The circle banner. [volume] (Circle, Mont.) 1914-1939, 1919-01-31

mend. and. before tho war, he va
liberal In his praise of many 01 on
qualities and achievements.
He was very much interested. 70
instance, In the experiments and dis
coveries Of Luther Burbank. To max
Germany self-supporting as far a
food resources were concerned was on
Of his dearest ambitions. He realizes
that In the event Of a world war hi
people would probably surfer NOR
from lack Of food than they woul,
from hostile bullets, and he was hopin
that he would be able to obviate tina
condition before his country was pu
to the test He was constantly preach
Ing simplifed diet and the conserva
ton Of food reserves, and he had grea
hopes that much could be done In ,
scientific way to help solve genera
food problems. When attending din
ners 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 MARI
Twain. and he followed one or two Of
| the American monthlies and weeklies
more or less regularly. He told me
that, one evening while in his sitting
room in the Berlin palace, reading
something in an American magazine
he ran across a story which caused
| him to laugh so much and so loud that
| the ladies of the court, who heard him
in an adjacent room, came running in
with their knitting to see what the
matter was.
The kaiser had little respect for our
architecture. He thought our sky
scrapers, of which he had seen Illus
trations. were hideous.
"How terrible to desecrate the land
scape with such tall buildings" he
commented. "They hurt the eye. How
can people live in themr
/ explained that most of the build
ings to which he referred were office
buildings, but that we did have four
teen and f1fteen-story apartment houses
and hotels, and even higher ones, In
which the upper floors were used for
living purposes just the same as the
lower ones. He couldn't believe 1t
possible that people would consent to
live so far above the ground, and from
his own aversion to visit a place that
was even one story above the ground
floor, rather got the idea that he was
afraid of height. Under the building
laws prevailing in Germany no build
ing of more than five stories may be
erected.
Perhaps the quality that he envied
most In us was our inventive genius.
When Orville Wright was flying at
Tempelhofer Field. in Berlin. In the
early days Of aviation, the kaiser
could not restrain his admiration.
II wish I could encourage my people
to become great inventors, such as
America has produced" he declared,
rather hopelessly. II admire your
wonderful inventive genius"
The kaiser objected very much to the
fact that many of the foreign opera
olu6Cto WCiC dtd dSlCu ~ 4NcW 4OiA
by reason Of the fabulous sums paid
them at the Metropolitan opera house.
Despite the fact that the kaiser &C
cused US Of spending our money too
lavishly, he repeatedly charged the
English as well as ourselves with be-
ing money-worshipers.
'The Anglo-Sa1ons worship NAM
mon, and they try to gloss 1t all over
with a show Of religion" he said.
"Your rich Americans have so much
Davis, that they really don't
know what to do with 1t. Why, re-
Gently one of your millionaires saw
my castle at Corfu and sent one Of his
to the court with the
message, Please tell the |
kaiser that will buy his castle at
Corfu, and ask him what's his pricev |
[ had word sent back that the castle |
was not for sale. The American then |
.old my representative that he wouldn't |
take mo- for an answer. The cheek Of |
he mani He said he didn't care how |
much it cost. I sent word back to |
hat man that there were not enough |
dollars In the world to buy that castle.
There are some things that your dol
ars won't buy, Davis. and one of them
s my beautiful castle at Corfuw