Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1915-12-27
American Recently Back From Says Teutons Now
Hard-PreSsed for Men-Latest Drafts Poor Material
People Show Wonderful PatriotiSm-Says High Officials
Want Peace Foreseeing No Final Victory ~
BY Frederick Sehwed. In the New
York World.

BY Frederick Schwed. In the New
York World.
Can American who recently visited
both England and Germany.
In Berlin, whatever rumors there
are run to optimistic exaggeration and
illusion. Love of country and abso-
Lutte faith in her destiny burns so
bright here that it almost excuses
the faults OF vain and arrogant peo-
pie. Every one, from highest to low
est, has some new marvel to point at
as an overwhelming surprise to the
enemy; some reassuring explanation
to give of how each threatened dim
Guilty is to be met. Once shake this
mental poise and it is hard to say
how the mass of the people would
stand defeat; In what direction this
intensity would be driven by doubt
or despair. The Berlin mob has prov
ed on other occasions as ugly as any
on earth, and 1t is simple wisdom for
even the most wonderful of bureau
cracies to keep 1t exalted and assured
Of victory.
While on the subject of mobs, let
me say I believe the so-called food
riots were misrepresented by Reuter-
and the English press, both as to
origin and inwardness.
People Were Exploited.
The facts are that this years potato
crop in Germany was IL per cent
greater than any previous record and
the people rejoiced in natural hope
that the high price would immediate.
ly fall. Instead, potatoes rose stead.
lily until the poorer man was in de-
spair. From despair and a1nazenient
he passed to anger, and after invest.
cation to riot For 1t proved that
the land barons, the large landholders.
had practically cornered the crop and
were using the nations stress to
make enormous profits. The panacea
OF government Intervention was used
and that paterfial organization has
completely righted things by regulat.
ing this, as well as other food prices.
For the moment it would take a
prejudiced person to say that Ger.
many is in dire distress over food or
raw materials. Punched here and
there she certainly is, and rigid con-.
servation.s IL naturally the first law.
Also. the more one gets away from
the big towns, the more acute is the
suffering. But as these latter dis
tricts are the furthest away from the
and are not powerful
enough to be an internal menace, the
government continues to dress" the
Berlin show window.
Therefore the sincerely impressed
resident American newspaper CORES
pendent continues serene in his belief
that the wonderful country of his
adoption is unruffled and untouched
For the high-class Teuton is q person
IF Irresistible charm If he so chooses
Ibid wins over the useful neutral
with keen and clever compelling cour-
tesy. y sti
No Ticket, No Bread.
or course there is the bread ticket
Tor each individual, and without it one
ian have no bread. Even at an Amer.
can luncheon given to Ambassador
Gerard at the Hotel Adlon each oil
BUR invitations reminded us to be
,haperoned by our bread tickets On
TWO days of the week CMonday and |
Thursday no meat-is permitted to be
served or sold throughout the king
ION, and on Tuesday and Friday no