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(Concluded from last week.)
I was so bewildered, however, that
I decided to take no chances, and as
the road was fairly good I wandered
down it and away from that mysterie
ous fence. About half a mile down I
could see the light of a sentry sta-
tion and I thought I would go there
and tell my story to the sentries, real-
izing that as I was unarmed it was
perfectly safe for me to announce
myself to the Dutch authorities. I
could be interned only if I entered
Holland under arms.
As I approached the sentry box I
noticed three men in gray uniforms,
the regulation Dutch color. I was on
the verge of shouting to them when
the thought struck mec*that there was
just a chance I might be mistaken,
as the German uniforms were thé
same color, and I had suffered too
many privations and tco many narrow
escapes to lose all at this time by
jumping et conclusions.
I had just turned off the road to go
back into some bushes when out of
the darkness I heard that dread Ger-
man command:
“Halt! Halt!”
He didn’t need to holler twice. I
heard and heeded the first time. Then
I heard another man come running up,
and there was considerable talking,
but whether they were Germans or
Hollanders I was still uncertain. He
evidently thought someone was on the
other side of the fence.
Finally I heard one of them laugh
and saw him walk back to the sentry
station where the guard was billeted,
and I crawled a little nearer to try to
make out just what it meant. I had
begun to think it was all a night-
mare.
Between myself and the light in the
‘sentry station, I then noticed the
stooping figure of a man bending over
as if to conceal himself and on his
head was the spiked helmet of a Gere
man soldier!
I knew then what another narrow
escape I had had, for I am quite swre
he would have shot me without cere-.
mony if I had foolishly made myself
known. I would have been buried at
once and no one would have been any
wiser, even though, technically speak-
ing, I was on neutral territory and im-
mune from capture or attack.
This new shock only served to be-
wilder me more. I was completely
lost. There seemed to be frontier be-
hind me and frontier in front of me.
Evidently, however, what had hap-
pened was that I had lost my sense
of direction and had wandered in the
arc of a circle, returning to the same
fence that I had been so long in get-
ting through. This solution of the
mystery came to me suddenly and I at
once searched the landscape for some-
thing in the way of a landmark to
guide me. For once my faithful
friend, the North Star, had failed me.
The sky was pitch black and there
wasn’t a star in the heavens.
In the distance, at abou what ap-
peared to be about three miles away,
but which turned out to be six, I could
discern the lights of a village, and I
knew it must be a Dutch village, as
lights are not allowed in Belgium in
that indiscriminate way.
My course was now clear. I would
make a beeline for that village. Before
I had gone very far I found myself in
a marsh or swamp and I turned back
a little, hoping to find a better path.’
1 retraced my steps;
and kept straight ahead, determined
to reach that village at all costs and
to swerve neither to the right or left
Finding none,
until I got there.
One moment I would be in water up
to my knees and the next I would sink
in mud clear up ‘to my waist. I paid
no attention to my condition. It was
merely a repetitiop of what I had gone
through many times before, but this
time I had a definite geal and once I
reached it.I knew my troubles would
be over.
It took me perhaps three hours to
reach firm ground. . The path I struck
led to within half a mile of the village.
1 shall never forget that path; it was
almost as welcome to my feet as the
opposite bank of fhe Meuse had
"seemed:
' The first habitation I came to was a
little workshop with a bright light
shining outside. It must have been
after midnight, but the people inside
were apparently just ' quitting work.
There were three men and two boys
engaged in making wooden shoes.
It wasn't necessary for me to ex-
plain to thern that I was a refugee,
even if I ha¢l been able to speak their
language. ) was caked with mud up
to my shoultters and I suppose my face
must have recorded some of the ex:
veriences 1 had gone through that
memorable night.
“I want the British consul!” I told
them.
Apparently they didn’t understand,
but one of them volunteered to con-
duct me to the village. They seemed
i beside me, because every now and
i again I caught a glimpse of his gray
‘uniform and it resembled very much
. that of the German soldiers.
to be only too anxious to Jo all they
could for me; evidently they realized
I was a British soldier.
It was very late when my compan-
fon finally escorted me into the vil-
lage, but he aroused some people he
knew fren their beds and they
dressed and came down to feed me.
The family consisted of an old lady
and her husband and a son, who was a
soldier in the Dutch army. The cold
shivers ran down my back while he sat
Some of the neighbors, aroused by
the commotion, got up to see what it
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‘however, and they had to use their |
own imagination as to my identity.
When I arrived at Rotterdam I
asked a policeman who stood in front i
of the station where I could find the :
British consul, but I could not make |
him understand. 1 next applied to a
taxicab driver.
. “English consul—British consul
American consul—French consul!” I!
| said, hoping that if he didn’t under- |
stand one he might recognize an-:
other. i
He eyed me with suspicion and mo- |
tioned me to get in and drove off. I!
had no idea where he was taking me,
but after a quarter of an hour's ride he
brought up in front of the British |
consul. Never before was I so glad
to see the Union Jack! i
I beckoned to the chauffeur to go
with me up to the office, as I had no
money with which to pay him, and |
when he got to the consulate 1 |
told them that if they would pay the |
taxi fare I would tell them who I
was and how I happened to be there.
They knew at once that I was an |
escaped prisoner and they readily
paid the chauffeur and invited me to
give some account of myself.
They treated me most cordially and
were intensely interested in the brief
account I gave them of my adven-
tures. Word was sent to the consul
general and he immediately sent for
me. When I went in he shook hands
with me, greeting me vary heartily
and offering me a chair.
- He then sat down, screwed a mon-
ocle on his eye and viewed me from
top to toe. I could see that only good
breeding kept him from laughing at
the spectacle I presented. 1 could see
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‘was all about, and .came in and
‘watched while I ate the meal those
good Dutch people prepared for me.
'Ordinarily I suppose I would have
‘been embarrassed with so many peo-
‘ple staring at me while I ate as
though I were some strange animal
that has just been captured, but just
‘then I was too famished to notice or
care very much what other people did.
There will always be a warm place
in my heart for the Dutch people. I
‘had heard lots of persons say that
‘they were not inclined to help refu-
‘gees, but my experience did not bear
‘these reports out. They certainly did
more for me than I ever expected.
I had a little German money left,
‘but as the value of German money is
‘only about halt in Holland, I didn’t
have enough to pay the fare to Rot-
'terdam, which was my next objective.
‘It was due to the generosity of these
people that I was able to reach the
British consul as quickly as I did.
Some day I hope to return to Holland
‘and repay every single soul who
iplayed the part of the good Samari-
ftan to me.
' With the money that these people
gave me I was able to get a third-
iclass ticket to Rotterdam, and I was
iglad that I didn’t have to travel first-
iclass, for I would have looked as much
out of place in a first-class carriage
as ‘a Hun would appear in heaven.
. That night I slept in the house of
‘my Dutch friends, where they fixed
‘me up most comfortably. In the morn-
'ing they gave me breakfast and then
escorted me to the station.
While I was waiting at the station
a crowd gathered round me and soon
iit seemed as if the whole town had
‘turned out to get a look at me. It was
very embarrassing, particularly as I
‘could give them no information re-
garding the cause of my condition, al-
‘though, of course, they all knew that
1 was a refugee from Belgium. .
As .the train pulled out of the sta-
ition, the crowd gave a loud cheer and
‘the tears almost came to my eyes as -
iT contrasted in my mind the conduct
‘of this crowd and the one that had
igathered at the station in Ghent when
‘I had departed a prisoner en route
ifor: the reprisal p. I breathed a
‘sigh of relief as I thought of that re-
‘prissl camp and how fortunate I had
[really been, despite all my sufferings,
ito have escaped it. Now, at any rate,
.I was a free man and I would soon be | ye,
‘sending home the joyful news that I
‘had made goed my escape! |
, At Einhoffen two Dutch officers got
into the compartment with me. They
looked at me with very much disfavor,
‘not knowing, of course, that I was a
‘British officer. My clothes were still
‘pretty much in the condition they
were when I crossed the border, al-
though I had been able to scrape off
some of the mud I had collécted the
night before. I had not shaved nor
trimmed my beard for many days,
and I must have presented a sorry
appearance. I could hardly blame
.them for edging away from me,
The trip from Einhoffen to Rotter-
dam passed without special incident.
At various stations passengers would
get in the compartment and, observ-
ing my unusual appearance, would
endeavor to start a conversation with}
me. None of them spoke English,
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he wanted to laugh in the worst way.
“Go ahead and laugh!” I said. “You
can’t offend me the way I feel this
blessed day!” and he needed no second
invitation. Incidentally it gave me a
chance to laugh at him, for I was
about as much amused as he was.
After he had laughed himself about
sick he got up and slapped me on the |
back and invited me to tell him my :
story. i
“Lieutenant,” he said when I had :
concluded, “you can have anything |
you want. I think your experience
entitles you to it.” {
“Well, consul,” I replied, “I would |
like a bath, a shave, a haircut and
some civilized clothes about as badly |
as a man ever needed them, I suppose, |
but before that I would like to get a |
cable off to America to my mother
telling her that I am safe and on my |
way to England!”
The consul gave me the necessary
information and I had the satisfaction
of knowing before I left the office that |
the cable, with its good tidings, was | i 000.
on its way to America. i
Then he sent for one of the naval |
men who had been interned there
since the beginning of the war and |
who was able to speak Dutch and |
told him to take good care of me.
After I had been bathed and shaved |
and had a haircut I bought some new '
clothes and had something to eat, and !
I felt like a new man.
As I walked through the streets of
Rotterdam breathing the air of free-
dom again and realizing that there
was no longer any danger of being
captured and taken back te prison,
it was a wonderful sensation.
I don’t believe there will ever be a
country that will appear in my eyes
quite as good as Holland did then. I
had to be somewhat careful, however,
because Holland was full of German
sples and I knew they would be keen
to learn all they possibly could about
my escape and, ty adventures so that
the authorities in Belgium could mete
out punishment to: everyone who was |-
in any respect to blame for it. AsIwas
in: Rotterdam only one day, they
didn’t have very much opportunity to
me and acted as.interpreter
introduced me to many
Ha
glum when the Germans took An
werp, and as they had arrived in Hol
land in uniform and under arms,
laws of neutrality compelled their in- | +
The life of a man who is interned
tn a neutral county, I learned, is any-
thing but satisfactory. He gets one
month a year to visit his home. If he
lives in England that is not so ‘bad,
but if he happens to live farther
away, the time he has to spend with
his folks is very short, as the month's
leave does not take into consideration
the time consumed in traveling to and
from Holland. : :
Continued next week) .
How It Really Happened:
The cow was about to jump over !
the moon. “You might announce |
, through the newspapers that beef will |
soon reach the highest mark in histo- !
ry,” she said as she shifted her cud.
MOSTLY STABLE INVESTMENT
Records Show That Our Government / merchant fleet we are building can be
! expressed by the remark,
i expense! let us lick the Huns,”
~ many people, having come to believe
i that victory was largely a matter of
i of our allies, whirh are presumably
| things that will be valuable and pro-
i constructively or invested in the in-
| may be approximated. We know, for
’ the credits already placed at their
ment will own the following property
| Wood and concrete ships
‘WAR COSTS
AND WAR DEBT
“Wot All Our Liberty Loans Are
Shot Away.
i
is Putting Greater Part of Loans|
Into Ships, Loans to Allies, Build. |
ings, Railways and Other Lasting |
Things.
By THEODORE H. PRICE,
in The Outlook.
As we are entering upon the cam.
paign for the sale of the Fourth Lib-
erty Loan, it is altogether appropri-!
ate that we should take account of
what two years of war will have cost
us and determine, if we can, in how
far and how speedily our expenditures |
can be recovered under peace condi- |
tions when they shall have been estdb-
lished.
American pride in the widely adver-
tised wealth of the country has not
only led us to be lavish in spending,
but it has induced more or less exag-
geration in the current estimates of
the war's cost. Popular cellng is
“Hang the
and !
money, have felt a certain satisfaction
in reading of the unnumbered billions
that are being disbursed.
To a certain extent the growth of
this feeling has been encouraged by |
the newspapers, until the editors as |
oy
;
well as the public have become care- |
| less of the facts. Thus in the New |
York “Times” of July 23, under the |
! headline “American War Bill Now
Fifty Billion,” there was puhlished a
Washington despatch dated July 22,
from which the following is a quota-
tion :
“In the first year the expenditure
amounted to $18,879,177,012, while
Congress has authorized for the seec-
ond year ending June 30, 1919, appro-
priations amounting to approximately
$30,000,000.000.”
This statement and others like it
have been widely printed, and the re-
action of the public mind seems to
Indicate that most people are rather
well pleased with the wealth and mu-
nificence that are imnlied.
It would nevertheless be a very
serious matter if we were dissipating
our National wealth at the rate nam-
ed. The fact is we are not spending
any such sum for war, and much of
what we are spending is being invest-
ed in the interest-hearing obligations
good, and in ships, shipyards, termin-
als, warehouses, railways, and other
ductive long after peace is declared.
The amounts that are being spent
terest-bearing debt of other nations
cannot be accurately ascertained at
present, but the total is large and
instance, that Congress has authorized
the Secretary of the Treasury to loan
$10,000,000.000 to our Allies, and that
i disposal aggregate about $7,000,000,-
These loans all bear interest at a
rate one-half per cent in excess of
what our Government is paying.
A statement obtained from the Ship-
ping Board indicates that the Govern-
as of August 1, 1919:
Steel ships delivered,
3,388,835 tons ........ $1,077,727,000
delivered, 1,627,500 tons
Ships on ways and fitting
out afloat:
300,412,500
Steel, 4,000,000 tons. 460,000,000
Wood 1,300,000 117,000,000
Concrete, 750,000 * 56,250,000
Shipyards and plants... 200,000,600
Houses ....cc.e00e0e... 100,000,000
$2,260,389,500
To this statement there is -append-
ed a memorandum reading as follows :
*In addition there will be an ‘unde-
terminable but quite large amount of
money which will be tied up in eqiup-
‘ment bought and pald for. bt not yet)
put in ships.”
Probably we shall be well within the
mark in assuming that our investment
in ships and shipyards a year hence
will be at least $2,780,000,000, and
this will not include the enormous ad-
dtions that have been made to our
Navy. Then there are the military
warehouses that the War Department
is construeting in the United States,
and the docks, warehouses, and rail-
ways that have been built in France
as well as in some other European
countries. Very few people realize
that there is a complete American-
owned and bullt railway system now
in operation in France, which includes
lines running to the front from three
different French ports at which enor-
mous terminals have been erected at
American expense with American la-
i trogen from the air
These railways are equipped with
American cars and engines, are op-
erated by American soldiers, and it is
sald that one of them is being de.
of our permanently productive invest-
ments in Europe at $1,000,000,000.
An official statement from the War
Departinent puts the outlay upon
warehouse construction in the United
States “completed or in process plan-
ned to facilitate the speedy handling
of materials for the use of the Army”
at “ay pr ximately £218,000.000.”
With a few excepticns, the buildings
are permanent strnctures of concrete
brick and steel, they are equipped
with railway sidings and all the latest
devices for the movement of goods in
peace as well as in war times, and
the facilities that ‘"ov will provide
will no doubt greatly increase the
speed with which the vessels of the
loaded and unloaded both now and
hereafter when we shall have recov-
ered the place that we formerly held
among the maritime nations of the
world.
Other permanently prodnctive in-
vestments that are being made as a
result of the war include such enter-
prises as the plant for subtracting ni-
that is being
built at Muscle Shoals at a probable
ultimate cost of $30.000.000, a powder
factory which will involve an outlay
of $124.000.000 and which is being
designed so that it can he u~sd for
the manufacture of fertilizers, and
scores of gun and ammunition works
that are owned by the Government
and can be converted to the uses of
peace. Finally, there is the capital
that the Government has set aside for
the War Finance Corporation, the
Railroad “Revolving Fund,” and the
Grain Purchas'ng Corporation, which,
though included in our war costs. is
being safely and productively employ-
ed and will be returnable to the Treas-
ury in the process of post-bellum
liquidation.
Of course, it may be urged, and
properly, that a large allowance shouid
be made for the depreciation of these
assets, and the policy of treating
them as dead investments is undoubt-
edly wise, but that poliey is keeping
us in a position that will make the
obligations of the United States Gov-
ernment the most besought invest-
ments in the world the moment that
their further issuance becomes un-
necessary.
The question is not one of their re-
payment, but of how rapidly they may
be repaid without bringing avout a
credit contraction that will create de-
pression. In fact, one of the things
chiefly to be feared is that the lessons
of industrial efficiency and personal
economy learned during the war will
enable us to reaccumulate wealth so
rapidly that we will pay off the public
debt too fast, and thereby deflate an
undoubtedly inflated situation so sud-
denly that credit will be prostrated.
This was what happened after our
Civil War and brought about the panic
of 1873. Men can adjust themselves to
almost any change, provided it is not
too sudden. Deflation is desirable
and inevitable, but it should not be
so accelerated that it will result in
shock and dislocation.
Including the men who are fighting
and the men ané women who are
working to keep them supplied with
food and war materials, some 10,000,-
000 people are probably engaged in
work that is, in a sense, unproductive.
When thege people are returned to the
ranks of productive industry, the ra-
pidity with which they will be able
to create wealth will be astonishing,
for their efficiency will be greatly in-
creased by the new methods that have
been introduced and the devices and
economies that have been adopted to
speed up and augment war produetion.
The study that has been given to
scientific economy and the results
that have been attained are not gen-
erally understood or appreciated. In
Washington there are two organiza-
tions within the War Industries Board
that have done remarkable work
along these lines. One is the Conser-
vation Division, formerly the Com-
mercial Economy Board, of which A.
M. Shaw is chief. The other is the
Resources and Conversion Section,
whose chief is Charles A. Otis.
The function of the first-named
board has been to eliminate the sur-
plusage of styles and sizes made and
sold in the manufacture and distribu-
tion of stable articles, upon the the-
ory that a multiplicity of styles in-
volved waste in production, unmeces-
sarily stimulated the demand, and
compelled merchants to carry stocks
that tiled up millions, and perhaps
‘billions, of capital that was needed for
the prosecution of the war.
To induce the manufacturers to
‘make ‘the changes and mtraduce the
reforms’ recommended time has, of
course, been required, but as their ad-
ges became apparent the resist-
ance he diminished, and in many dif-
ferent lines of trade the simpiilcations
that have already been effected will
Ԥ4ve an enormous amount of iaber and
material, which means, in the last
analysis, a more rapid creation of
wealth. Thus about two thousand dif-
ferent sizes and types of plows and
tillage implements have been elimin-
ated apd a great reduction in the va-
riety of other agricultural implements
hitherto manufactured has been ef-
fected. The sizes and types of auto-
mobile tires produced have already
been reduced from 287 to 33, and it
is expected that within two years only
nine standard descriptions will be
manufactured.
There were formerly six hundred
sizes and types of metal bedsteads
| made. Now only thirty are produced,
and the metal tubing used in their
manufacture has been standardized so
veloped into a trans-European trunk that its cost will be substantially re-
line that will shorten the time be-
tween Havre and Rome by twenty- |
| four hours. The accuracy of this
statement cannot be vouched for, but |
from the meager information ebtain-
able it ~~~mgs safe to estimate the cost
duced.
The color, height, and variety of
shoes has been reduced by at least
half, with a corresponding reduction
in the cost of production. Each man-
ufacturer of paint and varnish 's now
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restricti_z his product to thirty-two
shades of house paint and ten grades
of varnish, as against nearly 100 dif-
ferent varieties formerly produced.
To save cans the half-gallon ané
many of the smaller-sized packages
have been eliminated.
In the manufacture of hardware,
where the number of styles and sizes
hitherto produced was almost infinite,
the reduction will average 50 per cent.
The number of items in one saw man-
ufacturer’'s catalogue has been reduc-
ed by 70 per cent. In the stove and
furnace trade 75 per cent of the types
and sizes have been cut out, and those
remaining require the least iron and
steel for their production.
In men’s and women’s clothing the
simplification of styles agreed upon
will reduce the material required by
from 12 to 25 per cent, and by restrict-
ing the sizes of samples about 3,450,000
vards of cloth will he saved annually.
The high price of tin has led to a
ereat redvetion in its use for solder,
Babbitt metal, bronze, tinfoil, ete, and
silk dyers have learned that they can
zet along with 30 per cent of the tin
formerly used in giving luster and
weight to certain grades of silk. Great
economy has been effected by induc-
ing manufacturers to standardize the
size of the boxes in which their goods
! are packed. Waist manufacturers. for
example, are packing two or three
waists in a box instead of one. This
will save probably two-thirds of the
freight space formerly used for ship-
ping waists. Similar economies of
shipping space have been effected in
many other lines of business.
In the delivery of goods substan-
tial economies have also heen secured
by the partial abolition of “C. O. D.”
and “on approval” deliveries, as well
as by reducing the number of daily
wagon trips, and price concessions to
those customers who acquire the
“cash and carry” habit have also re-
duced the retailer's cost of distribu-
tion.
The list of these innovations could
be greatly lengthened, but from those
described some idea may be had of
the enormous saving in the cost of
manufacturing and distributing goods
that has been effected in almost every
department of trade.
All these innovations are essentially
methods of saving labor, and if they
are not abandoned after the war they
will add enormously to the wealth-
creating power of the Nation, for
wealth ig but labor in a concrete and
useful form.
The work of the Resources and Con-
version Section of the War Industries
Board is along similar but divergent
lines. As a result of the specializa-
tion of industry practiced in this
country there are hundreds and thou-
sands of factories that make differ-
ent parts of the things that are as-
sembled and completed in other fac-
tories. The automobile industry, for
instance. has become specialized to
i an amazing degree.
One consequence of this specializa-
| tion has been a great waste of trans-
A similar instance of this
\ is the pig iron required for the steel
that will be ultimately used to make
| the saws in an Alabama cotton gin.
there converted
It may be mined at Birmingham,
shipped to Pittsburgh as “pig,” and
into sheet steel.
Thence it might be sent to Philadel-
phia to be made into saws, and then
"again back to its point of origin, Ala-
bama, where it is worn out taking the
seed from the cotton.
In many cases there is a still great-
er waste of transportation, and in one
instance the same material transmut-
i ed hy successive manufacturing pro-
cesses is known to have been shipped
back and forth over nearly identical
routes some eleven times before fit
concerned,
became part of the finished article and
was put to use.
To eliminate this unnecessary trans-
portation where possible, in so far as
the manufacture of war material is
is the task to which Mr.
Otis has addressed himself, and he is
succeeding so well that he will prob-
ably effect a lasting revolution in
American industry that will save hun-
dreds of millions annually both during
the war and afterward.
But it would take a book to describe
all the scientific economies that have
been learned or evolved from the ex-
perience of the war. We have been
taught to save coal, to utilize by-pro-
duets, to use corn instead of wheat for
bread, to eat less meat And sugar and
to live healthier lives, to wear old
clothes and wear them out; and to
earn more by increasing ewr produc-
tion, and spend less by decreasing our
consumption.
By the séving mn laber thus effect-
ed we have been able to supply the
man power necessary for the success-
ful prosecution of the war, and by the
practice of the unnumbered economies
that are rapidly becoming habits we
have been able to follow a “pay-as-
vou-go” poliey in meeting the war's
expenses and to loan some £7.000.000,-
000 or more to our allies besides.
The experience has been salutary,
its lessons will not be forgotten, and
the record thus far indicates thar we
will be able to recreate the wealth
destroyed and pay the debts incurred
‘within a surprisingly short time after
the re-establishment of peace.
We Will Name Tanks.
Ten American armored tanks to be
used in France against the Germans
will be named after Pennsylvania
counties. These names will be chosen
during the Liberty Loan drive and the
ten counties having the highest per-
centage of population subscrloing to
the loan will have the privilege of
naming these ten tanks.
he method of choosing the name
will ret be outlined by tbe Lstvies
officials, but will be left to esciv of
the ten winning counties to deterinine
for ii elf. !
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