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Newspaper Page TextPage 8 SOLDIERS, WHEN IN AUGUSTA, EAT AT THE “LITTLE JIM” CAFE 317 Eighth St. (Jackson St). SANITARY, PROMPT SERVICE, REASONABLE PRICES. PHONE 1210. A. R. F R ANK TAILOR. Uniforms Made and Altered. 217 Seventh Street Just off Broad. - ( ( ———'ll—iill i— iiiii !■■■ t WHEN YOU WANT A GOOD MEAL GO TO MOTHER SHEEHAN’S. HOME COOKED MEALS. 839 BROAD STREET. M O THER OF THE SOLDIERS. UKtHKHHHKHKHHKBKaK mm » ■imuriu'. i~:-n~niTTii ciii'«wiiijwj»jjli— miiiw !■ jwwwwr COMPLETE LINES OF JEWELRYATI REASONABLE PRICES. | GUARANTEE JEWELRY COMPANY ' | Popular Price Jewelers. 1 976 Broad Street. Phone 484 | iT.T-'nrr' *fTT"irrnrrT-.Hill ■ll 111 ■nun mWRMIIIIRMM—MWMMIWBRMi You Have Tried the Rest, Now Try the Newest The Savoy Restaurant FOR LADIES AND GENTLEMEN OPEN DAY AND NIGHT. TELEPHONE 230. 970 BROAD STREET. AUGUSTA, GA. I HOWARD DRUG CO. I Broad and Jackson WE INVITE YOU TO MAKE I OUR STORE YOUR . | “Downtown Headquarters” A HEARTY WELCOME TO ALL THE SOLDIER BOYS. | a. h. McDaniel All Kinds of Building Materials, Paints. Varnishes, Lime, Cement, etc. 434 EIGHTH STREET. You Can Get It From McDaniel’s. DAILY DELIVERIES TO CAMP HANCOCK. ■■■■■■MMMBißKMßCjainjDHssLMVLUwi'tt waa .y.v. ■ ■» hbmiiwwi ram ICE CREAM MILK Georgia-Carolina Dairy Products Company * I Phones 2761-2762. 921-27-Walker Street. C k F H*? PH 3' ')-r - V: ‘ atM-* - 11 ’-.- U® h Jwtli Js© J®s ip®®®™™ I’Jk&SSWT’ .IS RBeL 1 .t w ■ th h22S! V- -r lftw 40 t!g* ,a ? '‘ g g|Pts »Ml 810 l SjUllWsM'l IJ. 3 th ' LV: cv.tHi£” t»v*f •& il > ! &6 ) J ? It!-’; gj'A IkZXrW 12 I -A The Home of “SWEETLY YOURS.” Good Candies for Good Soldiers. HOLLINGSWORTH CANDY CO., AUGUSTA, GA. SECRETARY BAKER SPEAKS ON PERSONNEL WORK IN THE ARMY i Addresses Eighth School For ' Personnel Adjutants at Camp i Meigs, Washington, D. C. Emphasizes Value of Such Work. I Secretary of War Newton I).'"Baker f addressed the eighth school for personnel j adjutants at ('amp Meigs, Washington, I>. stating hist approval of the per j sonnel work in the army. Mr. Bftker ftm phas zed the value of auch work and forecasted extensive development of an agency for selecting the right man for the right place. He wqs introduced by Dr. Walter Dill Scott, director of the committee on classification of personnel in the army, and spoke as follows: It is a very great pleasure to me to be here this morning and meet this class. You represent a novel contribution to the making of armies. War is essentially revolutionary to a people whose arts have been those of peace and whose occupa tions have been for the most part those of industry. The revolution is wide spread, fundamental and thorough-going, and 1 can perhaps Illustrate to you more fully what I mean by telling you of an incident which recently took place In France than by any further attempt to define the thought. This incident deals with the change in the attitude of men, of young men, toward life as brought about by their reoccupat’on in a war Tor a sacred cause. Mr. Fosdlck told me that the Y. M. C. A. director had assembled a group of 500 or 600 meh, and was hav ing one of those composite evenings which are characteristic of the social and semi-religious activities of the Y. M. U. A., when it suddenly occurred to him that he did not know what, was In the minds of those soldiers. If he had been in the United States he would have known the virtues to which young men aspired, and J the vices against which they struggled, but here was a new group. tl was no longer the civilian company that he used to see In the Y. M. A. halls of the United States. And so for his own guid ance and information he passed around papers and pencils and asked each man in that company to write and pass up to him what he regarded as the three car dinal sins. When the vote was taken It was unanimous on No. 1; nearly unani mous on No. 2; very largely preponderat ing on No. 3, and those sins were as fol lows: The sin upon which they were unani mous as No. 1 was COWARDICE The sin upon wtfich they were sub stantially unanimous, No. 2, was SELF ISHNESS-—not sharing wish your part ner In the trench, not taking your share of the hardships of the military life. And the sin upon which they agreed by majority for the third choice was BIG HEAD. Now that Is a complete revo lution in the mind of youth toward life. Those 600 young men, if they had been in the United States, and there had been no war, would have been engager! in getting ahead, eacl. for himself, probably making money, pi '-.ring for or making a career, ambition nd struggling. The sins which they would have regarded as essentially the most to be avoided wfhild doubtless have been the evils of intemp erance, the social evils, lying, stealing, and that sort of thing, hut here, caught up in the clouds, as it were, by this great concentrated enterprise which re quires a new set of v'rtues, an unused set of talents, these men are no longer thinking about the things which in pri vate and civil life are the things which they have to struggle about, but they arc ambitious now to be brave, they arc struggling now to be generous and un selfish, and they are filled with a fine desire to be lowly. I think that illustrates the po nt I want to make, it illustrates it In this way: the army Is a new calling to nearly everybody In it. The men are no longer assorted and assessed now by their ability to do the things which in pri vate life make success. A man might have the ability to accumulate money, which, say, Mr. Rockefeller had, and might he totally devoid of the talents re quired of a soldier—l don’t know whether Mr. Rockefeller has any military talents or not, there is nothing personal in the illustration—but he might have Mr. Rockefeller's ability to organize busi ness and Industry and accumulate wealth, and yet not have the sort of talent which in this emergency would en title him to a. commission. And hi making this assortment of per sons we are under the unhappy inhibi tion of taking any man's judgment of himself. There are very few of us, oven In normal circumstances, where we have devoted a lot of. time to the study of talents, who know what we are fitted for. We begin in our’childhood to drift in a sort of way. 1 suspect many of you could reproduce my e*i»erience in that. When I was very’ little I was sure T was going to be a preacher, be cause my mother told me so. A little later I was sure 1 was to be a doctor, because my father was a doctor. When L began to stand a little on my own feet about the business I had an ambition to be a college professor, and It took me a long time to adjust myself to the fact that I did not know enough to be, a col lege professor. And finally I studied law, and practiced law, as the result, per haps, of a continuous practice of self appraisement and self-assessment and seeking to find the place in life whore such talents or capacities as I thought I had in any degree might be of a maxi mum usefulness. Ant! yet it Is true with me as with most other people, there al ways remains a doubt as to whether the career chosen and brought about by them is the wisest career aft Ar all, and we con stantly see in life men who have achieved success in the professions who regard their professional occupation as a very sorry excuse for the things which they could have done best. For instance. Pro fessor Sylvester was professor of mathe matics at Johns Hopkins University’ for two or three years, having been brought over to Johns Hopkins from Cambridge. Professor Sylvester was admittedly the greatest living mathematician. It was so well recognized by' all that he knew It himself, and admitted it frankly. He said, for instance, that he sometimes thought he was the greatest living mathematician and then sometimes he thought Profes sor Cayley was; he knew it was between the two of them; that most people thought he was,, and he was rather in clined to agree with them. Now that was the opinion of the world. Professor Sylvester was a man of so great mathe matical talent that everybody who came In contact with him was astounded at his wonderful ability; they regarded the workings of his mind on mathematical problems almost as flashes of lightning. It is said he would go up to the board to work out a problem, when all of a j-ud den he would seem to go off onto some thing else, some other calculation en tirely apart from the one before him for solution: he would apparently go off in a trance. He would seem almost trans fixed, so intense was his application to something else. Suddenly he would write down some figures, and ultimately he would come out with a demonstration of a solution that mathematic! ns had been working for and looking for for hundreds of years. He would become much excited, and cry out: ‘There it is;” It would seem to come to him out of the clouds, he was that sort of an inspired genius. And yet his own statement on that subject was that: ”1 think I am the greatest mathematician; I am sure it Is between Cayley and myself; but I know I am the greatest living poet.” And upon that subject he had no doubt whatever, and to prove it he wrote a poem called ‘The Springtime Idyl, in Ten Centuries of Continuous Rhyme:" that Is. the last word in each of 1,000 line sos the poem rhymed with the name of a young lady. Miss Gwynn. Professor Sylvester said that when he saw this charming young lady walking arm in arm with Mr.’ Gar rick he. was so filled with poetic fervor that he rushed back to his room and wrote this poem. But the solemn fact is that it took him 10 months to write if. He searched every dictionary in about every language that he could find for words to rhyme, and when he got into the 900's he had exhausted the entire stock of words he. knew anything about, and then, determined to complete his task of 1.000 lines, he obtained and searched through Arabic and other dic tionaries for words. You can see what a task it was. I will quote a few lines from it that I can remember: "Airy’ nymph on Charles street seen, Lnght as the wind is Mary Gwynn.” Now I told you that to show that even TRENCH AND CAMP the greatest men are poor judges of their own faculties. Sylvester, if left to his own devices, would have written rub bishy doggeral, instead of opening the mind of the work! with new mathemati cal demonstrations. I have no doubt that all of you have had the same ex perience, many of you, perhaps, that I have had not daily but hourly, of men coming to me and saying: ‘I am doing so and so.” I say, “Yes. you are doing it well.” and they say, “but if 1 was just I permitted to turn aside and do that thing I would do it so much better.” It’s the same spirit as when me are playing checke « . The b ystander is quite sure he kne \; how to win the game. It is the occupation we see fever the fence and not that in which we are absorbed that seems to us the true field for our en deavors. So that in making an army we are not in a position to accept a man’s own estimation of hs ftness. And no i matter if a man has set his heart on tho job, that is no assurance of his fitness. And so we corn down now to the things you gentlemen are to do. Here we are making a cross-section or series of cross sections of the United States. We are taking men from the forests of the northwest, and the cotton fields of the South, from every trade and occupation, from every economic and social status of life and grouping them advantageous ly. We are not getting the men of the same size in the same place, but all sizes in all places. We are getting this agglomerate of men, selected vicariously and by .chance, as it were, into great groups. We have no time for men to, grow up into those groups evolved by association, but we have to have a se lective process by which we will get the round men for the round place, the strong men for the strong tasks and the delicate men for the delicate tasks. We have got to evolv£ a process by which that sort of assortment will take place. Always heretofore in armies that has been a matter of chance, it has been a matter of individual judgment of com manding officers. Even when command ing officers are exercising their judg ment, humanly speaking most dispas sionately, it is quite impossible for them not to be affected by elements which do not enter into the accounting. If one were to select, for instance, a general to command an expedition, he would be quite likely to select a man whom he liked as a man, and not with any relation whatever to his capacity to command the expedition. And this is true generally, so that some system of selection of talents which is not affect ed by immaterial principles or virtues, no matter how spfend d, something more scientific than the haphazard choice of man, something more systematic than preference or first impression, is neces sary to be devised. When Dr. Scott presented to the war department the question of calling in psychology in this work we all realized that that science had a particularly unfortunate name; it sounds very high fainting and cloud stepping as it. were. It is the skyscrap er, so far as its name is concerned, of modern science, and there is a certain revulsion in the ordinary man’s mind when you speak to him about a thing that sounds as pretentious as that I commend to my good friend Dr. Scott that he try to see whether the} can’t change that term to the study of human action or something with a popular ap peal. I am sure the impediment would be so much less if that could be done. But when you come down to it the psy chology which . Dr. Scott has applied in the methods of the committee on classi fication of personnel in the army is simp ly applied common sense, and those of us who are familiar with the work of ttiis committee —with the thorough Interview, the trade tests, the Intelligence ratings, the use of Trade Specifications, the Ta bles of Occupational Needs —wo all real ize that we have in this scientific pro cedure an unrivaled and effective substi tute for the irrational and impulsive per sonal judgment which up to recent times had obtained. Now we have this great mass of men, these millions of our fellow citizens, each one of them filled with the patriotic de sire to do the things which he can do best, but each one inhibited from find ing that place by reason of his previous inexperience or by' some lack of stand ard of comparison between himself and someone else. Commanding officers prob ably have no natural uniformity of judg ment in the mere matter of personal judgment of men. and the problem iij to weld those millions not merely into an army' which will fight—any American American army will fight, we have dis covered that; not merely into an army which Is willing to d e, if necessary, in order to maintain its position and up hold its traditions—we have discovered now that this Is true of Americans every where; but an army which will fight with the least wastage, the most ef fective execution, the most intelligent co-operation, the most complete because the most understanding subordination, and that sort of an army comes only when men are doing the things for which they are by’ nature and training best adapted . Now that is a very high task, It i: a task of contributing the finish ing touches of efficiency to this great American army. I have myself been tremendously’ stim ulated. not only by the care and wisdom employed in assigning each enlisted man but also by the result which Dr. Scott and his assocites hve obtined in the of ficer selecting tests which they have de vised. The Rating Scale has been en thusiastically received by the army, but 1 am told officers have occasionally ob jected to answering some of the Bmet test questions the doctor has put up to them: 1 have been rather afraid to take a Binet test myself, but when you final ly come down to it, the Rating Scale and tests for mental alertness are the appli cation of a perfectly rational method to the great, problem of putting a man in the position where he can be of the most serv.ee to the country and to the com mon couse. Now that is a perfect parallel to the story about the boys of the Y. M. C. A. I told you at the beginning; they have a new set of virtues, a new outlook on life. The soldier must be helped and guided into the right place for the best use of his talents. And that is the task which is set before you in the various organizations to which you belong. It is a wonderful army we have on the other side. We are already beginning to hear what we expected to hear about it. I am not speaking now about its movements as a mass of men, but we are beginning to hear that the individuality of the American soldier Is attracting at tention, that the ind.vidua! marksman ship of the American soldier Is telling on the adversary. I have seen some confi dential reports of examinations of Am erican prisoners made by German Intel ligence Offcers, and intended to be transmitted to the German General Head quarters for the information of Hinden burg & Company, but before they could be transmitted they were captured with their authors. Such of them as 1 have seen have commented on two or three things about the American soldier; that he is more of an indiv.dual than Is cus tomary among soldiers; that he has a naive confidence, a fundamental moral basis for his participation in this war; and that he seems to be quiet and un dismayed even when alone under condi tions which the German officers say are usually regarded as too severe a test for men as individuals. So that we have an entirely different problem from that of the German government. For forty years it has been making all Germans very much a like, suppressing indiv dual ity except in particular lines; men have been permitted to be as individual as they chose about religion and about I chemistry, but not about themselves or i their relations to one another or about the state, and as a consequence the raw material of the German soidier is evedy * man of a uniform type. But we have the individual American; we have the wide diversity of occupations and talents wh.ch America produces. And we have to discover in the man whose occupa tion up to now has been felling trees in the great northwest the mode of convert ing his native talents and native virtues into military talents and virtues. R is a splendid occupation, a very necessary undertaking, ami your attendance at this school for the purpose of acquiring - the rules and regulations, attempting to systematize this process, is a very vital I and efficient thing for the American i army. | 1 hope that you will remember all the < time this one word of caution I want to give you about your task. We deal with people, when we have millions of them, too much as the census "taker does; we deal too much with them as though we were making a city directory of them, i went out to orc Leavenworth a few days ago, and while I was at the Disciplinary Barracks I wanted to see some of the interesting cases of personality of young men who have been drafted into the armv and. carelessly, have fallen afoul of the military regulations. I wanted to get their statement and, their attitude to wards military life, and after I had been at it for perhaps an hour I found my self asking them the same questions in the same order. I asked how old they were, whether they were married. 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Brown Brothers & Company DON and PARIS free upon ap- have also, for the convenience of their patrons, plication to Brown Brothers & an American representative in France, with head- Co., 59 Wall Street. New York quarters at the office of the CredibCommercial de France, 20-bis, Rue Lafayette, Pans. t BROWN, SHIPLEY & COMPANY Foun4er» Court, Lothbuiv 123 Pall Mall i | LONIXJN. E. C. LONDON, S. W ‘J .. : _J| if they had ever been in love, and whether their girls bad gone back on them, but before very long It was obvious to me that It was becoming mechanical. Now the danger that we have in this Per sonnel Division is that with the size of the task and the frequency of the repe- | tition of our contact with individuals, it is likely to make us fail to remember that each man with whom we deal is more than a card in the index, and is individually a man, that he is an indi vidual American, and that no straight - jacket set of questions will reach his ul timate possibilities. Now if we can approach the task as though we were in a chemical laboratory, a research laboratory, not seeking to re produce some striking experiments which other chemists have taught us how to do by putting together some sort of ingre dients which look blue and look brown when mixed, but making a research and putting together uncombined elements, trying by experiments to get new pro ducts. 1 am sure that the work will be even more useful than it would other wise be. I am not a lecturer in this (’lass; 1 have no right to attempt to add anything to the very full and wise course by Dr. Scott. My presence here today is chiefly to give an expression of complete approval to this really great in novation. and to help the innovation in the formation of a military army. Just before I close, however, I want to bring to you the latest news with re gard to the great war abroad. As I left the department the newspaper men told me that the latest dispatches showed that the Briisth have capture Montdid er, have added several thousand prisoners and some large guns to their captures, and are still going forward with the in fantry. So that the war abroad is go ing well, and the building of the army on this side is going well, and the contri bution which you gentlemen are to make is a contribution to a higher efficiency for a cause which is already marked with success. REDUCE PRICE ON SMOKES On August Ist the A. E. F. Y. M. C. A. reduced the prices on all tobaccos and cigarettes sold an its post exchanges and canteens to tne equivalent prices it# francs at which they can be had at the Quartermasters’ Stores. This reduction is made possible because the Army has agreed to sell and deliver to the Y. M. U. A. warehouses in France as much to bacco as can* be spared from the Army stores, and also because the Y. Al. CL A. War Work Council in the United States had consented to make up the loss be tween the Quartermasters' prices and the actual cost of tobacco which the Y. M. C. A. must import directly at its own expense to meet the demand. It is probable that the announced re duction in the selling price of tobacco will result in the post exchange showing I a deficit of from two to three million ' dollars a year, which amount will come | out of the General Funds contributed to the Y. Al. C. A. by the American people. The V. Al. C. A. feels justified in assum ing this loss because it is generally rec ognized that tobacdo In one form or an other is necessary to the comfort of the ! soldier. I The post exchanges and canteens of the Y. M. C. A. have been established at the request of the military authorities. They operated on borrowed capital and in consequence must be self-sustaining. To the original cost price at the factory, therefore, must be added all expenses in curred in shipping to the seaport, load ing, insuring and transporting to France, | receiving, storing and distributing the j merchandise to the soldiers. No profit ! whatever is expected or allowed from the j sales. The prices at which the Quartermasters’ • Stores sell are fixed by law and do not | include the cost of bringing the mer- j chandise from the United States to I France and distributing it. The Y. M. { C. A. must add these ekpenses to the I factory cost at home which explains the differences which have existed between I the Quartermasters’ prices and those ; | which are charged bv the Y. AT. C. A. post I exchanges. These differences are further aggravated by the necessity of having to purchase the largest possible quantity of supplies In the onen markets of France at almost prohibitive prices in order to save ocean tonnage for military necessi ties. The entire cost of the Y. AT. C. 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