppe In defeat, bul with the new message Oa Les 'A "We've Got 'em. i

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