The evening leader. (Tarpon Springs, Fla.) 191?-19??, 1919-04-23
BY LLOYD ALLEN.
Western Newspaper Union staff Cor
respondent.

- enced no change of heart as a result
OF her military defeat is the message
Dr. Alonzo Taylor has Just brought
to Paris after three weeks in Ger
many, where he inspected the food
supply, the stocks Of raw materials,
briefly, and made a remarkably cor
cise survey of the political and eco
pamic situation.
probably no one in America was
ter fitted to size up Germany than
* Taylor.
America was neutral, during
rst months of the great war,
WAS travelling through the
breadth of Germany in
allied prison camps. He
to the American embas-
during the days be-
the war, an intimate
erman war methods,
rscedure, German in
les, German cruelty,
6w all about the condi-
ic Germany.
lever pick Taylor out Of
of our leading Ameri--
e does not look like
bllege professor, a po-
st or a diplomat-and
csc things.
rried out of Mr.. Hoov-
he Hotel de Crillon, on
pm Germany, Taylor
g6t a pause, to get into
his talk with group of
&aper men that had as
d the truth about the
etually talked one hour
minutes. He answered
questions.
lne Old Gang"
GOT the same old gang in
khent offices at Berlin that
before and during the war;"
egan. "Some kind of revo-
.tually started in Germany be-
he armistice was signed. For
Tine being that revolution is be-
q held up. The politicians are bend
ling every effort to get 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
eminent is shaping itself the old civil
servants are being kept in the govern
ment offices The men in control do
net 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 Germanys government to
fall to pieces like the Russian govern
sA ment.'
AS soon as peace is actually de-
clared the Germans will start out set
S Ting their internal difficulties and can
be expected to introduce many social
istic reforms-possibly the socializa-
ton 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
at Berlin are endeavOring to get their
people back to work, back to the in
dustrious and nonpolitical ways of 80
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
they come out of this war experience
as even a halfway decent nation.
Militarism as a world menace in
Germany is gone, Doctor Taylor be-
lieves. He found sufficient evidence
M 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
5 have had no change of heart, no con-
version to the doctrines of President
Wilson unless they are permitted to
q retain their original boundaries.
Failing to hoodwink the world into
giving them territory that never be-
" Hlonged to them rightfully the Ger
mans are going to take the attitude
that they are a much abused nation.
And they are going to hint broadly
chat no good can come Of abusing a
nation of 100000 people. In fact,
they are already beginning a 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 his cake and have it too.
He admits that he would have been
overioyed had the central powers won
the war and enslaved the world. He
sees no wrong in kulturized world.
n He believes that any means the mill
tary party took to win the war, no
|W matter how cruel and no matter what
& suffering these methods caused inno-
Il cent populations, were justified.
Now that the Germans have been
defeated and see some of their steal
& Iings of the past half century going out
of their hands, they say, "The mill
M 4nr,r no rtr deceived rs" and then take