The Pulaskian., 1919-04-11
By LLOYD ALLEN, Western Newspaper Union Staff Cor

enced no change of heart as 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 con- clse survey of the political and eco homie situation.
 Probably no one in America was better fitted to size up Germany than Doctor Taylor.
 While America was neutral, during those first months of the great war, Taylor was travelling through the length and breadth of Germany in- specting the allied prison camps. He was attached to the American embas- sy. He gained, during the days be- fore we were in the war, an intimate knowledge of German war methods. German official procedure, German in- trigue, German lies, German cruelty, and came to know all about the condi- tion of economic Germany.
 You would never pick Taylor out of a crowd as one of our leading Ameri- cans, because he does not look like a statesman, college professor, a po- liticai economist, or a diplomat-and he is all of these things.
 When he hurried out of Mir. Hoov- CTS office in the Hotel de Crillon, on his return from Germany, Taylor started, without a pause, to get into the heart of his talk with a group of American newspaper men that had as- sembed to learn the truth about the Germans. He actually talked one hour and forty-five minutes. He answered half a hundred questions
 Same Old Gang"
 They've got the same old gang in the government offices at Berlin that we knew before and during the war Taylor began. Some kind of a revo- lution actually started in Germany be- fore the armistice was signed. For the time being that revolution is be- ing held up. The politicians are bend ing every effort to get a governmental machine working smoothly, in order to present some kind of a solid front to the allies when the time comes to set tie final peace terms. While the gov ernment is shaping itself the old civil servants are being kept in the govern ment offices. The men in control do not intend taking untrained men into the government, because they have the concrete example of the failure of the Russian government that took un- | trained officials into the government machine. The Germans in control won't allow Germany's government to fall to pieces like the Russian govern ment."
 AS soon as peace is actually de clared the Germans will start out set ting their internal difficulties and can 1 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 50 years ago before the militaristic crowd started preaching world con quest and "kulturization" of the globe.
 MiIitarlsm Is Gone.
 And it is now appreciated that the Germans have long way to go before they come out of this war experience as even a halfway decent nation.
 Militarism as world menace in Germany is gone, Doctor Taylor be- lieyes. He found sufficient evidence to satisfy him that the German army l 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 have had no change of heart, no con- version to the doctrines of President Wilson unless they are permitted to retain their original boundaries.
 Failing to hoodwink the world into giving them territory that never be- longed to them rightfully, the Ger mans are going to take the attitude that they are much abused nation. And they are going to hint broadly |
 that no good can come of abusing a nation of 7O,000,000 people. In fact, they are already beginning propa- ganda to make their people believe the allies are eager for an unjust peace.
 Non compos Mentis.
 Today the German has figured out a kind of new philosophy of life. He wants to eat his cake and have it too. He admits that he would have been oyerioyed had the central powers won the war and enslaved the world. He sees no wrong in a kulturized world. He believes that any means the mili- tary party took to win the war, no matter how cruel, and no matter what suffering these methods caused inno- cent populations, were justified.
 Now that the Germans have been defeated and see some of their steal ings of the past half century going out