Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1917-10-28
Pittsburgh Girl Just Home
From Abroad Says Unrest
in Prussia is Growing.
FOOD RIOTS ARE DESCRIBED
Rich People and Officers Don't
Go Hungry-Just the
Common People.
by MARIE BONINI BROWN
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ltOpyright lbli, 10y flttsburgh fressl
was waiting anxiously and impa-
tiehtly In my little flat which | shared
with a girl friend at PrinZ Regent
Strassc. 6, Perrin. Germany, on Fri
day, June 20, 1917, for "a telegram tell
ing me that the money Tor which |
had cabled to return home had come.
had waited SIX weeks for that tele
gram each day hoping that before the
sun would set | would be started on
my way lack home. to the United
states, which never had looked so
good TO me as It did, viewed those last
few weeks from the heart OF war-torn
Germany.
The telegram came about noon,
brought bN "A little girl. one of the
hundreds of little girl messengers in
J;crlin (for the boys are either fighting
or farming) As tore open the tele-
gram | excitedly called TO my friend,
ITS the money--l'm going home
home whore IN get enough 20 cat"
The chiid who had brought the tele-
gram looked at me wisttully her hun
ser filled eyes piteous.
"Wc don't get enough to cat here,
she said. If the kaiser hadn't started
he war, we wouldn't be In it,
And that | found this last year,
especially since the United states en-
tered the conflict, is the sentiment of
plore Germans than the kaiser knows.
The unrest in Germany is growing
every day-at least IL was all during
tho war while | was there, and ] went
to Rerlln in 1914. and left less than
Two months aso. am sure matters
are no better now than when ! left
with ilttlc 20 eat. little hope. military
restrictions hedging them I'm so mat
they can scarcely breathe. graft sap
ping the strength of the people, and
poverty crushing them down, The great
mass of Germany's people want peace
They have come to the point that they
10 not ask for Belgium; they do not
lsI for Alsace Lorraine; they 90 not
tx for Poland-they want their own
,umes and fresides and enough to eat
People Won't Start II Revolution.
But they never Will start 4 revolu-
ton, in my opinion. The German peo-
pie have been under The thumbs of the
kaiser and his war lords too long
Also, they have no leader. There is no
man in the empire big enough to stand
on his feet and defy the kaiser and. If
there were. so efficient is the German
military system. so closely knit are the
iron bands which hold the people to-
gcther to the will of their emperor
that no sooner would such an intrepid
soul find his feet than he would lose
his head.
The Germans are a splendid people
They are enduring privatlons and
hardshlps in their lives such as they
never knew before With a courage
which is marvellous, they are facing
the fact that practically the whole civ
ilized world is fighting them. Men
women. youths and girls and children
are all imbued with such spirit OF
loyalty that even though they will
admit under their breaths that the
Feiser has done wronG: that German
power has been used illegitimately:
that German ruthlessneSs has broken
the prestige OF the German people. ye'
few will say these things aloud. and
none will be 50 rash as thus publicly to
express himself.
II goodly portion Of American
pep" could be introduced into the
veins of those stolid Germans. together
with little real news OF what is GO
ing on in the world. am confident
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