The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1918-04-04
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river Elb, is closed, for Britain's sea.
dogs ride the waves just beyond.
Contrast these conditions with the
activities at the French seaport |
have referred to. For two and a half
miles the docks were piled with the
products of the nations of the earth.
There seemed to be everything in
foodstuffs that is edible. There was
all sorts of machinery-autOmobiles,
tractor plows, engines, etc. There
were countless bales and boxes and
barrels. There were ships of all sorts
and sizes flying the flags of many
nations. There were busy labOring
men of different nationalities. The
streets were thronged with peoples
about their usual ~vocations, buying.
selling, transporting. On n Of the
principle streets of Hamburg I saw
two women and a boy.
Equally as startling comparison can
be made between Berlin and Paris. |
rode from the depot at Berlin in an
old carry-all drawn by an old horse
that fell twice, driven by an old mar
who was drunk. At the depot in Paris
many automobiles were lined up. The
drivers solicited passengers. Some of
the hotels were miles away. The fare
was one franc. One day | walked miles
through the streets of Berlin and saw
but six automobiles, and none of them
had rubber tires. There are as many
cars in Paris as in Chicago, all equip
ped with rubber tires, and the streets
would be as congested were they as
narrow.
In Berlin provision cards were is
sued to every family and bread cards
to every foreigner. Nothing of the
kind has been done in Paris-and
am comparing conditions in Berlin
nearly two years ago with conditions
in Paris now.
| never saw as many people on the
streets of the great Unter-den-Linden
avenue in Berlin as you will see IN an
Iowa county seat town on a Saturday
afternoon. The Champs des Elisees Of
Paris is thronged from 10 a. m. to 10
p. Nor to put it in the French way,
from 10 o'clock to % o'clock.
At least one-third of the business
houses in Germany's capital were
closed. None are closed in the capj-
tai of France. Germany's exports since
the war began have been of minor inn
portance and have gone only to the
small neutral nations of Scandinavia,
Holland and Switzerland. The markets
of the world are open to France. Her
exports last yea were larger than in
1913.
France and England are the ter
minal nations for the ships of com
merce that sail the seas, and their
sailing schedules are arranged and
of submarines. Railway officials send
their thousands of trains daily across
the continent of the United States ir
respective of the dangers from broken
rails, wash-outs, fallen bridges and col.
l~isions. Neither do the masters of
shipping hesitate to send their ships
to sea. And just as thousands of the
trains go their journeys safely, only an
occasional one suffering accident, so
plete their voyage where one is de.
stroyed.
While the m of the world is
open to England and France, Germany
is isolated. She is like an obese man
living off his own fat.
In order to understand the wonder
full fighting spirit Of France we must
remember hat this is the second time
in less than fifty years that she has
been attacked by Germany. In 1870
the King Of Prussia insisted on putting
a Hohenzollern on the Spanish throne.
- AiohCu1OliCih Hdu ~ hiOIC regal
claim to the Spanish throne than had
an Arab from the sand dunes of Ara.
bia. France objected. She didn't want
to be sandwiched in between two Ho-
henzOllerns. The kaiser who was
away from home sent Bismarck a tele.
gram relative to the matter. Bismarck
deliberately changed the p~hraseology
of the telegram. rewriting it so that
when he made it public it was so often.
sive to France as to result in war.
Germany ripped out a piece from
France, Alsace.Lorraine. and kept it.
Again in 1914, and without prov.
ocation, Germany sliced a strip of
France seventy miles wide by two
hundred miles long. which she still
holds.
Let us stretch our Imagination a bit.
Suppose that Missouri and Iowa were
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