The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1918-11-21
CHANGE
IN BERLIN FINDS
PEOPLE LISTLESS
Little to Show That Great Up
heaVal Has Come as Citizens
Are Too Much Interested in
Food Problems.
ORDER GRADUALLY is
BEING WORKED OUT
War Worn Nerves of POpuIaCe
Too faded by Years Of
Struggle to Care Much Re-
garding What Occurs.

BERLIN. Nov. 81. tBy the Associated
Press Berlin has had a week of v
luton, yet the streets have the same
appearance they presented during the
war, with the exception OF the absence
Of newspaper reference to events along
the front, A casual visitor would not
be aware that this has been the storm
center Of a gigantic political u~pheaVaI.
The public appears anything but ex-
! cited over the future progress OF events.
It's faded. waF-weaTy erves are APP
parently no longer capable OF respond
ing to thrills.
It is no reflection on the Germans
sense Of patriotic duty TO say that news
Of American food relief temporarily
ecIipses curiosity over the political
drama. After four years Of grinding
war the ~listless attitude of the middle
class In the early stages of the revo-
luton is typical OF the apathy that pre-
| walls.
While parliamentary leaders Of the
middle parties beat a neadlong retreat
when the ahdioation OF Emperor Will
liam was announced and left the social
democratic party undlsputed masters,
the majority OF the middle class APP
peared obliyious or perpieXed. II was
| only after the socialists had worked
feverishly for eight days 70 anchor the
revolution in the hearts and minds of
the Workingmen that the middle classes
decided to issue their first call to arms
Cabinet in Control.
The Ebert aase cabinet apparently
Is In u~ndisputed control, although its
organization IL still somewhat chaotic.
It has taken over such elements OF
the old, bureaucratic regime as were
Indispensable and placed Its party men
In strategic positions without, however,
| manifesting inclination toward party
bias. The hastily created subordinate
bodies and committees are gradually
introducing a semblance Of method into
their work,
The conflict Of authority and dis
puted jurisdiction whicn made the
| relohstag building a Babel at first, now
has disappeared. The executive COM
| mittee OF the soldiers and workmen's
organization is supposed TO be the
eminent, but 1t does not attain that
distinction. 1t is subordinate 70 the
| final authority OF the council formed
| by the six peoples commissioners. I'm
I'll the national assembly has decreed
the structure Of the new republic, the
present apparatus must be accepted as
a make shift, IT is the best the social
democrats have been able to devise.
At present the Ebert cabinet ID con-
corning itself with urgent problems OF
food and demobilisation. The gravity
OF both Is such that the radicals are
Utopian Experiments, fhey have
been more than eircumspect and their
reiteration that they propose to con-
vene the national assembly is interpre-
ted to mean that they do not propose
TO offer affront to the middle CLASSES
or place the transitional development in
jeopardy.
Ebert and Scheidemann are not
feared. Lansberg Is Q professional law
yer credited with, poise and modera-
ton. He asserts that he does not favor
experiments and the present time above
| ali il not suited to tampering with capt.
| tai and Industry. Haase, Dittmann and
Barth have been less satisfactory.
Haase Politician.
Haase Ia credited with being an eX-
tremely astute politician. He inherited
party leadership from August Ferdi-
nand Babel, former socialist chief IN
the reichstag, but lost command when
his party split four years ago, Haase
probably suffers abroad because of his
violent utteranceS In the reichstag. lie
| should not be measured by them, but
should rather be- given credit for realiS-
Ing his responsibility,
serious friction In the cabinets dellb-
erations has been reported, although
inc left wing has not declared for m
early converting OF the national assem-
bIy, 1t desires to exploit the interim
In terrifying proletarian rule. Ebert
and Scheidemann, on ire other hand,
are contented to rest their cause in the
This week win bring the middle class
PARTIES into, heiated action. The mer-
ger OF the national liberals and the pro-
gresslyes has virtually been effected.
| The appointment OF Kari Kautzky and
| Edward Bernstein as UNDERGRADUATES
Of foreign affairs and finance, brings
| two OF the best known theorists into
the soldiers and worEmen's govern
| ment. Both are convinced, however,
| that Germany Is not IN fit spiritual
| or physical condition 10 warrant ex-
| periments on their pet theories.
Responsibility for the disorders in the
first days OF the revolution rest on the
| SpartaCus group, In which Leibknecht
| and Rosa LUXEMBOURG curry little Of