The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1919-01-18
WOULD MELT
IRON CROSSES
FOR JUNK NOW

(By Carl Sandburg, N. E. A. staff
| correspondent
Christiania (By Mail.)-Viggo Cav
Ken, took a trip down to the Danish
| German border about the time the
big break in the German revolution
came. He tells what he saw and
| heard in an account in his own paper,
| from which these are extracts:
I'VE came to the Bastrup customs
| station. Here we see the first Ger
| man eagles and the first red soldier.
| When we address him comrade he
replies Immediately, Yes, indeed. it
/ is "comrade" now It is now as dur
| ing the French revolution. Titles are
changed. The time for 'excellenz' has
| gone by; now 'comrade' is safer.
I'VE go on our journey. The no
| tells and resorts at Skodsborg are full
| of soldiers, discussing the outlook.
/ The frontier sentinels of Germany
| have gotten hold of their Danish COL
| leagues. They tell the Danes to build
workmen and soldiers councils. Boil
| shevik literature is struggled over the
| border All officers are being sent
home. The soldiers of one detachment
, have just taken a vote of exoneration
/
| dant.
AT To1bo1 we learn that a deputa-
| ton from the workmen soldiers coun-
| Gil at Kiel has just passed through on
| a tour of inspection. They instruct
| the German soldiers to stay where
they are till further orders. Also they
say real tobacco is on the way.
Eyes Brighten As Republic Is An.
nounced.
THE next picket gave
n cigar to. He asked us to come into
his shelter. A telegram has just come
that Scheidemann announces a re-
public in Berlin. The soldiers eyes
frightened. 1t is the people, taking
hold of their power he says
a. Are you a socialist? / ask. He
answers. Now we are all socialists.
Are you not afraid that discipline
will pass away along with the old
SYSTEM
We are not Russians
! Have you heard that Kaiser Will
helm has fled to Holland?'
. Fled MOI And he hesitated a,
believing the news when we showed
him a telegram containing the infor-
nation.
"On the table lay an iron cross.
What is that?' we ask.
That is a war cross I got at
Longway, the first year of the war
And now you have taken it off :?
have TORN it Off
% VIII you sell it to me?'
Hardly, l am going to melt i,
into junk
Aren't you tired of picket duty?
asked old landsturmer. Don't
you want to go homer
We would like to have it little
easier, he answers, but we are not
impatient Our whole country is shook
". Maybe it isn't any better a,
homo
Nedsted we see Prussian rail-
road officials with their epauIettes
torn off. The soldiers with their Of
ficerS sent home, are running things
for themselves.
People Will Make Terms, Says Soldier
What do you think about the ar
| istice terms?' we ask young infan-
tryman, who answers: They are only
the terms of the big ones, the few
Now we are going to see if the people
themselves can handle it better If tn.
revolution in Germany joins on Il
Russia, it will spread to France. Yo,
shall see, 1t was not the people wht
wished the war. We have all tn,
time wished for peace. and it is tn
time now for US to fix the terms O
peace.
VIII the peace in Germany com
the same way as in Russia, with tn
whole overclass disfranchised?
Those who willed the war and ex
pected to gain from it must pay for il
About that there is no doubt. TIL
:. people have taken the power "