Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-03-15

The Pies Mother Used to Mako
In half-whimsical tone but with ssr,,..
purpose, Elmer Davis, who proudly actro,s
edges his own German ancestry. assert, /.
the Forum (3), that the "FatherlanT !,
which our German American boasts 80 mneb
is fiction of his dreams, like the clas,.
pies mother used to make.
The Germans who came to the Middla W..
In the fifties were moved by divers rss.ass
Ihe pest of them were the men Of Az
lntellectualS and liberals whose dreams IA
gone down before the musketry of sereHIs
SINUS, and who hoped to find in the nav
country a place where they might brIld
new home for their spirits tovn
dwellers who wanted to eVade military seryITs
and peasants who wanted to become Soma
thing more than peasants. In the main th
German Americans of the Middle West A.
descended from South Germans Of IN
irst half of the 10Th century, than which y
type more different from the conauering Prus
sian of 1914 has ever lived upon this earth.
Ana here is the very reason why tkgr
sons are so headlong in their allegiance d
the Germany of William the Second Tbey
were idealists, those men-sentimentaIEt
even. And their sons have so ideallzed tie
Germany builded by the men who drou
them out that they think 1t the same sort d
Germany that their defeated and exned
AtNtiiSAo "Oulu nave DullI Idu lnelr dreams
reached fruition. The typical German Is not
a pugnacious person. And when he graia
his pacific ideals on the Germany Of Bis
marclt and says, Behold my FatherandF
why he makes himself ridiculous,
The Review of Reviews translates from
the Internationale Monatschrift O review
German economic conditions by one Of theI
economists 20:
On tha ,uhp1n Ia fnIs fIa sff nof 4
bad as might have been expected: Ns
should have thought world war would stop
the economic machinery entirely. But We
now see there Is no danger Of this. ana y
is not to be thought that the future wtl
make things essentially worse. The greatest
injury we suffer naturally is the break In our
relations with foreign lands. But even ths
is not necessarily fatal. In any event Fe
have enough food in the country TO i've On
The raw material for some of the most IN.
portant industries we can sJtY
get through neutral States =
Swedish iron ore. Other things such as ~
per, wool and cotton, we hope to ootan =
way of neutral countries. Presumably -
lands efforts to have them declared eo9uss
band will be successfully controVerIea Y
America, who is so strongly interests
their export.
John Reed. lately returned from the uoaz
gives a pleasant sense of neatness and y
patch and good fellowship in the Germ
army, in an article in the metropolitan v't
Don't imagine that German soldiers aIs
cruel, arrogant race. They have done mes1 i
admirable things. L am sure that sons :
those little northern French towns W. W.
were so clean, so intelligently olssa'5 olsa =
Everywhere they have reopened scnosoI, III ri
churches; they have re-establsheo ~ ~.
institutions and charities; they nave 49,. ~.
whole towns. lighted every house WIN - -
tricity-placed up-to-date hospitals - X
by the finest doctors i'm the world az w w E
disposal of the humblest citizen. bgt 49,
cruel mockery, This is q conquereo y - =
AS we rode about the country, nissiy, ~
hatred darkened every face tnat Nek IS
our passing automobiles ana lhosS Sh,,Sa
came last caught the curses that We'9 ~
after us, "Cochons! Boches! ..s
A cafe had been turned into z 49,
bierstube, where an enormous lhlahusea hlaraes
In a leathern apron sat behind gresl 6sse.s w.
Muenchener beer and deep-voiceo a. si pis5z
choruses echoed out across the Granqls .ss,,r.
at Verdun, which is one of the archis' tessi
glories of France. They were pis, &
childlike people, those German soiu1lss,ia 1s,iae
welcomed us with a good -natured hls.1t ~. ~
STEMS and wouldn't let us pay lot VI irslaA
The room was full of cigar sInohsi 80 s.
deep laughter and the clinking OF sis a.
glasses, and a song that began WV nnesi
voice and swelled IN three notes 70 Solhs|
volume, as half the room joined IN ND -
were writing lstters over their beer, ~ ~ a
others, with open books before usstiarsn
wet tables, droned aloud ike SnH@c +
school They We're learning trehch'