The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1920-08-09
BoLsHEvIST PERIL IN GERMANY,
American Traveller Reports Workers
Underfed.

Lee keedick of the Keedick Lecture
bureau, who arrived from Europe
| Wednesday on the Olympic, says:
II visited the principal cities in Ger
many and was astonished to find that
Americans were treated everywhere
with great courtesy. asked the reason
for this and was informed by German
business men that this was done be-
cause the educated people in the count
try think that the United States was
not treated fairly by the government
under the Hohenzollern regime.
Incidentally" Mr.. keedick contin-
ued, their politeness toward Ameri-
cans travelling in Germany is due to
desire to have people go there and
spend money. Also the German bank
| els and business men look to the Unit
ed States as the only hope for financial
aid to help them out of the present
condition, which is very bad indeed
"The workingmen are not getting
| enough to eat and are SO dissatisfied
that they would welcome the bolshe-
wiki with open arms if they should
come down over the frontier from Po-
| land. | asked several workers in Ber-
! lin, Frankfort, Hamburg and Dussel-
dorf why they were in favor of the boil
sheviki, and depicted the terrors of the
| soviet regime in Russia, but they just
smiled in a feeble sort of manner and
brushed the question aside with the re-
mark. 1t would be better than starv-
ing as We do now.
1.-The French are responsible for
keeping Germany short of food and
they are making a great mistake. Fl. G.
Wells said to me in Paris that he
could not understand the attitude of
the French government toward Ger
many at the present time. There can
be no prosperity in Europe, he added,
unless it is general prosperity, and
that could not occur with Germany
bankrupt.
The German bankers and manufac-
turers / spoke to about the treaty and
Germany's part in fulfilling the peace
conditions said the German people
were willing to 60 to work and pay
off the indemnity if they were allowed
to have sufficient nourishing food for
the working men and the raw mate.
rails to start going in all parts of the
country the factories now idle, while
the cities are filled with thousands of
unemployed drawing sustenance doies
from their city government. The French
want to receive the indemnity all at
onee and live upon IT so that their peo
pie need not work, and by the time it
has all been paid the Germans say,
France viii have become nation of
loafers. while Germany will have re.
gained her former state of thrift and
industry.
THE government in Berlin il very
much alarmed over the danger of a
bolshevist invasion, because they are
aware of the aid ii would receive with
in their own frontiers. After Germany
there would be no stopping the soyiets
from spreading all over Europe.
THE feeling in France toward Amer
leans has changed very much during
the last IL months, since my visit to
Paris last summer The French peo-
pie do not like Americans, and show il
in every possible manner in the streets
and public places The principal cause
of their dislike is that Americans can
get from ii to II francs for the dol
lar.
On various occasions walking about
the principal streets in the capital ]
heard Frenchmen and women exclaim
a. visitors from the United States
passed them, A has les Americans
AT the Care du Nord railroad sta
tion, when | was getting ticket for
Boulogne, the young woman in charge
gave me handful Of stamps in
change. When | demonstrated with her
and explained that | could not use such
large quantity Of stamps she replied
in good English, Get out of the line,
you are blocking the way. Upon my
protesting a second time. she said, You
have enough of our francs for your
dollars. Go away
From the booking Office went TO
another window in the station to pay
two francs for reserving a seat on the
express train and rendered the amount
in stamps. To my surprise the woman,
who was elderly and thin-fsced said in
English, We do not take stamps here.
Take the:- away
4" But have just had them given to
me in change at the other window,
where I bought my ticket. explained.
The woman gave me a stony stare, and
said. IL you want the seat reserved
on the Bouloene express YOU must pay
two francs or 20 away from here. You
are keeping the people with. money
back had to pay and, as ] walked
away. heard her explaining in French
what she thought Of Americans and
the discussions a. she termed IT, they
always have over their dollars.
In Belgium things were very differ
cent Instead OF sitting down grum
bling and waiting for money 10 fall in
their lsps from the skies the people are
working hard in restoring their war
wrecked industries and the Belgium
franc j. rising in value as the exports
increase
Mr. Keedick said conditions were inn