Palatka daily news. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1919-1994, 1919-11-07
GERMANY VIEWS
PRESENT PEACE
AS 4 MOCKERY
YEAR OF AUGHT BUT PEACE
FOLLOWING SIGNING OF THE
ARMISTICE-RUMORS THAT
MONARCHISTS WILL YET OVER
THROW THE GOVERNMENT
WANTS TERMS OF PEACE
LIGHTENED.
By Carl D. Groat,


By Carl D. Groat,
Omitted Press Staff Correspondent
BERLIN, Nov. Zone year Of
peace!
A bitter mockery, says Germany
today on the anniversary of the great
wars end.
1t has been a year of ought but
peace for her.
And, she looks out into the uncer-
tain vista of the future with misgiv-
ing. She fears that it is the old cry
OF peace! peace! when there is no
peace. She shrinks before the re-
a!ties. For they spoil for her,
perhaps, a further plunge into the
clasm of moral, physical,' economic
dlstintegration which has marked the
Teuton course.
Conclusion of one year Of peace
found the nation today intentionally
close to national bankruptcy. Ii
found her with a laboring class" un.
changed from the grind of the past
now unwilling to work-and in many
cases unable for want of the raw ma.
terials. 1t found her with a gov.
eminent which despite good inten
tons and hard efforts has been una
bic to progress materially. And, too
it found her with internal strife, witt
political haulings and pullings, witt
strivings after monarchy and witt
strivings after proletarian distator
ship, in short, with a confusion and
rloral breakdown which threatens be-
fore the winter dies to flame out il
new civil upheavals with possible
bIoodshed or with further industrial
sGegnation.
Pendulum Swings Back.
The pendulum here has swung from
the redism of last November revo
luton to more moderation, it is true
And. there have been signs that tn
MISREPRESENTATION Of the Pan-Ger
mans would sweep back into power
The air is filed with rumors of puts
ches.
one side says, The monorchist
VIII overthrow the government, ar
put a HindeIburg or even a Hoher
zuIlern in power" The other say,
The Spartac.sts plan trouble. The
vail bathe the land in blood again
establish their rule OF the proletarist'
And both sides speak with some dc
gree Of truth. For certain it is thu
the extreme right and the eXtren
left are bent on establishing ne
order of things, while the presel
IIbert- Bauer Mueller government
formed of majority socialists, cel
tyists and democrats, banks on NOsl
and his iron guards to keep German
i'll order.
Aside from Moske and his guard
Germany has little to bank on. 81
only prays and hopes with sort
Mind hone that the spring will briI
her a new life.
Dread Coming Winter.
IF we can only get through t,
winter is the prayer on every side
For the poor, confronted with co
shorta@e-cold homes and still +
str.cted rations-it is prayer tn
something will come to make ne
era For the politicians in power,
is a hope that he can stave off poll
cal ruin and perhaps the disruption
MS country. For the business man
is the thought that if his work isl
socialized or ruined this winter, he
may come in the spring.
And everywhere those in power a
hoping against hope that an unfrien
+ II outer world will finally take t
4 German view that purely as a matt
of good business for the whole worlt
security, financial aid will be extend
= whereby Germany can drive off t
= specters of unemployment, hung
y social unrest, unwillingness to lab
Y and of general apathy.
It The government rests on very |
stable basis. German industry
badly shackled for want of raw n