The Dolores star., 1919-04-11
BY LLOYD ALLEN,
Western Newspaper Union Staff Cor

to Paris after three weeks In Ger
many, where he inspected the food
| supply, the stocks of raw materials,
briefly, and made u remarkably con-
else survey of the political and eco
nOmic situation.
Probably no one In America was
better fitted to size up Germany than
Doctor Taylor.
While America was neutral, during
those first months of the great war.
Taylor was travelling through the
length and breadth of Germany in
specting the allied prison camps. He
was attached to the American embas-
sy. He gained. during the days be
fore we were in the war, an intimate
knowledge of German war methods,
German official procedure, German in
trigue, German lies, German cruelty,
and came to know all about the condi-
ton of economic Germany.
You would never pick Taylor out of
crowd as one of our leading Ameri-
cans, because he does not look like n
statesman, college professor, n po-
litical economist, or diplomat-and
! ne is an Oh tneSe tnlllSS.
| When he hurried out of Mr.. Hoov-
er's office in the Hotel de Crilon. on
| his return from Germany, Taylor
| started. without pause, to get into
the heart of his talk with group of
American newspaper men that had as
| sembled to learn the truth about the
Germans. He actually talked one hour
and forty-tive minutes. He answered
half hundred questions.
"same Old Gang"
"They've got the same old gang in
the government offices at Berlin that
we knew before and during the war;"
| Taylor began. "SOme kind of revO-
luton actually started in Germany be-
fore the armistice was signed. For
the time being that revolution is be-
ing held up. The politicians are bend
Ing every effort to get IL governmental
machine working smoothly, in order to
present some kind of solid front to
the allies when the time comes to set
tie final peace terms. While the gov
ernment is shaping itself the old civil
servants are being kept in the govern
ment offices. The men in control do
not intend taking unframed men into
the government, because they have the
concrete example of the failure of the
Russian government that took I'M
trained officials into the government
machine. The Germans in control
won't allow Germany's government to
fall to pieces like the Russian govern
ment."
AS soon as peace is actually de-
clared the Germans will start out set
tling their internal difficulties and can
be expected to introduce many social
istic reforms-possibly the sociallza-
tion of many of the leading industries.
such as the large factory groups and
the coal and potash and iron mines.
In the meantime, the men in control
Mt Berlin are endeavOrlng to get their
people back to work. back to the in
dustrious and nonpolitical ways of so
years ago before the militaristic
crowd started preaching world con-
quest and "kulturization" Of the globe.
MiIitarism Is Gone.
And it is now appreciated that the
Germans have long way to go before
they come out of this war experience
as even halfway decent nation.
Militarism as world menace in
Germany Is gone, Doctor Taylor be-
lieves. He found sufficient evidence
to satisfy him that the German army
of the old days is thing of the past.
AS to the men at the helm In Berlin
who are trying to solve the present
urgent problems of the country-they
have had no change of heart. no con-
version to the doctrines of President
| Wilson unless they are permitted to
retain their original boundaries.
Failing to hOodwink the world into
| giving them territory that never be-
longed to them rightfully, the Ger
| mans are going to take the attitude
| that they are much abused nation.
| And they are going to hint broadly
| that no good can come of abusing u
nation of 7O,OOOOOO people. In fact,
they are already beginning propa-
| ganda to make their people believe the
allies are eager for an unjust peace.
Non compos Mentis.
| Today the German has figured out
kind of new philosophy of life. He
wants TO eat MS CAKE ana nave IL 100.
He admits that he would have been
Overjoyed had the central powers won
the war and enslaved the world. He
sees no wrong in Il kulturized world.
He believes that any means the mill
tary party took to win the war, no
matter how cruel, and no matter what
suffering these methods caused inno-
cent populations, were justified.
Now that the Germans have been
defeated and see some of their steal
ings Of the past half century going out
of their hands. they say "The mill
tary party deceived u.s." and then take
the attitude that they are not to blame
for present misfortunes.
In other words. had the military
party succeeded IN defeating the al