The Tucumcari news and Tucumcari times. [volume] (Tucumcari, N.M.) 1907-1921, 1919-04-17

mend. and. before the var. be was
liberal In his praise Of many Of our
qualities and achievements.
he was very much interested, 10,
Instance. In the experiments and dis.
covereo Of Luther Burbank. To make
Germany self-supporting as far q.
food resources were concerned was one
OF his dearest ambitions. He realized
that In the eveni Of q world war bis
people would probably suffer more
from lack Of food than they would
from hostile bullets, and he was hoping
that be would be able TO obyiate tina,
condition before his country vas pu,
TO the test He was constantly preach,
ing simplihed diet and the conserva
ton Of food reserves, and he had grea,
hopes that much could be done In
scientifc way TO help solve genera.
food problems. When attending din
neS given him By his officers hi.
wishes respecting simple menus wer,
always carefully followed.
The kaiser enjoyed American hu
NOR. He was very fond OF Marx
Twain. and he followed one or two O.
the American monthlles and weeklle.
mere or less regularly. He told me
that, one evening while In his si,tlns
room in the BERTH palace, read!ns
something In al American magazine
be ran across o story which cause.
him to laugh so much and SO loud tina,
the ladies OF the curt. who heard hin
in an adjacent roam, came running lr
v0h their kaittiis 10 see what tbs
matter vas.
The kaiser had little respect for oui
architecture. He though, our sky
scrapers, Of which be had seen Illus
tratiors, were l.ideouS
How terrible to desecrate the land
sctpe with such tall buildings" b.
commented. They hurt the eye. How
can people live in therur'
/ explained that most Of the build
lngs TO which lie referred were Office
buildings. but that we did have four
teen and hfteen-story apartment house:
and hotels, and even higher ones. IL
which the upper floors were used FOL
living purposes Just the same as Ii,
lower ones. He couldn't believe &
possible that people would consent C
live so far above the ground, and from
his " aversion q visit a place tha'
was even one story above the grount
floor, / rather got the idea that he wa.
afraid OF height. Under the bul,d!ns
laws prevailing In Germany no build
Ing Of more than five stories may bt
erected.
Perhaps the quality that he ervlet
most in US was u Inventive genius
When Oryllle Wright was flying a.
Tempelhoter Field. In Berlin. In III,
early days OF aviation, the kaiser
could bot restrain his admiration.
u wish ! could encourage my people
10 become great inventors, such q:
America has produced" he declared
rather hole!essly. II admire youi
wonderful inventive genius"
The kaiser objected very much TO III.
fact that many OF the foreign opert
SaAsFIS were tAt4uNltN ~ We" lOEf
by reason OF the fabulous sums palc
them q, the Metropolitan opera house
Despite the fact that the kaiser &C
cused US OF spending u money toc
lav!Shly, he repeatedly charged tn,
English as well as ourselves with be
Ing money.worshipers.
The An~-lo-Saxons worship nam
mon, and they try TO gloss II all Owe
with a show OF religion" he said
your rich Americans have so mucl
money, Davis, that they really don
know what TO do with II. Why, re
Gently one 81 your m~il!lOualres saw
my castle at Corfu and sent one Of hi
representatives TO the court with III
p~resuinptuous message, Please tell tn
kaiser that ! will buy his castle @
Corfu, and ask him what's his price
] had word sen back that the castl,
Was not for sale. The American thel
told my representative that he wouldn'
lake no for an answer. The cheek o
n" man! He said he didn't care how
much IL cost. ! sent word back 4
that nan that there were not enough
dollars In the world 20 buy that castle
There are some things that your dol
lars won't buy. Davis, and one Of then
10 my beautiful castle at Corfu."