The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1915-04-20
DEFEAT is LAST.
THOUGHT OF THE.
LOYAL GERMAN
AMERICAN BANKER TELLS or
CONDITIONS HE FOUND ~
BERLIN. WHICH he LEFT.
NJ ASSOCIATED PRESS.

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London. April is.-An American
banker who has JUST returned from
Berlin. talked with a p1rty Of Eng
lish newapapeFmen on his arrival in
London. Tie gave them rather a diff
ferent idea Of the state ~ affairs IN
Berlin than that conveyed BY most 81
the English Newspaper comment He
said.
You English should not be ae-
ceiEed BY newspaper statements reach
Ing gJu from various Continental
points 20 the effect that Germany Is
on the brink OF starvation. have
just closed my house in the fashion
able residential part of Berlin. My
household budget was not more than
twenty-five per cent higher on March
30 than IL was a year ago. Various
staple articles 81 foed cost more--as
they do IN Loneon-tut hardly one r.
beyond the reach ~ the ordinary
middle class househo. der, or even of
the humber classes. Everybody must
have a bread ticket. and there Is no
shortage Of bread. My family of four
and two servants never used the whole
81 cur tlckets for the week. The po-
tato-flour bread Is oniy slightly less
paiatahle than the ala-tlma wheaton
LOAF.
AT present no German Is capable
even of dreaming 81 the possibility q
defeat
II find also a vast amount Of foot
ish misrepresentation In England about
Industrial conditions la Germany.
Trade does not seem 20 me 10 have
been materially dislocued. The shops
appear 10 have their regular Tow 81
customers. The coffee houses. tho
restaurants. the theatres. the concert
halls. the picture palaces. and other
establishments dependent on public
patronage seem to ba doing az wei
as eight months ago. The ccefea
houses which have cabarets ara all
| ways crammed
Is Il generally understood here that
Il Germany a az the moment short q
artisan labor Unemployment Is al
/ most nonresident Vases are high
A skilled man who used 70 set only
81 or kl1b a day can now earn 81 so
or s.. Everything connected with the
output u munitions - working az
utmost capacity day and night. sun
days and holidays. without cessation,
New factories have sprung up like
mushrooms "a produce goods hereto
fore imported into Germnnp.
"A German friend Of mine who used
% make furniture and found his bus
mess temporarily shelved b the war
f. now making shraInel empioyine
women and girls in p ace 81 the men
who have gone 20 the front
IT Is also wrong e. conclude. a.
sometimes read in the English news
papers. that Germany Is 80 near ths
eregs - Ter resources that boys OF rf-
teen are being draEooned into tht
army. Nothing II the sort A Ger.
man LAD Of my acquaintance. a fine
athletic fellow of eighteen. has mol
been summoned although he Is ready
60 volunteer. They DO not need him
In short. % the casual observer
there Is no outward sign that Germany
e. ON the verge % a famine in eltheI
men. provisions. munitions or money
The pientfalness ~ money is aimos
the only bluff that Germany Il put
ting un. The money - 'plentifufiy q
circulation . paper currency of valui
as low as IS cents. flywlnx from a.
Imperial treasury like water
& The Germans ia my Judgment
/ thanks G. farsighted precautionaF,
& measures and natural frugaiity. cal
never Re starved into surrender The.
can be tncanvenienced they are nor
: --put that Is different thing