Liberty Express, Volume 16, Number 14, Liberty, Union County, 8 November 1918 — Page 7

THE LIBERTY EXPRESS, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER S, 1918

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The Kaiser as I Knew Him for Fourteen Years By ARTHUR N. DAVIS. D. D. S.

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eHatMl utiiactcd the kaiser's attention, ami Ii wms trniciou enough to phake h:inN with her. After ho had left the xiil out Hi" liarul t ft' kai ser lial ir rasped :mk1 said she wouldn't wash it f.r a irk ! "Just to think, tins hand lias grasps! the k:iis.r's IkiiuI! Winn I tell my family nhout it tonijrht they won't believe it!" Th- f:t t tliat llio kaiser condescended to aeiviinu I de ll:e plaudits uf Iiis people hy st salute or a wave of the hand was cited as proof of his j:raCiousness and kindness ; their pul was sniilin: on then,, and their ratilltution was overwhelming. To !ii:iini:iin tin's v;1te of veneration was one f Iii kuNcr's piiiicictl concerns. That was why he never appealed in pul. !! except in lull uniform ; why he :d ;is rode u white horse, while the ivi his start' rode dark ones; why the pictures l liim that were allowed to Im circulated always snowed him to the very host advantage; why every c:im of lese majeste waj punished with the utmost severity; why, in sinnt, every possible procaution was taken that, the exulted ideas which the public held regarding their kaiser should never be underniinel. With this spirit of devotion dominating the people generally, it was only to be expected that they should have stood solidly behind their emperor when he sought to achieve the one

ambition of his life his dream of j world dominion. There is no doubt that the war was planned and made posil.le by the militarists and the junkers, and that every effort was m.ale to con-eal from the people its real purpose and ultimate poal ; but if anyone imagines (hat the people at lare would have held back had they realized the tnilli, he fails to understand the underlying spirit of the Teutonic race. The (Jcnuans are the most quarrelsome people in the world. It is misleading to speak of the Cermaii militarists. All (.ermans are militarists. The records of their civil courts tell the story. In 11)1 "J there were no less than ri,(KM),(MH petty cases tried in the courts, and as every case naturally involved at least two parties, the astonishing fact is disclosed that some 10,fMMl.noo tiermans, or one-seventh of the enire population, sippealed to the courts in a single year! The bellicose character of the people was evidenced in countless other ways. It was the natural result of what I believe to be tin- n;oM pronounced national shortcoming selfishness. The nverajre (lerman is the most selfish individual in tl ie world, lie thinks of himself and his own comfort first, last and all the time. I have noticed it on the street cars, in the theaters, in the public hi'!ias. in the restaurants and hotels, w hcl c people- conizre;;a t e. I-a cry one looked out for himself first and pushed aside those who stood in Iiis way. In ivii life, just as in a stale of war. the tJet 1:1.1:1 practiced the principle that rnihl makes li'ht. 'hialry, courtesy, magnanimity are jis foreign to the l!crman makeup us they are characteristics of the I'relicli. A keen desire to make something out of nothing is another national trait of the Germans, if my observation has been accurate. What is commonly referred to as tleriuan thrift is only u polite name for Ccrmaii stinginess, und I have seen so many illustrations of the petty meanness of the lerman people that it seems idle to specify single Instances. One of the first impressions I received about the (b-rmaii people, when I went to live union:; them fourteen years ntm, was tin- lack of comradeship anions them. Class distinctions are drawn so line, and there are so many gradations, that it was almost Impossible to find two (lermans on the same social plane. One was always the other's superior. Alter my fourteen years' experience anions these people, I cannot say that that early impression lias been removed; if anything, It has been deepened. Anyone who ha lived in r.erlln, nnd is familiar wiih conditions in other European capitals, will bear me out that the Cermau policeman is the most arrogant police ollaial in the world. His word is taken in court in preference to that of six civilians, and his power is such that it iniht very easily be used oppressively; but strangely enough, despite the cupidity of the (ierman character, jrafl and corruption anions the (o-rniaii police and other otliduM were practically unknown before the war. Kuril were the people behind the kaiser when the j;rcal war started. I shall never forget the sentiments expressed to me by private individuals in every walk of life as the vurlous phases of the war developed. So measure that was taken by !er111:1 ny, no matter how atrocious or Inconsistent with the world's idea of what Is permissible in civilized warfare, ever brought a word of condemnation from the Ceinian public as a whole, although, of course, there were Mime notable cxci ptions. The Kreut majority of tieiin.ins who discussed thse matters with me, however, uot

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but complained because mure rigorous measures were not tuken. Merely by way of example, and not because her suggestion was any worse than hundreds of others raised by my (lerman patients, I may mention the surprising viewpoint expressed by the Countess SierstorplT, 11 relativ of Von Ilenekel-Donnersmarch. It was after Italy had Joined the allies and when (Jerman resentment atrainst that nation ran very high. "What we should do at the very first available opportunity, she declared, 'is to destroy every single work of art In Italy. Not u single one of their landmarks or ait treasures should bo left standing. Then when the war is over and Italy no lonirer derive the enormous revenue she has been collectini; for years from tourists, she will be sorry for what she has done to (Jermatiy !" Tid the Oermnn people countenance the submarine warfare and the slaughter of innocent women and children. In defiance of all rules of international law and the dictates of common humanity? They had only one criticism to make of it it was not comprehensive ciioiikIi ! It w as absolute folly, if not a crime, they said, for (lermany to prescribe safety lanes for neutral vessels to use. The whole world should have been declared a wnr zone, that death and destruction might be dealt wherever and whenever the opportunity offered. Every ship that sailed should be sunk, and every American who ventured within ranjre of a (lernian gun, on sea or land, should be shot. That wus the universal sentiment. The suggestion that a continuation

or the submarine warrare would inevitably bring Ainericu into the war did not perturb the people In the slightest. TIow can America do us more harm than she Is now doing?" they asked. "American bullets are shooting down our men, American food is sustaining our enemies. American dollars are working against us In every possible way. Let America come into the war nnd give us a chance to pay her back for what she hus done to us. She couldn't lutein us uny more If she were a belligerent. Why allow her to remain neutral und go unscathed?" The Jubilation with which the news of the sinking of the Lusitania was received by the (Senium people was jencral. It was so significant that I believe America would have declared war immediately had it been know 11. I have failed to lind a single Uerumn who did not exult over tin dastardly crime, and the activity of the Zeppelins in their raids on open towns evoked similar demonstrations. That the Views which tin people held regarding the conduct of the war were strongly inllueiiced by the public press, which was absolutely controlled I'A" the government, wus only to be expected. The fact thai in peace time the press of (Jennany was perhaps the most reliable in the world, made of it a particularly uiluable tool in the bands of the government in time of war. The ('eriiian newspaper is gospel to the people. The last word in any argument was always furnished by proof supplied by some newspaper article. "Es steht in der Keitum,'." liberally translated, 'The paper says so," was always fund and conclusive. Nothing the papers declared was too preposterous to be believciL. The press was used to excellent advantage to conceal reverses and to make the Utmost capital out of successes. Kight from the start the newspapers declared that (eruiany wus lighting a defensive war; that the nations of the world had jumped on (b ruiany'.s neck because they were jealous of her growing power. The Importance which the kaiser and his leaders placed in public opinion among the Cermau people is clearly illustrated by the announcements they made and the measures they resorted to from time to time, for home consumption. When In December, 1010, for Instance, the kaiser realized that the resumption of unrestricted submarine warfare, which he had determined uiMn, might bring neutral nations, Including the United States, into the war, he felt that It was necessary to do something; to uphold the spirit of his people. It took the form of a proposal of peace to the allies. This proMsal wus designed to accomplish two distinct purposes: First, It was to convince the German people that their kaiser was really the peaceloving monarch he hud always professed to be; second, It was to demoralize the allies by dividing them against themselves. This much Is certain: The kaiser never Intended the allies to accept the proposal he made. He admitted that much to me, as did also the Prince von I'less, his most Intimate advisor. It was termed in such a way that the allies could not lusslbly accept It. Hut It erved one of the purposes w hich It wus Intended to achieve, and nearly accomplished the other.

CHAPTER XVI. Germany in Wartime. While the German people have always been in thorough accord with the kaiser's ambitious project which Is so significantly described by the popular slogan: "Deutschland über alles!" when the great war, which was to achieve Germany's aims, commenced. It came almost as much as a surprise to the Germans us It was to the rest iX the world. They knew it was inevitable and they looked forward eagerly to "Der .Tag." but when it arrived the bustle and excitement, not to say panic, which developed throughout Germany wus so pronounced that in Some cases It approached the ludicrous. Obviously the people were kept in Ignorance of the plans of their war barons in order that hostilities might come as a complete surprise to them and give color to the government's contention that the war was forced upon ('ermany. Ko little thought did we give to the complexities of the political situation that on Friday. July .'U. 1014. my wiTe ami I started ort' cm a motor I rip. We had heard so many rumors of win within the previoTH ten years that v sun no reason why sn amicable s.Ji: tlon sliou'd not again be found as it had always been before. On our way out the Charlottci'mrue' Chaussee wo passed the kaiser and il" kaiserin driving to P.erlin from I'oHdam at about sixty miles an hour, ami there ' were other indica t ions of activity, but we attached little importance to them. When we reached Potsdam, bowever, and saw thousands of tons of

coal heaped up between the railroad tracks which were ordinarily hop. clear, we realized that preparations for war were being made in earnest and we stopped to consider whether it would not be better after all to n turn home. Such was our ignorance of war that we decided that, even though it Were not advisable to motor in Belgium and France, where we were bound, we might safely plan a tour in the I Hack forest in (Jennany. We had left IWlin late in the afternoon. In the evening, when we arrived at Gotha, we found that the youuger waiters in the restaurants and hotels had already left and that the older reserves expected a general call the he'xt day. The next morning we started for Frankfort. As we passed through village after village, war preparations became more and more evident. Measures were being taken everv w here to arouse enthusiasm young men gathered on school steps were singing patriotic songs, students were marching and speeches were being made in the market places. About five o'clock that afternoon we arrived in Frankfort. The whole place was In a fever of. excitement over the mobilization posters and their resentment against the French was being aroused by "extras," which were handed out without charge, announcing that the French had already dropped bombs on the railroad at Nürnberg and that French officers in au I os had over-ridden the borders. The ridiculous statements about French flyers dropping bombs on the tailroad at Nürnberg liatl hot Hie slightest foundation, of eourse. The older people who had lived through the war of 1S70 had interested audiences for one while they related past experiences and gave advice as to what preparations to make. A possibility of food shortage seemed to be uppermost in all minds, and the groceries were stormed with eager buyers. Salt suddenly jumped to 7."i cent" a pound ttrul other Illings in proportion. On Sunday, August 2, all the gasoline In the country was commandeered, and we heard of many American tourists being put out of their cars in the cities and even on country roads, no matter how Inaccessible to trains they might he. We necordinglv decided to stow our car uvvay in an old wagon shed attached to u hotel and sought to return to licrlln by train. At the railway station there was such a tremendous crowd that If was quite Impossible to get anywhere near the ticket office, and anyway no promise could be given as to trains to I'erlln. Trunks and bags were piled high In every available space and It was months before that enormous pile of baggage was finally sorted out. We decided to defer 1 1 1 effort to reacJi llerlln until Monday, since there seemed no hope of getting away that da y. On Monday morning, the streets were filled with excited crowds destroying every sign with a French word on it and looking for spies. The papers had announced that the country was full of French spies, women as well as men. I saw the crowd stop an automobile, take a woman out and literally tear her clothes to shreds before the police succeeded III rescuing her from the mob und took her to the police station. The general supposition was that all the man spies were masquerading us women und the first thing the mob did was to pull out hair pins to see whether the hair was real. On Monday evening, we managed to edge our way Into the last through train to Herl in. We were side-tracked innumerable times to allow troop trains to pass through, and we were required to keep our windows closed so that no enemy passenger could drop bombs on the bridges we crossed. It wus n hot August night and the lack of ventilation was most oppressive. Our compartment was crowded with ollicers tu, their way to Join their regiments and very grand and Important they, felt Lu thvlF new lh'M-gj-uy uni

forms which may have long been put away In moth balls for just this opportunity, but w hich took the German people as weil as the allies completely by surprise. At Xauiiiberg, which Is about halfway between Frankfort and IJerlin. a company of soldiers boarded the train and guarded the c orridors while a noncommissioned officer questioned the passengers. My wife, who was asleep in a corner of the coupe 1, was the only woman in the compartment. I'.elieviug that her sleep might be feigned and she might, in fact, be a man in woman's clothing, the officer yelled at her: "Where are you going?" Her American accent, revealed when she answered him, iucei.sed him the more and he demanded angrily: "What right have you to use this train? Where is oiir passport?'

l'.y that time I had produced all the

papers of identification I could find and tried to tell hiia that my wife and I wen- returning to nir home In P.eHin. but he was too ex ited to listen and would have dragged us oil' the train had not an ollicer, with whom I had ' en talking en route, intervened und -aid: "I shall make myself Personailv

i ; . i;.-io!e for these people." I wa I had admired his new uniform. From the coupe r.ct to ulil's 1 sa. soldiers drag six I'ussiaus. throw then, down :t:d kick t 1m 111 in the tae. ami one was a woman! The train palled on! as the cro.vd closed in on them s. thai I w as tinable to a -certain the fate of those innocent but helpless passengers. When we finally reached I'.erlin. about live the next morning, it seemed like a dead city. There was not a droschke. a taxi or a tram in sight. I:Mv available means of locomotion had been mobilized for the time being. As we "mnl heavy bags, we simply bad to find something to take us home and after half an hour's search far from the station I found an old cab driver who thought he could take us for the liberal bonus I agreed to pay him. We had hardly got seated when an otlicer tried to force us out. ami only my wife's quick plea of illness saved him a black eye und me iron lars or a large fine. After England declared war, the efforts to capture spies were doubled, and the mob laid a new lot of .-igns to tear down. We were forbidden to talk liti-dMi on the telephone or on the street. We kept to our homes rather closely. Most of the buses, taxicabs and horses had been commandeered, and Hie only signs of life in I'.erlin were furnished by the officers driving madly about in high-powered cars which exceeded all speed limits and other tratlic regulations. After a few days, tilings began to return to normal again. The food supply seemed ample and the headlines in the newspapers were so encouraging and the rejwirts of victories upon victories so convincing that every one expected the 'war to be over within a very short time and they began to eat up the stores they had so excitedly collected. I'.read cards were Initiated, it Is true, but the amount allowed was more than adequate for all except, perhaps, the very poor who depend aliiost entirely upon bread. The press began advising the people to conserve food but at the same time said that if care was taken there was no danger of there not being enough for all. School teachers gave daily talks to t he children to out ecrytliing on their plates. One went so far as 1o announce: "I always lick my plate, children, und you should do the same!" The result of these warnings was merely to increase hoarding und Inlying from food speculators. I never knew of a single Cermun who voluntarily deprived himself of a single article of food out of patriotic motives. The only sacrifice a (lerman is willing to Jiiake for his country Is the one he cannot escape. As time went on nnd England's blockade became increasingly effective, the internal condition' of Ocruiauy went from bad to worse, and long before I left I'.erlin. on January 'J'.:. 101S, conditions had become well-nigh unbearable. (Concluded Next Week.) TFLEIMIONE NOTICE

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r.ecanse hf was found to have hoarded sugar. Clarence Cook, a farmer living near North Manchester, was reclassified hy his local draft board and from a deferred class put into class A t and renifbd for service. His fa i her in -law, .lohn Mennecker, was permitted to make a contribution 01' Sl'.'i to the Red Cross for the same offense.

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