Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1919-09-30
GERMANY RIGHT NOW
Captain Glenn Talks interestingly Of
Present Hunland
THE COMMON FOLKS ARE KOkCHALAKT

Fritz Would Fight Again If Ordered
but Will, not be ordered-Yorkville
2 Man Tells Of Conditions as he Left
Them. E1,tt u q
German people-that is the ordin-
ary classes, appear to have taken their
defeat as matter Of course and dis
play few indications Of regret or dis
appointment; but have settled down to
that humdrum, methodical existence
to which they have been accustomed
for years and years, according to Cap
tain Robert H. Glenn who stopped over
in Yorkville Friday, to see his mother
Mrs W. D. Glenn while EN- route to
Camp Gordon. Atlanta. He is the lat
est local man to return from service
in Germany, having been with the
American Army of Occupation for a
number of months with the veterinary
corps of the. First Division and having
left Germany for the states on Aug
ust 26. after being overseas exactly
twelve months to day. Capt. Glenn
expects to get months leave Of alb
sencc within the next few days, al
though he is not at all sure about that,
having been transferred to the veterin-
ary corps of the Fifth Division which
rumor has going to the Mexican bor-
der or to Siberia.
Would Fight if Ordered.
Captain Glenn's service in Germany
extended over quite bit of the en-
pire and his duties brought him in
more or less contact with all classes
of the German people. They do
not appear to be worried over their
defeat very much-that is the ordin-
ary working classes DON'T" he said
Friday evening; "but they'wear rath-
er nonchalant air, ready and willing
to fight again IL their leaders should
so decree, or on the other hand, per-
fectly content to spend the remain
del, Of their lives tillings their little fields
{ OF rye ard pQfatoes or WORKING In
their shops or at whats might be
their occupation Tor the balance Of
ssrhe old military fear Is in the,com
mon folks still and they qpaif and
quake bAfore any person bearipB tho
feast aifthority as they have Been want
to do ali of their lives, despite the fact
that government conducted some
what along republican lines has been
set UP among them. 1t is my observa-
ton that they are. not much interested
in that government-that is Mr.. Aver
age Citizen as we know him in this
country isn't One, hears from time to
time the peasants talking Of the new
regime and the special rights and pri-
vileges that they will have under the
new regime that they didn't have un-
der Kaiser William. One hears others
say that the old monarchistic order
was quite good enough for them be-
cause there was always peace and
plenty and that is all they want Still,
from what I have seen ard heard my
self, and from reliable second hand
information that have obtained from
American officers and enlisted men
who have visited all parts of the en-
pire and from other sources, that au-
tocratic power shall never hold sway in
Germany in the way that it did when
Kaisers were popular, and while there
may bequite bit of trouble before the
new order gets to working good 1t IS
going to be a new Germany after all.
How much trouble there is going TO
be and along what lines don't know
since am not an expert on economic
and political affairs. My business over
there was keeping a portion of the
horses of Uncle Sam in the best shape
possible and that was plenty too
Nobody is Hungry.
Nobody is going hungry now in
those sections of Germany in which 1
saw service said Captain Glenn. THE
harvest this year is not going to be
bountiful one' due to the shortage of
labor and Seasonal conditions, but the
German people are going to have
enough to live on comfortably with
some outside assistance. They do not
appear to be worrying. Lots of them
still go to church all day Sundays and
drink wine and beer and dance all of
Sunday nights as of old. There is little
repentance for their sins in the way OF
sackcloth and ashes. Still, there is
plenty of crepe and mourning colors in
evidence throughout the land and that
German home that is without some
evidence of mourning l have yet to see.
There was never apparent to me
much II any indication of intense and
bitter feeling toward the American
Army of Occupation or toward the
troops of the other Allies. Possibly
they scowled and made grimaces at
us in the secrecy of their homes or
after we had passed: but never
caught any of these glances when
looked back.
1.-THE common people of Germany
the women and children especially
are beginning to hear stories of the
horrible atrocities committed by theil
troops in Belgium and in France, ano
II is hard for them to believe the
stories that are coming back ] talked
much with a nun in a convent neai
which I was stationed, a sanity lady
,,bo oskad much of me concerning The