PAGE TWO
THE INDEPENDENCE ENTERPRISE, INDEPENDENCE, OBEQON
IQHT
MILITARY DEFEAT HAS WROUGHT
NO CHANGE OF HEART IN GERMANY
Dr. Alonzo Taylor Investigates Conditions in Land of Hun Same Old
Gang in Government OfficesTake Attitude That They Are
Much Abused Nation Believe Themselves
Guilty of No Misdeeds.
By LLOYD ALLEN,
Western Newspaper Union Staff Cor
respondent. (Copyright, 1910, by Western Newspaper Union.)
Paris. That Germany has experi
enced no change of heart as a result
of her military defeat Is the message
Dr. Alonzo Taylor has just brought
to Paris after three weeks la Ger
many, where he Inspected the food
supply, the stocks of raw materials,
briefly, and made a remarkably con'
else survey of the political and eco
nomic situation.
Probably no one in America was
better fitted to size up Germany than
Doctor Taylor.
While America was neutral, during
those first months of the great war,
Taylor was traveling through the
length and breadth of Germany in
specting the allied prison camps. He
- was attached to the American embas
sy. He. gained, during the days be
' fore we were In the war, an intimate
knowledge of German war methods,
German official procedure, German in
trigue, German lies, German cruelty,
and came to know all about the condi
tion of economic Germany.
You would never pick Taylor out of
a crowd as one of our leading Ameri
cans, because he does not look like a
statesman, a college professor, a po
litical economist, or a diplomat and
he Is all of these things.
When he hurried out of Mr. Hoov-
" er's olhce in the Hotel de Crlllon, on
his return from Germany, Taylor
started, without a pause, to get into
the heart of his talk with a group of
American newspaper men that had as
sembled to learn the truth about the
Germans. He actually talked one hour
' and forty-five minutes. He answered
half a hundred questions.
"Same Old Gang."
"They've got the same old gang in
the government offices at Berlin that
we knew before and during the war,"
Taylor began. "Some kind of a revo
lution actually started in Germany be
fore the armistice was signed. For
. the time being that revolution is be
ing held up. The politicians are bend-
lng every effort to get a governmental
machine working smoothly, in order to
present some kind of a solid front to
the allies when the time comes to set
tle final peace terms. While the gov
ernment is shaping itself the old civil
(servants are being kept In the govern
ment offices. The men in control do
not intend taking untrained men into
the government, because they have the
concrete example of the failure of the
, Russian government that took un
trained officials Into the government
machine. The Germans in control
won't allow Germany's government to
fall to pieces like the Busslan government."
As soon as peace is actually de
clared the Germans will start out set
tling their internal difficulties and can
be expected to Introduce many social
istic reforms possibly the socializa
tion of many of the leading industries,
, such as the large factory groups and
the coal and potash and Iron mines.
In the meantime, the men in control
at Berlin are endeavoring to get their
people back to work, back to the in
dustrious and nonpolitical ways of 50
years ago before the militaristic
crowd started preaching world con
quest and "kulturlzation" of the globe.
Militarism Is Gone.
And it Is now appreciated that the
Germans have a long way to go before
they come out of this war experience
as even a half-way decent nation.
Militarism as. a world menace in
Germany Is , gone, Doctor Taylor be-1
lieves. He found sufficient evidence
to satisfy him that the German army
of the old days is a thing of the past.
As to the men at the helm In Berlin
who are trying to solve the present
urgent problems of the country they
have had no change of heart, no con-
version to the doctrines of President
Wilson unless, they are permitted to
retain their original boundaries.
Falling .to hoodwink the world Into
giving them territory that never be
longed to them rightfully, the Ger
mans are going to take the attitude
that they are a much abused nation.
And they are going to hint broadly
that no good can come of abusing a
nation of 70,000,000 people. In fact,
they are already beginning a propa
ganda to make their people believe.the
allies are eager for ah unjust peace.
Non Compos Mentis.
', Today the German has figured out a
kind of new philosophy of life. t He
wants to eat his cake and have it "too.
He admits that he would have been
overjoyed had the central powers won .
the war and enslaved the world. He
sees no wrong in a kulturized world. I
He believes that any means the mili
tary party took to 'win the war, no
matter how cruel, and no matter what
suffering these methods caused inno
cent populations, were justified.
Now that ' the Germans have "been
defeated and see some of their steal
ings of the past half century going out
of their hands, they say, "The mili
tary party deceived us," and then take
the attitude that they are not to blame
for present misfortunes.
In other words, had the military
party succeeded in defeating the al-
German people would have taken the
spoils and admit that they would have
levied terrible peace terms on their
vanquished enemies. Now they are
defeated they refuse to shoulder any
of the blame for the situation. And
they are going to believe that they are
abused if Alsace-Lorraine is given to
France.
Believe Selves Guiltless.
The widespread belief that the Ger
mans themselves are guilty of no mis
deeds is being emphasized by a new
school of writers who first came into
prominence about the time President
Wilson gave the world the covenant of
the league of nations at Paris. What
astounded Americans In Germany in
those days was the fact that these
very writers admitted with perfect
candor that Germany intended keep
ing Belgium permanently, had Ger
many won the nvar.
Topics such as these occupied the
German mind when the peace confer
ence was making its preliminary sur
vey of European affairs. While Ger
man papers printed columns about the
probable outcome of the peace con
ference there were 238,000 men in Ber
lin without Jobs drawing a pension of
six marks a day from the govern
ment. In Hamburg tho pension roll
mounted to 78,000. Both figures rep
resent a state of unemployment sev
eral times greater than the worst
periods of industrial depression Ger
many ever knew before the war.
The men were being paid just
enough to live on, and as a conse
quence would not work.
Hate for Kaiser.
Among the Intellectual circles in
Germany the blame for the silent re
bellion of the workmen, their refusal
to work, was placed on the military
party on old Von Tirpitz, and on Lu
dendorf, and some more of the war
lords. The kaiser and his son, the
crown prince, were generally despised.
Both ran away when trouble started
and were hated for that. But the peo
ple of Germany were not disposed to
blame either the crown prince or the
kaiser for starting the war.
"Both of them lack the brains to
plan a war," was the common expres
sion heard on the streets and reflected
in a number of the newspapers.
Doctor Taylor had one general ex
planation for Germany's strangely per
verted state of mind.
"Germany today is suffering from
an intense moral disintegration," he
declared. "You see it in a dozen dif
ferent phases of German life. Men
who served in the array and are now
demobilized, though still in uniform,
will leave their families for days at a
time simply wander off without
warning. They seem to have lost their
sense of responsibility toward their
families.
"There are comparatively few pro
ducers in .the population, most of the
people being spenders ; spenders of
the government's printed money.
"In the Berlin playhouses shows are
running which are of such a low moral
level that no American postal author
ity would permit even private letters
to describe some of the scenes. Be
fore the war such shows were not per
mitted. ,
"Bobberies have increased greatly.
The people blame the bolsheviki, but
know in their own minds that these
crimes might well enough be commit
ted by anyone because the increase
In crime is one of the notable phases
of life in Germany today."
In all Germany there Is no danger
of a rehabilitation of the military ma
chine, according to Doctor Taylor.
This view is verified by other Ameri
cans competent to judge, who have
just returned from the other side of
the Rhine.
Without desiring in any way tp an
tagonize the French, who are carry
ing on an active campaign preaching
4 Committee to Help $
Soldiers Get Jobs
Washington. D, C Govern-
J mental agencies called together
; by the council of national uc
M fense organized tho emergency
committee on employment for
j soldiers and sailors as a step to- ,,
ward filling a gap caused by de- ft
J mobilization of 80 per cent of
M the field force of. the United V
States employment service, for
J which congress failed to provide j
funds. ;J;
' A committee on plans was np- ,J
pointed to collect immediately JJ
all available Information as to $
W work belne done and prepare a V
J comprehensive plan of opera-
W tlons. X
Grosvenor B. Clarkson, dlreo
tor of the council, is chairman,
V the other members being Col. Kt
Arthur Woods, special assistant J
to the secretary of war; John V
W. Hnllowell of Boston, and E.
II. Greenwood of the council.
Colonel Woods told the com
mittee: "Many of the men feel
J that they have bee improved by
ineir experience in tno army
and are ambitious for something
better than before. I feel that
this ambition should be encouraged."
EARLY HATCHING IS FAVORED
Poultryman Enabled to Get Chicks
Started Before Hot Weather-
Rapid Gains Insured.
(Prepared by Hie United States Pcpart-
In order to have eggs when eggs nro
scarce begin operations In early spring
to plan for early-hatched chicks, winy
hntM.tm Piuihii'tf the noultryimm to
,.r l.ia oh Cks started noiore ih
weather, which retards their growth
and which, with the presence of lice,
causes millions of late-hatched chicks
to die each year. Pullets hatched
early produce eggs In the fall when
TOP DRESSING WITH
MANURE AIDS WHEAT
Application Should Bo Mado When
Ground Is Still Dry.
the possibility of Germany "coming
back," Doctor Taylor and his associ
ates believe firmly that the German is
finished In a military way; that the
German people are disgusted with the
military Idea, which has brought them
nothing but misery and hunger, and
that above all other things the French,
and of course the other allied nations
and America, are not In any danger
of a resumption of the war.
This does not mean that any ami
able feeling is growing among the
American officials here in Paris to
ward the Germans, and it docs not
mean that an unfriendliness toward
the French people is developing, The
Americans who have been in Germany
and who know the Germans from long
experience before as well as during
the war, are convinced that the Ger
man today is the same swine ho was
in and before 1914.
Doctor Taylor and Dr. Veruon Kel
logg, also of the Hoover staff and com
petent to speak of the situation in
Germany, are both of the opinion that
Germany has no great amount of
manufactured goods waiting to be
shipped to the markets of the world
ahead of allied goods.
It nqw seems that' the economic
blockade that shut raw materials from
Germany during the last two years of
war just about finished the nation In
an Industrial way.
,.-.As
URGES 13 MONTHS IN YEAR
Cincinnati Man Brings Forward
Plan for Simple Perpetual
Calendar.
His
Cincinnati. "Printed calendars
would be' a thing of the past If the
perpetual calendar were adopted," said
C. B. Braunstein, who has a plan for
simplifying dates.
"Let the year be divided Into 13
months of 28 days each. This would
make 304 days. As there are 3054
days in a year, the odd day could be
placed anywhere in the calendar and
be a 'universal thanksgiving day.' The
other extra day would come every
fourth year and could be placed after
the last day In leap year and be known
as 'Zero day,' 'Leap Year day' or 'Gala
day.'
' "Under this plan Monday would al
ways come on the 1st, 8th, 15th and
22d days of the month; Tuesday on
the 2d, 9th, ICth and 23d ; Wednesday
on the 3d, 10th, 17th, 24th ; Thursday
on the 4th, 11th, 18th, 25th ; Friday on
the 5th, 12th, 10th, 2Gth ; Saturday on
the Gth 13th, 20th. 27th; Sunday on
the 7th, 14th, 21st, 28th. Everybody
would know upon what date any day
of the week would fall."
Early-Hatched Pullet Mature and
Laying on September 26,
hens are molting. Karly-hatched
cockerels bring the best prices and
early layers will brood early the fol
lowing spring.
Contrary to general belief chicks do
not grow or thrive as well during
warm mouths or hot summer days as
they do earlier In the spring. Chicks
hatched early are stronger, thrive bet
ter and have the advantage of a longer
growing season. Early hatching nut
only insures more rapid gains in tho
growtli of chicks but has a favorable
Influence on the size of the individuals
of the flock. Late-hatched chicks rare
ly if ever attain the size of those
hatched early.
Given the same feed, care and atten
tion, chicks hatched in March and
April will weigh more when they are
four months old than those hutched in
May and June. The early-hatched
chick, having the advantage of a more
lavoruoie growing season, makes
greater gains during the first four
months of its life than the late
hatched Chick. During the early spring
months when the temperature is not
so varied the growth of chicks Is more
uniform and constant than it is dur
ing the summer. If for no other rea
son chicks should be hatched early so
their growth will not be interrupted by
the presence of lice, which arc much
more plentiful and destructive in hot
weather than in the cooler days of
spring.
Many farmers and poultrvmen real
ize considerable money each spring
from the sale of broilers, the price of
which is usually governed by their yt.
when sold and the time marketed.
Thus it would seem that In order to
increase tho amount of money from
the sale of -broilers and fryers early
hatching would be employed so as to
have a marketable-sized fowl early In
the spring when prices are highest.
Add Phoaphate May Well Ba Addad
to Each Load of Fertllhrer Be
fore Spreadlnj Do Not
Smother the Plant.
(rrerweJ by the VniieJ Hwtea Depart
ment ut AKiiculliii-e.)
Farmers have been very busy imtl
short of In''!' ilurln? tho past seitHon.
DoubtlefH In many case the iniimne
pile Is still In tho barnyard, mere
was neither thno nor help nt hand to
spread this manure at tho umial lime,
anil as n result lb wheat may now
be growing on hind Unit In not a" fer
tile as Is desirable.
In such nixes it will be of great help
to the wheat crop it ml of profit to tun
fanner If iiiniimv, or Mrnw not needed
for other purposes, is sjuviiu euiy
4M
Tftr
)
CLOVER FORJEARLY f$
Highly Valued by oL I
Food In Spring,
(Prepared lr the "vfi Bt. '
IlllNf iii.i . . 11 11
uvi li hi.
l!
Middle Atlantic"-!
Iwy I-) North I
, -. 4l..
St,"
Manure Snreader I Well Suited for
Applying Top Drenlng on Wheat.
and thinly on the more level wheat
fields this winter. Such application
Mumld be nmile when Hie ground U
dry or frozen. In case fertilizer has
not been applied recently to the land
and it is known timt pnoMpnorui is
needed, 40 or f0 pounds of ncbl pho
pliatn may well be added to nch buid
of manure before spreading. The
application of manure should not In
heavy probably not over six tom to
the acre In any case-and It tdiotil.l
be spread evenly so as not to smother
the plants.
rnrllest
ftprlnir t the
mm iNvw jersey )() North
dull Improving mid f0f ,y
Crimson dover vmun b.
Vtthmbl0 for hug d
relish tliU clover citiUe .,..,,,,;'
. ... ... . .. -"
ua rni iioviT IIIMI iilfu fn. In.,
I.- .1.., --t
,'" "'oiynien an W,r
dingo ml aa n mean of
grvt'n ft'cd very early a th
Mnnv llntrvmen i,uui. ., ,
crlimtntt -lovtr in order t M(r
miagv ror dry p,.!n during tbi
!. . B.ninn "ere or crteit
ver furnlnln-a day pasture fa
three row nnd rcdueei tjlf t.
of Bllngo that must be fj t
ono-linlf.
IfofiM. nhoen and Petit mhi.
- vwun: ni.
u vu ui'iiiiki jiiiHinrpg uirei!
uio winter ana early uprlnf
when snow la on the ground. B
rattle most not be turned on tWt
wucn u ground In tmtt iw.
crlnmon cluvrr In not Injured b; c,
COST OF PORK PRODUCTION
Young Growing Pig Become Thin
Flesh If Compelled to Exist
on Pasture Alone.
In
While a liberal use of pnsliirp tin
donbledly lowers the cost of produc
ing pork, It, is possible to overdo the
mutter. Mature lings will live on n
gooil iiiue-grass or clover pasture
without any grain, but young, growing
pigs become thin in Hesh If compelled
to exist on picture alone. Their
growth Is stopped. And when this
happens they do not litilsh satisfac
torily for the fall trade. Those which
are to be marketed in the spring
when a year old get along very well
on pasture alone during the grazing
season and fatten well during (he
winter. From 1 to ,' r cent of the
hog's weight in grain along with tho
pasture gives the most satisfactory
results in I lie niaj-.j ity of cases.-
NAVAL TRANSPORT AFIRE AT HOBOKEN
f:7 , vw&r tyMmml
WASHING WILL HELP DECAY
Many Eggs Are Spoiled Each Year Bo
cause They Have Become Wet
Before Reaching Market.
It Is estimated that more than 5,000.
000 eggs are spoiled every year because
they have been washed or in some way
have become wet before reaching mar
ket. The shell of an egg contains a
gelatinous substance which prevents
air and germs from entering tho eggs
Washing destroys this substance and
promotes decay.
TIME TO SPADE IN GARDENS
Work May Be Done Much Earlier on
Sandy Soils Than on Heavy or
Clayey Kind3.
Spading may be done much
on sandy soils than on heavy or
m.jis. when the. soil adheres together
in a heavy lump it is too wot for work
ing. Allow sucl, a garden i0 dry n Ut
ile more, because if too uet the dods
i".e. lonn will mien remain
inrotighont the whole
"Y"'u, """ '""ves have I S1.(,(ll
suriace oi ,. Kardcn
'- an advantage to
down Into the soil.
earlier
clayey
unbroken
miunier. When
I this
It will
material
4 , if. :
4 S. Ju ,
. ju-5
Crlmton Clover, Showing Mott M
vaneed Stage of Ripening WW
Allowable to Ue for Hay.
pllnjr ns much as permttDra t
grass sod, Crlinson clover '! not
likely to cntise Moating as other
vers, but cattle, and ospeciully
cattle, Khould not be allowed top
when the clover Is covered with fr
DEFECTS IN BUTTER W
P0ETRO0IE'
S
A system of cleanliness iu poultry
raising Is desirable.
WOOD ASHES OF MUCH VALUE
Averano r,-,-.-...
uZl.i JU8lllDn uerived From
"""vu 1 ,vn- Equivalent to 70
Per Cent Carbonate.
much larger
iheir value
' "'"'nt of potash, nhoH
Jno average
ashes derived
n'l soft, wood timber
Hens must have things to eat
contain egg-making elements.
thiil:
Wood ashes have n
valne than coal allies.
their coiilent o
I'lioric acid and lime
composition of wood'
from mixed hard and s,
r.hosphod c ,i mZ T-r ' 2 1,('r ceat
oanlvnient to 70 Tr t Tu lUm'
ate. 1 "l ,imo f-'nrhon-
CLL AULleiTsPECIIVIENS
The hen as a rule is a better Kilter
than the pullet for the incubation of
eggs.
nu;, uincs, nous
inn rrri- j ,
feci a siari tnpv nra ,
blesoine.
once get a start thev n
-- - " j uou-
- The naval transport Slxaolu sunk at her pier at Hoboken N J The
vessel caught fire while being loaded with supplies for France and It was
decided to eink her. Lieut. E. H. Foster and Chief Boatswain's Mate Frank
Kramer went below to open the seacocks and were trapped by the inrush of
fJJo b0 eatfly had
"."uujauiurers and
poultry supplies.
dealers In
To successfuliv
Fowl
s That Do Nnt ft. . .
Posed of
ould Be Dis-
at Once.
If there are any eoti,. ,
VENTILATION NECESSARY
liiilch eh!,. ' Essential f- o...
care should be exvreisi ,n p " ' of Fowlso rPTn " f Hea'th
Oon of the sitting hen. Anv 1, ! B!?LDa.f
mailers,
eeldom does
in thes(
- There are four common
geese, the Toulouse, Afrid
iiJ IVIlirfl I hlnn rf
j-ouiouse is the most nm,,i ,K the ho.,i., "B m'ov,
i. J , St pPular and most I !L aH- llly When
I
e a lowed to reach
they are on
Cooling Toe- Quickly or WorM"
Too Low Temperature M'
Butter Brittle.
Rutler Hint nossesses 0 perfect''
lorn In, a n fllnli a 1 ,1 l II rlint'P. 'I "
grain Is destroyed It Is vmsRV
result of overworking or of too"
teninern n ma. Such butter W
' ..iii-
t..,.1. I I,. fVn WOW
iivtia, ftivutty ijou.t -
iy or working at too low i'nii' j
makes butter brittle and crtimMr.'j
Ihllkv lirlnn la iireKent. It h0
luck of thorough washing. Lp1;
tor results from luck of thornm
curnorutlon of wash water tin
washing In a fine granular forraj
cold water then working lnSW
ly. A dry body is due to e
churning or high churning w
tnre, .
PROVIDE CALF
WITH SAtT!
Supply of Clean, Fresh Water, AW
Available la "Another SimP'
Requlalte.
tho tlmo tho dairy cnlfj'j
enough to eat roughage It should .
either access to or small dully
Ings of salt, rienf.y of clean, i
water, constantly available, Is
simple and inexpensive rcqnisi j .
good calf care that Is too often n
cd. Because a calf receives m'1;
drink is no reason why it os ,
require water. After the ca f . (
weeks old it needs water in
amounts at a time, though ofl
NEW MILK FOR YOUNG CALVE-
" ... rir,tT
mey should Have it top ,
Weeka and Gradually Be Wnc
, to Skim Milk.
Voung calves ought to .0 )
milk for the first two weeks or.
lives, then they- can j
wennod from new milk to si"" .!
nnd at three or four weeks or w ,
can tako the skim milk nw"',i0i
them by substituting a comu u.
of grains nnd hnv; or any l" .mitl
forage that .they will consume. J
gradually teach them to fP
gi-aln, like outa and corn,
this to them extra besides ,
ridge. .., -