The Dermott news., 1915-03-25
ADIEU' IS TABOOED
"God Punish England" Is Now
 Germans Good-Day.
French Farewell Gives Way to Hate Revealing Curse-Few Outward Signs of Great War-B Same
 for Americans.
By OSWALD F. sCHUETTE.

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 Berlin, Germany In Cologne the other day found chat Che tahooed 'adieu winch Is French-is being II. placed by God punish England The newspapers are cembauaE tbt4 fare. well curse but it is terrible 70 uozl how deeply rooted it has become To hear such words fram white haired motherly woman as yeu bId a.r good by leaves d scar iii the memory And such hatred must leave a scar oB the nation that ehertshes jt Hut then. this war will lgaFe EuaaE sears ua1 only here but throughout che world
 Into Cologne. while Vas there cane a gray bearded BafarIau ae9t,s sor He was driving supply wagon His soH was an officer in another regTz meut Ky the magic power oi .ut8 enee he had been able to gel hlmealt enrolled as private, tIe taHe0 8 vivid light also Ga the German bafraa of England
 My only prayer. 8e sad. a that God will grant me tnrea weeks Ia Eas land. Then am reaaE ta GHa
 Hoes if sound 6iaspae#ous Woa yeu must remember that these people are all under terrific sfraa Ii is ortel to judge them harsaiy m tag ca'mness of an American home Everywhere I find ,bls same hatred For the French there Is nothing bat sympathy. for the Ruas.aas p.s Hu for the English almost every Gaensa I have talked to hu4 gwen utteraaee to this hate.
 When you 20 back to your hotel for dinner and rba first feur women WAo enter Che dining room are in deepest mourning 1t all comes homo to you with choking heart throbs. NoV they add new and bitter complaint + is hard to listen if you are an American They tell you that tue Var would be over if only America did not sell arms and ammunition to the euemcs of Germany Nor is it easy to answer with a statement about the strct right of neutral states to sell whatever and to Whomeycr theN please =espe cially if the one to whom you speak is mother-or was the mother Of a son who sleeps with an American bul let in his heart.
 It is great tragic drama this strug gle of nation for ifs life Yet the outward signs of war are few There are soldiers in Che streets But so there were in peace Some of them are wounded, but the number you see is so slight that f demonstrates uoth= ing
 As far as the people themselves are Voncerued there Is nc sign to show that the nation is battling for it's life The theaters have marked no decrease in attendance. All the great opera houses of Germany are filled as be- fore
 Travel Is as great as ever Trains in every direction are filled as heavily as they were i'll times of peace
 Sometimes 1 think the people ot Germany do not realize enough that we really are at war. said the editor of one of the most important German newspapers. Maybe the new order to conserve our bread supplies will re- mind them of it.
 But once you begin to meet people in their homes, away from the more formal etiquette of casual street intro auctions, you find soon enough that Germany realizes it is struggling for it's national life. There is hardly family that has not helped to pay the terrible price. Father. or son, or brother or husband, or cousin, or at- fianced, lies dead in the fields of France or Belgium or Russia.