Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1915-05-31
WASHINGTON PROFOUNDLY DISAPPOINTED OVER TONE Of GERANS REPLY

The bread ticket, II must be un-
derstood, does not pay for bread, but
only indicates the amount that may
| be Issued preliminary to payment.
Hence many persons send money with
the tickets they return in order that
the poor may obtain bread without
/ cost
In Koln rice was 20 pfennigs on &
cents) pound at private sale. IL is
now sold by the municipality at just
half that sum
In mid April the city authorities of
Aachen completed arrangements for
the sale Of potatoes at pfennigs
! OK cents) "A pound. This arrange
ment instantly brought the price
down from to pfennigs on a
pound.
The potatoes are sold at the turn
halle and at other municipal build
ings, and many shops also make the
sales on behalf Of the government.
Every inhabitant Is allowed TO buy
ten pounds of potatoes day.
Lecture on Cooking.
The municipality Of Aachen has
also appointed experts To give lee
lures and demonstrations showing
the poor how to cook TO the best adj
vantage. The experts make no charge
| for their services.
AT the best hotels in the large cities
the prices remain about what they
were before the war. The long even
ing meal costs a dollar and a quarter,
exclusive Of wine and If the diner
| likes sweet champagne he can buy
quart of one OF the better German
brands for couple of dollars.
In the smaller communities the
inevitable anxieties caused by thel
war are more keenly felt by the peo-
pie than in the capitals. and this pro-
duces an ailment known as ''war
blues" To lady in Aachen one of
her townswomen said few days
ago:
Dear friend, if you feel apprehen.
sivc and sad you must have a day in
Koln or Dusseldorf and see the con-
fidence and animation and the crowds
there. You will come back to Aacher
cured"
The lady followed the prescription
and saw the sights In KOln which ]
described in the first of these three
letters-the crowded streets, the
busy shops, and the thousands upon
thousands of soldiers. At the end of
the holiday she said:
We'll am not going TO worry
about the war any more. After what
have seen today / know that my
country is safe
| And she went back beaming.
Contempt for America.
As to German feeling toward the
United states, / think, can write
with correctness. During the last
fortnight it has shifted from the
downright animosity to languid
sort of contempt
1t seems to me that Germany has
ceased to hope for a friendly attitude
on the part of our country and has
reconeiled herself to the fact that our
neutrality is more of the letter than
of the spirit.
Toward Americans as individuals |
however, the Germans continue kind, !
and there is not an American corre- |
spondent in Berlin who does not re-
ceive daily proof of that in both of
fetal and private affairs.
AS to the admonition which many |
Americans claim to have received |
Don't speak that accursed English |
language here have never heard
it, though ] have to make frequent use |
Of my native speech,
think affronts of that kind |
mean the admonition in question-de- |
pend a good deal on the manner OF |
the person affronted. If in speaking I
the language of a hostile nation In I
Germany one rubs it in and is loud |
and superclious / suppose one must |
pay the price, and, as our countrymen |
are not noted for their reticence when |
they travel abroad, it is probable that !
a good many of them have had to /
pay,
A Good-hearted People.
The Germans are, nevertheless. at |
heart a good-natured and an obliging I
people and profuse in the little civili- /
ties that make life so much easier to
live.
The other day ! sought a shoe store |
on Friedrich strasse in Berlin that |
sells make of American shoes. / |
had forgotten the address. The Ger
man friend with whom | was walking I
promptly stepped into the nearest T
shoe store and asked the name of the I
firm that sold the American shoes.
A clerk came to the door, pointed to
a building two squares away and SAID
that was the place. He was very
friendly and did not suggest that he
could sell us as good or better
shoe
Another time I was sitting at cof-
fee i'm a crowded restaurant and
asked the waiter the way to n book
store that would be likely to have
English editions Of Baedecker. lie
responded with somewhat involved di-
rections in a torrent of German, ana
/ suppose | looked rather blank.
Anyway ] left the place and so did
man who had been sitting at the next
table.
made my way down the street to
what / thought must be the right
turning. on the wav ! paused to look
in two or three shop windows ana
whenever | did n well-dressed man
who was walking in front of me slack
ened his pace a little. | wondered IN
differentiation one gets used to be-
ing watched these days-if he were
one of the civilian police and was see
ing what | was up to.
When | reached the corner OF
Friedrich strasse and Mohren strasse
turned west. The man who had been
strolling in front of me also turned
and lifting his hat said in English
"You have it right. Four doors 10
the west on this side of the street IS
the bookstore you are seeking. Il
Then he mended his pace and dls-
appeared in the crowd. 1t was the
man who had overheard my question
in the restaurant.
Violent Feeling Deprecated
The government, so the American
correspondents Of long experience III
Berlin tell me, rather deprecates any
disnosition on the part of certain Ger