Evening star., 1918-06-26
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mans were covered every minute OF
the journey and all night long. They
never had chance. Two Germans IN
all have made a bolt for liberty since
the camp here was started, but each
was recaptured within few days.
Not Famous Resort.
The trouble with the outside i'm
preston Of Hot Springs is that most
line. This isn't the Hot Springs Of
Virginia or Arkansas fame. It's a
one-horse town of about 400 people,
without movie or a hearse and with
all the dullness and isolation that
place stuck OF in the mountains can
accumulate. There was rundown
hotel here, which tried to do sum-
mer-resort business, but failed, and
when the Department Of Labor was
looking for a building to relieve the
crowded condition at Ellis Island an
enterprising person persuaded the
said department to rent the hotel and
Personally. II I were wounded
soldier in the reconstruction hospital
that Is to be established here soon I
should prefer the plain Army barracks
to the hotel. For one thing. 1t seems
to me cleaner and less populated by
bugs, and there's more afr. Four cots
are put in each Of the hotel rooms.
Maybe that's how the original analogy
to summer hotel comfort arose, but
the photographs SO widely circulated
than the inside. Another thing. 1
failed to discover the luxurious SWIM
ming pool. There was for q week or
two an inclination to take a dip in the
outdoor tank near the hotel, but the
physicians promptly put. a stop to
that as the water was found to be
impure.
Most of Germans Unhappy.
not. Some play soccer foot ball, and
forty out Of 1900 have gone in for tennis,
but the great majority sit and read or
talk or mediate. The wives Of about
thirty Of the Germans are auartered
In the village nearby. but they are
and they can't even get glimpse OF
them through the fence. Five hum
dred feet away and never q sight OF
wife or child for months. but that's
the rule. and it is being rigidly en-
forced. The other day the women were
their husbands, apropos Of arrange
ments to move the camp to Fort
Oglethorpe, about which transfer they
seem to have strange apprehensions:
In fact, back. in the minds OF all
the Germans is Kind Of awe Of 18th the e
harm Is going to be done them sooner
or later. Particularly do they imag-
inc that as they go from the jurisdic-
tion of the Department of Labor and
the immigration authorities to the
War Department they will encounter
ficers. But our officials have assured
them that they need have no fear, that
the American Army officer Is quite
different type from the German army
officer, that he is a human being who
has spent his life as rule in civilian
pursuits and not in learning how to
express a contemptuous superiority
over all things civilian.
Loath to Leave.
The Germans are 1oath to leave
here. They have dug themselves in,
so to speak. and such comforts as
they have are the result of months
built is typically German. 1t IS a
series of arbor-1ike houses, not more
than twelve feet square, built Of drift
wood. scraps of wreckase from old
buildings. with hammeredout TIN
cans or tooth powder tubes or shaw
ing soap containers and other bits of
metal to decorate tire exteriors or
line the neat little windows. livery
little house has its garden VI ;th beds
that are bordered or 5i;ected with
tiny paths.
Some artistic effects in gardening
and decoration "ave been secured by
incessant apple alton day after day,
for nearly a year They take 81 prlde
not permitted to sleep in them. They
are recreation centers. where the Ger
mans gather in groups OF four or six
or where the owner secludes himself
Army authorities will let them build
similar houses and new village at
Fort t'gletho: pc. Our officials tell me
the Germans are much less bother
when they have something, to occupy
them. The M. uhtain folk heraa5onts
say, "Put them to work in the fields. =
Some, indeed. have accepted paroles
for 1: at work, but so deep-rooted Is
the :ear of wat vii! happen to them
when they get rack I, Germany Il
thcv accent parole that most Of
thcm do not dare even to apply.
Some Too Old to Work.
Some of the Germans are too old to
work, as they are over fifty. The
Younger men find amusement In out
door sports or in musical Instruments.
which they have brought with them
from their ships. but the great major
ity feel like prisoners and act like it.
They wonder when 1t will all end.
They no longer talk Of the war as
"elorious." 1t is now a terrible war"
and they do not think 1t will be over
'in a few months" as they fancied
when they came here. 1t is dreary.
monotonous future they foresee; res but but
times day. and have a bunk to sleep
IN which ought to be sa1o told al in i1n the
Photographic illustrations, II necessary.
All the men. in the letters they are
permitted to write twice a week to
Germany, unanimously describe their
treatment as good. Germany ought by
this time know, that when America as
the Intermediary for England and
France sought to improve the condi-
ton of allied prisoners she was not
merely uttering empty altruism.
America Is now practicing what was
then preached. and presumably Ger
man public opinion will keep this in
mind whenever there Is complaint to