The Barnwell people. (Barnwell, S.C.) 1884-1925, November 21, 1918, Image 7
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I Knew Him
For Fourteen
Years
ARTHUR N. DAVIS. D. D. S.
y.
V 4 . • V.V.V.V«’i
(Copyright, 1918, by the McClure Newspa-
per Syndicate.)
CHAPTER XV—Continued.
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The Jubilation with which the news
of the sinking of the Lusitania was re
ceived by the German people was gen
crnl. It was so significant that I he
lieve America would have declared war
Immediately had It been known,
have failed to find a jingle German
who did not exult over the dastardly
crime, ami the activity of the Zep*
(telina In their raids on open towns
evoked similar demonstrations. 1
Tlu.t the views which the pectple
ti«dd regarding the conduct of the war
were strongly inftueucvd by the public
l»re«M. which was absolutely controlled
by the gm rntSMtit. was only to be eg
pertedL The fact that in peace time the
per as of Germany waa perhaps the
mom retlalde In the world, mode of H
a potilrolarly tatonMe tool In I
bands af the government la time
TW German araRfi|ar la csspel lo
•bo poofdv. TW lost ward In any argn
mmd ana atwayw fdnd»Wd by proof
Upllid by wamo new aymper on trio I dtloa and even oo
* Ha rtebt hi dee arttootfc~ MWvnM) amttee
fraoaAatod. TW yoya* aayd an" was | odgbt W. We
siaoyw final and eaoebmfie. * \«obtM * "W* rnr owa? In fin
me. fioeb waa oor Ignorance of war
that we dedded that, even thoogh ll
were not advisable* lo motor In Bel-
glum and France, where w:e were
lioutid, we might safely plan a U»ur In
(W Black forest In Germany.
We had left Berlin late In the after
noon. In the eyentng,*when we arrived
at Gotha, we found that the younger
waiters in the icstuunints and hotels
hud already left and that the older re
serves expected a general call the next
day.
The next morning we started for
Frankfort. As we passed through vil
lage after village, war preparations be
came more and more evident. Measures
were Iwdng taken everywhere to arouse
enthusiasm-young men gathered on
school steps were siuging patriotic
songs, students' were inarching and
speeches were being made in the mar
ket places.
About five o’clock that afternoon we
arrived in Frankfort. The whole place
was In a fever of excitement over the
mobilization posters and their resent
ment against the French was being
n roused by “extras,” which were
handed out without charge, announc
ing that the Fr«ich had already
drop(»ed bombs on the railroad at
Nurnberg and that French officers In
autos had over-ridden the borders.
The ridiculous statements abouT
French flyers dropping borolw on the
milroad at Nurnberg had not the
slightest foundation, of course.
The oliler people who had lived
through the war of VTO had Interested
audiences for once while they related
post experience* ami gave advice a* to
what preparations to make. A
Mllty of fond shortage aeemed to he
u|iprvmn»t in ail minds, ami the
criie* were stormed with eager
era, Balt MKtdmly Jnmprd to 79 <
a i—und a ad other things la
On fiooday. Angmd 1 all 7
Mae la the rnaatry waa fil
and we beard af many
ftsts hetac mm owl sf Ihrtr ears la the
from the station I found an old cab
driver who (bought he «oald take tt*
for the IHieral bonus I agreed to pay
him. We had hardly got aeated ulmn
an officer tried to force os not. fl
mly my wife’s quick plea of lilt
sM\cd him n hhick eye and me Iron'
mrs or a large line.
After England declared war, the ef
forts to , capture spies were doubled*
and the mob bad a new lot of signs to
Itenr down. We were forbidden to talk
English on the telephone or on' the
street. We kept .to our homes rather
closely. Most of the buses, tuxicabs
and horses had been commandeered,
and the bnly sighs ,of life in Berlin
were furnished by the officers driving
madly about tu high-powered cars
which exceeded all speed limits and
other traffic regulations.
After a few days, things began to re
turn to normal again. The food sup
ply seemed ample and the headlines In
the newspapers were so encouraging
and the rci>ort8 of victories upon vic
tories so convincing that every one ex*
pe?Pted the war to In? over within a
very short time and they began to eat
up the stores they had so excitedly
collected.
Bread cards were Initiated, It Is true,
hut the amount allowed was more than
adequate for all except, perhaps, the
very poor who depend almost entirely
upon bread. • •
The press began advising the peo
ple to conserve food but at the same
time said that If care was taken there
was no danger of there not being
• nough for all. School teacher* gave
dally talk* to the etiihlrrn to eat every
thing oo their plates. One went *» far
a« to announce: *1 alwaya lick my
plate, children, and y«u should do the
Gemma wl
out af fmirWOr mm ^
One of the subterfuge* resorted fa
by amne of the •rnr profiteer* to ma
ce* I the extent of their gain* and es
cape taxntlon was tb'Invent thdr •ur
ns earnings In work* of art and ufhvr
xpen»Mre luxuries. As the tax a**e«<«.
ment* were tm*cd principally upon the
individual's hank de|»oslt* and the tax
collecting machinery was very much
out of gear It whs comparatively easy
to evade the law by careful manipula
tion of one’s hunk aqrount, and by dis
bursing profits received without hav
ing them go through the hank. ,A Ger
man whom I knew told me that he had
disposed of an oil painting which hrtd
cost him $.'100 for no less than $85,000,
the price 6f works of art and antiques
having Increased to a remarkable ex
tent because of the demand /or them
from tax dodgers. *
Under the stress of the changed
food conditions the hungry German
soon Ireplaced the honest fTwinan. Ger
mans had always had a reputation for
honesty, hut their claims to.such dis
tinction disappeared with the food sup
ply. Necessity «<*on brought out all
that was worst in the German char
acter.
Although the government decreed a
high fine and Imprisonment as pun
tshment for buying or selling anything
which had been commandeered, specii
lators sprang up on every side and
people bragged openly of what they
had stored away.
Tlie worst deprivation was In the
lack or fats. The p<sq»le showed It
very plainly. One se'dom saw a fat
mnn or a fat woman, although before
the war fatness was almont character
1*1 Ic of the German phyalqne. Indeed.
I saw a rather stout woman being fal
lowed by at least twenty boy* who
were Jeering at her and making star
ring remarks ahoat the manner In
which she had retained her *%.dnln-
pad*. A fat permm In Go-nfi^piy tndn?
I* regarded nil I
Vntumtty the w
The nmrcttf af mefmh
munitions wn* evidenced early fa the
war when the Interior* and exterior*
of house* throughout the country were
thoroughly rnnuncked and everything
n the way of rop|M*f, brass or itn
mlmim fixtures or cooking utensils that
wasn’t absolutely necessary'
seised.
Horses wen- gradually dianppcnrlng
frsm sight when I lef! early thin year.
Ot t e saw them lying about the streets
where they dropped from exhaustion,
and whut disposition whs made of their
corpse* can well be imagined. It Is
quite certain that no part was wasted.
Dogs, too, nearly vanished from city
life.. A man I know, who hud kept a.
fine Newfoundland dog. told me that It
had disappeared one night*and the
next day its skin was found hanging
on the fence with a sign reading:
“Died for the fatherland.”
’ One of the principal articles of fresh
meat to he seen in tlie butcher shops
consisted of black crows. They were
selling at 75 cents apiece. There was
something ludicrous In the thought of
the Germans being compelled to “eat.
crow,” hut there was little to laugh at
In eating It oneself.
To obtain oil, pr\gcs were offered to
the srtiool children to collect fruit
seeds, from which it could he extract
ed. and veritable mountains of the
seeds were thus obtained.
The last meal I had la Berlin was
on January 21. 1918. when I dined at
the Hotel Adlon. It consisted of one
Kardlne, three thin ollce* of cold
smoked salmon, soup which was hard
ly mote than hot salt water, taro small
holled potatoes and a* a substitute for
mmstarrh pudding. No butter and no
saner* of nay kind were served. Black
breed I took la my pocket. TW efcerk
far this elaborate table d’hote nmol
amounted to $4 1*1.
To sum op tW sltnatton as I wa*
aide to wharrvr If
After die
■ What?
Did ll lenyt you wank, low In
•pints and vitality? Influenza !§ a
catarrhal diseam, and after you fe-
cover from the acuta ataga much of
tb* catarrh is left. This and your
weakness invito ftlrtkar attacks.
The Toac Needed a Perm.
First, because it will assist in build
ing up your strength, reinvigorating
your 'igssdou and quickening afl
functions. Second* because It aids
in overcoming the catarrhrJ condi
tions, helping dispel the inflamma
tion, giving tbs membranes an op
tunity to pen
their functions.
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CHARTSR XVI.
Oermowy lo Worthwa.
While IW Merman people have al
ways Wen In thorough accord wt.h tW
kaiser * ambitious project which Is so
significantly descrilied by the popular
slogan: “Deutschland uber allcs!”
when the gn-at war, which was to
achieve Germany’s alms, commenced.
It came almost as much as a surprise
to the Germans as It was to the rest of
the world. They knew It was Inevi
table and they looked forward eagerly
to “Tier Tag,” but when it arrived the
husH-i and excitement, not to say
pnn>u. which developed .throughout
Gen. any was so pronounced that in
some cases it approached the ludicrous.
Obviously the people were kept In
ignoruace of the plans of their war
barons in order that hostilities might
<rome as a complete surprise to them
and give color to the government’s
contention that the wqr was forced-
uponGe. many.
So little thought did we give to the
coniplexlh.es of,the political situation
that on Fi May, July 31, 1914, my wife
and I start* tf off on a motor trip. We
had heard to many rumors of war
within the prttious ten years that we !
saw no reason why an amicable solu
tion should m*t t;galn he found as It
had alw*ays been Wore.
On oar way out (j^e Chariottenburger
< *haossee we passea tW kaiser and the
kalaerin driving to iVriln from Pots-
•Ififii fit shoot sixty m'Um an hoar, sod
(here were other indaatlons of ac
tivity but we attach** little tmpor
One c—panmcni *** cm* 4*4 wMh
dfircta an tW4r way To >sin thrir rvfift-
rnent* and veep grand
they fell In their new
forms whkh may have long been pat
away In north halls for Jmd this appor-
lonlty. hat which look theGrrman peo
ple as hrell a* the allies completely by
unrpHae.
At Xauntberg. which U about half
way betwrea Frankfort ami Berlin, a
company of Mddler* hoarded the train
sml gu«riled the corrhlor* while a noo-
<‘oinml*Kiotied offieer questioned the
imssengers.
My wife, who wp* asleep In a cor
ner of the coupe 1, was the only wom
an In the compartment. Believing that
her sleep might be feigned and she
might, In fact, be a man in woman's
clothing, the officer yelled at her:
“Where ure yotf going?” Her Ameri
can accent, revealed when she an
swered him, incensed id in the more
nnd he demanded angrily: “What right
have you to use this train? .Where is
your pttss|M»rt?” *
-By that time I had produced all the
papers of identification I could find ami
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(tied lo led him that my wife and 1
were returning to our home in Berlin,
but he wa", too excited to listen and
would have dragged us oft the train
had not an officer, witli whom I had
been talking en route. Intervened and
said: “I shall make myself itersonully
responsible for these peopto,‘ N I was
glad I had admired hi* figv uniform.
From the <*oape next to ours I saw-
soldiers drug six Itussisn*. throw them
ilown and kirk them In the face, and
ime wa* a woman ? The train pulled
out as the croud cU»*ed la on them.*o
that 1 wa« unable to useertala the fate
of those lanorewl hut helpless g
• cwtvful t
i them hefiHw a*4rew« the
■cwl ahlrh Ih* law
■ply hswsa ww* used la
4rf4*t*4 sham window* af
•hspa The fact that they were et
was oat koto.a In the pnbin add very • ^^
often the windows would hr broken by
hungry mob* who couldn't resist the
dght of what apt S'* red to be an much
food. This led the government to or
der the shopkeeper* to label the b,.xes:
“Kmfrty Boxes” In onler to a%ert such
UlsturiMmces and ri^rts.
There was slmp'y nothing to buy In
the food liae except substitutes, and of
these there were hundreds, etch worse
than the last. The remark: “If things
get much worse, we shall soon lie eat
ing rats as the Parisian* did hi 1870”
brought the rejoinder: “Well, that
w ouldu’t he so hud; w hat Fm dreading
is the time when we shall have to be
content with rut-substitute!”
When we finally had curds for cof-
fee-substiturc I gave up interest In
substitutes and commenced to patron
ize the simulators, figuring that it was
better to risk the penalties im|*>sed by
the law- for-itm h Holiiliiiiii
than
ear, a pmmt
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9 I hud hswM tclsd thnl
»ffiftfiMf roam hamm fuM of 1
i# | lu NwveMMer 1917 I paid
which If II
rhtfh of gws
^ ] would have hero worth oboe
j It was. the tailor frankly
■ amd* of
yam. and hrranwc af the lark of cotton
I bread. I lib seam* were worked with a
material which looked like paper
•tring.
This pa|ter string was lo general ose
at that time, the defiartment stores all
displaying notices warning customers
not to carry their parcels by the string.
Many purchases were • no longer
wrapped, to save paper, and no pur
chase amounting to less than $5 was
delivered.
Before 1 left Berlin, arllficlal silk
was the principal fabric obtainable for
ladles' wearing apparel. Altmud every
woman in the land, princess or maid,
was attired iu art taffeta. It sold for
$10 a yard. In normal times It would
have been worth front 75 cents to $1.
In the fall of 1917, a cloth suit was un
obtainable for less than $300."Tt would
Imve been worth $25 in normal times.
for sol*
•he
regulations ’than to min our health
through undernourishment.
For a long.time we were iiemiitted
to receive “presents” of bacon, ham,
sausages, eggs and butter from Den
mark. hut this was finally prohibited
through the influence of the Central
Einkaufs Gesellschaft (The Central
Soch-ty for Buying Food From Other
Countries) which found that It Was
Interfering with their graft.
This society wa* formed hy a com
pany of c lever Jew i*h httsiness incrrito
hoy food from foreign cooairto* and
sell If to the people, a amall
age of the profit* going n» the
meat, ll md only derelwfn rt
m aiOTpnse fr
rwML Its
All fur skins were needed
diers’ wear n»id the few- that were at ill
obtainable for bomb use in the form
of fur seds sold for $1,000 up.
Through speculators, we ohtuined
some imitation soft soap at $4 per
pound. People said If was made from
liuinan corpses, hut It was the only
thing available outside of the substi
tutes which were soap only In name. A
small cake of toilet soap easily brought
$3. A servant’s plain w-ooden ward-
rol«e. fiwnwrly costing *5. was onoh-
tainahle fur less than MTe paid
as high as S8 a |s>und fur hatter, from
a «»pe<-ttlalur. and my laM <l»ri«rtma*
dinner la Berlin ranalsifM of § small
fiBOTS. Jmrt emmeh far mm meal far
three | ersnai. far arhlrh I Mid fiSk
POT «• otM af • p.
iidket iRoueu of ia
• r«] acfaal roa
ta fight
sf Dr
th*- war aatll the Irst Gemma had as la
dnqqird than gtv* la-or# coaid not ••MM
look far much la this dtrectioa. j JJ ^
But the ravage* ut war have die- |» ^ ^4 the laM ef
pnaed af • Targe percentage af these ' a Npaiatiea for qaMkJy <
bred-la-tbe-toone ofih-m and their f> T ** rmrtU ia Guam a is ef seam,
places have been taken by dvtUan* . yn^tt.us ee vsry OTsmivs, hm
who have been raised from the ranks. 7VT,_" J Zj**.
Therein He* the ho|»e of a succeesfal ^ druggist. '
revolution. However, U yea wish first to tael this
I will not venture q guess as to when preparation send ten oeata to Dr.
tat will be, but I feel sure that It will f <>•. BinghamUm, N. Y., hr a
that
certainly come about. Fortified by a
large portion of the aimy, the German
people will at last him on their rulers
and destroy the throne and the whole
Hohenzolleru regime. -
In this connection, I recall a
prophecy made early in the war hy an
honored colleague of initio of Dresden,
an American dentist w'io hud lived and
practiced in Germany for forty yeart
and understood the German people and
their rulers as well, perhaps, as any
man alive. . He was »i leader of hi*
Fjrof^ssion and a man whose judgment
on ail things w-as mo>t accurate. He
wa* in dose contact with many leading
figure* of the German nohiiity.
“Germany will lose the war because
her <nu*e l* wrong.” he declared. “Hhe
will fight If through to The hitter end
until the foundations of the empire are
absolutely destroyed!”
THE END.
bottle. When writing he
tioa this paper.—Adv.
and
All They're FK Far.
“There will iwohabty be a shortage
of metals In Germany for some jiime to
come.”
“Perhaps so^htit If It I* decided to
scrap all the iron crosses In the em
pire that ought to provide enough at
one kind of raw iimterial to lust for
h few month*, anyhow*.”--Birmingham
Ag«*-Herald.
a
It
Caterpillar** h
If caterpillar* mmort *« i unity tl
eiqirsra that they hate a defin
Catarrh Cannot Be Curod
by LOCAL APPLICATIONS, as they
cannot ranch the scat of the dissssa
Catarrh la a local disease, greatly Influ
enced by constitutional conditions. HALL'fl
CATARRH MKDKTNK will curs catarrh
m.ls taken Internally and arts throagh
the Blood on the Mm-ous Surfaces of tte
Kystem. HALI/8 CATARRH MEOICINB
Is campsasd of some of the her* ton ice
known, combined with seoee of the
blood punflrr*
MEDICI
it results Is cetnrvhal
rs Me. Tl _ .
A Cm. Prise fihtidw O
Cslfal Ol iffipll Wt V K1 VOCTiM Os 1 IsM Dmw
>od purifiers. The i^rfest romblfisth>a
the tnarediema I* RAU/fl CATARRH
BDlriNF is wbat produces sack wow
A wspna s Idea af real
tag a arw hat.
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