Word: englanders
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...essential to realize that the war of today is not only a war between men on the flring line but a supreme test of industrial capacity and economy at home, of science and the application of science to the every-day routine. As was the case with England before the war so it is the case with this country today. England had the navy and the actual fighting machine, but unlike Germany she had nothing with which to supply that machine. America until now has been living off her vast natural resources without much regard or thought to the future...
This country has probably less than 50 aviators in its army and less than 100 aviators within its borders immediately available for military work. At the ourbreak of the European war England, France, Russia and Germany each had some 500 aviators. Present estimates would indicate that there are now some 40,000 fighting abroad, and that this number is being increased daily. Aeroplanes have become almost as important to the modern army and navy as guns...
...conscientious scruples. Surely they do not put much faith in our ability to administer the law justly, and surely they do not consider that we shall be so busy organizing and training the millions who will be willing to learn to fight for their country that we, unlike England today, can easily spare those who have honest convictions opposed to military service as well as those who will be willing to perjure themselves to avoid doing their duty...
...thole pin system of rigging long antedates the American style and has never been supplanted in England. It was revived in this country by Coach Guy Nickalls of the Yale crew, and has been used ever since by that college. If Coach Wright should decide that the swivel locks are more advantageous for his crew than the present system, Yale will be the only college in the United States which still holds to the thole pins Neither Columbia, Cornell, Princeton, nor the University has ever adopted the foreign rigging, but it was tried at Pennsylvania under the regime of Coach...
Following his enrolment immediately after the outbreak of the war, Captain Beith served with such ability and courage in the first detachment of England's volunteer army during the spring of 1915 that he was given a commission and soon attained his present rank of captain. In "The First Hundred Thousand," Captain Beith relates some of the most interesting of his personal experiences both in the training camp at Aldershot, when he was a member of the Sutherland Highlanders and at the front during the opening months of the war. His book is unique among the war publications in having...