The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1917-11-02
GERMAN VENOM is HEAPED
ON YOUNG SINGER

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ing their hearings and being sentenced
to imprisonments with hard labor
one man got 20 years-and I did not
have the slightest idea what would be
done to me.
AT the end of two weeks / was
taken out, with racking cough and a
raging fever, for my hearing before
the military officials. They started
out with the belief that I was con-
cerned in plots and intrigues and ask
ed me enough questions to fill an I'M
abridged dictionary. They even asked
me what had been my ancestors at
titude towards Germany and when /
said I don't know they thought I was
trying to conceal something. And they
knew everything about me. That's the
wonder of the German system; it's the
| most marvellous thing of it's diabo1ical
kind in the world They wanted to
know why l had come to Barmen to
from Danzig. I asked them how they
knew that and they said they knew
pretty nearly everything about me. !
They did, too; they knew where | had
lived, whom I had studied with, how
long I had been in Switzerland when |
had pneumonia, every time | had run
over to Dusseldorf or Cologne to hear
the opera there-everything
Told He is Free
THE hearing lasted an hour and
then they told me l was free; but that
could not leave towns and must re-
port to the police every day They
took it for@granted that l had been
comfortably housed while waiting for
my hearing; the big, fat, selfish
brutes. They have no regard for any
thing like that; human life is just
machine to be worked and they will
send a man to prison for 10 or 20
years, or stand him up against a
wall to be shot just as they would
light a cigaret. This was my first
real taste of it, and l wasn't feeling
in Berlin when war was declared
His Singing Was Over
II was physically all through.
went back to my flat, but not to sing.
haven't sung note since. l had a
good doctor and for time picked up
/. little, living chiefly on smuggled food
which could be had then by paying 10
lines its usual price. But finally that
gave out and I began to run down.
Finally get hold of doctor who had
strength of character enough to say
hat if l did not get out of the coun-
ry l would die. He gave me an at
estation, which l sent in to headquar-
ers and was examined by a military
loctor for the final word After he fin
shed heard him say, in stage wills
Ter, we might as well let him go: he's
.oing to die anyway
How White Plague Helps
you see l had tuberculosis; a con-
agious disease, and that helped me to
ct out of the country, for the Germans
re anxious to get rid of all contagious
iseases, and it is marvellous, when
GU consider the state of the country
nd the awful lack Of food how they
ave kept down epidemics of all sorts
you have only to leave Germany
nd go into Switzerland to see what
Oh did not realize before, how pasty,
lin and unwholesome the faces of
lie Germans are compared to their
ell nourished neighbors across the
order.
Began With the Necktie
Il had to get across the border my nv
IT, an this was accomplished after
ore exposure, which made me worse.
, Lindau, where I could look across
ike Constance to Switzerland and
Onder if l was really going to get 4
ere, they took me into an icy cold
ON, stripped me naked in spite of
Y telling them how i'll I was, and
ade me stand there without any COW
ing until they had given all my
)thes a microscopic examination. If
~ had only begun with the under