The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-11-18

Berlin. Nov 1s-It Is difficult task -the search for a. new ideal in Ger many today. Often one is tempted to give it up altogether.
 Social Germany presents a sorry picture. The industrial and economic 'ravases of the last seven years have : not failed In their effects.
 In the luxurious holiday resorts one is reminded of the .'Decline and Fall" Here one can see how our civilization will end if nothing Is done to alter the present trend of events.
 Everything is a mad rush for pleas are, In places like Baden-Baden, called ''le petit Paris" you imagine You are at the Ascot races. Every afternoon the cafes, restaurants and hotels are filled with elegantly-dress- ed and bejewelled men and women.
 Long motor tours are undertaken, k7hough the charge for taxicab is 500 marks Cat the pre-war rate of ex- change S120) for an afternoon. In the evenings the hotels and "bars" and "Dteles'' are filled with jewellers. fdancing and drinking. The latter Is ,s zR Rsse Poa are e'aes admitted to any cafe whatsoever un- Jess you undertake to consume wine or champagne. It is a useful source of profit for the cafe owner, and of profit for the state.
 "Our Dissolute Society,"
 The deterioration in manners and morals which results may be fmagin-
 
 sheir country speak sadly of "unsere rSelatterte Gesellscraft ('fcur disso1ute -society'')
 In the public dancing halls in Der cushions take their plece-the divans of old Rome. Girls cannot be in the street alone after dark.
 There is a mania for sex plays Wedekind, Schnttzler, Sudermann are played in every large town, while the output of plays of less known drama fists on the same subject seems never-endfng. At the same time the classical favorites are by means neglected, and performances of Shaw, Wilde and Shakespeare, as well as anodern and ancient German authors, Rre attended by enthusiastic and crowded houses.
 A great national festival is beins prepared for Gerhart Hauptmann' S 6Oth birthday next year, and so great Is German veneration for letters and art that this dramatist-poet is even spoken of as a possible future Presi- dent of the Republic.
 For the rnilitarism we fought to eradicate in Germany we have sub stituted a possible worse vice-n1ater- 3alisrn run mad.
 There ;s no conversation except ot prices and exchanges. Middle classes and workers (whose children would be long dead were it not for the mag ulificent work of the "Quaker-Speis- ung'' in all the big centres) have tc tdlk oI the InSanS Ol i1Nel1AOOu III or Ger to make both ends meet; the rich divide their time between wondering how to grow richer and wondering how long they will be allowed tc keep their wealth. It is not a prom ising atmosphere for the birth of g new Germany.
 Third Class and No Hats
 Although among the upper classe: Snd war prof1teers expenditure is SC extravagant, there are evidences o1 some forms of economy. No German travels first class on the railways. very few second class. The great majority travel third, although the seats arc not padded; and some even fourth Another form of economy Is hatless. ucess in the most elegant promena des in town and country, there is hardly 6 hat to be seen.