The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1921-08-10
Mr.. LIEF,s CONCLUSIONS
REGARDING GERMANY

Lief in the New York Tribune, says
the Toronto Mail and Empire, we
have arrived at the conclusion that If
the Allies are determined upon win
ming the war they ought to move to
Germany. There they viii receive the
fruits of victory. They will be able
to get a fine meal for fifty cents. and
for twelve dollars year in Hamburg
they viii be able to have the same sort
of accommodation that they will get
IN Canada and the United States for
twelve dollars week A six-room
bungalow with bath is to be had there
for twelve dollars year. It has been
decreed by the authorities, and au-
thorities in Germany are quite as au-
thoritative as ever they were. 1t is
true that it may be difficult to find the
six-room bungalow with bath. When
found it may be tenanted, and build
ers, terrified by the order, are not
building six-room bungalows with any
great voluptuousness. Nevertheless, it
is cheap and pleasant to live in Ger
many if one does not have to pay the
engulfng German taxes. and if he is
able to take real money with him.
Mr.. Lief explains that whereas
school children were taught that
German mark was worth twenty-five
cents, so highly did the Germans
esteem it, now it is possible to lay
down an American dollar and receive
from 81 to II marks for it. The Cam
adian dollar being somewhat less val
liable internationally, though holly
sought in Canada, we may figure that
German mark is worth about two
of our cents. For sixty or eighty
cents one may have dinner consist
ing of fish salad, potato soup, outlets,
fried potatoes. apple sauce and large
stein of fine beer. If you don't feel
like eating, you can have the beer,
which to many would seem an advan-
tage. The disappointed waiter is
said to expect a ten-cent tip, but we
presume that by this time he has
ceased to be an optimist, and after
the meal is ready to call the incident
closed if the guest doesn't kick him
on the shins Nevertheless, he lives
on his tips. He receives no salary.
Milk remains a luxury in Germany.
Coffee is not drunk as it was former
ly because of the milk scarcity. Sugar
is almost as it was in the good old
days of the blockade, but Mr.. Lief
voices his astonishment at the fact
that pies and cakes with huge eoatings
of sugar and candy are rife. He has
failed to read the painstaking explain
atoms of Canadian candy makers to
the effect that all the candy manu-
featured in year accounts for mere
ly a decimal point of sugar. Mr.. Lief
says that he was frequently mistaken
for an Englishman, a Spaniard or a
Hungarian, but never for an Ameri-
can. If once we saw his name spelt
we should have read Sherlock Holmes
for nothing If we had confused him
with any of these nationalities. In all
the misunderstanding by which he
was flattered he found nothing but
civility among the Germans. We in
fer that the war was a good thing for
the Germans.
The writer was astonished by the
German police system, and he sug-
gests that by means of it Germany is
trying to evade some of the condi-
tions of the peace of Versailles. Ger
many's army was cut down. 1t could
hardly quell beer garden riot. Ger
many's police. however, is tremen-
dous force, so far as numbers go. The
regular police have been reinforced
by a green uniformed body, composed
chiefly of young and sturdy soldiers.
There is a third body of plainclothes-
men, practically all of them trained
soldiers. Their salary is ten dollars
q month with board thrown in, and
whatever washing may occur to them.
They work only every other day, and
usually have some other line of bust
ness which they depend upon to make
la living wage. One gathers from Mr..
Lief that their fayorite avocation is
selling police dogs. He tells US that
/ the dachshund is practically extinct
1t seems that in the most desperate
days of the war it was a choice be
tween the Germans and the dachs-
hund. With their characteristic blum
ldering the Germans chose themselves
We quote his concluding sentences
My habitual question, everywhere
went was: WAS deHken Sic Won den
KAISER" Without any preliminary IN
Production fred TINS question ike {
bolt from the blue sky at middle
aged ticket-taker IN Berlin r.; 1roas
station. He was not surpr sed at m.
boldness and answered placldly:
eve are we'll off as we ave-, n
said. s'Nobody is starving, aEa sool
every one will have work. The mill
ltaristic regime has gone, and We ar
glad. The kaiser is better off when
he is. and we sra better off where v
are