Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1917-02-16

on your manner of conduct, your preferences the
things which you show curiosity and ~an-
derngs matters of archive for against
archive Carefully examined before your photo
graphs finger prints taken, and you are per-
mitted to depart for home
Every hotel clerk is part of police. The
waiter, the chambermad and boots in the
to take you unawares. 1t is policy to lead an
ingenious life, to court publicity by leaving
papers scattered in the and TO leave trunks and
unlocked the streets, park benches in the
cafes, the railway stations and upon the trains the
police are always for something
strange. At the first h Of Ominous mystery, trouble
grows rapidly for the unhappy suspect So
neutrals into Germany and hidden their
spy work under the cloak of business errands that
today an incurred suspicion is a dangerous thing.
An elaborate watch kept upon all aliens. Enemy
aliens, however, the old the women and those
German married subjects the enemy
countries are under restraining supervision. They
not leave the town in which they live They
report daily to the police Of their district and have
their special passes stamped They must exercise a
double caution in every act and word.
Besides this protecting of spies and precise
body of regulations the authorities have stationed
soldiers of the Landstrum around all public buildings
munitions factories, storehoses bridges railway
stations aviation grounds Zeppelin sheds along the
roads to the artillery stands and troop training
grounds. and. the frontiers along the
and roads
vised by the authorities. All of political or
economic nature, whether for internal foreign
sumption, is censored at the bureau of the
foreign office; all of military nature is
censored at the departments Office, all
news relating to naval affairs a similar bureau in
charge Of naval officers. The authorities have become
the sole arbers of literary They have however
welded their power lightly allow much vehement
criticism to be freely printed.
Even the German housewives had to conform
in Of
be standing patiently in line outside of
shops daries and grocery waiting
turns purchase their cards allowances On the
days of issue of the Patton cards they form long,
cisey moving lines at the points of distribution and
the single file they through the city
the days that pensions for soldiers wives paid
About everything military value has been requis-
toned Taxicabs and automobiles very scarce even
in Berlin. In Saxon town, which $500
automobiles before the there only three of
these conveyances still in operation, three
all too old to Horses, too, and
the smaller towns their places
have been taken by The the streets of
these smaller places impresses though clock
had been turned back some centuries the middle
ages were alive again. In of the smaller cities
grass is growing up between the cracks in the
ment, repairs have been neglected
little traffic to wear away its verdure
Things are as quiet as a Sunday in New England in
the towns and in the cities of middle no
noise of traffic the streets, clatter drays and
rattle of equpages. The pedestrians go their ways
silently. There is loud talking ringing laughter or
noisy calls. The first lvens up when regiment
with its band clashing martial music, marches away
All life in Germany is managed on military
principle under the wars stern necessity. The nation
dimes and sups rations Several house-tohouse
and apartment-to apartment censuses have been
taken. thorough copper nickel census was taken
In this connection it is worth mentioning most Of
the better homes and factories perhaps
with suggestions. copper roofs During
the period of copper scarcity before the path was
broken through Serbia, many of these copper roofs
were requistoned. and today the scafoIding
the buildings from which this precious conner WAS
removed to be replaced by tin