South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1917-12-04

servatiou that the great mass OF
German people are kept I'm isno-
1 rance OF much OF the frightfulness
\ which the Germans have deliberate
/ is practiced.
! The people, fhe ordinary people
: met / mean. seemed 10 take 10
I heart more the destruction of towns
I than human beIngs. They can be
! more people II heard more than
\ once. "but the beautiful buildings.
\ the pictures. the art works never
+ can be restored
The Germans worship art. They
/ are am artistic people i'm many ways,
as the world knows. And the Ger
I man people have grieyed over the
destruction OF the wonderful cathe-
drals, the beautiful Old-wOrld towns
and magnificent buildings I'm Bel
I GUM and Northern France.
Mingled with their grief is a sell
/ fish sorrow as we'll for Germany
y hoped TO have all these towns and
buildings herself And the German
eye ever is open TO the money paid
by tourists 10 see these works OF
art
I have heard Germans even com
pare those beautiful buildings. now
wrecks. with buildings in their own
empire. How bad we would feel"
"a woman said TO me one day, IF
our kaiser's palace would be de
| stroyed"
Think America Money Mad.
1 really think that the heart of
+ Germany would break If anything
4
/ ing.
That is another thing about Amer
lea i'm which they show their con-
tempt-Our newness. "America-it
has no buildings. no towns. every
thing is dirt and rubbish" they will
say. Even the Germans who have
4 been here. take back no word of
praise for us. They must acknowl-
edge our mills, our industries. but
they will not give us any credit for
/ having o soul for art over here.
Money money. that is all the Amer
leans think of" they say.
/ / could have stood the anger
against Americans. but the sneers
and slurs flung at my country some
times were more than 1 could bear.
remember one time. after the
United states entered the war
German girl friend Ct had a few
/ invited me TO a tea.
viii there be any other Ger
| mans there 1 asked.
] Yes" she said
Wei, I told her, you had bet
! ter let them know / am coming
/ She called them up. and every one
/ of the German girls refused TO come
because an American girl was COM
ing TO. OF course, I stayed away so
as not 20 spoil her tea
have had German women turn
away and refuse 10 take an intro
duction
German men. when introduced.
have saluted with a sneer and then
deliberately turned their back, or.
Immediately they knew I was an
American. attempted to take some
familiarity.
Hated Americans.
They think American girls will
permit familiarities that German
girls would resent.
When the United States entered
the war. j was living i'm a pension,
La boarding house. OF course.
great many people ate at the same
table and there were many Germans
there. 1 simply had TO leave and
go with my girl friend in a little
flat as the German boarders said
they would leave if I remained.
! When the mother of my girl
friend. the newspaper correspondent
left Berlin, the kommandatore said
right 70 her face This is the last
damned American / viii help get
out of Berlin" That was what made
me so afraid that 7 would not be
allowed 20 90, when 1 finally did
ask for my passport, and was so
long getting IT,
= Another incident I know Of-Mr
| Ferguson. who buys the supplies for
the kitchen for Camp Ruhleben,
where the Englishmen are informed.
used TO come and visit the woman
who had charge of the pension
where he stayed before ne was in
termed. a German officer Of course,
came right with him. He would
come when he came TO Berlin TO
buy his supplies
The woman had To tell him 20
discontinue his visits as she said
all her German boarders threatened
10 leave.
There seems TO be more bf a con-
temptuous withdrawal from Amer
leans on the part of the Germans
than a scorchinS hate such as they
feel toward the English. IL is hate,
sure enough, but not the same kind.
think il is more deadly than that
which they feel toward the English.
The Germans have been hating
the English 40 years or more. They
have been hating us only a few
months But i'm that time IL GER
tainly has grown 10 stupendous
/ proportions.
Civilians ". Soldiers.
one thing / cannot understand.
with all the hunger there is in Ber-
lin how the Germans look calmly
at the officers quartered there who
have the fat of the land.
The officers in Berlin have a spe-
cial kitchen OF their own. II is i'm
Inter den Linden. and they I've