Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1922-02-27

to the throne was preserved and the
populace was spared the news that their
next king was a trife stupid. Further
more, the rules of the school were upheld
and the laws of discipline preserved.
In addition to that, Jonnerson explained,
these whipping boys would be decoys-
chemically charged decoys, who would, at
the proper moment, throw up dense smoke
screens to veil the more serious opera
lions Of the Kaiser's aces in America
Albert Won Papen, Boy-Ed, Bernstorff and
so on. These decoys would by whatever
means the immediate situation made most
expedient attract attention to themselves
whenever something particularly odious to
Americans was transporting or had just
transpired. And, finally, these same de-
coys were to confess and retract confess
sions, to submit to arrest and make ram
bling statements to the police.
These statements would have the effect
of making the whole affair more or less
ridiculous or, IL it was an affair not sus-
ceptble to ridicule, to explain that they
did it all alone and that all the German
officials in America had refused to have
anything to do with it-that Boy-Ed, Won
Papen, Albert Co. insisted that nothing
Of the sort should be done.
We were never able to learn just what
Hollweg thought of this scheme. We
knew merely that the plan did not appeal
as much to him as it had to Jonnerson.
In the first place, Hollweg was of the opin-
ion that it didn't matter much what
America thought; Germany was certain
to win and then America would be taught
to respect her greatness. Again, as far
as we could learn, Hollweg withheld his
approval on the ground that the idea was
more or less observation-disclosures, so to
speak, and lacking in dignity. Germany
won with the sword. German needed no
British trickery.
We never learned Hollweg's actual reply
: to Jonnerson, but we do know that JOINER
son left the august presence still con.
WINGED that he had brilliant scheme and
that he was going to give 1t a trial
German PIotters Thought
They Dealt With German Minds
He made his first experiment early in
, 1915. Like many plans that tickle the ear
and read well, this one didn't produce to
: it's maximum Of possibilities. No smoke
, screen could have been big enough. In the
final analysis the men chosen for the
whipping boy posts were not big enough.
Repeatedly we came upon situations that
failed to impress us and later on the Ger.
mans responsible for the situation seemed
amazed that their subterfuges had failed
to leave us COMPOUNDED.
1t required no particular genius to see
through these German plots. The great
trouble with the German mind, as we en-.
countered it, was that it failed to realize
that here in America it was not dealing
with other German minds And no matter
how long the German agents were oper.
ating here they failed utterly to grasp the
fundamentals of what We might just as
we'll call the American psychology.
Jonnerson's trial horse was Robert Fay
Lieutenant Fay may sound more familiar.
We have drawn far enough away from the
war by this time to have regained some.
thing like normal perspective. At least
we can view the things that interested us
most with clearer vision; we are not dis
tracted now by thousand and one petty
side issues. And 1t all seems so clear now
that the great tumult OF contradiction,
Reputation, buffoonery and ridicule that
attended the arrest and trial of Fay was
just as much a part of the Jonnerson plan
as Fay himself was. The foundation of
the Jonnerson plan consisted of deception.