The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-04-19
By ARTHUR POLLEN.

S1fer in conquered Germany is making AD discovery.
 The German Of private life has, seemingly. nothing whatever in com mon with the German of politics. of war. or of business.
 The public German, if in the gov ernment, took his orders from the anner cabinet that advised the Kaiser, the Chancellor, or the general staff; If in business, from one or another of a dozen oiques, that controlled the finance, the industries and the com Inerce of this extraordinary people.
 Tn everything he said and did, therefore, the public German was aot- ing 8 part What he said, what he S1fd was no index whatever to his own inner standards.
 Whether his orders were. to lie, to aeSRAstnRtes or to swtndle, his whole ic0usoaoUs seif wasconcentrated on the 'S1Gnlru1t task of blind obedience.
 N was a strange self-suppresston- b soE4 of barreok-room Bushido, if you Uaszse-Ehat made the German &1zza ps1t tho public interest of his SOOuutTy aboRe his conscience.
 &fse important thing to seize ds that hs did. in fact, so put it. Ills orders wore moro tO>him4than hIsife or even sou1.
 Axs1. sEoecanse 7re did Ehis, when he we1& to war he oOud be-eocording as fA suited tho policy of his masters- humane gentle, even generous or Seosd<hfooded murderer, pirate, ,rav1siler fteStrOyer Of homes, ens1aver of men, TtoreUrer of children, burglar and thief.
 The strange thing Is that the man who sat at ono time all gent1eness, moderation and courtesy could at Ianocher act as one would suppose only the most oonscienceless cut 1hront could act, and then again re- yaUrne his first character, seemingly 1lnsu1lied by his horrible experiences
 A11 this followed from the fact that Fthe GarGnan was tmpersonal-an~ au- tomaton.
 &n Bnglishrnan41n.c contact with. cul- fJrred Germans in the conquered ter Ir'ttorSy. who knows something of Hun atrocities, is Rstonished and shocked fhEt every German does not feel about thsse things as an Englishman or an American would feel if his army or navy had been guilty of such horrors.
 He cannot III1d erstand why the Ger Eman docs not say I've know that we .have sinned damnably and cruelty, Fbut circumstances forced us into it. We are sorry We are willing to make lall the reparation in our power. We kshsll try to live down the hfdeous record we have made"
 The Germans Duality of Mind,
 The German does nothing of the 1dDd. His private conscience is sorne- thing quite removed. distant and dis Itiuct, from the public conscience of lS1is country.
 With what his superiors have or q ha 4r gFyV ovnIr 1frf, 'does not presume to crfticise the prin- lUiples on which they acted. He has never had the slightest responsibility in choosing either his governors or dhe principles of their actions, or the purposes of their policy.
 This creates d quality of mind, which Is the Germans real character ito the sympathy of the British sol Ediers and to the less reflective men of higher rank.
 For they see ine1nim not. only a man utterly unlike the person who would dnspire the frightfulness of the last four years, but someone who embo odies standards entirely incompatible with such frightfulness.
 Can the f1ghtrulness stories, then, Fbe true?
 The domestic Hun man. and stin more tho domestic Hun woman, is by nature. tradition and training one of the most inoffensive, hospitable, courteous creatures living.
 There is no form of discipline more severe than tho discipline of the Ger man home: no children are mora strictly brought up.
 The domestic economy which we very inef1ciently tnculcate fin our sBchools is the common inheritance of ievery German household-even the poorest.
 Cleanliness, order and tidy clothes fsGre common to all except the abso- 1Utely destitute. As cheerful, willing ananaEers of homes the German women are unsurpassed
 Now note these things-the Ger mans subseTvience and the German woman's domestic accomplish m ent- and interpret in the light of them the news that reaches us from so Tnany quarters.
 British ''Tommies' and British of Hcers have been fascinated by the kindness, the charm, and the "nice- mess" of the German families.
 Some, thinking they sec below the surface, detect a conspiracy. It is Hun effort to camoufiage his hatred, to soften our resentment. The sus- picion is needless.
 The German Is more cruelty beaten Fhan~was anybody at any time in his tory. He knows 1t, and he knows that 1t is the English who have beaten him.
 His attitude towards the English man may have an element of hatred; 1t may have an element of intellectual adn1Iration. But the grand explana- ton of the whole is fear and abject nwe.
 Starting from this, and meeting the English soldier only in the domestic circle he feels towards him as in pre- war days he would have felt if some one greater than a sergeant, lieuten- ant, colonel or Seneral-according to his station of ufe-had been sent by the All-Highest to honor his family with his presence.
 There is nothing forced, artificial. affected in his pose. To bow before power, to cringe before strength, these are fnstinctfve gestures.
 No conspiracy is necessary to make everyone do that which it is their na- ,1ure to do. For the final trait of the German is that he is the super-snob of the Eorld.