Bisbee daily review., 1919-06-15

rumors indicating that the danger of extreme radicalism is imminent. "As was said before, the American authorities firmly restrain all social relations with the native girls al though they might not be considered a political factor. The Americans know what complications of family life would result if they should allow 15,000 idle and strapping soldiers to kick over the traces in city (Cob- lenz) of 60,000 inhabitants. In order to avoid entanglement themselves, and also in order to guard the civil population from developments which would not be quite in accord with their views of sexual ethics, the American authorities have proclaimed the permanent celibacy of the sold iers.
 When lieutenant, intoxicated by the heavy Rhenish- -Hessian wine, for which he had a predilection, and also by the beauty of the German bar maid, made harmless amatory ad- Vances to her in an officers casino, he was punished for it by the loss of his rank as an officer. The com mander of his regiment sent apolo- gies to the management of the estab- lishment on account of his officers behaviour, and informed the proprie- tor of the punishment.
 "To the disappointment of many who had entertained visions of Ameri- ca as a fairy. bearing horn over flowing with butter, eggs, and hams, the Americans show themselves very parsimonious with regard to food. Even the common soldier lives like first class passenger on an ocean | liner He receives, twice or three times 2 day, meat which does not need l to be disguised in a thin soup Of vegetables and potatoes, but which is served up with gravy in good honest | fashion. When he has sated his ap- i petite with luscious steaks of beef {, and has swallowed his cup of coffee with milk and sugar to speed diges' tion, he is at liberty, especially if he is an officer, to buy every day a pound of the finest chocolate or a can of jam at the price of four marks (Mark is 20c).
 "This prerogative is the more exer- cised because a private receives a daily wage of eight marks and a lieutenant of forty marks as his dolce | far niente. (The writer apparently re gards the wage as sufficient to ban ish all pecuniary cares). But woe to the soldier who gives or sells DOT tion of his superfluity, and thrice woe to the civilian who accepts or buys said portioni mere cigarette, re- ceived 1by a mendicant, may entail prosecution for unauthorized poses sion of American property There I have been twenty-three convictions, out of sixty-six cases, for this crime between January 5 and January 2S. according to published accounts of American judicial proceedings at Coblenz. Such an offense must be atoned by a fine of five hundred to one thousand marks whereas, for the purchase of American property, the
 minimum punishment is three months Imprisonment.
 More astounding than the severity of these punishments is the system of espionage used by the American exc
 cutive authorities. CoblenE teens with gentlemen who are nothing other than decoys. With tempting bacon they hunt the street, striving to de tect some impoverished caterer in crime they also practice their noble arts with the utmost success 1T } spying on dealers in alcoholic bever ], ages. Alcohol is an i'll friend to the , Americans and they all have reason , to fight against 1t. The sale of ar dent spirits is prohibited and the sale l of wine and beer is limited to tho ) periods from 12 to o'clock and from r to o'clock. It is distinctly theil l own business to determine how they l wish to guard their men from the de - predations of alcohol. There can b. - no objection if patrols of officer' l make the rounds of public houses al 8 coffee inspectors to discover whethe r the coffee is genuine or is mixed witl : brandy. But we cannot quite under = stand why they use secret agents t' ,, entrap Germans also in the enjoymen
 of their bitters.
 No excess of delicacy prevents tn
 Americans, moreover, from informin
 themselves by extremely minute ques
 tions, even in cases of small indus
 tries, about the nature and the e1
 tent of production, the fixing of price
 the exportations. and other importan
 details. Put the Americans excel al
 their allies in their good nature
 their attitude toward us Is not at al
 chauvinistic. When they invested tn
 city, they entered without any tho
 atrical demonstration, demanded n
 submissive reception from the cit
 government, and regarded arrogan II proclamations as entirely superfluoui
 They all sought to occupy their ow
 quarters as soon as possible withoU