New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-06-30
The Prussian West Point
Blu Frances c. Fay

and tossed its fare as a camel does; though
never earthly camel sang and walled rs u'u
the overhead wires of that experimental
line. It went along Wihelmstrasse and past
= long stretch of desert land such as We
find in our growing Western towns. IL sSir'eo
swamp. an ideal playground for those
children who were not afraid TO brave
parents. tutors and governesses, and VINO
built RATS and played brlgands there TOD
hing wild ducks nests, bringing down theit
winged quarry with rough bows and arrows
and adding many chapter TO ROBINSON
Crusoe. The swamp has been drained and
houses built where the ducks nested. me
change is Distressing for one who spent for-
hidden hours C childhood in those enchant-
ing acres.
Face Th.; Tell of War
The cheltnut-lined streets Of old Gross
Tichterfelde-Ost are peaceful and beautifu
indeed when June lights their fowery candles
Of red and white. They would seem remoteI
than ever from the horrors OF these bloody
wears il il were not for the faces or 'he
women passing under the green canopies.
The west OF the big suburb, beyond the
Kadetten Anstalt, is typical OF the herman!
that would stoop TO any crime to gain wha'
Germans euphemistcally call "a place III
the sun" l. lies on the railway line from
Berlin 10 Potsdam, 10 Warnensee, the Grune'
wald and all the Sunday amusement re-
sorts of the capital. II il the chosen sue
for the homes Of the newly rich and tneli
more or less military sons-in-law. For with
the wears the odur of the shopkeepins
west has faded and he cadets have consented
to accept invitation.
, Not many wears aso the east looked upon
the west witt lie dlscain Of the professional
man for t. ~,ar who takes pennies across
a counter, and tne social ways OF that Vul'
garian west were matter OF complete IN
difference TO the old established bourgeoisie
of the east. And whatever the west migh'
see TT 10 do. the east continued 70 hght shy
of the Kadetten Anstalt and all IT'S WORKS
Yet the most settled easterner could never
know when some acquaintance from the
provinces might not take 1t into his heao
20 send his boy to the military factory and
infct that ruture officers presence upon
quiet civilian families for his Sundays and
holidays Such visits were disturbing to the
people who had built their sober homes
around the granite churches OF the two time
FORGOTTEN parent villages, Giessensdorf and
Lichterfeldc, and around their old church
wards. where many good German, OF the
lies buried.
II was not so much the fault Of the cadets
themselves that they were unpopular; II
was the fault of the machine that ground
them out In his first year the lad OF
twelve or thirteen was amusing in his dark
blue uniform and with his childish attempts
to play the officer and gentleman. Six years
later. before his graduation, he was pest
causing valued old servants to give notice
and insulting his hosts with the arrogance
of one into whom it had been drilled that
he was much closer related TO the gods OF
Walhalla than to the mere merchants, bank
ers. manufacturers and professional people
established in plebeian comfort within their
villas.
In Lichterfelde- Field of Lights-many a
light has gone dark since the war began;
but on one house darkness has fallen which
the sun itself cannot dispel.