The Kendrick gazette. [volume] (Kendrick, Idaho) 1892-1968, 1919-05-23
Dr. Aonzo Taylor Investigates Conditions in Land Of Old
Gang Government 0fces-Take Attitude That They Are
Much Abused Nation - Believe Themselves
Guilty Of No Misdeeds

0eImdu people WOulQ nave taken INC
spoils and admit that they would have
levied terrible peace terms on their
vanQuished enemies. Now they are
defeated they refuse to shoulder any
Of the blame for the situation. And
they are going to believe that they are
abused If Alsace-Lorraine is given to
France.
Believe Selves GuiltIess.
The widespread belief that the Ger
MINIS themselves are guilty of no mis-
deeds is being emphasized by new
school Of writer's who first came into
prominence about the time President
Wilson gave the world the covenant Of
the league Of nations at Paris. What
astounded Americans in Germany in
those days was the fact that these
very writer's admitted with perfect
candor that Germany intended keep
ing Belgium permanently, had Ger
manys won. the war.
Topics such as these occupied the
German mind when the peace confer
ence was making its preliminary sur
vey of European affairs. While Ger
man papers printed columns about the
probable outcome Of the peace con-
ference there were 238,OOO men in Ber-
lin without jobs drawing pension of
| six marks day from the govern
ment. In Hamburg the pension roll
mounted to $4,000. Both figures rep
resent state Of unemployment sew
eral times greater than the worst
periods Of industrial depression Ger
many ever knew before the war.
The men were being paid just
enough to live on, and as conse-
quence would not work.
Hate for Kaiser.
Among the intellectual circles in
Germany the blame for the silent re-
bellion of the workmen, their refusal
to work, was placed on the military
party-on old Won Tirpitz, and on Lu-
dendorf, and some more of the war
lords. The kaiser and his son, the
crown prince, were generally despised.
Both ran away when trouble started
and were hated for that. But the peo-
pie of Germany were not disposed to
| UIduC CllACl luC SlOWh pAAhSO Va thS
kaiser for starting the war;
"Both of them lack the brains to
plan a war;" was the common expires.
sion heard on the streets and reflected
in number of the newspapers.
Doctor Taylor had one general ex.
PLANTATION for Germany's strangely per
verified state of mind.
Germany today is suffering from
} an intense moral disintegration," he
. declared. "You see it in a dozen diff
. ferent phases of German life. Mer
who served in the army and are now
demobilized, though still in uniform
will leave their families for days at 6
time-simply wander off without
: warning. They seem to have lost theil
sense of responsibility toward theil
: families.
: "There are comparatively few pro
! ducers in the population, most Of thu
people being spenders; spenders O.
the governments printed money.
, I'm the Berlin playhouses shows ar
running which are of such low mora
level that no American postal author
! ity would permit even private letter
r to describe some of the scenes. Be
: fore the war such shows were not pei
y mitted.
"Robberies have increased greatly
= The people blame the bolsheviki, blu
;. know in their own minds that thes
crimes might well enough be commit
ted by anyone-because the increas
in crime is one of the notable phase
of life in Germany today"
In all Germany there is no DANCE
of a rehabilitation Of the military ms
: chine, according to Doctor Taylor
This view is verified by other Amer
y cans competent to judge, who hav
just returned from the other side Q
u the, Rhine.
It Without desiring in any way to al
y tagonize the French, who are carr!
l. ing on an active campaign preachin