The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1915-01-26


left TO fight in Germany t. women |
will take up arms" declared Miss |
Eleanor Painter, who invests lilac |
domino with life at the Forty fourth |
Street Theater every evening. Miss |
Painter knows The Germans well and |
loves them Well, for she lived among
them in her neutrality-suspicious." days
and sang for them when they APP
peaSed both her artistic and her plain
human hunger by a contract to sing
the leading roles in the Charotten-
| burg opera But more t, ! that
she knew the leading 10 -rHalists
and writer's in the German capital,
and when she left for this country
| soon after the war broke out, when
the bles had been cut, when the
4 Tuckerton and Sayville wire less sta
| tons were out Of commission and the
English censOrS were very active,
these journalists intrusted to Ter keep
! ing precious manuscripts which they
! could not trust to the mails.
When l came over / was, OF
/ course, filled with enthusiasts 81 for the
! German cause: I had heard nothing
but their side Of things, ikt when I
! came here and heard and read all
that the people and the newspapers
had to say, l was perpleXed, indeed.
What should I believe? OF diplo-
macy and international law ] profess
to know little, but I have seen tie
Germans in war time and my admira
ton for them is unbourdeG. The ir
spirit is not one Of loud hurra hing,
Of jingoism and bravo -o--but so dig
nfied, so worthy, SO quiet. The
bravery Of the women is exaltins;
they do not complain, but neither
do they accept the war as being
something inevitable; they regard it
| m no 1S /
wax and they are heart and soul in
it, to give everything they possess
even themselves.
Not Hypnotized.
enc, no--they haven't been hypno-
riZed into patriotism"-she laughed
: to scorn the suggestion made ny one
| Of the lunch party to whom she was
, talking, 'it comes from their
> hearts The Germans have g spirit OF
{ self-sacrifice which has helped tC
= build up their empire-it is what has
: made their social organization Sc
2 perfect because it is built on cooper
alton and not on personal aggran-
: dizement, we find it here. 1t is
: also what strengthened the appeal Of
y Socialism in their ranks.
n Yes, l know, the Interna tiOnal:
G have blamed the Socialists for quit
:. ting but like all the others, they
o were Germans first-and Socialists o.
: artists or dreamers OF world peace
e afterward! The industrial, artistic
: and professional classes hated tn
d Prussian militarism as much as W.
Americans do, but when they saw tha
G it must be defended to save the COun
) try they joined heartily in the defense
e And nothing but exhaustion can 500
them.
There may, Of course, be q socia
r, revolution If the resources give GU
- and poverty becomes unbearable
There is always that danger. But it i
- not imminent. Though they saiG
IS when ! was over there, that the gov
eminent had given orders TO kee
!, Berlin a gay metropolis, to keep a
the theatres restaurants, movies,
operas and so on, open all in usua
working order, so that the peopl
(the rank and file) might not sU<
pect how formidable the war was no
er realize what effects on their ordinar
10 lives 1t would have. Berlin, bein
y the center Of Socialism, they sait
d must be kept in normal conditions {
oT all costs"
r She discussed Kultur and the Be
De gian situation, did this rosebud Of
prima donna, with such WiSd ON an
l. understanding that one did not Wo1
We fder that Journalists had made 8 COZ
rs fidante Of her.
. The Girl Herself
IL
he Tell U.S. they said, when The
ar heard we were to meet her, is 81
IS really as charming as herself as s.
pd is in the ply?"
q The answer to that is 3 most en
= phatic more So"
y. She has the genuine charm OF
a. WhOlesouled person who takes ever,
thing i'll life seriously except heree
a. and who ten2pers that serousnc
no with rare good humor. She has ii
a. youth OF spirit that meets life wi,
enthusiasm-b she seems TO hay
escaped the foolishness that so ofte
goes with it
AS she won't talk about herself OF
had to gather the facts Of her ear
career {very early, because it is ST
as in it's Inorning) from one who know
ct her well. It's story as full Of actit
Dr. as u +'moyie" plot
rs. She was born in WalkerVille low