Judsonia weekly advance., 1918-11-27
The Kaiser as | Knew Him
 For Fourteen Years D. S-Am 10
Copyright 1g by the Mcclure Newspaper syndicate9

One of the South American minis ters told me of an ex-president of Peru who had visited Berlin. This Peruvian had previously visited Lon- don and Paris and had received little or no official attention in either of those capitals. For reasons best known to himself, the kaiser decided to cater to this gentleman, and accord ingly arranged an audience.
 In the discussion which took place when they met, the kaiser displayed such remarkable acquaintance with Peruvian affairs and the family his tory and political career of his visitor that the South American was stunned. When he returned home he carried with him a most exalted idea of the all-pervading wisdom of the German | emperor. To what extent the kaiser had spent the midnight oil preparing | for this interview have no knowledge, but knowing the importance he placed upon making a favorable impression at all times I have a mental picture of his delving deeply into South Ameri- can lore in preparation for his guest.
 There is nothing dearer to the kaiser than caste and social distinction. Mor- ganatic marriages were naturally ab- horrent to him. Nevertheless, before Archduke Franz Ferdinand, the sue cessor to the Austrian throne, was murdered, the kaiser not only recog- nized his mOrganatic wife, who was only a countess, but went out of his ] way to show her deference He placed her at his right at all state functions which she attended. To bring Austria and Germany closer together, he was willing to waive one of his deep-rooted preiudices.
 The significance of the kaiSer's many visits to Italy, his presentation of a statue to Stockholm, his yachting excursions in Scandinavian waters, his flirtations with Turkey from his castle on. the Island of Corfu, and sim liar acts of ingratiation, becomes quite l apparent in the face of more recent developments, but his efforts to curry favor with America during all the years of peace which preceded the war were so much more elaborate that they deserve more than passing mention. ;
 No more subtle piece of propaganda was ever conceived than >lthe kaiser's plan of exchanging professors between the United States and Germany l through the establishment of the Roosevelt and Harvard chairs at the University of Berlin and corresponding chairs at Harvard and other American universities. Ostensibly the purpose of the project was to foster goodwill be- tween the two nations. Actually, it was intended to Germanize Americans to such an extent that their co-Opera- ton might be relied upon in the event of war for which Germany was sed- ulously preparing.
 It was believed that the exchange of professors would accomplish the Ger man purpose in two ways: not only could the professors the kaiser sent to America be depended upon to SOW Ger man seed in American soil, but the American professors who were sent to Berlin, it was hoped, could be so in- oculated with the German viewpoint that when they returned to their na- tive land they would disseminate it among their associates and students.
 Some time before the kaiser con- ceived the scheme of the Exchange Professors, he sent his brother, Prince Henry, to this country to draw the l two nations closer together and to fn- still in the heart of every child born in America of German parents an abiding love for the fatherland.
 Just before the war broke out, he was planning to send one Of his sons | here with the same object
 He told me of his project and asked me to which part of the United States thought he ought to send the prince.
 "That depends, your majesty" l re- piled, "upon the object of the visit If the purpose is to meet American society, I would recommend such places as Newport in summer and Palm Beach in winter. To come in contact with our statesmen and diplo- mats, Washington would naturally be the most likely place to visit.''
 The kaiser thanked me for the in- 1 formation but did not enter into fur l ther details as to the object he had in mind or which son he had planned to send across.
 It was to curry favor with America that the kaiser had his yacht Meteor built in our shipyards. and it is fact that more American women were pre- sented at the German court than those | of any other nation.
 When he presented statue of 1 Frederick the Great to this country,