The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1918-12-26
THE EXILE AT AMERONGEN.

THE EXILE AT AMERONGEN.
If it were anybody else than the
former kaiser one might almost feel
pity for the wretch who is in hiding
in the guarded castle at Amerongen,
Holland, at this Christmas time. If any
one had predicted five years ago that
the emperor of Germany would, in five
years, be an outcast in foreign coun-
try, extending invitations to the common
people of the surrounding country to par
take of Christmas festivities with him,
only to have the invitations curtly re-
jected, that person would have been
regarded as subject for mental ex-
animation Yet this has come to pass.
The man who, for more than IS
years had posed as "the all highest" and
claimed partnership with the Almighty,
is today an outcast and there is none
so poor as to do him reverence" When
he tried to arrange a Christmas party
with himself as the central figure, of
course, and sent invitations to the
neighbors OF attend, every one refused
and he was forced to have only as an
audience to his religious service" his
host, his personal retinue and the serv-
ants He went into the woods and with
the aid of two servants of the estate,
cut Christmas trees for the entertain
Christmas exercises in the village
church but feared to do so lest the
populace, which is unfriendly to him,
should do him violence. He invited his
former chaplain to come to him and
conduct the services but the German
government, in which he has no say,
refused to permit this.
Did he not so richly deserve a far
worse fate it would be enough to arouse
pity to see the most naughty egotst
the world has known, thus disgraced and
treated with contempt. 1t must have
been indeed humiliating for the former
king of Prussian and emperor of Ger
many to send out invitations to the
Dutch peasants and have them all re-
fuse to accept. 1t must be dawning on
the great egotist that he is now the most |
despised, most abhored person on earth.
His Christmas must have been entirely
devoid of pleasure, in marked contrast |
with the joy that pervaded the rest of |
the world due TO the fact that he was
in that despicable position.
''The mills of the gods grind slowly
but they grind exceeding small.
Though with patience we stand wait
ing with exactness grind they ALL"
"a "a "a
THE Y. NJ. C. A. SCANDAL.
There must be some fire where there
is so much smoke" is an old saying
that probably will apply to the charges
hat are being made against the Y. M. I
c. A. So persistent have these charges l
been and SO often have they been re- {
terated that they cannot be dismissed
without a rigid and thorough investiga- i
ion. The people have given tens of {
Millions of dollars to this organization /
which was supposed to be for the re- Il
ief, education and spiritual and bodily /
Welfare of the soldiers in the canton v
nents and in foreign lands. This money n
we're told and they believed that it D
Tas being used for the exclusive benefit d
the soldiers and there would be no Ct
harges nor profiteering. o
Irwin S. Cobb, one of the best, if not pi
le best of American writers, man S,
hose reputation for truth and fairness as
second to none, has made these
larges against the Y M. c. A. openly fc
I'd they have been widely published in
[r. Cobb went into details and told ST
ecific cases where soldiers had been a
larged exorbitant prices for goods tit
hich had been bought with the money ag
attributed by the American people m
ow it is announced from New York tn
at SO persistent are the complaints Sc
ade by returning soldiers of the ex- ca
bitant charges made by the Y. M. c. 10
for goods and service in Europe that fa
official investigation is to be made. WI
Almost year ago the writer saw a 70
ter from an American soldier who ge
s in one of the environments in the
lited States, in which this soldier
rned the person to whom the letter
S written to contribute nothing to the thu
M. C. A. and said "The army officers arc