The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-11-23
RED ACTIVITIES ::.OF ALL KINDS
 RIFE IN BERLIN
By FRANK F. MASON.

seat or government rom 6erlp to some other German city? Or if she is uHable to pry her politicians from the PruSSian metropolis will the Ger man federation fall a victim to the evil political influences of Berlin and be broken up into small states?
 These questions are being discussed in intimate conferences by thinking leSders of the German nation. The wSdom of George Washington's col-- leagues in creating the District of Columbia so that the federal govern msnt would be beholden to no partic- ular state is demonstrated when one studies the currents and cross cur rehts of German politics and sees the tremendous influence which Berlin hap in German affairs, absolutely out ofE proportion to her population or importance.
 Fhe revolutionary leaders of Nov 9. H91S, were on the right road when thRy located the provisional capital ofEGermany in Welmar. But the in huence of Berlin and the Prussian hdgemony was too strong, and as soPn as quiet was restored the gov ertment returned to Berlin.
 E Berlin Is "Red.'
 Berlin is avowedly red. The town coAnci is controlled by a party wHbse slogan is World Revolution" ana Dictatorship of the Proletariat" Ddtnonstrations are the order of the daE ot a week passes without the gakhering of collarless mob which
  tin kthe big square Unter den Linden betore the Kaisers Palace. From five to fifty thousand they gather and protest. Always protesting against the passing of bill in the Rqchstag, against a new tax against thteatened unemployment. The Ser linz bolshevistic press permits no day to xpass without injecting a new po- lit6al narcotic into the mob.
 Germany's government has a tim orous sensitiveness for the opinion of the mob, which is born of fear and , knowledge of it's own weakness. Un- like American representatives who must be residents of the district from which they are elected; the German member of Parliament is elected ac- cording to British practice. Under this system g. democrat from Cleve- land could be nominat ted by his party , to run in California. and republi- can of New Orleans might head the ballot in New York city. Reichstag members represent constituencies which they often see only while stumping the district before election. The result is that a large proportion of the members of the Refchsthg be- gin to get rooted in the soil of Berlin. Here their vision is frequently lim- ited to the attitude of the city or at best of Prussia.
 Fear Berlin Mob.
 Have you seen what this morn ing's Vorwaerts says on your speech of yesterday?'' will throw shivers into a member of the ReichStag who brazenly doesn't care a paper mark about. the opposition in his own dis trict. : The Reichstag is unquestiona- bly much under the potential fear of the Berlin mob and the newspapers which represent and serve as mouth pieces for the mob.
 Minister of Food Harmes is doubt less a hearty supporter of the move nent to change the capital from Der lin since his very unpleasant experi- ences on his wedding day. A crowd of several thousand hausfrauen gath cred before the large Steglitz Catho- lie church during the ceremony and interrupted thep riests intonations with remarks about the food minister and his conduct in office, which were not only unseemly before a church, but which could not be repeated in any parlor. , +,o Germans call it, is no more typical of Germany than New York is typical of America. Berlin is also a melting pot; in it you find all thee rudities of human slag which float to the place of least resistance. There is a SUD- pressed desperation, sullen pess1- ,mistic heavineSS; Berlin is a city of dropping mouths. Happiness, faces expressing the mere joy of living which greet one in Hamburg, Co- logne, Munich, Dresden, even lr ithreadbare, hungering Vienna, are noticeable in Berlin by their absence
 Berlin has not the atmosphere ot quiet human sunshine necessary to cure the sick bankrupt state; w1tt red banners and read threats daily being waved on their faces the off cials often follow a policy of day-to' day oppOrtuniSm because they haVen1 sufficient power to enforce their Will
 Keen, impartial observers proph ecy that Berlin must have its fling a the Russian soviet and the Russian terror before order and stability car be restored. In their opinion Bolshe vism in Germany is a scarlet fever after the municipal body has once been through thes icIness, it is i'm mune to further exposure. The! point out the fact that Munich, whicl lived through its red terror, is nov the stronghold of nti-bolSh eviSm.
 Must Await Emergency.
 It is doubtful whether the govern ment could bem owed until an emer gency arose such as drove Ebert anC his cabinet to Stuttgart during tn Kapp revolution. Thep oliticians anC their satellites find innumerable req sons to combat the change.
 Nevehtheless when the govern ment considered that there was seri osu danger last spring of a red revo tuition, arrangements were made t, transfer the headquarters of tn Reichswehr to Munich. Minister O to the Bavarian capital for this pur , pose. Ever since this time the worl has steadily progressed of consoli dating this line of retreat in case o n a new revolution. Munich is begin ming to show signs of readiness t toss its hat in the ring as candidat s for the new capital. This suggestio has several times appeared in edi rorials in the Muenchenec Neueste Nachricten.
 BulldOzed by Reds"
 Germany today presents the spec tacle of weak national democrati government being morally bulldoze by d red town population. It is
 condition which cannot continue in definitely; it will end in crisis an d crash. Unless the government SC cures permission from the entente t maitnain sufficient police power t carry out a sensible reconstructio program without catering to ever whim of irresponsible mass meeting the government will probably agai leave Berlin within the next l mo1ths-either intentionally, or b fleeing in the stiffness of the night a it did during the Kapp revolution.
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