Evening star., 1919-04-06
MASK OF GAYETY'
over REVOLUTION:
Evidence in Germany That
People Are Preparing to
''Reap WhirIWind.'
ADVANCE OF BOLSHEVISM
BY BEN HECHT.
CnbleEram to The Sunday Star and the
Chicago Daily News. Copyright, 1919.

Cnblegram to The Sunday Star and the
Chicago Daily News. Copyright, 1919.
BERLIN. April 5-The cabarets
are .crowding up again and lines of
automobiles and droskies discharge
innumerable groups of elegantly at
tired men and women in front of
the theater entrances. The cham
pagne bottles pop in the night and
the sound of the nocturnal merry
makers fills the brightly lighted
streets. Everywhere 4 hear new lit
tie songs--revolutionary songs of the
bourgeoisie:
Dance, my little girl, dance;
We have a few hours to sing.
So dance, my little one, dance;
Who knows what the morrow will
bring forth"
1t has a rollicking bit of music to
It that puts swagger into the hearts
of the cafe crowds and brings a
laugh FROM lips. 1t is unnecessary
to read the ominous newspapers to
know that something Is happening.
1t is not necessary to engage lugu-
brious political oracles. in converse
tion to know that Germany is pre-
pairing to reap a whirlwind The
little soug of the boulevardiers is
as prevalent today as was the Merry
Widow Waltz" a decade ago. 1t con-
tains the essence Of the situation.
Bavarians Shout. .Bolshevism.
The Bavarians are hurrahing for
bolshevism; the sleepy streets of
Frankfort-on-the-M Main are witness
ing the birth of the bolshevist ter
rors Stuttgart, the old musical GEN.
ter, is resounding with the machine :,
gun rattle of the proietariat; the
minors of Rrhr district naSSinSr
by the thousands around Essen and
Bochum.s All Germany is overrun
with the mania from the east and the
shadow of Lenin is creeping daily
further into it's heart.
9 This is the real revolution" pro-
claim the radical gazettes.. I'VE viii
celebrate May 1. under the red flag
of the Spartacans." Today bolshe-
Sism seems inevitable for Germany.
For three months Russian money has
been pouring into the Golfers of the
reds. For three months Russian and4l
Germah 'agitators have been slowly
organizing the miners OF the Rhine.
land, Westphalia and Silesia. and
factories into political form. The
dozens of prominent Germans 1 have
interviewed during this time have
pointed out the fact and bewailed
the blindness of the entente in drag
ging along peace With peace, food
and work. fhey have dinned into me,
"the bolshevist menace: collapses."
Theory Jeered by Communists.
" On the other hand, equal numbers
laughed at the theory. The entente
is powerleSS to prevent bOlShevism,'
said Alfonso Goldschmidt. one of the |
masses are rising. Give them food
and they will rise quicker. They do |
not want peace. The entente had bet.
ter look to its own masses. A new
; TodayI attended,a brief, meeting of |
ave Of the leading manufacturers in |
Berlin.9T meeting ended in reso- !
tuition calling upon ths government |
aonger a menace read the resolu- |
tion; 'it is here" -
Z. Returning from the meeting, l. found |
the afternoon editions of the news |
papers filed with accounts of boil |
shevist outbreaks all over the coun- |
try. Reports of general strikes in
Bavaria, Saxony, Wurttemburg. Prus- |
6aa and Rhineland occupied columns |
of space with the. demands of the |
strikers for sixsheur. day, soviet
outlined. 1t is evident that this revo-
lntioh is from the outside Of BerIin
and that it is the iitfention- ct the
bolshevists to draw the -goyernine ent
troops away from the CENTER, scatter
the .governme = power Throughout
Germany ana No. execute a coup in
Berlin.
Il made efforts to discover what
governrn6 6nt was doing,$to arrest the
march OF communism and was told
by MinisterSpf War ReiHhart that the
government xr oops were powerful
enough TO suppr ess any attempted ups
fisine-and nothing more,
= Betaia Eeafns the New Song.
I'm the meantime Berlin has learned
the new popular song-"Dance, My
little Girl. Dance The burgeoisie
a a whole Is making no effort to Or
EAnize~-anti-b bolshevist societies, con-
tentjng4 themselves with pasting up
caricaSnxes labeled Here is what
bolshevism means" showing mani |
acalSe skeletone setting fire to orphan |
HomSs -and dfsmembering widows.
Yesterday for the first time since the
last 4ipriSing troops were marching
through the streets again and motor
I6rries laden with machine guns
dashing from one end Of the city to
the other.
NO shooting has started yet. In |
Berlin..it will be the finishing stroke 1
for Germany" The Germans 1 see
and listen to seem to feel this. Op-.I
timisnn. has died in Berlin. In itsj
Mac e has come the masque Of gayety |
and little song. -.