The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1920-07-18
But He Doesn't Quite I'm
derstand How the
Thing Works.
GIRL SAYS WAR OVER
Find Relief in Abusing Their
Late Opponents in World
War.
BY EARL C. REEVES

understand parliamentary govern
ment. We never had 1t before.
So the German explains the mud
die in which his country finds IT.
self in the experiment OF self-rule.
They're learning. They seem to be
learning fast over here.
At home we think 1t takes a trc-
mendous lot of mouth work and
printed words to get anything done
politically. But Germany's working
on a per-Massachusetts scale. In
the Bay state an annual state cleo
tion makes politics a year-around
affair. IL seems to be n continuous
Eleshow here.
Ten or twelve parties are taking
a constant hand in the game. Politi-
cal controversy is the bread and
goosefat OF German life. There is
no butter.
travelled from Cologne on the
eve OF the Whitsuntide holiday.
The train was crowded. holiday
travellers standing packed In the
corridors. School German. a dozen
years old, Is a weak thing against
q spluttering political discussion,
but / caught the high spots.
Conversation started at the point
now popular--or unpopular-the
world over. Prices they talked
sorrowfully. with gestures which
said, what are we coming to?"
Then, OF course, politics, by way Of
finding whether there was a way
out.
A. mother of three and a prosper
ous-looking man travelling alone led
the debate. Both looked as though
they had found way to accumu-
late enough marks and to locate
enough hidden sources to insure
themselves good feeding, including
fats.
The socialist government In Ber-
lin, one gathered. was everything
t that was cultural and unpronounce-
able. Ebert, 1t seemed, was worse,
because helpless and bossed by the
new experimenters. For my benefit,
also the man in the corner read the
riot act" on France, England and
America.
He worked himself gradually into
passion. using his arms freely to
help raise his temperature to q boil
ing point. / found later many indi-
cations OF this national trait, that of
responding slowly. laboriously. to
any incentive to anger and working
to n white heat over n period Of
hours or days. It keeps Germany's
feet upon the ground in these trou-
bled times. The German population
Is anything but highly inflammable.
A girl in the window corner
whispered to her nelghbor that
was English--which was as near as
she could guess II. The rumblings
OF the impromptu political orator
rose higher, as he glared now and
then through thick lenses at me.
was insulted. no doubt. but he had
long since passed into such a stage
OF vocal eruption that I could no
longer even catch the high points OF
the simple ones.
We stopped at 4:30 In the after
noon. and a dinner was put on. The
girl beckoned and gave me the well
come tip to stand in limo in the corr
ridor II was a friendly act, for I'd
had coffee and crackers for break
fast, and the station platform re-
freshment booths had yielded only
more coffee, a cake of chocolate for
60 cents and two apples.
The war is over" she said.
Not for the simmering politician.
She had been friendly to an AUS
iNnder," and he only grunted in re-
sponse to her general goodnight. as
she left the compartment at her sta
ton.
Berlin, generally, is more friendly
to foreigners of the late enemy class,
for most of the people one comes in
contact with here know the money
that comes with tho visitor. Most
have very efficient methods for
l.. =. II n ID.,a l.
everybody has his particular brand
or politics. There's a wide variety
to select from.
Burying the news, or leaving II
over to be printed tomorrow, the
German newspapers purvey opinions
first, page one editorials, long and
intricately worded signed broadslde
by men with big journalistic names;
bitter attacks on the low intelli-
gc ace OF a rival writer, written In
the style OF the age of Horace
Greeley.
The walters, ono learns, are red
But they are not red enough to suit
the tastes OF the kitchen staff. The
delays one experiences in receiving
an order are at times due TO some
Z personal animosity between a waiter
Mand the kitchen staff, and to this In
turn is due that difference in politi.
cal opinion. And the walters In turr
have threatened to strike in body
because they think the head waiter
isn't red enough. He was chef tc
princely general headquarters dur.
ing the was. He has reasons FOL
wanting to organize a little red ter
ror OF his own against his former
boss, and by western standards he,
at least a rather vivid pink--but he'i
not red enough for his staff.
Everywhere politics is the CHIEF
relief from facing unsolvable prob.
lens in marks and pfennings
Handbills were handed out at the
street corners. The bill boards car.
ried glaring posters. The conser-
vauves picture the Fatherland as q
staunoh galleon fighting a turbulent
sea and call upon all and sundry tc
lend hand to save the ship. In
the radical posters red predominates
a giant laboring man sows red bal
ifis In a plowed field against the
ystant background OF a smoking
industrial plant. Scores of vari.
ations greet the eye at every turn
But there is none of the blare oi
bands. none OF the snap and go OF
an American campaign evident