The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1909-11-17
DENIS0N MERCHANT
TELLS OF GERMANY
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TELLS OF GERMANY
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the unique opportunity of buying from
the importer as they do in the larger
cities
Germany. MIR. Bale tells US, is
very prosperous. The factories are
busy and the rich are increasing in
wealth quite rapidly. The prosperity
has done the workinxman but little
good, however, as wages continue
very low and the scale of living is
way below that of the American work.
ing man. In matters of higher educa-
tion Germany excells but in education
for the masses it is behind the United
States. This because the pressure to
earn a livelihood is SO great that the
children must be taken from school
just as soon as the law will allow.
Mr. Bale discussed these things
with many of his German friends. and
do you know, he said, 81 found that
l was an American at heart. al
ways thought I was a German first
of all, but am not. Forty years az
man, spent in America have made
me an American. Over there l was
a fighting American. It is fine
country to visit, lots to see, a great
country, beautiful country, but live
there? No, America for me. did
not know how good an American /
was until left the United States
behind me and the best thing l saw
during all my trip was the view of the
hills of Denison last Saturday morn
ing
1t was pleasing to find in what
high esteem America is held by all the
European people with whom came in
contact. l overheard many conversa
tions about our count y. AT one table
l heard Germans extolling the great
ness of Roosevelt and on all sides l
found evidences of the esteem in which
America is held. American machin-
cry abounds, farm implen ents, tools.
tpyewriters, adding machines. cash
registers and hundreds of other arti-
cles bear the American labe'. Why
do they US. them? Some way the
Germans have not the trick of max
ing light. clever, handy tools. The
German machine is heavy. unwieldy.
clumsy and the manufacturers do not
seem to be able to break away from
this type. went to question ce-
ment manufacturer, owing to tie
scarcity and high price of timber, they
use much more cement than we do,
and started TO ask him soma ques-
tions about the cement business. He
said. "You are an American? Then
why do you ask questions about ce-
ment? About all we know about ! it
comes from America. Why, he con-
tinued. Il have little library at home
on cement and its manufacture and
uses. and nearly every word of that
library was written in America.
Mr.. Bale saw the Kaiser. Saw
him at Berlin and stood not more than
twenty feet from HIM. He says he
is a fine looking man. trifle gray
now, bat still better looking than his
pictures. He is the busiest man in
Europe, 50 Mr.. Bale thinks. THE
q y after saw him he was in Kiel,
then on his yacht the Hohenzollern.
inspecting the Baltic fleet and in two
days d .wn in Alsace Lorraine inspect
ing the garrisons. The soldiers never
know when he is going to drop in on
them and it keeps them doing their
best all the time. A German officers
life is no snap. At Munich. Baron,
army .of.er, had reighboring apart
ments and every morning at four
thirty we could hear his valet call him
for the early morning drill. Z" Mr..
Bale thiaks G-rnaLy is fully pre-
pared for war and he almost thinks
The country is looking for war and
rather willing that it should c me.
He went with an uncle Of MIR. Geo.
Naeve. at Kiel and saw the fleet Of
one hundred war ships, none smaller
than the cruiser type. Every night
the big guns spoke in the night gun
practice and during the day the forts
beloved away at the old hulls that
served for targets.
Throughout the empire he noted this
preparedness for war and he heard
much eager talk by those who count
war as among the near possibilities.
In the war museums he noted model
of an English torpedo boat and asked
the curator why there was no model Of
German torpedo boat. 1--WE show
no German MODELS" was the swift
, reply, "but we have those of all other
nations. The Germans have organ
| ICED wonderful fighting me chine.
They are afraid of no other country