The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1915-05-13

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Frederick Palmer In Golfers Weekly.
all the warning nations in their presswork.
Wherever brains at the top exert power
oyer a disciplined mass they excel: Reg
ularly the representatives of the German
press are called up and given their or
ders.
When I was in Berlin In late October
me German government had emfssarles IA
petroSrad trying to arrange a separate
treaty of peace with the Russians, ana
emissaries In Rome trying to arrange with
France. Therefore the orders were for the
Dress to say nice things about the Rus
slams. As for the French, the Germans
admired their bravery and spirit. The two
people had everything in common HOW
deluded they were to fight to pull chest
ush!
What the Russians were offered I don
know: but I do know that the French were
offered Alsace-Lorraine. Both the Rus
mo-"
government in one week In the English
and the French press-and there is little
enough criticism there-than throughout
the war tn Germany, that marvel Of ma
Whether It was in the aking of Bel
gium or in establishing the submarine
blockade, the patriotic duty Of the German
foreign. office was to make these actions
tolerable to the neutral peoples. German
diplomats Numbered at first. but study
and organization found out the way. They
W~'o tipPVb I'LL lile pllileu ottlSo
THAT public opinion was formed there not
by propaganda or editorials or state pa
9ers. but by the human interest In the
daily news on the breakfast table.
The professors to the rear and the re-
porters to the front! There was no dan
ger or the communication OF military Sc
chosen section Of a trench, or If a great
general invited a correspondent to lunch
and chatted with him as If he were an old
college chum. The order was passed; 1t
was obeyed.
America was soon learning how the Ger
man soldiers lived 1t was hearing stories
, Of their %comradship, their Kindness to
cheer amid .hardships. Any battalion
which was Shown off, knew its cue. All
soldiers. In face Of an enemy, are attrac-
tive In their courage, their fellowship: and
your apple-cheeked German boy, instead
or being engaged in atrocities, was exhib-
tied as a simple, lovable fellow-as he Is
in the ranks
Photographs of German soldiers posed
with broad smiles in rear, not frontal,
trenches; German soldiers feeding Belgian
children. moving pictures of the destruc-
ton of East Prusslan towns by the Rus
slams, of guns firing, of any number of de-
tails Which gave the impression of In
vincibility and human good nature were
played before the American public with
the desired effect.
Then the crown prince and Won Hin
denburg and all the great leaders ave
out interviews, because it was learned
that the American reader liked interviews.
You need not say anything important or
give any news or information in an in
terview. The glamour of the name car
ried 1T to those Americans. Very simple
people, the Americans. And there was a
way to get them. There is q way to get
everybody. You must appear to be very
frank with the Americans: and so the
great men appeared very frank. II a fake
would help to win American opinion. then
let the fake go.
A reporter wanted an interview with
Von Wittingen, the submarine comman-
Crecy and Hoge. He was shown portions
of Won Wittengen's report without seeing
Won Wittengen, and he made a most read.
tble intervtew-which the German censor
,assed.