The weekly Alaska citizen., 1918-01-28
By MARIE BONiNl BROWN In Pittsburp Press.

patiently in my little flat, which shared with girl friend at Prin7 Regent Strasse, 6. Berlin, Germany on Friday, June 29, 1917, for a tele gram telling me that the money foI which l had cabled to return home had come.
 had waited six weeks for that telegram, each day hoping that be fore the sun would set I would start on my way back home. to the United States, which never had looked SC good to me as it did, viewed those last few weeks from the heart of war torn Germany.
 The telegram came about noon brought by little girl, one of the hundreds of little girl messengers in Berlin (for the boys are either fight ing or farming.) As I tore open the telegram I excitedly called to my friend, "It's the money-I'm going home-home to where I'll get enough to eat"
 The child who had brought the tele gram looked at me wistfully, her hunger-filled eyes piteous.
 We don't get enough to eat here, she said. If the kaiser hadn't start ed the war, we wouldn't be in it."
 And that, found this last year. especially since the United States entered the conflict, is the sentiment of more Germans than the Kaiser knows.
 The unrest in Germany is growing every day-at least it was all during the war while was there, and I went to Berlin in 1914, and left less than two months ago. I am sure matters are no better now than when l left With little to eat. little hope. military restrictions hedging them in so that they scarcely can breathe, graft sap. ping the strength of the people. and poverty crushing them down, the great mass of Germany's people want peace. They have come to the point that they do not ask for Belgium; i; they do not ask for Alsace-Lorraine i; they do not ask for Poland-they want their own homes and firesides and enough to eat.
 People Won't Start Revolution.
 But they never will start revolu- tion in my opinion. The German peo- pie have been under the thumbs of the kaiser and his war lords too long. Also, they have no leader. There is no man in the empire big enough to stand on his feet and defy the kaiser and, if there were, so efficient is the German military system, so closely knit are the iron bands which hold the people together to the will of their emperor, that no sooner would such an intriped soul find his feet than he would lose his head.
 The Germans are splendid people. They are enduring privations and hardships in their lives such as they never knew before. With a courage which is marvellous, they are facing the fact that practically the whole civilized world is fighting them. Men, women, youths and girls and children are all imbued with such spirit of loyalty that, even though they will admit under their breaths that the kaiser has done wrong; that German power has been used illegitimately; that German ruthlessness has broken the prestige of the German people, yet few will say these things aloud. and none will be so rash as thus pub licly to express himself.
 If a goodly portion of American "pep" could be introduced into the veins of those stolid Germans, togeth- CT with little real news of what is going on in the world, am confident that Germany would shake of the thrall of war and the worlds oppro- brium. But the people cannot learn the truth. Any newspaper which dares to print it is suppressed, sus- pended and, perhaps, annihilated.
 German militarism always has made the life of the people of Germany and the visitors within her gates a burden. But since the war one Is afraid to step outside ones door Tor fear one will stumble upon something "verhoten."
 The German System.
 Since the war began, when I was in Germany had to report every day to the police of the city. They had big card with my name, age. nationality, and dozen other identi- flying remarks about me on it. Every & day when I reported, that card was stamped with an official stamp. If were i'll, had to send word that I could not come, and why. That also was marked on the card.
 For everything I bought I had to ask permission to spend my own money, could not leave Berlin without getting permit from the Kommandatore of the city. could not step one foot outside the confines