The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1919-11-12
Year Has Been Nothing for
Her in Peaee;: Mi'siv:-
~, mgs for Future. -, -.
ARMlSTICE YEAR CLOSES
WITH NATION. BANKRUPT
Factions Plan to Rule Nation
on Different Lines; Hopes
for New Life
BY Carl D. GrOat.

(OntCeu FIcSS Correspondents
Berlin, Nov. 11.-one year OF
peace! -,
4 bitter mockery, says Germany
today on the anniversary Of the great
wars end. =. g.. 4; >.
It has been year OF aught 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 reali-
ties For they spoil for her, perhaps,
a further. plunge into the 'chasm OF
moral, physical, economic disintegra-
ton which has marked the Teuton
couTeex. ..,p 49, . j, go g., .~,.
Conclusion of one year OF peace
found the nation today uncomfort-
ably. close to national bankruptcy.
It found her with laboring class,
unclaimed from the grind Of the past,
now unwilling to .>work-and. in
MANY cases unable for. want Of the
raw materials. It found her with
government which despite good in
tentions and hard efforts has been
unable to progress materially. And,
too, it found her with internal strife,
with political haulings and pulAngs,
with strivings after monarchy and
with strivings after proletarian dis
tatorship, in short, with confusion
and moral breakdown which
threatens before the winter dies to
flame out in new civil upheavals
with possible bloodshed or with fur
to- %~;o IN
The pendulum here has swung
from the redism or last November
revolution t. more ,.ess moderation, t. a
true: sAnds there hive been signs:
that the ultra conservatism Of the
Pan-Germans would sweep back into
power. The air is filled with rumors
of putsches.
I: One side says, 1.-The monarchists
will overthrow the government, and
put a Hindenburg or even Hohen-
zollern in power" The other says,
1.-THE Spartacists plan trouble. They
will battle the land in blood again
to establish their rule of the prOle-
tariat''
Sees More Bloodshed.
And both sides speak with some
degree of truth. For certain it is
that the extreme right and the ex-
IRENE left are bent on esta blishing
new order of things, while the
present Observation-Disclosures govern
ment, formed of majority socialists,
centrists and democrats, BANKS on
Noske and his iron guards to keep
Germany in order.
Aside from Noske and his guards,
Germany has little to bank on. She
only prays and hopes with sort Of
blind hope that the spring will bring
her a new life.
If we can only get through the
winter" is the prayer on every side.
For the poor, confronted with coal
shortage-cold homes and still re-
stricted nations-it is prayer that
something will come. to make a new
era. For the politician in power, It
is hope that he can stave of politi-
cal ruin and perhaps the disruption
of his country. For the business
man it is the thought that If his
work isn't socialized or ruined this
winter, help may come in the spring.
Hoping Against Hope.
And everywhere those in power
are hoping against hope that an un-
friendly outer world will finally
take the German view that purely as
a matter of good business for the
whole worlds security, financial aid
will be extended whereby Germany
can drive of the specters Of unem-
ployment, hunger, social unrest, un-
willingness to labor, and Of general
apathy.
The government rests on a very