The weekly Alaska citizen., 1918-01-28

and 1t was weeks before he could get permission to give the symphony Then, when he did give 1t, few per. sons came to hear it and the critics the next day roasted" it almost to extinction.
 Later, he got to Norway and pre-. sented it there and got a wonderful audience and splendid notices.
 Another man, who was half Ameri can, painter in Munich, Yagas bacher by name, simply could not get a place to exhibit his work. Many Riots in Germany. One thing which, more than an. other, shows the unrest of the Ger. man people is that they continually are embroiled in riots-riots because of hunger and because of the desire for peace.
 saw one riot before the kaiser's palace when at least 5000 persons were assembled at once. 1t took the soldiers long time to disperse them.
 If ever there is any uprising in Germany, one thing I know, the Ger. man private soldiers will "get back at their officers for their inhuman brutality. I heard of more cases of actual barbarism on the part of of. ficers toward men in the ranks than one could believe. But I also saw a number of cases where things hap poned which would not be permitted in our army.
 One day, in a subway (the unter- ground), l saw German soldier sit ting quietly reading a paper. The station was crowded. An officer came in and passed the soldier-but at some distance. The soldier did not look up from his paper and so did not see the officer. The officer waited moment, then went over and tapped the soldier on the shoulder. The man got up, thoroughly frighten- ed, as one could see from the ex- pression on his face, and saluted. Well, the officer started and never in my life have l heard any person get what we would call such "bawling- out" as that officer gave that soldier. For over five minutes he talked, and he did not trouble to lower his voice. The soldier stood quietly and took it without one word and, when the officer was done, simply saluted and walked away.
 If an officer would do that simply because a soldier had not seen him and did not salute, I wonder what would happen if anything serious oc- cured.
 Rich Don't Go Hungry.
 The German officers have a very exalted opinion of their own dignity. They would not carry a package. no matter how small. They would con- sider that beneath them. They do not give up their seat in the street car to women, unless it happens to be some woman they know and particu- larly want to please. They flirt out rageously with any woman they care to, and no woman dares to resent it. They will push you off the sidewalk, run against you without apology, show the greatest rudeness in every way. and they are treated as though they were gods in human form.
 They do not go hungry as the peo- pie do. They live high. The rich do not go hungry, either. But the poor CT people do, or those of the middle class-they are the ones who are be. ing crushed by starvation and maI- nut. ition.
 Our char.woman who came every day to clean the flat in which we lived, told us one day that she could not come very much longer as she was starving to death. Her allow ance of food was so small that she was getting weaker all the time. People are dying there with hunger dying, while many of those in charge of the country are getting rich by graft. The government sets certain prices for food, but any person who has money can set these rules aside and get whatever he pleases.
 When l went to Germany to finish my musical education in 1914. found a beautiful, prosperous country, the people contented and happy, a coun- try respected, with a million bonds of love and goodfellowship, humanity. learning and art binding her to the other civilized countries-even to England, whom Germany always hated more or less.
 A Contrast.
 When I left there this summer l left a broken, almost despairing coun- try, hating and hated; a country, which in three years has lost hun dreds of years of civilization; a country which I hope some day will call to account the men who brought woe unutterable upon it as well as upon the rest of the world. But that