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thoroughly posted h« waaon American conditions* L*ng before the subject of forest tonsorvatlon was taken up seriously in this country, the kaiser pointed out to Ine what a great mistake we were Snaking la not devoting more attention to it.

Curious About Amerioa.

"Can you tell me, Davis, why you have so many forest fires in your country?" he asked, after a particulat ly destructive conflagration in the west ]iad destroyed many acre* of Umber. ''How does it happen?" 1 explained to him that most of the forest fires came from sparks from locomotives. Careless lumbermen allowed the branches which they lopped Off the trees to remain on the ground, and when they were ignited by sp&rks the fire sometimes spread to the uncut timber. As the facilities for extinguishing fire in these unpopulated regions was practically nil, and the climate made the timber particularly

Inflammable, these fires usually attained serious dimensions. "That points out again the trtefflciency of your form of government," he rommonted. "You have laws requiring the railways to use appliances to arrest the sparks from their engines, haven't you? Why don't you enforce them? Your people don't seem to realize that it takes years to grow a tree. Because you have more than you need to-day, you. make no provision for tomorrow. For every tree cut clown another should be planted. If you don't adopt tome such measure," the time will surely Cume when America will have to turn to Germany for timber." smiled at the idea of our country having to rely upon German timber, hut the kaiser insisted that at the rate we were using up our lumber resources Germany would soon have a greater supply available than we. I wonder if the Germans have been planting a new tree for every one they have ruthlessly destroyed on the continent of Europe during the past few years of destructive warfare!

It Is a faot, however, that the GerjTnan laws are very stringent in this n-spect. One is not permitted to cut down a tree on one's own premises AviLhout first securing the consent of the tree commission, and as the "red tap#" involved in an appeal to the t'.erman authorities in matters of this lund is most wearying, such applications are not frequently resorted to. •Shocked By Bank Failure. '"Poor Miss Farrar, your opera singer, has been telling me she lost every penny she had In your Knickerbocker bank failure. The men who caused •tfuit panic would go to prison mighty •quick if we had them.in Germany, I can tell you. 1 have read that eleven of your bank presidents conynitteed euicide. dust think of it! Eleven bank tiresklenftf! These things should not be, Davis but you will continue to have these panice from time to time until you adopt a banking system with a central bank, such as we have."

Many of the ideas he formed regarding our institutions, however, were not to sound, although they were based on intimate knowledge and constant investigation. He never overlooked an opportunity to learn all he could about the United States.

The establishment of the federal reserve bank system in this country, one of the most important measures adopted under President Wilson, carried us successfully thruugh the financial stress and strain of the world-war, and shows how thoroughly the kaiser understood the workings and requirements of our national banking arrangements.

The kaiser wax a harsh critifc of our

election system. The idea of a fouryear term for the president was naturally repugnant to one who held such exalted notions as to the rights of rulers. It would be too much to ex pect the Hohenzoilern mind to approve of a constitution which provided for the ruler's return to private life after a period of four years at the head of the government.

He declared that with a constant change of administration it was quite out of the question for this country to follow any definite policy. It was bad enough even so far as internal affairs were concerned, he said, but such a system made it impossible, he thought, for America ever to take a prominent part in international politics. "You can't expect the nations of the world to deal with America as they deal among themselves, when the hext chance of administration may mean the adoption of an entirely new foreign policy," he declared. "There can be nothing stable about the foreign policy of a nation whose leadtirs change every four years."

No doubt it would have suited the kaiser's plans better, in his own mind, at any rate, if our presidents held office for twenty or thirty years at a stretch, or, better still, for life. Then he might have considered it worth while to exert •whatever influence he commanded in a sthis country, which he believed was considerable, in favor of the candidate he thought would best fall in with Germany's plans. It was hardlv worth much effort to secure the election of a pro-German president who would hold office but a few years at most.

Our Politics His Despafr. American party-politics were a constant source of embarrassment to the kaiser. He always seemed undecided ns to just how he should receive an American of prominence. If he happened to be of the same political faith as the administration, the kaiser was afraid to do him too much honor for fear of offending the opposing party, who might win the next election and if he were not of the same party as the administration, the kaiser feared to honor him lest more Immediate re-

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sentment be stirred up in America. Thus- he refused to recevie Bryan on two different occasions when a republican administration was in power.

He criticized very strongly, too, our election methods. "Instead of discussing principles, your political candidates exchange personalities," he said. "My people would be shocked at the sort of speeches and accusations which figure in all your political campaigns. Over here, -Bottling of the kind is ever heard."

The kaiser was very much interested in our negro problem. It seemed to have a great fascination for him, and he frequently referred to It. He told me that he understood there were 15,000,000 negroes in this country, but they were dying off in great numbers through consumption and other diseases, to which they offered but poor resistance. "The negro will always be a great problem in your country, however," he added. "They don't mix socially with the whites, and there will be constant friction. My brother (Prince Henry), when he returned from his visit to America, told me a lot about these negroes. Indeed, one of the most impressive things he heard there was a choir of negro voices. He said they sang some wonderful melodies, and their voices were clear as bells."

Expected Negro Army.

After the war started, the kaiser referred to the negro again. "Now is your chance to settle your negro problem," he declared, half facetiously, of course. "If America insists upon coming into the war. why doesn't she send her negroes across and let us snoot them down?"

Evidently the kaiser was unaware of the value we placed on our colored troops, or of the excellent account they gave of themselves in Cuba and on the Mexican border and, of course, he was still to learn of the part they were to play on the French front. Shooting negroes down hasn't proved nearly as simple an operation ag the kaiser imagined it might be.

When a fleet of Our battle ships visited Kiel some six years ago the kaiser paid them a visit and was very much interested. It was reported at the time that he had even crawled through the coal bunkers to study the construction of the hold of one of the vessels, which is quite consistent with his us«al practice. He is too vain to imagine that any member of his naval staff could possibly acquire more valuable information In an Investigation of that kind than he could himself. Incidentally, a tour of inspection of this character gave him an opportunity to discuss matters with his officers with some degree of accuracy.

When he called to see me shortly afterward he told me of his experience. "I went over the ships from top to bottom," he declared. "They are excellent vessels, every one of them, and I was very much impressed with the way they are manned and officered. I have only one criticism—the latticework conning towers, or fighting masts. The only possible use I can see in them would be to train vines on them and install an elevator inside, and serve tea in the afternoon to the ladies on top—the most beautiful place for serving tea I can imagine.

His Naval Criticisms.

"But, seriously speaking," he went on. "T can't see that these masts have any practical value. On the contrary, I can see very serious disadvantages In them. No matter what nation you might be fighting, your enemy would always be able to recognize you at a distance, before you could identify him, because the warships of all other nations look very much alike at a distance. "They say these conning towers -are armed," he went on, "but you would never get close enough to your enemy to use such small guns. Again, if one of these masts were hit it would send a shower of steel about the heads of the men on board, and would not only put many of them out of action, but would be in the way. Suppose, too, the mast were struck down and hung over the side? It would drag through the water, and would not only seriously impede the vessel, but it would cause the ship to list and expose a larger area on one side than would be safe. No. Davis, jour fighting masts, as

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It was quite obviuos that the kaiser was not familiar with the elaborate experiments made by our navy with these fighting masts before th«y were adopted. Certainly our naval men, who went into the matter scientifically, could better estimate the value of these masts than the kaiser, who spoke with but a superficial knowledge of the subject, and if we ever have a chance at the German navy the kaiser will learn to his cost that our warships will serve warmer things than tea, and are not apt to confine their operations to the afternoon.

But if the kaiser saw much In American ways and customs to condemn, he likewise saw much to commend, and before the war he was liberal in his praise of many of our qualities and achievements.

Followed Burbank.

Tie "Was very much interested, for instance, in the experiments and discoveries of Luther Burbank. To make Germany self-supporting as far as food resources were concerned was one of his dearest ambitions. He realized that in the event of a world-war his people Mould probably suffer more from lack of food than they would from,hostile bullets, and he was hoping that he would be able to obviate that condition before his country was put to the test. He was constantly preaching simplified diet and the conservation of food reserves, and he had great hopes that much could 'be done in a scientific way to help solve general food problems. "When attending dinners giv«n him by his officers, his wishes respecting simple menus wore always carefully followed.

A case of extremely large seedless oranges was sent to me from Florida one year, and I showed the kaiser one of them. It was so large he thought it was a grapefruit, and he expressed his admiration for the attainments of men who could thus coax nature into excelling herself for the common good.

I told him of the loganberry which had been developed in the west, and he sent a representative to me afterward to ascertain how a sample could 1 be secured for experimental purposes.

He said he would plant it in the royal experimental gardens and ascertain if it was feasible to grow the berries in Germany. The proprieor of a large delicatessen store told me that the kaiser had sent a representative to him to purchase some loganberry jelly, and had been told that I had called it to the kaiser's attention.

Before the war. suggested to the kaiser that it might be of mutual advantage to my country and Germany to arrange for an exchange of medical and dental professors, and he was very much taken with the idea. He sent Dr. von Illberg, his private physician and a doctor in the German army, to see me about the project, and I was asked to lay out a plan for consideration. At about the same time he asked me to recommend any chansres that might occur to me that would add to the efficiency of the wonderful dental institute at the University of Berlin. The breaking out of war, however, put an end to these projects of peace. What a power for good the kaiser might have been in the world but for his cursed thirst for world dominion!

Liked Our Humor.

The kaiser enjoyed American humor. He was very fond of Mark Twain, and he followed one or two of tjie American monthlies and weeklies more or less regularly. He told me that, one evening while in his sitting-room in the Berlin palace, reading something in an American magazine, he ran across a story which caused him to laugh so much and so loud that the ladies of the court, who heard him in an adjacent room, came running in with their knitting to see what the matter was.

The kaiser had little respect for over architecture. He thought our skyscrapers, of which he had seen illustrations, were hideous. "How terrible to desecrate the landscape with such tall buildings," he commented. "They hurt the eye. How can people live in them?"

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buildings, but that we did have fourteen and fifteen story apartment houses and hotels, and even higher ones, in which the upper floors were used for living purposes just the same as the lower ones. He couldn't believe it possible that people would consent to live ao far above the ground, and from hi^| own aversion to visit a place that was even one story above the ground floor, I rather got the idea that he was afraid of height. Under the building laws prevailing in Germany no building of more than five stories may be erected.

Envied Our Inventor*.

Perhaps the quality that he envied most in us was our inventive genius. When Orville Wright was flying at Tenxpelhofer feld, ifl Berlin, in the early days of aviation, the kaiser could not restrain his admiration. "I wish I could encourage my people to become great inventors, such as America has produced," he declared rather hopelessly. "I admire your wonderful inventive genius."

If the Germans could not duplicate our inventions, they were quick enough to realize their value and adopt them. Almost as soon as Wright's demonstration was seen to be a success, a company was organized in Germany to build them under the "Wright patent, and the Germans have continued to push aviation ever since. Just before I left Germany I heard from one of the highest miliary officials that they had just perfected an aeroplane with six motors that could accomplish more than had ever been dreamed of. "It will carry twelve passengers," he said, "and it will carry enough fuel to make the trip to New York and back and still have enough left to reach New York again." Since my return home I have read that just such a machine was shot down on the French border recently.

The kaiser told me of American with both arms cut off rearly to the shoulder, who had patented an artificial arm and had come to Germany to demonstrate it. He wanted to sell his patent or manufacture the arms for the German wounded. The kaiser invited him to army headquarters and watched him eat, clothe himself, shake hands, shave, light a cigarette and, in fact, do almost everything that a man can do with his own arms and hands. Evidently the kaiser was very much impressed with this American's demonstration, for he spoke to me about it for half an hour and was most enthusiastic. 'It was very wonderful, Davis," he cancluded. "Here is one of your countrymen who has made It possible for my armless men to make themselves useful and self-supporting. Your people are always talking about humanity, but this is the only humanity they've displayed in this war. That is what I call real humanity. Certainly furnishing munitions and supplies to the allies to enable them to starve my people and shoot down my soldiers isn't humanity."

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Apparently the kaiser believed It was our part in the world's economy to provide artificial arms and legs, and his to provide a demand for them!

The kaiser's peculiar interest in our r$d Indians was somewhat surprising. He frequently asked me about them and was particularly interested in their diet. He had an idea that they were for the most part vegetarians. Perhaps the fact that he was not much of a meat-eater himself aroused his interest in the primitive Americans who seemed to thrive on vegetable diet. While the kaiser ate a certain amount of white meat, he never ate dark or red meat, and at night made his meal almost entirely of fruit. He was fond of fish and said it produced brain, as it is fine brain food, adding laughingly: "It is too bad the majority of people don't eat fish entirely."

Colonel Wisser, our former military attache, now general, told me that at

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The kaiser objected very much to the fact that many of the foreign opera singers were attracted to New York by reason of the fabulous sums paid them at the Metropolitan opera house. "It is ridiculous to pay the sums singerB receive In New York," he complained. "It simply spoils the singers for us. Why, I understand that Caruso and other artists are paid anywhere from $2,000 to $3,000 per night, while the biggest salary ever paid in Berlin is $25,000 a year. The worst of it is is that while the nouveau rich In America have the money to entice the sing

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a state banquet the kaiser placed his son, Prince Eitel Frederick, next to him (the colonel), and that the prince spoke of nothing else during the entire function but American methods of open fighting, which we long ago learned in our conflicts with the Indidians. He said they had heard much of our success in this character of warfare and were anxius to learn more about our methods.

ers away from Europe they haven't the education to understand what they are singing about. We get even with them, though, by engaging American singers, who are glad to come to the Berlin opera house for a moderate salary because of the experience and prestige they get, and their voices ift-e not much inferior to the European singers who command such ridiculous salaries In your country."

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kaiser that I will buy his castle ^t Corfu, and ask him what's his price!" i| I had word sent back that the castle was not for sale. The American then i told my representative that he would not take 'no' for an answer. The cheek ,4 of the man! He said he didn't care how much it eo'st, I sent back word to .. that man that there were not enough dollars in the world to buy that castle, There are some things that your dollars won't buy, Davis, and one of them is my beautiful castle at Corfu!1*

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