The weekly Alaska citizen., 1918-02-11

HOmes aI the tune or LQe great Bethman-Hollweg conference. the kali ser visited Berlin. That was the first time the people had seen him for months. He rode in a big gray automobile which had a horn not duplicated all over Germany. No machine but the kaiser's is permitted to have this horn. It sounds like a bugle call.
 He sat there very stiff and, of course. was surrounded by soldiers. The people never cheered. Hundreds of people in the streets never even stopped to watch him pass. There was no brightness on their faces, no smiles. Thep simply looked at him as he rode along. They don't love the kaiser. Their loyalty. I think. is more of mechanical thing to which they have been brought up and which they have lived until it is second na- ture. It is like breathing to them. We don't particularly care to breathe but we have to. And 1 think that is the way with the loyalty of the Ger man people. When the flags went by the people looked at them. Men took off their hats, but not with any seem- ing love. There was not the light in their eyes. nor in the eyes of the women, such as We see here when the American flag is shown.
 In moving picture theatres I have noticed the same thing. when the na- tional anthem is played, the people rise and sing. but there is no joy ill their songs. There is no applause when the German flag is thrown on the screen or when pictures of the kaiser and his sons are shown.
 And there is no attempt by Ger man oficialdom to rouse any enthu- siasm. They are not fighting the war with the spirit of the people-they are fighting it with the greed and ambition of the rulers.
 Soldiers Are Not Cheered.
 When the German soldiers march through the streets there are no cheers, no waving, no hand-clasping. The men march in silence and tho crowds watch them in silence. When the wounded are brought in, it is the same way. There are no out bursts of grief. There is simply dull, dead, resignation.
 Since 1 have come back to America have heard a great many people speak with horrer of the ghastliness of the rumor that the Germans are rendering out the bodies of the dead soldiers to get the much-needed oil for fabrication and for munitions.
 l was surprised at the indignation here for that is generally under stood and accepted fact in Germany. 1 do not know that the report is true but it is believed in Germany, and no person says anything against it. They are doing the same thing with the dead horses, and there is no more said against the bodies of their dead heroes being desecrated in this way than against the bodies of the horses being burned.
 1t is the necessity of war. Fats are scarce. You never get any meat with fat on it. Fat is worth twenty times what lean meat is. Why shouldn't they use whatever is in their hands to use? That Is the at- titude of the German people.
 will confess that over there it did not seem so bad. suppose l was was inoculated with the general apathy. It is only since have come home that the full realization of this comes to me.
 shopkeepers Get the Money Speaking of the amusements in Germany, they are all going along, not brightly and gaily, of course. OoI DUH 6oAAS diOAS. 4ACy DUH AdFC the big horse races at Hoppegarden. Just outside of Berlin. Of course the Horses are heavy, slow animals, as they say there are no more English horses in Germany. no good racc horses at all. But the people go to
 ce them.
 They do not dress for the events IS they would in England or Ameri ca. In fact they do not dress for any events. I have not seen a decollette gown in Berlin for two years. Neith- CT have seen much jewelry among the former wealthy class. Women who are shopkeepers now have more money than the society women.
 There is lot of graft in shop keeping and in Germany as in every other country. there always are those who make of others misfor tunes. their own profits.
 l attended grand opera several times in Berlin and saw practically no jewelry and no rich dressing Hundreds of women wore shirtwaists and skirts, and evep those who dressed the best wore what would have hoou conc ncidarod cirnpIo oftor.