The Washington times., 1917-10-15

= engineers marching over newly c
Washington Barracks last Saturday.
and other large business institutions
\ were filed with. women workers, who
invaded the sacred precincts Of many
military and governmental Offices.
A curious development OF the hate
Of all things foreign was the hunt
led by the police president of Ber-
lin, Won Jagow (a cousin of the for
eign minister), for foreign words.
Won Jagow and his fellow cranks de-
| cided that all words of foreign origin
must be expunged from the German
language The title of the Hotel
Bristol, on the Inter den Linden. dis
! appeared. The Hotel Westminster, on
the same street. became Lindenhof.
There is a large hotel called the
Cumberland, with q pastry depart
ment over which there was a sign,
the French word, "coniiserie." The
management was compelled TO take
this sign down, but the hotel was
allowed to retain the name "cumber-
land" because the father-in-law of
| the Kaiser's only daughter Is the
Duke OF Cumberland.
chauffeur Eliminates.
The word chauffeur was elimi-
mated and there were many discus
sions as to what should be substI-
tuted. Many declared for '1lraftwa-
genfuhrer," or power wagon driver"
But finally the word was Germanized
as "shaufcoer." DresGmakers took
down the sign "confektion" But the
climax came when, the general in
command of the town Of Breslad
wrote q confectIoner telling him to
! stop the use of. the word "bonbon"
toner, with sense of humor and a
nerve unusual in Germany, wrote
back to- the general that he would
gladly discontinue the use of the
word "bonbon" when the general
ceased to call himself general" and
called the attention OF this high Mill
tary authority to the fact that gen
eral" was as much q French word as
"bonbon."
Unusual means were adopted In or
der to get all the gold coins in tho
country into the Imperial Bank.
There were signs in every surface
and underground car which read thar
whoever keeps back q gold coin In
lures the Fatherland." And IL q SOL
der presented to his superiors a 10
mark gold piece. he received in re-
turn 20 marks in paper money and
two days leave OF absence. In like
manner q schoolboy who turned in
10 marks in gold received 10 marks
In paper and was given a half-holi-
day. Cinematograph shows gave
those patrons who paid in gold an
extra ticket. good for another day.
An American woman residing in
Berlin was awakened one morning at
s o'clock by two police detectives,
who told her that they had heard that
she had some gold coins in her DOS
session, and that If she did not turn
them in for paper money they would
wreck her apartment in their search
for them. She, therefore, gave them
the gold, which I afterward succeeded
In getting the German government to
return to her. Later the export OF
gold was forbidden; even travellers
arriving with gold were compelled to
give It up In return for paper money.
Neutral Countries Feeding Germany.
While, of course, I cannot ascer.
tain the exact amounts, 1 found,
nevertheless. that great quantities of
food and other supplies came into
Germany from Holland and the Scan
dinavian countries, particularly from
Sweden. Now that we are in the war,
we shall take strong measures,
trust, to cut on exports to these
countries, which export food, raw
material, and the like to Germany.
Sweden is particularly active in this
traffic, but understand, that sulphur
pyrites are sent from Norway, and
sulphuric acid made therefrom Is an
absolute essential to the manufacture
OF munitions of war.
Potash, which Is found as a min |
eIal only In Germany and Austria, !
was used in exchange OF commodities
with Sweden, and in this way much |
copper. lard, and so on reached Ger.
many.
Early in the summer OF 1915 the !
frst demonstration took place in Ber- |
lin. About 500 women collected in
front OF the Relchstag building.
They were promptly suppressed by ]
the police, and no newspaper printed !
women were rather vague in their |
demands. They called Won Buelow |
an old fathead for his failure In |
Italy, and complained that the whipped |
cream was not as good as before /
the war. There was some talk of
high prices for food, and the women /
all said that they wanted their men
back from the trenches
visit Of Jane Adams to Berlin.
Early summer brought also a num-
Der of cranks TO Berlin. Miss Jane
Adams and fellow suffragists, after
holding q convention in Holland,
on Berlin. I succeeded In get
ting both the Chancellor and Won
Jagow to consent to receive them,
to which they looked for
ward with unconcealed perturbation.
However, one of them seems to have
Impressed Miss adams, for a. ! write