South Bend News-Times, Volume 35, Number 90, South Bend, St. Joseph County, 31 March 1918 — Page 21

THE SOUTH BEND NEWS-TIME..

SIWPAY, march r.i. ioik.

THE GERMAN OFFENSIVE

AN OVERFLOW WAR CHEST

By Frank H. Simor.ds.

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crcatc.l by the Llrr.ost total destruction cf British forces L'tvsecn the JSomrne and the Oise. ot until Tuesday do we discern any real improve mmt cf the Eritish prospects. V.y this time the Drltiah have been driven clear across the old Somme battlefield ar.d are i-tandirig froin Arras to Albert almost on the lines from which they begiin the great attack of July 1, 1 3 1 ; they have lost the famous Albeit ridge, they have lost all the round north and south of the i-omme. which was the prize of tlx rnonth.s of little. JJut north of the Korr; me the German advance has begun to flow down aid the dangerous wedge whih had been driven in the British lines west of the Hipaume road his been straightened out by a Uritish retirement behind the Ancre. SITUATION IMl'ItOVKS TO NOITII. Kouth of th Homrne t lie situation is still bad but improving-. Mori and more French troopg are comlPg up and th extreme flank along the Oise is being held hrmly, although Noyon has o b evacuated. The sector of greatest German activity now is in the plain of Santerre, where Casttlnau won hu frreat victory about Itoye and Chaulnes in Keptember. 1314. Itoye and Chaulnes are destined to f ill and the German push directly toward A miens goe forward on this day, with slackening race, but with material gain. Wednesday the Germans are stopped north of the S'ornme with the single gain of Albert, which was insid? British line? when the Komme battle began. Thence northward the British hold the west bank of the Ancre to the bend and thencn to Arras the high ground which formed a part of their original line. On this day Gen. Maurice. I5riti?h director of military operations, declares that the German drive north of the Sornmo ha? been definitely checked. Far to the south at the other end of the battle front the French defense has stiffened ard the hills above N'nyon are being held, but beyond the Idlls and north of Las-dgny the German advance is continuing and is well beyond Itoye und Chaulnes and breaking Into ground which was held by the French when the Sornme attack began in 1916. GIJILMAN FRONT IS NAItllOWI'D. And this is the situation that exists as this review is . dossed. Friday night. The German attacking front has been narrowed from CO to less than 20 miles? and is becoming a dangerous salient open to attack from the northern and southern Hanks'. On more than half the front the German advance has practically ceased and only in front of Amiens, nov; ie.s than L'O miles away, does the German push still remain dangerous and unchecked. Accordingly the simple problem now posed ii whether by delaying engagements or by counter -it-tacks the allies can either halt or throw back the German point, which is still driving- into their line. We can Fee roughly what the Germans have and have not accomplished in this Mrst week. They have broken through, they have scored the greatest sucf:s in fierce warfare arid captured thousands of prisoners, hundreds of guns and almost incalculable amount of war material. They have advanced moro than 15 miles on a wide front. They have in a week regained ground which c-nx. the ITritish and French a .ear of campaigning and c ceedingly heavy costs In

ca-ualties. They ha e restored a war of movement and they have demonstrated that the war of position can at least temporarily, b.? interrupted provided the is:-ai!ant is willing to spend the men and the munition. Further than this, there no blinking the fact thrt at many moments the Germans have been on the edg3 'f a supreme success, which would follow from a breaking of the British lines and the driving of n wedge either between portions of the British army or between the British and French armies. Maurice concedes that there was deadly peril of this on Saturday and again on Mondav north of the Komme, while south of the Homme the peril has been constant and it not vet quite abolished. Gi:r.Mx pact: sixnvs now.v. Now the single tiling th- Germans have not yet succeeded in doing ",s breaking down the continuity of the enemy line or dest roving the forces on his front by the weight of his blow. Just as the French troops, who were holding the line in front of Verdun, hung on until 1'etain arrived with his reserve army, giving up ground but holding back the flood, the British have hum? on. striking and retrea'in for the first week, and the last 1 alf of the week has seen a Flowing down cf German pace, due perhaps i -i part to the difficulties of transport and the growing wtariness 0f their men. but in part. too. to the arrival f local l?ritih reserves ami the stiffening of British resistance. The Germans have. then, won a great battle and there is still the possibility at the end of the first veek that they will win a decisive battle, which has ft, far rxcaped them. But the chances of this are now beginning to diminish. The alius have reserve armies, they have not put the reserve armies in yet and they would not put them in until a favorable moment had arrived o.' the situation become so desperate that th v had no choice. The situation, although it has been desperate, hns improved and the absence of the counter offensive would seem to !ndicate the waiting for the best moment, for time must now have been allowed for concentration of th armies. Betain"s first troops got

to Verdun and into action on the sixth day on the Xdouiuomt plateau. iii:aiv rou colti:ii orri;sivi We are then, on the morning of the eighth day, in which an allied counter offensive Is to be looked for. The Germans are now physically and tactically in the condition of these other German armies, which wer defeated at the Marne. The rapidity of the pus;h of their center toward Itoye and Chaulnes has exposed their flanks as Kluk's flank was exposed toward Pari. The strain of the last days have told upon the men and the difficulty of getting heavy guns and munitions up across the devastated district must be tremendous. A counter offensive of the allies is then to be looked for in a short time. It may succeed and it may fail; if it succeeds the Germans will at least be halted and they may be compelled to make a local or a general retirement. If it fails, then the chances Ire that a real wedge will be driven between the French and the British and the British flank rolled back through Amiens and perhaps cut off from the great sea bases at Boye, and these are remoter possibilities but they are real possi bihties. We mutt recognize that the decision of the battle has not yet come. We must concede the German success parses anything that has been dreamed of in allied quarters. But it is equally fair to recognize that up to the end oT the first week there has been no disaster, like the Dunojec or the more recent Italian collapse, there has been a steady resistance and orderiv retreat and that there has been in the last two days a manifest stiffening of allied resistanee and an unmistakable slowing down of G-rman advance. These are

hopeful signs hut nothing more; the great crisis is J

here and the allies have so far escaped disaster or fatal disorganization They have come about to the position of Joffre, when he crdered the counter offensive of the Marne. The success or failure of the counter offensive will decide the magnitude of the German victory, but there can be no mistaking the fact that in the first week the victory has been stupendous, even if t fails to prove a Waterloo or a Sedan, or more than brief interruption in a war of position. riGi ni:s may m:i:d nnvisio.v. It remains now to say a word about numbers. Mos: of the information which we have as yet about German numbers actually engaged is untrustworthy and all the figures supplied are subject to revision downward in the future. Allied information, which is fairly accurate, indicated that the Germans had a round 200 divisions on the western front before the present attack. Of this number 115 were occupied in holding the line from the North sea to Switzerland. There remain 85 divisions, which constitute the total strategic reserve. Of this number 7 5 have .already been reported as cn,aged in the great battle between Arras and Oise. It would seem then, that the Germans have practically put in their entire reserve of To divisions; in any event, they cannot have more than 10 divisions in reserve. Seventy-five divisions would be about 000.000 men (900.999), the maximum of number engaged in the German thrust or at least available for it would then be between 9 00.000 and 1,000.000, but it Is doubtful if even the smaller figure has yet been passed. On the other hand, the allies are repoited to have used something over CO divisions of British troops ard something under 10 divisions of French troops during the first week and this would mean approximately half a million. We may assume, then, that the allies hav been outnumbered at least two to one on the whole line, while they have been outnumbered much moro heavily in some areas. Up to the end of the first week there is no indication that the allies have used anything butslocal reserves, th problem of concentrating their strategic n serves at the point of attack is a problem which involves the element of time. GIIILMANS Itr.ADV IX)U FIIAV. The German knew where he was going to strike and had his reserves ready. The allies had to wait unfl

the Idow had disclosed the German purpose fully be. fore they made their counter concentration. At Verdun, the French counter concentration began three days after the attack and the first reserves reached th: point on the sixth day: hut the situation at Verdi'n was more desperate than in Picardy because the immediate problem of Verdun was to save a fixed objective upon which the Germans were advancing very rapidly. In the sum the German success in the first phase of the present battle included the penetration of the Hritish lines on a very wide front comparable with

their earlier triumph in the cast at the Donajec and at the isonzo last autumn. In the second phase the Germans did not succeed in overwhelming the defeated

1 British troops, after these had been compelled to j abandon their lines a they overwhelmed the Russians at Galicia and the Italians in the Julian Alps. On ! the contrary, the British fell back fighting, preservi.ifr i the front, and were presently supported by the French ' divisions. At the close of the seventh day the opera- . tion was entering the third phase in which the German problem was to achieve a cecision in advance of the arrival of the strategic reserve of the allies, while the allies' problem was to hold an and while still retreating, ! preserve an unbroken front rntil their strategic reserve . could enter the conrlict. The crisis of the third phaSs? j was nearly reached as the eighth day began.

(CONTINUED FBOM PAGE ONE, THIS SEC. citizen born in Germany who has two jns and two brothers in the German army: a gift by th German and Austrian employes of a violin factory- So intense was the patriotic fervor of the community that that tho mayor announced that any city employe who grumbled about contributing to the War Chest, unless: he had a good reason for his objection, should be discharged. "From every patriot according to his anility for every worthy cause according to itr. needs," was the keynote of the campaign. "Can you afford not to give?" was the question hurled at the citizens from hundreds of placards. Among the advantages of the Columbus war chest may be enumerated the reduction to a minimum of the waste of time and effort heretofore occasioned by r-'.q arate money-raising campaigns for each separate need as it developed; the inducing of all to give to the maximvum of his ability; the conservation of the financial resources of the community; the elimination of relatively unimportant causes and the increase of thv support of those more worthy; the raising of the patriotism of the community to a higher level, and th? effecting of a new community spirit. During the last six months of 1117, Columbus and

Franklin county had raised $1''04,j99 for war needs alone. This, of course, did not include the $12.000.000 subscribed to liberty bonds, nor the thousands invested in War Savings certificates or Thrift ftamps. Based on the estimated needs for the year from this one community for the Bed Cross, the war work of the Y. M. C. A., the Knights of Columbus war work, the Jewish war relief and other agencies, it was found that at least $3,000,000 would be required. One of the most valuable benefits of the war chest campaign in Columbus was the united spirit which it produced. The principal fact that was brought home was that this war is "your war" and "our war" and every American's war. Some must fight and some must pay, and all must sacrifice. The time will undoubtedly come v.'hen the man who made money and kept it while the nation fought for its life will not stand well with his fellow-citizens. Every collar that was contributed to this war chest vill be used for war needs. Thirty-live firms and iniividuals contributed $1,000 each to carry on the campaign. This effort should set an example for other American communities which may have developed the .ame need for community cooperation that was 'found :n the Coiumbus chamber of commerce. Sec'y George W. Gillette of the chamber of commerce, served as ecretary of the war chest executive committee.

The War Chest Activities of Other Cities

The first instance of a community War Chest fund reported to the American city was the Baltimore fund of Jl.d0O.000, started early in 1117 by the Alliance of Charitable and Social agencies and the Bed Cross of Baltimore, Md.. to finance their work for a period of three years'. Full details in regard to this plan were published in an article by Walter A. Parcelle, entitled "Baltimore Underwriting a Blanket

war insurance Policy, which appeared in the American City in June, 1M7. The city of Syracuse, N. Y., adopted a similar plan, in which the mayor took the initiative by issuing a proclamation prohibiting the soliciting of funds without permission of the general censoring committee. A plan was evolved wherein the citizens were called upon for monthly payments for the Iiiration of the war. to make up a yearly war budget of $1,200,000. One of the most earefullv ed out p'an.-s for financing war charities is that adopted in Kenosha, Wis.

This plan- the credit for which goes to C. S. Judd, is described in detail in a pamphlet entitled "The Kenosha Plan," issued by the Kenosha chamber of commerce, of which Ilichard F. Kaiser is secretary. It provides for a general fund administered under the authority of the county council of defense hy a special committee of representative citizens; for uniform public support by voluntary contributions on the basis of giving "One Half-Hour Weekly to Soldiers and Sailors"; and, finally, for a. systematic disbursement of the fund by a committee on investigation and disbursement. Separate committees were appointed to superintend the actual money-raising in city and county. The Home, N. Y., War Chest association is a duly incorporated body with unpaid officers, whose duties are prescribed in the constitution and by-laws. The plan includes installment payments based on salaries, and a permanent censoring committee. It is estimated that when the subscriptions are all In,

Pome's citizens will have oversubscribed their war chest fund at the rate of $2 per capita. It is interesting to observe that while the number of subscribers to the fund amounted to V.Ö per cent of the total population, the employes of Rome's industries showed an efficiency percentage of 0r.77 per cent. In Elkhart, Ind., the organization assesses each citizen a sum proportionate to the amount of taxes he pays annually. Payments are monthly, and a different colored button is issued each month as a receipt. Further variations have been developed in Auburn, Augusta. Granville, Tlion. Ithaca, Little Falls, Utica and Watertown. N. Y.; Janesville. Madison, Milwaukee and Schleisingervilk, Wis.: Elgin, Feoria, Itockford and Bock Island, m.: Adrian, Kalamazoo, Pontics,- and WaTrefieU, Mich.; Elizabeth, Xutley. Trenton and Westfield. N. J. ; Rochester and Washington, Ind.; Columbus and Oak Harbor. O.; Pittsfield and Salem, Mass.; Crete, Xeb.. and Toronto, Canada,

thrill of happiness at Beehler's warm endorsement, then a chill of despair as he thought of the girl's

indictment. Again he glancea a: his hands. He had passed up refinement, gentility, all that life Tie; 1 dear, for what? For money, ?-r money he had sunk to this! Absently he strayed towards the piano, a stran-er to him for the past few months, and gazed at it with all tr.hungry lon-ing of an artist's soUu His fingers clutched spasmodically at a letter in his jocket the letter of Marie Beehler, addressed t Vergil Van Claud, Beetr.oven Symphony orchestra the refined pinxhanded artist. An idea streck him like a thunderbolt! Ron-'h, indeed? He'd show her. He'd The piano began to give forth sound, then chord after chord poured from it, as the master hand tore

at its vitals. The instrument moaned, it sobbed, it laughed and th?n figuratively shrieked in gay abandon. Trie soul of the artist was going into it. drop by drop, thought by thought until its rythmic sob seemed to merge with the pent-up emotions of its tormentor. It was alive, breathing, a thing of A door opened and a beautiful girl stood transfixed on the portal. Then, with an expression of her fair young face almost terrifying in its intensity, she stared incredulously at the artist's back and took a step or two forward. "Vergil Van Claud." she gasped, breathlessly. "You are " The music stopped and the young man turned, then rose to his feet and bowed. "Yes," he admitted, with a sad smile, "I am " "But I thought " she started to speak, but he put out his hand in restraint. "No you didn't think. he interrupted in a low tone. "You merely jumped at conclusions. You judged me by these hands. You have never thought." He extracted a letter from his pocket and held it towards her. "Or you wouldn't have sent me this letter three months ago. You said you loved

( me in that letter. Yoq di !n't lo j Hie VO'1 locl the artist the ; thing- I represented. Now v; I hate :;m by the same token B-.it I ' thought, and I thojjht deeply. iand r.s t thoqght then, I think r.ow. i I loe vo-;. I told vou so last nicht, 'when I wn sure. Put. M.irie. I - : yoq vo-.j don't vv.ir.t to marry a I roiu'li w r k man." I He st :r. ied lir.d'y from tit' : room tow ir !s the b.,;i and for a : minute, she stood transfixed with I shar..' --cd horror. t:un she ran ! after him. He was re.Vhirg for his ; io.it. b.:' she tore a .ty his hands, ! ar.d h. '.'.;-. them r. her own.

!. clamed p:t ously into hi face. j "Yr.:;!, ple;?s." she cried, p.s- : sior.ately, "forgive me. w on't you?" ! An e. --ratio shiver ran through , him. as .e answered lo r. j "But dearest." he whispei d, my i bar ds are not pink."

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' pered. clingimr :o them, ' and 1 i want them always." And then. for punishment. h ;took them away from her and put 'them around her yie'dirg, ilingir.g i form.

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Jefferson. school, Columbus. lays claim to being the larce.-t in the county, having lit members, out cf total enrollment of "1", who own 4M War Savings stamps and 4 0 : Thrift stamp.-. There ate H Thrift clubs at the JefiVrsn building.

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Pinfy Hands - - - By Archey Cameron New

The Beethoven Symphony was no more. Not that the masterpiece of harmony had passed into oblivion, but the pioud orchestra that bore its name, and whose winter tour had so sadly and ingloriously ended. For not only had its manager announced that further bookings were not to be had, but worse the treasury was one enly in name. Vergil Van Claud sat in the manager's office of the little theater In Nevvtnry and bitterly reflected over his dilemma. Young, talented, the orchestra's soloist, a great pianist and yet broke! It was awful! Theatrical business on the what was it the house manager had called it, oh yes, on the bum! Theatrical business indeed, he muttered indignantly to himself. He was no actor he was an artist, a his hand came in contact with a small roll of bills and bringing them to light, he stared u them disconsolately, then he laughed bitterly. "Twenty dollars," he announced to the pictures on the wall. "Twenty dollars. Enough to pay my hotel blli and then " The door opened and a grimy individual in blue jumpers and with a very red face intruded upon his relk-ctions. "Touch luck, mister," sympathized the newcomer. "But I s'pose it's all In the game. Ain't so sure of my own -job m'self. Bad year fetus entertainers." Van Claud looked up resentfully, and then something in the-humor of the situation struck him and he smiled wanly. This man knew local conditions. Even the humblest stae carpenter was not to be iCnored. "Do you know of any place," he shot the direct question at the other "where I might play till I get enough to get back to New York?" The newcomer shook his head doubtfully. "Ain't many places in town," he answered. after due reflection. "'Cept th Casino movie parlor

down th' street. They need a pieanist." The artist sprang to his feet indignantly, and the other shrank back involuntarily. "Not in a million years." protested Van Claud, withf passionate vehemence. "I'd rather work lirst in a factory." The stag'e carpenter laughed boisterously arid pointed to the other's slender, pink, highly manicured hands, still clutching the bills. "What, with hands like them?" he sneered. "Ha, ha. Y' couldn't do rothin with feeders like them. Them's highbrow pink hands, not work hands. Now " Van Claud advanced towards the other threateningly, and something in the pianist's eyes made him recoil again. "Stop," thundered Van Claud. "Maybe they arc pink. But they're strong and firm and and willing. And needy, too. This is all I've got," and he flourished the fewbills in the other's face. "But I'll earn more." "No offense, sir," apologized th other, quickly. "I didn't know. Maybe that is" he hesitated, then plunged ahead, "y might get a job at th tool works. My brother works there. I'll give y a note t him." "Tool works?" echoed the artist, delightedly. "I know something of tool-making. My father was one. I - I thank you." And his hand shot out and grasped the workman's in a firm 'Trip that served but to enhance his respect for the artist. Embarrassed, he turned towards the door. "I'll go an' phone 'im now, and tell 'im yer tomin'," asid the carpenter, and then, before he closed the door, added "You wait 'ere." Left alone again, Van Claud walked absently into the studio next to the o!ficc, and sitting at the piano, his hands moved caressingly over the keys. Then, extracting a sheaf of "mash notes" from his pocket, he kissed them sadly, then replaced

them with tender tare in his pocket. "Good-by, career," he muttered to himself. "Good-by, little girls. Good-by, fame." And then he rose and with linn tread and head erect, passed out of the studio, through the office, to the street, and the tool works. It was on an e vening three months later, when a young well-set young mar; dressed neatly, was ushered into the parlor of Beehler, the general manager of the Kensett Tool Co. The maid withdrew and he strayed about the spacious room with the manner of one accustomed to his surroundings. Then, with no intention of eavesdropping, he heard voices in the adjoining room, through the glass panel of the closed doors, ond hearing his name in a deep masculine bass, he stopped short. "I I can't see him," he then heard in a musical soprano. "He wants me to marry him." "Well, why not?" answered the bass voice. "He's a fine young man. Honest, industrious, goodnatured, everything a girl would want in a husband." "Except breeding," interrupted the girl. "Look at his hands. Bough, uncouth, untidy the very best -evidence of a common Cringingup." The young man in the parlor recoiled, and started in mute dejection at his hands, then the masculine voice again claimed his attention. "Stop," it thundered. "I won't have you say suoh things of Yanklow. Why, you crazy girl, you said yourself only last: week that he was the sweetest-tempered person you had ever met. I don't give, forty hoots who he w;. It's what he is now, and that's the squarest, finest man in our plant and its future president. That's got refinement beat to a frazzle your kind of refinement." Vergil Van Claud, now known by his abandoned first name and the euphonious spelling of his last, George Vanklow, felt a momentary

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BOMBARDMENT OF PARIS STIFFENS THE MORALE Ir.terr.ntienal News Service: PALIS'. March T.O. The latest bombardment of Paris by the German super-gun, in which 75 were killed and nearly a hundred wounded when a shell struck a church, failed to terrorize Paris today. Instead, the city seethed with anger and the reaction was one of hot determination to tight to a finish and seek vengeance for the latest outbreak of German f rightfulness. This spirit was rev-ealed in the house of deputies and in general demands everywhere for punishment of the Huns on the battlefield.

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Sales of War Savings and Thrift stamps Helton. Ripley county, amount to $4.233.25 up to the end of February.

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