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Show MEN OF ALL RMS EAGERJO ENLIST War Enthusiasm in England Eng-land Sweeps Over Country. READY FOR SACRIFICE Patriotic Devotion Has Turned Suffragettes Into Army Nurses. By HEP BEET TEMPLE Special Cable to The Tribune LONDON Sept 5 Shopkeepers of London now are organ zing their clerks into fight ng forces Every evening m the streets of the bus ness distr cts may be seen companies of sho employees earnestly dr lling to be soldiers They are Rett ng ready to chano-o the yard st ck for a musket and the counter for the trench In the b g department stores where there are many employees whole regimentB have been organized In lesBer estab 1 shmeitts compan es are be ng formed and where there are small stores with only a few clerks two or three e n p oyers are putt ng the r men togetl er to form a company Apparentl all of the clerks are en thus ast c over the poss b 1 ty of go ing to war They seem to take to the dr 11 ng w th interest and when they are be ng put through the r paces the streets l ng w th good natured shouts and laughter Officially Organized The m 1 tary organ zat on of clerks s not a haphazard movement It is be ng superv sed by the government and the men thus enl sted will form a fifth 1 ne of defense The compan es thus formed are n add t on to the thousands be ng recru ted for the regu lar army and the m 1 tary organ za t ons in the var ous c t es From the appearance of the recrn t ng stat ons it would appear that all malj England is try ng to get to the fight ng front Men of all classes and degrees bes ege the offices stand ng ' half the day m long 1 nes in the streets s lk hatted peers rubbing elbows with gr my laborers The en 1 stment is proceeding at the rate of thousands a day It is an undoubted benefit to the Brit sh consumer that war was delayed as long as poss ble It d d not come nt 1 the first sheaves of the home crop were already liv stack wh le so much wheat land was r pe for the harvester that a scare ty of food could be at least but a matter of days Had war broken out in June the matter of harvest ng the gra n would ha e been a far more ser ous problem Food Supply Short The days when Brit sh ports held a month s supply of wheat and ample reserve of feeding stuff for stock ap pear to be past and trade profits m t me of peace are now so small that there is now no longer a marg n for carry ng charges for paying for the warehous ng That flour and wheat have r sen even si htly in price s nee the war scare became apparent shows what might have been expe ted had war come when the harvest was two months off n stead of two weeks The first but least mportant issue of the war is that of the Brit sh markets be ng cut off from certa n articles much in demand but not absolutely necessary Austr an rolls have already d sappeared from the din ng table and the fine Hun gara n flour so much in demand for pastry, has gone up 100 per cent It is doubtful if Austria Hungary will con t n e to export flour, forthe wheat crop of the dual monarchy even had there been no war is very short this year The eastern part of the empire, that nearest to the seat of war will barely be self supporting Exports Cut Off The hard wheat from Servia Bulgaria and Kuman a also will be miss ng trom Lngland for a t me but happily there is no reason to fear that confect onery will d sappear for the ch ef London millers and those of other Br t sh cit es are now making excellent pastry flour by Hungar an processes no longer the jealously guarded Becret of the mills of Budapest Servian exports of s Ik cocoons plums prunes cherries and 1 quors al ready have been stopped by the war but euch things are regarded as luxu ries and the Br tish consumers are do ing wtihout them w thout compla nt Through England the people of every class regard the war w th one m nd They apprpve of it because they bel eve there was no honorable way for England to stay out of the conflict Not a man but wants to go to the front and all the people high an1 low are accept ng the privat ons of war slight as yet but apt to become heavy before long w th great good humor and grace Suffragettes Silenced Perhaps one of the most unexpected results of the war was the absolute end ing of suffragette m 1 tancy For years the Br t sh publ e had been accustomed to the depredat ons of the w Id worn en manifested in the smash ng of win dowB crusades on pari anient burn ng of houses mut lat on of p ctures and ex plosion of bombs One of the fir t fhings King George d d after England declared war was to uncond t onally pardon all the suffragette pr doners who are in the ar ous ia Is for militant of fenses The n 1 tants reo procated m med ately bv leclar ng i ces at on of the r violent campa gn for billot The suffragette organ zat ons olunteered to take charge of the work of prov d ng for the neeiy women and ch 1 Iren made dependent bv the war and some of them volunteered to act as nurses at the front |