Arizona republican., 1918-12-29
LITERATURE AND ART
 Conducted by LEW HEAD
THE KAISER AS | KNOW HIM

HE KAISER AS KNOW HIM tHarper X Eros.). from the pen ol ! Arthur x. Davis, who for fourteen | years was dentist to the supreme War lord does little more than confirm what we already know of that retired gentleman. There is little Of revelation in Dr. Davis book. aside from the narration of d few intimacics Of very personal nature, ,-sidcliehts, we might call them,--thaf add slightly 10 an al ready uVcrstocked storohousc Of nIt-or-m miss information we possess concerning the former ruler of Ger many.
 Of unusually timely interest is the light that pr Davis throws upon the testimony recently brought out before the propaganda Investigating committee in Wash ington. In relation to the financing of the German methods, Dr. Davis writes:
 Before L left the kaiser that morning he spoke of the Anglo French loan which had been floated In America and condemned us sc- verely for countenancing it. When I reminded him that Germany also had floatcd a loan in America. ne replied
 But ours was only ten million dollars. while theirs is five hundred million.
 ITO which I naturally 'reioined that the size of the loan could cer- tainly not affect the question of our neutrality in floating it.
 He criticised our bankers who handled the loan, and when 1 asked him if he had ever seen the num- Der of German names that appeared on the list of bankers who were in terested in it. he said he hadn't read the list, but he was quite sure that one firm of New York bankers wouldn't touch 1t. They wouldn't touch anything that would be detr- mental to Germany he added"
 As showing an early tendency on the part of the kaiser to sidcstep the responsibility for causing the war, Davis writes:
 When my work for the morning was over and his valet. who had as- sisted me, had been excused the kaiser sazed at me for d moment or two and then, apropos of nothing, he burst out with this: The man who brought this catastrophe or the world Davis, should be strung up by the neck. And that man IS not I. as the world seems to think, The cZar of Russia and the king of England when they were at the wedding of my dauGhter-guests at my own house, mind you, and my Rlood relatives-they abused my hospitality and matched this plot against me. They were envious Of my power, but they will now learn what that power is, Confound them, I will show them. The idea that blood is thicker than water is q farce"''
 Considerable light is possibly thrown upon the attempted intrigue of the kaiser with the negroes of this country, in the following quo tation:
 After the war started. the kaiser referred to the negroes again. Now is your chance to settle your negro problem, he declared half face tiously. of course. If America in sists upon coming into the war. why doesn't she send her negroes across and let us shoot them down?
 Hearst comes in for his share of the pro- -Germanism taint. when the kaiser is quoted as saying: Prom all | hear. he von Bemstorff hasn't had very easy time of il. The American press as a whole has been couspicuously auti-Gcrman. although I understand that one of the papers has been friendly to us. Mir. Hearst. for instance, has hellec our cause very much in your cour try. He has been telling tho truth about affairs, which is more than most of the other papers have been doinG!'"
 HE VANISHED HEUGA is light story but has a corkscrew affeo A..