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AMERICANS AT THE FRONT
BY

F. A.  McKENZIE

NEW YORK GEORGE   H.    DORAN    COMPANY Publishers  in   America for  Hodder   &   Stoughton

"Wir hassen die Amerikaner und allés was aus Amerika kommt."

"We hate the Americans and everything that comes from America."

A German to Mr. Gustav C. Roeder, special correspondent of "The New York World" in Germany.

AMERICANS AT THE FRONT

THE full tale of how Americans have helped the Allies cannot yet be told. But enough is known to prove that the union of hearts is still something much more than a name. What have the Americans done ? Many of them, the very pick of the nation, have given themselves as volunteers. The great Universi- ties, headed by Harvard, have sent doctors and hospital staffs to nurse the sick and wounded. Groups of rich young men crossed the Atlantic when war broke out, bringing their own automo- biles with them, and formed the nucleus of the splendid ambulance services that have been of incalculable service to France. In Belgium a group of Americans, Rhodes scholars, engineers and industrial leaders, headed by a supreme business organizer, saved a nation from starva- tion. In Serbia a brave American doctor fought almost single-handed against the brutalities of the Austrian troops when they swept over the land after the great retreat. 5 6      AMERICANS   AT   THE   FRONT Americans were so eager to join the ranks of the French Army that military laws were relaxed for their benefit. The record of the American Flying Squadron in the French service is one of great brilliancy, even in that corps d'élite of France. The British roll of honour gives fre- quently the names of American born soldiers who have laid down their lives for the Allies. Look at the record of Americans who have died for Britain and France. It is a very re- markable list, more especially for the quality of the men enrolled. There is Harold Chapin, born in Brooklyn, at the beginning of a brilliant career as a dramatist, and Alan Seeger, of old New England stock, whom three nations to-day hail as poet and hero. Kenneth Weeks, who died at Givenchy, twenty-four years old, had already done notable work in letters. Dilwyn Starr, of Philadelphia, a Harvard man, took his place in the ranks of the British Expeditionary Force, won his commission, and died on the Somme. Officers in the United States Army like Major Stewart and Captain Wood, on the staff of General Leonard Wood, resigned their commis- sions to-join us, and fell for us. American students from the Latin Quarter, University men galore, sturdy plainsmen and men from the West, have died side by side with the sons of Britain, fighting for justice and liberty. Many AMERICANS  AT   THE   FRONT       7 others, happily, are still fighting, wearing on their breasts the ribbons of the medals they have won for gallant conduct in the field. What drew them to us? Some came because of the instinct of race and blood. "The army of my race and tongue," said Frederick Palmer, the distinguished war correspondent, when he found himself with the British Forces. Some came because of historic memories. "I am pay- ing for Lafayette and Rochambeau," said Kiffin Rockwell, the steel-nerved airman, shortly before his death. Others were forced to join us be- cause of what they saw of the enemy's methods of war. Among the most active American sol- diers in the Allied ranks are men who began as ambulance workers or relief agents, and who were so roused by the cruelties they witnessed that they took up the sword to fight a foe whom they recognised as the common enemy of all who love justice and freedom. Alan Seeger, shortly before he died, gave another reason : "Can sneerers triumph in the charge they made, That from a war where Freedom was at stake, America withheld and, daunted, stood aside. Now heaven be thanked, we gave a few brave drops; Now heaven be thanked, a few brave drops were ours." AN APPEAL TO  AMERICA THE  REGION   OF IN  THE   PROVINCE   OF                                        ,  BELGIUM, has noM                 Children who depend upon the  Meals served in Public Schools and Infants' Kitchens. In  this   Region   there   are          Communes  or Towns, and   your                      is asked to help feed the Children in   the   Commune   of It   costs   Six Cents a  Day  to   supply each  Child  with  one of these  Meals. The Belgian  People from their own  resources   provide Three Cents  a  Day for each Child. Cannot peaceful, happy, well--fed America find the other Three Cents? This  Six   Cents   furnishes   every   Child    vlth   two   slices  of   bread, or   two   crackers,  a   bowl of soup, a plate of hash, and a cup of cocoa or milk. Will  you   give Three   Cents   a.   Day  for  One   Child   in Will your                          give $                      a day to Feed the                      Children in this Commune, which will only provide each Child for One Day with  as much as   you eat in One Meal? YOU  can   keep   them   Healthy   and  Strong If you  will  keep   up this Amount. The American'Commission has carried this burden for two years with the aid of contributions from  the   whole   world. Every  Country,   except   America,   has   its   own   increasing  load, and   can   no   longer   give   so generously. Are  you   going   to   allow   the   little   Belgians to   want for Pood, because  America  out of its abundance falls to help them? MAP OF THE REGION OF Showing the Commune of A  POSTER  DISPLAYED  IN   AMERICAN   SCHOOLS. AMERICANS  AT   THE   FRONT      9 The Americans in the fighting ranks have only been representatives of a vastly greater mass of their countrymen supporting us in their own land. The women of the United States have banded themselves into five thousand groups and circles to raise money or prepare comforts for the Allies, mainly for the destitute in France and Belgium. A noted organization on the Rocky Mountains raised a fund of a million dollars for a new club house. It was to be the finest of its kind in the world. Then an eyewitness told the members what was happening in Belgium. They resolved to make their old club house do, and donated the million dollars as a gift for King Albert's needy subjects. There is a systematised movement throughout the elementary schools of America by which the boys and girls of each district adopt,» a certain number of Belgian chil- dren, and make themselves responsible for find- ing three cents a day for the feeding of each child. As the Allied Armies move ahead on the Western front there come on behind a group of Californian women, who are working out plans for re-building ruined French towns and villages. America is aiding France to grapple the most dreaded secondary result of the war— tuberculosis. American hospitals from Devon- shire to Salonica are helping to nurse the victims 10   AMERICANS   AT   THE   FRONT of war. To mention all the forms that active American aid has taken would be to transform this paper into a mere catalogue of names. Americans are the first to say that the stream of sympathy in the United States has been barely tapped, and that from ocean to ocean people are eager and willing to do more. "So much remains to be done," wrote ex-President Taft recently, "so widespread and profound is the misery to be alleviated, that every agency should be utilized for the expression of the good will and brotherly love of the American people." Greater things may yet be ahead. Some of us are glad to treasure in our hearts what has been done. Various attempts have been made to number the Americans in the Allied ranks. Those like myself whose affairs take them irito the Allied lines are constantly surprised to find Americans in the most unlikely places. Their speech be- trays them, whatever declarations they may have made when joining up. "If you take a map of the United States and go up and down the American lines in France, you will find no city, great or small, which has not sent a flying man, a bomber, an artilleryman, a sniper or despatch rider to help to destroy Prussian despotism," wrote Lord Northcliffe, after a visit to the front. He   estimated   the    number    at   over    50,000. AMERICANS  AT   THE   FRONT     11 "When I said in something I wrote lately that the American soldiers in France numbered 50,000, I rather under-estimated their strength. I made that calculation on statements supplied by French as well as by British authorities. The great fact is that more than 50,000 young Crusaders have crossed the Atlantic to join an Army in which they are fighting not for King or country, but against what they realize to be the curse of the world at this moment—the attempt of the Ger- mans to dominate Europe and then America." The most spectacular and thrilling side of the work of the war is found among the Army flyers. The American squadron of the French Avia- tion Corps owes its existence to three young men —William Thaw, of Pittsburg, Norman Prince, of Boston, and Elliot Cowdin, the Long Island polo player. Thaw,* a well-known American flyer, volunteered his services at the outbreak of the war. At that time the solitary French corps open to non-Frenchmen was the Foreign Legion. He joined it in August, 1914, and it was only with considerable difficulty that he was later transferred to the aviation service. Prince and Cowdin, fresh from America, came a little later, and the  way was  now  open  for  them  to  join THE  LATE   KIFFIN   ROCKWELL. AMERICANS  AT   THE   FRONT     13 the aviation corps direct. A fourth American, Bert Hall,* a Texan cowboy who had also joined the Foreign Legion, was transferred to the air service shortly after Thaw. Air Corps are to modern armies what the King's Guards were in the days of the Stuarts and the Louis—the corps d'élite. In France, the Army airmen rank specially high, and any- one who has witnessed their marvellous work admits that they have earned their place. For foreigners to come into this picked service was a severe test. Happily the Americans were tried and experienced flyers, and their records soon made them marked men. They themselves would be the last to deny any claim to special honour. "Why write about us," demanded Kiffin Rock- well shortly before his death, "when we are doing only what our French comrades are doing every day as well as we are." The Americans urged the idea of a separate American squadron of the French flying service. Other men were coming to join them. Soon there were six American pilots who had passed their tests, the two others being Didier Masson, a well-known American exhibition flyer, and James Bach, who came from the Foreign Legion. of War. 14   AMERICANS   AT   THE   FRONT Thaw  was   promoted   to   Lieutenant,   and   the American escardrille came  into being. Among others who soon joined up were two more from the Foreign Legion, Kiffin Rockwell, of Atlanta, Ga., and Victor E. Chapman, of New York, son of the eminent writer, John Jay Chap- man. James McConnell, born in Chicago, a graduate of the University of Virginia, and one of the staff of a small railroad in North Caro- lina, came from the American Ambulance Corps with a high record. He had left his railway work, to serve as an ambulance driver at the front, where he had been mentioned in orders of the day for conspicuous bravery in attending the wounded under fire, and decorated with the Croix de Guerre. Convinced that the cause of the Allies was the cause of freedom, he entered the active fighting ranks. He secured his license a month and a day after he entered the flying school, and soon earned fresh honour. "All along," said Mr. McConnell, "I had been convinced that the United States ought to aid in the struggle against Germany. With that conviction, it was plainly up to me to do more than drive an ambulance. The more I saw the splendour of the fight the French were fighting, the more I began to feel like an embusqué— what the British call a 'shirker.' So I made up my mind to go into aviation." AMERICANS  AT   THE   FRONT     15 The original six had grown by the middle of 1916 to about fifty pilots and men in train- ing. One of the first group, Bach, was captured by the Germans when going to the rescue of a comrade, and was for a time in danger of death by court-martial as a franc-tireur. The Germans did the American aviators the honour of ranking them with the English soldiers, as objects for their special hatred. Elliot Cowdin won the Médaille Militaire before the American squad- ron was formed by bringing down a German machine on the Verdun front. The first member of the squadron to lose his life was Victor Chapman. He was a student in the Latin Quarter when the war broke out, and at once joined the Foreign Legion. Soon wounded in action, he was on recovery trans- ferred to the air service as an aerial bomb dropper, and later qualified as pilot. Chapman was a super-man. He took every opportunity to fly straight for the enemy's country and to attack any enemy craft within reach. If there were several enemy planes together, so much the better. "He flew more than any of us," wrote one of his comrades. "Never missing an opportunity to go up, and never coming down until his gasolene was giving out. He was a sieve of patched-up bullet holes.   His nerve was AMERICAN   LEGIONNAIRES   ON   THE   SOMME   FRONT,   JANUARY,   1917. AMERICANS   AT   THE   FRONT     17 almost super-human, and his devotion to the cause for which he fought sublime." Soon he had the destruction of seven German planes to his credit. On one occasion he attacked four enemy planes. One of them getting behind him, swept his machine with bullets, smashing the rod of the stability control and wounding him in the head. Chapman grasped the rod with one hand, and steered himself to safety with the other. As soon as his wound was dressed, he mounted again in a fresh plane, looking out for someone else to fight. Chapman's death was worthy of the man. He knew that a wounded comrade in hospital wanted oranges, and he started out in his warplane with a basket of fruit for him. On the way, he saw an air fight far over the German lines. Four Germans were attacking three French. He swooped down on them, destroying one of the Germans by machine gun fire, and driving the others off. What followed is not quite clear, but apparently as he passed, the bullets of one plane caught and killed him. The French official army order telling of his death recorded his glory. "In memory of this citizen of the United States who, inspired by sentiments of lofty idealism, gave his life for the cause of the Allies." When news was brought to  his   father   of   his   death,   he   declared,   "If 18    AMERICANS   AT   THE   FRONT Victor is killed in battle, I am resigned. I am proud that he joined the French Army, and I think that every American boy ought to do the same." The reputation of Kiffin Rockwell equalled that of Chapman. To him this war was the war for world freedom, and France was the champion of universal liberty. "If France were conquered, I should prefer to die," he wrote. "The cause of France is the cause of all man- kind." His fearlessness was famous, even in this corps of fearless men. Taking great risks, ever ready for a fight, he was twice wounded, but immediately he recovered he was back again. On September 23rd, 1916, he attacked single- handed four German aeroplanes. An explosive ball hit him, four thousand mètres high, and killed him. "More than ever I want to live," he had written shortly before, when recovering from a wound. "But not from an egotistic point of view." "This war has taught me many things. I want to live to do all the good I can. But if I must be killed in the war, I have no fear of dying, and I feel there can be no better end." "The bravest and best of us is no more," the chief of the squadrilla declared when news of his death came. Norman Prince, of Boston (nephew of the famous psychiatrist,   Dr.   Morton  Prince),   one THE LATE   NORMAN   PRINCE. 20   AMERICANS   AT   THE   FRONT of the pioneers of the squadron, and himself a brilliant flyer, was mentioned five times in despatches for conspicuous gallantry and deco- rated with the Médaille Militaire and the Croix de Guerre. Late in 1916 he was seriously wounded in a raid on the Mauser Rifle Factory at Oberndorf. Despite his wounds, he suc- ceeded in flying back to French territory, where he died. On the many decorations bestowed on the American airmen, from the Cross of the Legion of Honour for Lieutenant Thaw to other cov- eted decorations for his men, I do not dwell. The many deaths, many for so small a group, tell their own tale of danger and daring. Two Bostonians, Kenneth Weeks and Henry Harns- worth, died within a very short time of one another. "I want to fight, not merely to look on," said Harnsworth. "I want to fight for France, as the French once fought for us." He had his opportunity, and fought to the end. Weeks, a student in the Beaux Arts, responded to the call of France when war began. From the Foreign Legion he graduated into the air service, and- from the air service to a hero's death. The story of the American Ambulance Corps will not soon be forgotten. The two main groups   are    the    American    Volunteer    Motor AMERICANS  AT   THE   FRONT     21 Ambulance Corps and the American Ambu- lance Field Service, the latter much the larger. The American Volunteer Motor Ambulance Corps owes its existence to a group of wealthy young Americans, headed by Mr. Richard Nor- ton, who came over to France at the beginning of the war to offer their services. There were many difficulties in their way. The need of ambulances was tremendous, for the military cars then available were few, and anything but modern. For a time the Americans worked with a British group. Then for better organ- ization the two worked separately. To-day the American Motor Ambulance Corps consists of three convoys, each of twenty-five cars. Its staff numbers about ISO Americans, all of them volunteers, most unpaid and many helping to support with their money the work they are doing. It has been in every "big push." It has been twice cited before the Corps d'Armée —a very great honour indeed; it has been re- peatedly cited before Brigades; honours of every kind have been earned by its workers, and it has never failed to respond to the call for its service. A number of members of this Corps have volunteered for active service, both in the British and French Armies, and several of them have died in the fighting ranks. Some joined the  French   Flying   Corps. The  case   of   Mr. ONE   OF   THE   WARDS   IN   THE   AMERICAN   HOSPITAL   IN   PARIS. AMERICANS  AT   THE   FRONT     23 Dilwyn Starr is typical of others. The son of Dr. Starr, of Philadelphia, he was conspicuous at Harvard as an athlete, playing for four years in the University football team. At the outbreak of the war he volunteered for service with this Corps, and for several months drove an ambulance for it. In December, 1914, he enlisted as a petty officer in the Armoured Motor Car Section, R.N.A.S., and served with the Duke of Westminster's Squadron in France, taking part in the battle of Neuve Chapelle. Recom- mended for a commission, he was gazetted Second Lieutenant in May, 1915. At Gallipoli, he served with distinction as a machine gun officer in the trenches at Suvla Bay. Return- ing to England, he was given a commission in the Coldstream Guards, joined the Expe- ditionary Force in July, 1916, and was killed in the great mid-September fight on the Somme. The work of the Ambulance gives its members full experience of actual war. "One of the posts which we served from the Somme Suippes was in front of and open to the German lines at Tahure," a report stated. "We had been fre- quently shelled there, but nothing serious had happened, though the hospital tents had been torn to ribbons, and the cars had been hit." The Americans do not trouble about trifles. The crowning experience of the Corps came 24   AMERICANS   AT   THE   FRONT at Verdun. It was sent to the Douamont sector, where the work was naturally very severe. The one road to the trenches and the poste de secours (the advanced dressing station) was entirely open to the Germans' fire, and could only be traversed at night time, when ammunition, guns and re- liefs had to go up, and the wounded brought down. Owing to the blunder of a doctor at the front, the corps was ordered to send five large ambu- lances in daylight to the advanced post, close to the front trenches. The Americans, knowing what was before them, started out. Immediately the cars were sighted, the Germans opened up a very heavy fire. Fortunately their range was defective, so that most got through safely. Two, however, Wendell and Hollinshead, were wounded. It was now impossible to send an- other car to bring them back, so two others, who had just gone through the raging fire, begged permission to return on foot, and to bring their comrades back in their own cars. The journey up to the front, exposed as they were to the shells of an alarmed and anxious enemy, may be imagined. The two wounded men refused to be helped until other wounded at the advanced post had been aided. When darkness came, all were got back. The four Americans engaged,  Wendell  and  Hollinshead, AMERICANS  AT   THE   FRONT     25 McCreery and Harden, were all decorated with the Croix de Guerre, on the representations of the French authorities who witnessed what they had done. For two weeks the work at Verdun went on night and day. There was active fighting at the front, and the wounded, carried by stretcher bearers to the dressing station, must be brought along to the bigger post at Verdun. The dress- ing station, the Sappe de Belfort, was an under- ground shelter, situated partly under the road- way itself in a very exposed part and fairly close up to the German line. It could only be approached at night time in absolute dark- ness. Even a, cigarette light would have drawn fire. A shell struck two of the doctors that were helping, and one was killed and the other wounded. Several of the ambulance cars were hit, and one of them pretty well pounded to pieces. The journey to the poste was highly exciting. "On my first three trips," wrote Mr. Norton to his brother, "an artillery wagon with its horses and men was knocked out im- mediately in front of me. Night after night this went on—past the ruined and silent rail- way station, over the wooden bridge, round Dead Man's Corner, past Shell Street, and down  Red  Pepper  Alley  to  the   poste   beyond 26    AMERICANS   AT   THE   FRONT which flashed the French guns on the hill forts and over which burst the Boche shells day and night. By dawn we never failed to have emp- tied all the advanced posts and to have brought back those doctors and brancardiers who did not have to stay out during the day on twenty- four hour duty. Having got them all to Ver- dun, I then kept all the cars steadily at work until in two or three hours every case was out of Verdun and in the hospital. After that three or four cars stayed on all day at the Verdun post to handle the casualties which streamed into that spot, not only from our division but from all around, while the others went home for a short rest or to do the daily duty at the hospital and at the evacuation train. You can see that this kept us pretty fully occu- pied, but everything went well, and I can fairly say that the friends of the Corps can well be proud of the steadiness and vigour with which the men worked. Considering the fact that for many hours out of the twenty-four most of the men were under fire, it speaks well for their nerve and character that they were able to continue so long without breaking down." There came the night when the Norton Am- bulance was to be relieved by the American Field Ambulance.    The leaders of both groups AMERICANS   AT   THE   FRONT     27 went up together that the newcomers might learn the lay of the land. On the previous evening, everyone had suffered from the effects of an attack by "tear shells." On this last night, a very heavy gas attack was made. The sight was extraordinary. "Besides the gas," wrote Mr, Norton, "which was so thick that men and horses were dropping round about, the Boches were throwing incendiary shells along the road which our cars had to follow. Houses were burning and falling in the roadway, so that all traffic up and down was stopped. There was an absolute block. The conduct of the French during this time was very striking; not one seemed to be excited, not one raised his voice. Men on foot marched steadily on, while the drivers sat calming their horses and waiting quietly for the moment when they could hasten to their destination. The cars returned to a sorely needed rest. There were well-earned decorations waiting for them, but there was something they prized even more. The convoy was cited before the Corps d'Armée. This was equivalent to giving an individual the Croix de Guerre, and gave it the right to paint the Cross on its wagons. A General Order, signed by General Mangin, was published. Americans may read it with pride :— A  GIFT   TO   FRANCE :   AMERICAN   RED   CROSS   MOTOR   WAGONS. AMERICANS  AT   THE   FRONT     29 Ordre General No. 135. Le General Commandant le Groupement cité à l'ordre du Corps d'Armée. La. Section Sanitaire Automobile Américaine No. 7 sous les ordres de son chef M. Norton. A fait depuis plus de 20 mois constamment preuvre de l'esprit de sacrifice le plus com- plet. A rendu les plus grands services à la Division à laquelle elle est attachée en assurant la relève des. blessés dans les meilleurs condi- tions. Il n'est pas un seul de ses membres qui ne soit un modèle de sang froid et d'abnégation. Plusieurs d'entre  eux  ont  été blessés. The Norton Ambulance was back again at the front for the famous French advance of December 14th. Its headquarters were in Ver- dun, and it had posts beyond the town. The spot was a little unhealthy. On one occasion, one of their ambulances was waiting outside the post previously described the "Sappe de Belfort," when a shell struck it and made it into little better than a mass of scrap iron. The Sappe itself had its roof dented and its front door smashed. The workers had fortu- nately just left the car, but one of them was knocked over, bruised and shaken. "Am dead tired," wrote Norton during the heavy fighting. "Since the  attack began  it  has been night and 30        AMERICANS   AT   THE   FRONT day for me. It is now just of 39 hours I have been on my feet." It was winter. Sometimes there was thin ice on the road. Mostly the whole area around Verdun was mud—mud-holes so deep that if a man fell in them, he could not hope to get out alone. When the French advanced, the re-conquered land, over which the Americans had now to work, was indescribable. Mangled bodies and broken limbs lay about, the sou- venirs of many months of concentrated war. In some parts where the Ambulance workers went through their cars could not follow, for there was only a narrow strip of pathway along the morass of mud. On either side gaped the chasms, shell-made mud-holes. The Americans' work on this occasion was so valued that they were again cited before the Corps d'Armée. Up to now the Corps had two con- voys. The French Government asked it to provide a  third. The American Ambulance Field Service has a fine hospital at Neuilly, with two smaller hospitals, and an extensive and admirable work at the front. Many of its men have been wounded in action; one has been killed; and many have earned high war honours. The Field Ambulance has had by the autumn of 1916 no less than eight sections of twenty-five AMERICANS  AT   THE   FRONT    31 cars each at work; it has operated in all kinds of territory, from Flanders to Alsace, and it has transported between two and three hundred thousand wounded men. Its sections have been cited repeatedly. The hundreds of American college boys who have worked under it have given an example of splendid devotion which France will never forget. The American Ambulance began its work at the very outset of the war, when ten Ford chassis were secured, their bodies made with packing cases, and were offered, with a service of volunteer drivers, to the French Govern- ment. From this small beginning, the Ambu- lance has grown to eight sections of twenty-five cars each, with a group of hospitals near Paris, of which the chief is at Neuilly, with six hun- dred beds. One of its hospitals at Juilly, hold- ing two hundred men, is entirely supported by Mrs. Harry Payne Whitney. It numbers many hundred volunteers for its field service alone. With scarce an exception the men are Amer- icans, and at least seven out of eight are from the American Universities. Harvard has sent most of the volunteers, but there are many from Yale, Princeton, Columbia and Cornell. The American Ambulance has worked, since April, 1915, when it was definitely admitted into the firing lines,  along the whole  French  front. 32   AMERICANS   AT   THE   FRONT Its members naturally have to operate often enough under heavy fire. Its organization owes much to the work of the Hon. A. Piatt Andrew, formerly Assistant Secretary of the United States Treasury, who became inspector of the Field Service in 1915. The devotion and cour- age of his staff have won glowing tributes of admiration and affection from many French officers. The Ministry of War, the President of the Chamber of Deputies, the Army by Corps and Divisional Orders, and by citing sections of the service and individual members, by the bestowal of many decorations, have shown ap- preciation. General Lebocq, in a Divisional Order, voiced the general sentiment when he wrote of one of the sections that, "composed of volunteers, friends of our country, it has con- stantly attracted favourable notice by the en- thusiasm, the zeal and the courage of all its members, who, regardless of danger, have been employed, without respite, in rescuing our wounded, whose gratitude and affection they have won." The Belgian Army was equally appreciative of what was done for it, particu- larly in the fierce fighting during the German attempt to break through Dixmude, when the Ambulance, day and night, continued to remove the wounded over a heavily shelled area. Amid  the   winter   snows   of   Alsace,   and   in AMERICANS   AT   THE   FRONT    33 pleasant summer days in Lorraine, during the terrible months of the German attacks on Ver- dun, in Flanders and Champagne, wherever fighting was hardest—there Americans have been. One of them, Richard N. Hall, of Ann Arbor, Mich., was killed on service, his ambulance blown over a rough track on the Vosges Moun- tains by shell fire. Americans in England have sought in many ways to prove their friendship. The most nota- ble work has perhaps been done by the Amer- ican Women's War Relief Fund, which has since the early days of the war maintained a hospital for the wounded, with 240 beds, in Mr. Paris Singer's beautiful home at Paignton. In addi- tion, the American women are now opening a hospital for officers, with 40 beds, in London. Very many American women have volunteered to serve personally, as nurses and V.A.D.'s, at the different seats of war or in England. Others have opened their homes to the wounded and the sick. There are Americans in other branches of the French service besides the Flying Corps. At the beginning, most of the American volunteers —forty or fifty in all—went to the Foreign Legion. There was a memorable scene when hundreds of young Englishmen and Americans living in  Paris  marched  in  procession  through THE LATE   ALAN   SEEGER. AMERICANS  AT   THE   FRONT    35 the streets to offer themselves to France. Grad- ually they were removed from the Legion to other branches. Among them was one young poet, already stepping into recognition, Alan Seeger by name. An artist by temperament, he passed from Harvard to New York, and from there to Paris, where, still a lad in the mid- twenties, he settled in the Latin Quarter, de- veloping his poetic soul. Then came the war. The Paris of his dreams was shattered; the stark reality remained. He faced the situation, and enlisted. "Why did you enlist?" He sought to answer the question. "I have talked with so many of the young volunteers here. Their case is little known, even by the French, yet altogether in- teresting and appealing." He told how Paris had thrown her charm over them. Without renouncing their nationality, they had yet chosen to make their homes there, beyond any other city in the world. Were they not under a moral obligation to put their breasts between her and destruction? They thought they were. The young poet found himself hard at drill, attempting to learn in six weeks what the ordinary recruit in times of peace learns in two years. Less than two months after enlistment, he and his comrades were moved up to the front. Then followed a 36    AMERICANS   AT   THE   FRONT monotonous winter of hardships of trench war- fare and the spring and summer campaign of 1915. In the autumn they took part in the great Champagne attacks, a splendid and costly effort. One can read in the letters of this young man that had been published with his poems,* the development of his manhood. He had broad- ened, deepened, and his admiration for France, ever intense, was now taking a deeper tone. He had come to actualities. In the hour of disappointment his affection for France was stronger than ever. "We failed," he wrote, after one fight. "This affair only deepened my admiration for, my loyalty to, the French. He is a better man, man for man, than the Ger- man. Anyone who had seen the charge of the Marsouins at Souain would acknowledge it. Never was anything more magnificent. I remember a captain, badly wounded in the leg, as he passed us, borne back on a litter by four German prisoners. He asked us what regiment we were, and when we told him, he cried, Vive la Legion, and kept repeating Nous les avons. Nous les avons en. He was suffering, but, oblivious of his wound, was still fired with the enthusiasm of the assault and all radiant with victory.     What   a   contrast  with  the   Ger- Archer.    Neiv  York:  Charles Scribner's Sons. AMERICANS   AT   THE   FRONT    37 man wounded,  on whose faces was nothing but terror and despair." Then came a long spell in the rear, which gave an opportunity to resume some of his literary activities. Back to the trenches in May, 1916, he proved his American strain by going on voluntary scouting expeditions. On one occa- sion he came clear up to the German barbed, wire in No Man's Land and left a card with! his name. "It was very thrilling work, 'court-8 ing destruction with taunts and invitations,' as Whitman would say." It was arranged that he was to return to Paris on Decoration Day, May 30th, to read before the statue of Lafayette and Washington an ode in memory of the American volunteers fallen for France which he had written at the request of American resi- dents. But his permission did not arrive in time. The days of the great advance came, and Seeger was in the first rush of the Legion that stormed the village of Belloy-en-Santerre. Six German machine-guns caught them with cruel, enfilading fire. Most of the storming party fell, Alan Seeger among them. Rein- forcements followed and swept the enemy on one side. The young American cheered them on. As they left him behind the men heard him singing a marching song in English. All night long  the   wounded   lay   untended,   and   in   the A  TABLET   ERECTED   IN   BELGRADE   TO   DR.   DONNELLY,   WHO   DIED WHILE  FIGHTING   THE   PLAGUE   IN   SERBIA AMERICANS  AT   THE   FRONT    39 morning Alan Seeger was dead. "One day," wrote Mr. William Archer, the famous critic, "France will know that this unassuming soldier of the Legion, Who, not mindful of the antique debt, Came back the generous path of Lafayette, was one whom even she may be proud to have reckoned among her defenders." Little has been written about the Americans in the ranks of the British Army. It is not that the British people have not warmly appreciated the help of the American men, but there has been a desire to do nothing which should seem in any way to run counter to the American official declaration of neutrality. America is the guardian of her own honour. It is for her statesmen and not for us to decide what the nation shall do. The majority of Americans in the British ranks have naturally enlisted in the Canadian Army. At the beginning of the war a large number of Americans resident in Canada joined the ranks, and many others crossed the frontier for the same purpose. An attempt was made on one occasion to raise an American Legion, and four special American battalions were re- cruited, one being sent to England. Appeals were issued, such as the following: 40   AMERICANS   AT   THE   FRONT AMERICAN  LEGION -ar -m—^ You believe in fair play I   1—J    You really love liberty J_ J_      You want to fight for right You are a real man COME  OVERSEAS  WITH   US. The Legion was made up of men from every part of the United States, from West Point graduates to Texas cowboys. Most of the recruits came from New York and Michigan. It was found, however, that the separate Amer- ican Legion was not satisfactory, and the bat- talions were broken up and scattered among others. A good example of more spontaneous co-oper- ation was found in the Sportsmen's Battalion of Toronto. A group of prominent athletes in that city started a fund for machine-guns for the troops. The fund grew, and it was suggested to the athletes that they should not only buy guns, but give themselves. They promptly fell in with the proposal and a battalion was raised in record time, numbering close on ISO cham- pions and 1,200 in all, good hardy sporting men, baseball cracks, football champions, light- weight, welter-weight, middle-weight and heavy- AMERICANS  AT   THE   FRONT    41 weight boxers, lacrosse kings and the like. Now the man who sets out to divide the athletic champions and leaders of Toronto into strictly American and Canadian groups will have a very hard task. At any rate, when the battalion was recruited it was found that United States citizens and Canadians had freely joined up together, instinct with the common purpose of striking a blow for the right. Among the American officers, one of the best known was Major Stewart, who, although Mont- real born, had served for twelve years as an officer in the United States Cavalry. He won the affection of, every man under him, and it is told how, in his last gallant charge around Maple Copse, he cheered his boys on even as he fell. Lieutenant Stanley Wood, of Kansas City, fell in the same fight. Major John Lewis, an American who had become a British subject, fell gallantly when holding a small detachment together against overwhelmingly superior forces on the Somme. Major Houghton, once of the United States Navy, heads a machine gun sec- tion and has been through many fights. Amer- icans in the Canadian ranks have earned many Distinguished Conduct Medals, Military Crosses and Military Medals. Lord Northcliffe, in an article which I have already  quoted,   has   described   his   impressions THE OUTBREAK OF  WAR IN  PARIS:   BRITISH   AND  AMERICAN  VOLUNTEERS  AT  ST. LAZARE  STATION, OFF TO  JOIN   THE   FRENCH   ARMY. AMERICANS  AT   THE   FRONT    43 of the American soldiers in the Canadian ranks in France. "When I saw them march back from the trenches to the tunes of 'My Country, 'tis of Thee,' 'The Star-Spangled Banner,' and the less classical and more modern ragtime, I wondered what the small American boys who have so often teased me on Independence Day celebrations in your country, would have thought of a factor in the war that is not sufficiently known in the United States." "I put one question to a score of those whose mothers were not ashamed to raise them to be soldiers. I asked them why they had come. The reply of the American in France is the same every time, whether you meet him with the Cana- dian Army, the British Army, or the French Army. They all say words to this effect: 'The sort of thing that has been going on in Europe as the result of the horrible organised savagery of the Prussians has got to be stopped. We want to stop it before it reaches our own coun- try. We have come over here to do it, and, thank God, we know that we are helping to do it, and that it is to be thoroughly done.' "To which one of them added as I said good- night: 'If anyone asks you what sort of a time the Americans are having, just hand them out one good home-word: "Bully." ' " Harold Chapin, the young American drama- 44    AMERICANS   AT   THE   FRONT tist and actor, who turned, at the first call of war, from home and fame to serve England, was typical of many others of his countrymen, He could not act, he could not write, once war had begun. "It seemed so silly," he said. He enlisted in the R.A.M.C. as a private. In due course he became Lance-Corporal, sharing in the hard work of rescuing the wounded at the front. In the autumn of 1915 he was in the fighting around Loos. On one occasion the Germans were counter- attacking. The Ambulance men were told that stretcher work was impossible at such a time, that it was suicide to show one's head above the parapet, the enemy fire coming from both the front and the right flank. Chapin went to report to the medical officer, intending to return to collect the wounded after dark. He was already marked for his splendid work. "I will tell you something of Chapin's fine work on the Saturday," wrote a comrade to his wife, "collecting wounded on the wire before the first captured German trench. For many hours I was out there with him; heart-breaking condi- tions, twenty appeals for help where one could only heed one; rain for hour after hour, and no little annoyance from cross-fire. On one jour- ney, three of us (your husband was one) came in for a tempest of fire.     Two  of us  lay low AMERICANS   AT   THE   FRONT    45 with the laden stretcher on the grass, while your husband volunteered to go ahead into the village, using a communication trench to bring back the wheels, by which we get stretchers along at a good pace over roads. Eventually the tempest ended, and the whole day ended without casualties for us." On this latter journey back he was less for- tunate. He went over a parapet to fetch in some wounded men. He was shot in the foot. He pressed on, and was then shot through the head. In the darkest hours of Serbia's sombre his- tory, when the doctors and nurses sent by the Allies were compelled to leave because of the Austrian conquest, the Serbian wounded had few to look to save the gallant little band of American doctors and workers. They could not save the land from the worst of its agony. Faced by starvation, slaughter, and stark brutality, whose full horrors the world has not yet realized, they could only stand for the right like men. Dr. Donnelly, the well- known American surgeon, died when fighting plague in Serbia. A tablet stands to his memory in Belgrade. Under Austrian rule, Americans have tried hard to bring some relief to the hungry Serbian people, more particularly to the 85,000 Serbian prisoners, whose lot is pitiful beyond words.
 * See portrait  on  cover.
 * Since promoted Lieutenant and serving in Eastern Theatre
 * Poems by Alan Seeger.   With an introduction by William

46   AMERICANS   AT   THE   FRONT Of men such as these what are we to say? There are times in life when language fails to convey what we think. This much, at least, is certain. Our memory of these men will not fade, but will be intensified as the years go on. Their deeds will help to link our kindred peoples still closer. Nations that have striven before may have to strive yet again to maintain truth, honour and justice in the world.

Now heaven  be  thanked,  we gave a few  brave drops: Now heaven be thanked, a few brave drops were ours. —The Late Alan Seeger.

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 there appear to have been any intentional mischief done. It is hardly wonderful that the ivy should be trampled on, seeing that no low wire fence, such as guards the beds in Leicester Square, nor little hoops, such as protect them in St. George's-in-the-East, had been placed. At the same time I may add that, seeing how very small the ground is in proportion to the dense population near Drury Lane, in the letter in which I brought the subject of planting it before the vicar, I suggested opening it by tickets distributed by workers in the district, rather than throwing it absolutely open to everyone. I thought that might have been done later, if it were found possible. I also pointed out to the man in charge, as I left the ground last week, that at first much supervision would be needed. If the vestry has the smallest doubt about the possibility of succeeding in keeping it in order, I have not the smallest hesitation in undertaking to do it for them for a year,


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 if they like to trust me with it, and so meet the first difficulties by special individual care, and prove the possibility of conducting the experiment there, as well as it has been done in St. George's-in-the-East. But I have no doubt they will see their way effectually to carry through the good work they have begun, only I have not had time to communicate with them yet.

The large churchyard in the Waterloo Road is in process of being turned into a garden. The Rev. Arthur Robinson has collected £290, and is laying it out more like a country garden, and less like a place planned by a Board of Works, than any other I have seen. He has stumps prepared for ferns to grow on (and wants some, by-the-way, which some of you might send him); he has a nice bank, winding walks between the turf, knows which side of the church his wisteria will grow, spoke with hope of getting the large blue clematis to flower, wants numberless creepers to cover


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respect, and his learning will therefore lack stability. 2. His chief principles should be conscientiousness and sincerity. 3. Let him have no friends unequal to himself. 4. And when in the wrong let him not hesitate to amend."

CHAPTER IX.

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arrives at any State he always hears about its administration. Does he ask for his information, or, is it tendered to him ? 2. "The Master," said Tzu Kung, " is benign, frank, courteous, temperate, deferential and thus obtains it. The Master's way of asking, how different it is from that of others ! "

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tendencies ; when his father is dead mark his conduct. If for three years he does not change from his father's ways he may be called filial."

CHAPTER XII.

1. The philosopher Yu said : " In the usages of Decorum it is naturalness that is of value. In the regulations of the ancient kings this was the admirable feature, both small and great arising therefrom. 2. But there is a naturalness that is not permissible ; for to know to be natural, and yet to be so beyond the


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restraints of Decorum, is also not permissible."

CHAPTER XIII.

The philosopher Yu said : When you make a promise consistent with what is right, you can keep your word. When you shew respect consistent with good taste, you keep shame and disgrace at a distance. When he in whom you confide is not one who fails his friends, you may trust him fully."

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seek the gratification of his appetite, nor in his dwelling is solicitous of comfort, who is diligent in his work, and guarded in his speech, who associates with the high-principled and thereby rectifies himself, such a one may really be said to love learning."

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who is poor and yet happy, or rich and yet loves Courtesy." 2. Tzu Kung remarked: " The Ode says :- 'Like cutting, then filing ; Like chiselling, then grinding.' That is the meaning of your remark, is it not ? " 3. " Tz'u ! " said the Master. " Now indeed I can begin to talk with him about the Odes, for when I tell him the premise he knows the conclusion."

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 many. A friend said to me the other day, "I often pass through it; it is certainly very nice. The only thing I am sorry about is that they have taken away the peacock and put two swans instead." "Are they not as pretty?" I asked. "Oh, I daresay they are," he replied; "it was the swans I was thinking of, they have so small a space, while the peacock was quite happy, because he always had plenty of people to admire his tail!" The Rev. G. M. Humphreys brought the question of opening the little burial-ground in Drury Lane before the notice of the St. Martin's-in-the-Fields vestry. They agreed to carry forward the work, and it was opened last week to the people as a garden. It is a refreshing breathing-space in a terribly crowded neighbourhood. It is bounded by a small piece of ground on the north which is admirably fitted for a block of dwellings for working people. If the Duke of Bedford, to whom I understand it belongs, would build, or arrange for others to build


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 there, a block of houses where abundant air would be secured to them, and transfer there the population of some crowded court, he would do a great and good work.

By-the-way, this paper was written before the news reached me of the temporary closing of the garden until such time as the vestry have decided in what way to regulate the admission of the public in future. As much will doubtless be heard of this temporary closing, I may as well explain, that my friend, Miss Cons, was there on Thursday, and saw the extent of mischief done, and went pretty thoroughly into the whole question. There does not appear to have been any destructiveness of mischievous feeling—the people availed themselves in such crowds of the privilege of going in, that the ivy was very much trampled on, and the yuccas which had been planted in the middle of the gravel without any sort of protection had their leaves spoiled; but the shrubs were hardly injured, nor does


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 the church walls, and to wreathe around and make beautiful the few tombs which he leaves unmoved because relatives are still living and care to retain them. I understand he purposes applying to the vestry for help, and in view of the many churchyards there are to deal with, this would seem the right thing to do in general. At the same time, I can see we should get a more country-like garden, the more the planning of it could be left in the hands of a man of culture, who loves plants and colour.

I believe St. Pancras Churchyard is now open as a garden; Limehouse is, I understand, thus utilised as far as the tombstones allow. The Rev. W. Allen has got his parishioners to memorialise the vestry to take some steps towards opening the ground in Bermondsey, but hitherto without success, and there may be others either now laid out or in progress—I earnestly hope there are—of which I have no knowledge.


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 I regret to say that an attempt to induce the Quakers to appropriate to the same purpose a burial-ground belonging to them in Bunhill Fields has utterly failed. The ground was one which would have been of almost more value for the purpose than any I know in London. It is close to Whitecross Street, which some of you may know as a street quite swarming with costermongers; the houses there are tunnelled every few yards with archways leading to as crowded courts as I know anywhere. Many houses of the poor actually overlooked the ground. In Coleman Street, which bounds the ground on the north, is a factory from which crowds of workmen turn out daily at dinner-time, many, no doubt, to adjourn to the public-house. But one hot day last summer, when I was there, dozens of them were sitting on the dusty pavement, their backs leaning against the great, dead, heated wall, which hid from them the space occupied by the burial-ground. There is not a tombstone


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 in it, and it might have been planted and thrown open easily. Last summer I wrote to the Quakers, hearing they were about to sell the ground for building, laying before them the reasons for devoting it to the public as a garden. After urging them to give it thus to the poor themselves, I added a request that if they did not see their way to do this, they would at least pause to enable me and my friends who were interested in such under-takings to see whether we could not raise enough money to secure it for the poor, even if they determined to exact for it full building-land value. I certainly could hardly believe that Quakers could thus sell land once devoted to their dead, and which had never brought them in rent, but I thought it just possible they might hesitate to give what belonged to the Society all to the poor. At any rate, I was determined no want of effort on my part should lose for the people so valuable and unique a space lying in the heart of a crowded


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 neighbourhood. My letter was never even considered by the meeting. The company in treaty for the ground did not purchase it then, because they thought it irreverent to disturb the dead. Yet although I have again and again seen and written to leading Quakers about it, and addressed several letters to their organ, The Friend, they have deliberately just sold it for building. No builder could be found who liked to buy the ground and disturb the bodies, and the Quakers themselves employed workmen to accomplish the most ghastly unearthing of the contents of the graves, uprooting five thousand bodies, which, I should think, never was undertaken before. They are selling the land for dwellings for the poor, and are excusing themselves by harping on the need of dwellings; but the immediate neighbourhood is to be dealt with under the Artisans Dwellings Bill, by means of which a large number of healthy homes for the poor will be erected, while I fear there is no chance


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 of any other garden being made in their midst. And, especially as only a portion of the Quakers' burial-ground is to be devoted to workmen's dwellings, the number of rooms provided in the district will not be sensibly affected. They have excused themselves, too, because they have not dug up George Fox, but only some of their lesser leaders and their nameless dead. Even if they formed a slightly different estimate of the relative advantages of a few more rooms and a garden, I own to an amazed sorrow that the Quakers rejected a scheme by which the land might have been rendered a blessing to the living, without doing violence to what seems to me to be a natural instinct of reverence, ineradicable in every human heart, for whatever has been associated with the loved, or the great and noble who are no longer with us. Nor could I have borne, if I had been they, to draw so marked a distinction between the unknown, who had surely been loved, and the known,


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 who had been famous, as to uproot five thousand bodies and spare George Fox's grave. I am sorry English workmen were called in to "separate those who had lain side by side for two centuries," that "the bones of young and old were" by them "placed in coarse deal boxes and re-interred in a large hole at the other end of the ground." That "many of them, while awaiting this fresh burial, were piled in a rude heap in a corner," with carbolic acid poured over them. Is this the lesson our workmen are to learn? Are they, too, valueless because so nameless? These poor bodies now mouldering away were once animated by spirits of beloved men and women. That which was once the form which embodied any human soul, named or unnamed, would have seemed to me worth a little gentler care. Better have let it mingle quietly with the dust and feed the trees and the daisies, keeping the resting-place of the dead one also for the weary and the poor.


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 I deal with the matter thus at length because the Quakers still have a burial-ground in Whitechapel and one in Bermondsey, which would be available as gardens, and which they have not yet sold; and also because I am not aware that they have decided how they will deal with the small portion of the Bunhill Fields ground which they cannot build over, where they have re-buried their unearthed dead. Have any of you influence with them, or can anything be done? The Whitechapel ground, though not nearly so central and important as Bunhill Fields, is well worth preserving. It is overlooked by the work-house, in the chronic wards of which there must be many who would rejoice to look out over trees and flowers, and who will never see them again unless this ground is planted with them. On the east side of the ground, too, is a wall; only to pull down that wall and put a railing instead, would give light and air to a whole street. Yet though Mr.


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 Lefevre, on behalf of the Commons Preservation Society, has twice asked them to say whether, and if so on what terms, they would arrange for the ground to be put in order and used as a garden for the people, they give evasive answers, and I believe have it in contemplation to sell it for building. The rector of Whitechapel has written to them, the guardians have memorialised them. They make no responsive sign. I make these remarks in no spirit of hostility to the Quakers; some of my oldest and best friends are Quakers, and I have the deepest respect for them as a body, and well know they have been leaders in much that is good, thoughtful, and liberal in times past, to the poor to a remarkable degree, and I know the value of such gardens is only beginning to attract notice; but I think the facts as concerning the land should be well known to the whole Society and to the public, and I only hope that the Society will consider them thoroughly at their yearly


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 this month. Within the last few days I have received letters from leading Quakers, asking me to bring the question before their yearly meeting; but I think I must really leave it in their own hands; the responsibility is wholly theirs. Their best ground is now almost gone, the facts are well before them, and Mr. Shaw-Lefevre's offer is not only well known to the whole Society, but the correspondence between him and their committee has been published in The Friend newspaper.

There is another body which I hope will swiftly become aware of their opportunities for doing good with land which is under their control—the London School Board. They have in all fifty-seven acres of playground, which they entirely close on the children's one holiday, Saturday, and during the summer evenings. It seems almost incredible, does it not? But so it really is. Of course the fact is that the Board has not considered how to manage the supervision. But surely that


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BOOK II.

CHAPTER I.

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CHAPTER II.

The Master said: "Though the Odes number three hundred, one phrase can cover them all, namely, 'With undiverted thoughts' "

CHAPTER III.

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by your decorous conduct, they will retain their sense of shame, and also live up to standard."

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the laws of Heaven. 5. At sixty my ear was docile. 6. At seventy I could follow the desires of my heart without transgressing the right."

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2. Afterwards when Fan Ch'ih was driving him the Master told him, saying: "Meng Sun asked me what filial piety meant, and I replied 'Not being disobedient.'" 3. Fan Ch'ih thereupon asked, "What did you mean? "The Master answered: "While parents live serve them with decorum; when they are dead bury them with decorum, and sacrifice to them with decorum."

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answered: "Parents should only have anxiety when their children are ill."

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CHAPTER VIII.

When Tzu Hsia asked the meaning of filial piety the Master said: "The demeanour is the difficulty. When there is anything to be done, that the young should undertake the burden of it; when there is wine and food that they should serve them to their seniors; is this to be considered filial piety?"

CHAPTER IX.

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 difficulty ought to be met either by the Board itself paying for it, if that is within its powers, or by some society, such as that which has summoned us here to-day, or by individual donors. Having the ground which, however small, is at least available for games for a certain number of children selected by the masters, it seems ridiculous not to use it. A deputation from this Society will wait on the School Board on May 30, to press the opening of the ground upon them—for that deputation influential support is much needed. If any of you can help, I hope you will communicate with Miss Lankester. I spoke of the very corrupting influence of the streets, though I did so with reference to the small companies of children who might be brought together for quiet pastimes in our churchyard-gardens of the future. The School Board playgrounds would afford scope for the more active games. Surely this should be afforded by anybody who realises how very beneficial


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he was not stupid."

CHAPTER X.

1. The Master said: "Observe what he does; 2. look into his motives; 3. find out in what he rests. 4. Can a man hide himself! Can a man hide himself!"

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CHAPTER XII.

The Master said: "The higher type of man is not a machine."

CHAPTER XIII.

On Tzu Kung asking about the nobler type of man the Master said: "He first practises what he preaches and afterwards preaches according to his practice."

CHAPTER XIV.

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CHAPTER XV.

The Master said: "Learning without thought is useless. Thought without learning is dangerous."

CHAPTER XVI.

The Master said: "To devote oneself to irregular speculations is decidedly harmful."

CHAPTER XVII.

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knowledge? When you know a thing to recognise that you know it, and when you do not know that you do not know, that is knowledge."

CHAPTER XVIII.

1. Tzu Chang was studying with a view to preferment. 2. The Master said to him: "Hear much, reserve whatever causes you doubt, and speak guardedly of the rest; you will then suffer little criticism. See much, reserve whatever seems imprudent, and act guardedly as to the rest; you will then have few regrets.


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With little for criticism in your speech, and little to regret in your conduct,--herein you will find preferment."

CHAPTER XIX.

Duke Ai enquired saying: "What should I do to ensure the contentment of the people ?" "If you promote the upright and dismiss the ill-doer," replied Confucius, "the people will be contented; but if you promote the ill-doer and dismiss the upright, the people will be dis-contented."

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and loyalty, so that they might be mutually emulous (for the welfare of the State), the Master said: "Lead them with dignity and they will be respectful; be filial and kind and they will be loyal; promote those who excel and teach the incompetent, and they will encourage each other."

CHAPTER XXI.

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one's duty as a son and friendliness to one's brethren are shewn forth in the public service'? These then are also public service. Why should that idea of yours be considered as constituting public service?"

CHAPTER XXII.

The Master said: "A man who is without good faith--I do not know how he is to get on. A waggon without its yoke-bar for the ox, or a carriage without its collar-bar for the horses, how can it be made to go?"

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hence could be foreknown. 2. The Master answered: "The Yin dynasty perpetuated the civilisation of the Hsia; its modifications and accretions can be known. The Chou perpetuated the civilisation of the Yin, and its modifications and accretions can be known. Whatever others may succeed the Chou, their character, even a hundred ages hence, can be known."

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Rh day by President Davis, while seated in St. Paul's church, Richmond.

The statement immediately following, that he did not receive this dispatch "with self-possession or dignity," but that be left the house "with tremulous and nervous haste, like a weak man in the hour of misfortune," is that which I have classified as one perhaps not capable of being tested by positive proof; and this not from any doubt as to its entire untruth, but on account of the subjective character of the only evidence that can be applied to it. Two observers, the one self-possessed and impartial, the other, either frightened himself, or imbued with the malignant spirit that seems to animate the pen of General Wilson, might form very different estimates of the demeanor of the object of their observation. General Wilson does not profess to have been a witness of what he describes, nor does he give the name of his informant, although his account is directly contrary to all the statements of actual witnesses that have heretofore been generally received. Whatever other accusations may be entertained, no one familiar with the character and history of Jefferson Davis, whether honest friend or candid foe, will believe that he ever exhibited weakness or lack of self-possession in time of peril or calamity.

Let us hurry on, however, to an examination of the positive patent falsehoods in respect of matter of fact, contained in Gen. Wilson's first paragraph. [I am very desirous of avoiding hard words, but really know no euphemism for falsehood at all applicable to this case.]

1st. "He left the house of worship and hurried home."

President Davis did not hurry home at all. On the contrary, he went to the executive office, which was not in the same part of the city with his home, and there called a meeting of his Cabinet, which continued in session for several hours. At this session there was no hurry or confusion. On the contrary, the calmness with which the grave questions under consideration were discussed by the principal member of the council, and his apparent indifference to his personal safety and private interests, were subjects of remark by others present. He did not go to his home until late in the afternoon.

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Whether the tone of this extract is that of chivalrous generosity and courtesy, or of coarse and bitter vulgarity, is a minor question, which it is not necessary to discuss. Whether its statements are true or false, is one of more interest, with regard to which it will be found on analysis that there is but one positive truth in the whole passage. There are at least four positive falsehoods in relation to matters of fact, susceptible of proof; one assertion of a sort perhaps not capable of being finally tested by positive evidence, but contrary to the statements of witnesses and to all moral and circumstantial proof to which it can be subjected; and two others, with regard to which I am not fully informed, but which are at least improbable and not in harmony with known facts.

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100 This statement and the highly-colored description which follows, of the "packing" and of the "rage and disappointment" of Mrs. Davis, are pure fiction, presumably of General Wilson's own invention; for it is well known that Mrs. Davis and all the President's family had left Richmond some time before, and were at this very time either in Raleigh or Charlotte, North Carolina. The "packing" of Mr. Davis' official papers was done by the gentlemen of his personal staff; that of his wearing apparel by his servants.

It would be beyond the scope of my present purpose to pause here to pay more than a casual tribute to the soldier-like and chivalrous magnanimity that could invent a story like this for the sake of making an opportunity to jeer and sneer at the distress of a lady in time of danger and calamity.

3rd. "He drove rapidly to the train, *   *   *  accompanied by his family."

This statement is merely a variation of the previous fiction, without even an atom of foundation in fact, and needs no further comment.

4th. He was also accompanied, says General Wilson, by "three members of his Cabinet, Breckinridge, Benjamin, and Reagan."

He was really accompanied by five members of his Cabinet, Messrs. Benjamin, Mallory, Reagan, Trenholm, and Davis; Gen. Breckinridge was not among them, and did not leave Richmond until the next morning. The misstatement in this case is altogether immaterial. It seems to spring out of the very wantonness and exuberance of untruthfulness in the narrator; but it serves to show how much reliance may be placed upon the accuracy of his assertions in minor matters, as well as in greater.

The two other statements which, by way of abundant caution against doing any injustice even to General Wilson, I have designated merely as "improbable" and scarcely consistent with known facts, are first, that the gold in the Confederate treasury was "packed among the baggage," which from the context seems to be intended to mean that it was packed among the President's baggage; and second, that the train in which the party traveled, "it is said," was one which had carried provisions to Amelia Courthouse for Lee's army, had thence been ordered to Richmond, and had abandoned the supplies for a "more ignoble freight."


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Rh With regard to the first of these statements, it need only be said that the gold which was taken was in charge of Mr. Trenholm, the Secretary of the Treasury. How and where he "packed" it, I am not informed; but it is not at all likely that it was packed among the President's "baggage."

As to the other point, waiving all question of the nobility or ignobility of the Confederate President and Cabinet, considered as freight, it is enough to say that they traveled by a passenger train, not adapted nor employed for carrying provisions; and moreover, that, if supplies had been sent by this or any other train to Amelia Courthouse, a village on the Richmond and Danville railroad, they were no doubt sent through it, on the way to Richmond. The Commissary-General of the Confederate army has shown in a recent publication (Southern Historical Society Papers for March, 1877), that no requisition for supplies to be sent to Amelia Courthouse was ever received by him or his assistants, and that the Secretary of War had no knowledge of any such. Mr. Harvie, the president at that time of the Danville road, also testifies (Ibid.), that ample supplies could have been sent to Amelia Courthouse for an army twice the size of Lee's, but that neither he nor the superintendent had any notice that they were wanted there. General Wilson qualifies this particular statement by the vague limitation, "it is said," but the on dit seems to be entitled to little more credit than if it had been his own assertion.

Passing over all subordinate and incidental matters we come, in the next paragraph, to a yet more astounding historic revelation, as follows:


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102 General Wilson, it will be observed, adopts this remarkable story from some source which he does not indicate otherwise than as "what appears to be good authority." He does injustice both to its inventor and his readers, in failing to specify the authority, for it surpasses in reckless audacity of invention anything else that he has told us. To appreciate this, we must remember that the Shenandoah was at that time on the other side of the world. Indeed, if I mistake not, she had never been and never was, on or near the American coast. Cruising in remote seas, her commander was not informed of the fall of the Confederacy and close of the war until long afterward. It was late in the autumn of 1865 before she was surrendered by him to the BrittishBritish [sic] authorities. Blockaded as the Confederate coast was, there could have been no reasonable hope that such orders as those described could reach her and be executed, within six or eight months at the least. And even if she had been within reach, an order to a ship of war to cruise "off the coast of Florida"—a coast of more than a thousand miles in extent, with all its ports in possession of the enemy—to take off a party of fugitives at some point which could not possib1y be designated beforehand, would have been too stupid a thing to have been done, or discussed even "in profound secrecy" by a government, the members of which have never been charged, even by their enemies, with total insanity.

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CHAPTER XXV.

The Master spoke of the Shao as perfectly beautiful in its form and perfectly good in its influence. He spoke of the Wu as perfectly beautiful in its form but not perfectly good in its influence.

CHAPTER XXVI.

The Master said: "High station filled without magnanimity, religious observances performed without reverence, and mourning conducted without grief,--from what standpoint shall I view such ways!"


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charge of the frontier town of I requested an interview, saying: " Whenever a man of Virtue has come here I have never failed to obtain an interview," whereupon the followers of the Sage introduced him. On coming out he observed: "Why do you grieve, gentlemen, over this loss of office? The Empire for long has been without light and leading; but Heaven is now going to use your Master as an arousing Tocsin."


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If Kuan understood etiquette who does not understand it?"

CHAPTER XXIII.

The Master discoursing to the State Band Master of Lu on the subject of Music said: "The Art of Music may be readily understood. The attack should be prompt and united, and as the piece proceeds it should do so harmoniously, with clearness of tone, and continuity of time, and so on to its conclusion."

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was but limited!" 2. Some one observed: "Do you mean that Kuan Chung was economical?" 3. "Kuan," he replied, "maintained his San Kuei palace, and the members of his staff performed no double duties,--how can he be considered economical?" 4. "But surely Kuan Chung understood etiquette?" 5. "The Prince of a State," said Confucius, "has a screen to mask his gate,--Kuan too had his gate screen. Princes of State, when two of them have a friendly meeting, use a stand for their inverted pledge-cups,--Kuan too used such a cup-stand.


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tutelary deities of the land, 2. Tsai Wo responded: "The Sovereign of Hsia adopted the pine, the men of Yin the cypress, but the men of Chou the chestnut, intimating that the people should stand in awe." 3. On the Master hearing of this he said: "When a deed is done it is useless to discuss it, when a thing has taken its course it is useless to remonstrate, what is past and gone it is useless to blame."

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asked how a Prince should employ his ministers, and how ministers should serve their Prince, Confucius replied saying: "A Prince should employ his ministers with courtesy. A minister should serve his Prince with loyalty."

CHAPTER XX.

The Master said: "The Kuan Chu ode is passionate without being sensual, is plaintive without being morbid."

CHAPTER XXI.

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essential, for men are not of equal strength. Such was the rule of yore."

CHAPTER XVII.

1. Tzu Kung wished to dispense with the live sheep presented in the Ducal Temple at the announcement of the new moon. 2. The Master said: " T'zu! You care for the sheep. I care for the ceremony."

CHAPTER XVIII.

The Master said: "If one were to serve one's Prince with perfect homage, people to-day would deem it sycophancy."

CHAPTER XIX.

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CHAPTER XV.

When the Master first entered the Grand Temple he asked about everything, whereupon some one remarked, "Who says the son of the man of Tsou knows the correct forms? On entering the Grand Temple he asks about everything." The Master hearing (of) it remarked: "This too is correct form."

CHAPTER XVI.

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CHAPTER XIII.

1. Wang-sun Chia enquired, "What is the meaning of the saying, It is better to pay court to the god of the hearth than to the god of the hall?" 2. " Not so," answered Confucius, "He who sins against Heaven has no where left for prayer."

CHAPTER XIV.

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CHAPTER XI.

When some one asked the meaning of the quinquennial sacrifice, the Master replied: "I do not know. He who knew its meaning, would he not find himself in regard to the whole Empire as if he were looking upon this?" pointing to his palm.

CHAPTER XII.

1. He sacrificed (to his forefathers) as if they were present; he sacrificed to the gods as if the gods were present. 2. The Master said: "For me not to be present at a sacrifice is as if I did not sacrifice."


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dynasty, but the descendant State of Ch'i cannot render adequate corroboration. I can describe the civilisation of the Yin dynasty, but the descendant State of Sung cannot render adequate corroboration. And all because of the deficiency of their records and wise men. Were those sufficient then I could corroborate my views."

CHAPTER X.

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'As she artfully smiles What dimples appear! Her bewitching eyes Shew their colours so clear. Ground spotless and candid For tracery splendid!?"

2. " The painting comes after the groundwork," answered the Master.

3. "Then Manners are secondary?" said Tzu Hsia. " 'Tis Shang who unfolds my meaning," replied the Master. "Now indeed, I can begin to discuss the poets with him."

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cannot," he replied. "Alas!" said the Master, "is that not saying that the Spirit of Mount T'ai is not equal to Lin Fang?"

CHAPTER VII.

The Master said : "A gentleman never contends in anything he does--except perhaps in archery. Even then, he bows to his rival and yields him the way as they ascend the pavilion; in like manner he descends and offers him the penalty cup, in his contentions he is still a gentleman."

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in general, it is better to be simple than lavish: and in the rites of mourning, heartfelt distress is better than observance of detail."

CHAPTER V.

The Master said: "The tribes of the east and north have their princes, and are not, like all our great land, without."

CHAPTER VI.

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"Assisted by princes and noblemen, Solemnly stands the Son of Heaven, -

What application can this have in the Hall of the three Families!"

CHAPTER III.

The Master said: "A man who is not virtuous, what has he to do with worship? A man who is not virtuous, what has he to do with the music (of the temple)?"

CHAPTER IV.

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BOOK III.

CHAPTER I.

Confucius said of the head of the House of Chi, who had eight rows of dancers performing in his Temple: "If he can bear to do this, what can he not bear to do?"

CHAPTER II.

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November 24, 1954

MEMORANDUM OF CONFERENCE WITH THE PRESIDENT

0810    24 November 1954

Authorization was sought from the President to go ahead on a program to produce thirty special high performance aircraft at a cost of about $35 million. The President approved this action. Mr. Allen Dulles indicated that his organization could not finance this whole sum without drawing attention to it, and it was agreed that Defense would seek to carry a substantial part of the financing.

The Secretary of Defense sought the President's agreement to taking one last look at the type of operations planned when the aircraft are available. The President indicated agreement.

To a question by the President, the Secretary of State indicated that difficulties might arise out of these operations, but that "we could live through them."

In summary, the President directed those present to go ahead and get the equipment, but before initiating operations to come in for one last look at the plans.

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the first Monday after the issue of the General Strike Manifesto, a National Convention of delegates from all parts of Australia was held in the Parliament House, Macquarie Street, Sydney. The delegates had been elected by meetings convened by local sections of the Brotherhood of the Poor, which had now ceased to be a secret organisation. Each delegate having solemnly declared his fidelity to the cause of the People, the Convention was declared open by Oliver Spence, who then addressed it as follows:—

"Fellow Men!"

"We are assembled here to-day as the delegates to a Convention which is probably the most important gathering which has ever taken place on Australian soil. We are the bearers of the mandates of an indignant and wrathful people who have chosen us to consider and devise for them a Constitution which shall be, for the first time in our history, a just one. Let us devote ourselves to that task with zeal yet discretion.

"We are, it is true, the appointed of a minority, and with that fact our enemies already taunt us, but, I would ask you, has it not always been minorities who have achieved anything worth achieving? who have brought about any unmistakably radical political or economic changes? And more, was it not a minority which plundered and oppressed us?

"If, then, we, being determined men who would not be obedient slaves, have preferred to risk death rather than endure enslavement, who DARES to question our right to rebel?

"We have disregarded the apathy of the majority, have attacked the ruling MINORITY, and overthrown it.

"I again say, who DARES to question our right?

"An old English aristocratic writer has said,

And although we do not wish to ill-treat those whom it might please to call us traitors, yet the quotation substantially expresses our position.

"If we had waited for the majority to rebel, then we might have waited an eternity, for they were so brutalised by excessive toil, and dispirited by the evidences of the enormous power of wealth, that they had become ox-like in their lives, and suffered to continue that oppression which it had become well-nigh impossible to-remove by pacific methods.

If the majority has been apathetic, however, it cannot long remain so, but must soon range itself on our side, for, without speaking of the justice of our cause, we are the victorious party, and 'nothing succeeds like success.'

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