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Boston Girl, Back From Germany, Says People’s
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Nerves Are Shattered, They Quarrel Over
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Trifles, But Are Unit in Belief They Are Right.
Fifteen months in Berlin—it seemed like an age to a young Boston girl,
Josephine Marzynski, the singer, who returned from the Prussian capital
recently. Here was a remarkable cxperience and an « ctraordinary oppor
tunity to observe conditions. A little more than cight wecks ago this slim
and exceedingly girlish young American made her veritable escape from the
great German metropolis. Only by the most desperate and importunate
efforts did she obtain her passports. She Übrings back a vivid word picture
of Berlin as it is today—grimly resigned to terrible privation and resolutely
determined to fight to the end. LLL 1L
By FRANK O’'CONNOR.
. _"Do the Germans still belleve that
« they will win the war?”’
! “They do!” ghe repllied to my first
! question. “The general feeling in Ber
¢ Un is that our allies are exhausted and
. that a decisive blow will have been
. #struck before we become a factor on
. the western front.
“l left Berlin just as reports from
! Italy indicated successes of the new
+ offensive, and Italy out of the war as
_ & result, and as reports from Russia
-*pointed to a peace that would insure
. food for the starving people of Ger
. many.
¥ “They were very, very confldent of
. the Russian peace, and it was re
+ garded as the solution of the food
¢ problem, which is really the biggest
one problem now bothering Germany.
: “Peace with Russia,’ was on the lips of
. everyone, and it was always sald with
+ a smile that implied food.
# “Food! You can not imagine what
° the word means in Berlin. Morning,
© moon and night the whole clty talks
: food. The topic is discussed more than
+ the war. Wherever you go, you are
s greeted with some sort of comment
! on its scarcify and the effect upon
the speaker. And you simply can not
! get food—as we know food—in Berlin
3 and the larger citles. In the smaller
' cities the shortage Is much more en
+ durable.
: Laborers Are Best Fed.
¥ “Now, during my fifteen months
. there I lived with very wealthy peo
. ple. Had I been dependent upon my
© own efforts and purse for food, I
;? would have suffered even more than I
¢ did for the want of gourlshlng food.
[ They are able to obtaln an occa
- slonal goose, now and then some eggs
. and occasionally some fruits, vege
-2 tables, butter and cheese in excess
‘;‘ of the regular rations. |
. "Poorer people, who performed hard
¢ work, were much better off In a way.
The Government saw to it they were
allowed proportionately much more
of the necessities of life.
‘*On the other hand, I knew per
sonally of the case of the family of
a banker who was rich. Yet the fam
-lily was literally starving and suffer
ing more privation than the family of
a poor laborer.
» “The 'underground’ food supply on
; which the rich depended was natural
* ly costly in proportion to the risk the
;!u'mou took in disposing of it. Two
_ Qollars a pound for butter and §52,60
a dozen for eggs gives you some idea.
: Operagoers Hungry.
.“It was amusing at the opera to see
the hungry ladies of soclety, dressed
£ln their finery and decked with dia
+ monds and ct’nvenuonal to the ex
treme, calmly' eating sandwiches in
the boxes.”
. “Did you notice any signs that
iwould indicate German weaknesses?"
-1 asked.
& "I did not” Miss Marzynski an
i-vnrod. “You must remember Ber
-lin believes our allies are worse off
“for man power than Germany is.
‘; “And talk about ‘giving comfort to
EI%; enemy.! Every utterance of any
% glishman, Frenchman or American
~in criticism or opposition of the war
“is published in full and is fairly de
,voured by the Berliners. Lord North
wcliffe’'s speech—l believa it was di
‘rected ‘at Lloyd George-—was read
© with the greatest glee.
. “I heard many rumors of dissatis
‘factlon among the peasants of Ba
~varia, but nowhere in Germany is
“there any organized opposition to the
“war. I knew many, many people op
-2poled to the war, but only as indi
ifilduall. They were continually de
. ploring the existence of the war, but
;;uvi:.r condemning Germany's part
~in I
W Can't Evade Army Call.
f; “I also knew (German mothers were
‘trying to keep their sons from going
#sinto the army-—a very vain effort.
“The biggest mistake we can make is
“to hold our enemr so cheaply.
- “A young man in Berlin of well-to
do folks and a friend of my friends
:wn notified his class was about to
“be called to the colors. He promptly
‘eut down on what little food he had
been eating. In three weeks he was
a living skeleton. But they accepted
him,
“Toward the close of 1917, every
body in Berlin thought peace was at
hand. I forget the exact date, but 1
remember the occasion very well. The
Reichstag was in session. Unoflicially
it had been given out that peace—a
German peace—was assured that aft
ernoon.
“I shall never forget the spectacle
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that followed. Ali Berlin burst out
into hysterical tears. Hverybody quit
work. The streets were packed with
people—all erying. Of course, it was
a de!uslon&ut when the people real
-Ized - that re' was no violent reac
tion. R
“Toward thé end of my stay in Ber
lin T would often ask the women if
they thought peace was coming. One
and all as a rule would th ow up their
hands and exclaim, ‘Ach! We will
never have peace aga'n. I'his fighting
business will last forever!’
No Division of Opinion.
“Another mistake we made is our
belief that Germany is i ot as a unit in
this war, I tell you there is no such
thing as a division of any kind be
tween the people and the Government.
In Berlin they laughed at President
Wilson for making the distinction that
he was warring upon the German ai -
tocracy and not the German people.
And then they would turn the tables
on me by saving:
“‘We are not fighting you Ameri
cans; it is that President of yours
who has led you blind ones into war.’
“On the day that the President de
clared war on Germany I was scared
tu death-—actually trembling with
fear. So that when a young Ameri
can boy called on me that afternoon
te go to a concert it was with the
greatest reluctance I permitted my
self to be persuaded Into going.
‘We had hardly sat down in a
street car when, in a spirit of brava
dc, he began to talk in English until
a stranger sitting next to him whis
pered in English In our ears, ‘Fools!
This is no place to speak English.'
It was a timely warning, and my
friend immediately desisted.
“But the funny part of the trip
happened when we changed cars and
went Into the subway. A short, fat
voung German was sitting opposite,
reading the news of our entrance into
the war. He laid his paper down on
his knee, looked up and groaned
aloud:
“ ‘Beleef me, 1 vish I vas in der
Choonited Stavds terday.’
Always Watched by Police.
“l was so firmly established as a
student, and because of my name
and my ability to speak German, [
probably escaped many annoyances
and insults. Nevertheless, I was al
ways under the eyes of the police,
and they handled me without gloves
on the occasions that I was obliged
to report.
“All Berlin is in what I call a neu
rotic state of mind because of the
war,"” Miss Marzynski went on. “Lack
of food and heat and the klilling and
wounding of its friends and relatives,
and four years of wartime conditions
in general, have given everyone a ‘fly
off-the-handle' temperament.
“At home. in the street cars, at the
theaters, voices are pitched high. Vio
lent altercations break out between
friends cver some mere trifle. Every
one seemed hypersensitive, ready to
resent any fancied grievance; and all
jump at the slightest chance to get
their minds off the war.
“So that the theaters and concerts
are simply packed, and the race track
is black with people every day. All
amusements are running full blast
and at the urge of the Government.
“Soldiers on furlough make up a
large part of the audiences, but they
rever appear in uniform. I 'supposed
it was to keep the stay-at-homes'
mind off the war and to keep secret
the location of the various regiments.
“It was at the races that I saw this
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286 Fifth Avenue, New York, Deck J. 976.
HEARST'S SUNDAY AMERICAN _— A Newspaper for People Who Think — SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 1918.
feverish nervousness let loose. Peo
ple go literally frantic over each race,
“Any change in the German point of
view as to the right or wrong in their
part of the war? Not a particle! I
can assure you the German people
never will be convinced they are in
the wrong about this war. Dropping
propaganda from airplanes will not
change over a single mind.”
“Aren’t there many individuals who
would work against the (Government,
if they could?”
“Surely there are. But Germany
does not let them make any headway.
| We'll never win this war if we hope
Germany will give in before we sacri
fice our men,
“Berlin is no longer the beautiful
city you saw when you visited it,
mamma,” said the young singer sud
denly turning to her mother. “Once
its proud boast was that it was the
cleanest city in the world.
Berlin a Filthy City.
“Today the erstwhile spotless streets
are filthy, buildings are covered with
dirt, windows black, garbage accu
mulates in the back yards and sewer
age Is in bad shape.
“There is no pleasure living in a
German home these days. If a win
dow s broken you must board it up.
Servants can not be had; they've all
gone to the munition factories. Sit
ting down to a meal, of course, is a
farce.
“You can only have hot water on
Priday, Saturday and Sunday, pro
viding you have the fuel to heat the
water,
“BEverybody travels in the street
cars, since all automobiles have been
commandeered. I had to literally
fight my way out of Germany. I would
not have remained there after we had
declared war had not my folks here
invested so much in my muslcal edu
cation.
“Last October it became deadly
plain a winter of frightful suffering
was ahead for everybodv. They did
their best to stay me. But my per
sistence overcame their violent ob
3e?lons. and, after stripping me of
evervthing exceot my money and per
sonal belongings, they ailowed me to
go. Belleve me, when 1 reached Co
penhagen I did nothing but eat for
days.
Sausage and Mothy Beef,
“‘Mein Gott! Two kinds of meat!
| T shall never forget the stupefied
lamazement of the guests at the
‘epread’ arranged for the students and
Imvsolf Just before I left Berlin. And
| 'ha two kinds of meat were sickly
sancage and mothy-looking beef.”
“It's a wonder you have not been
ifmpressed with the German view
point?” 1 suggested.
“Nothing doing on the German
viewpoint!” declared Miss Marzynski
vehemently. “I am for the good old
U. 8. A. first, last and always!”
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and Are Far From It Just
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BALTIMORE, MD., Reb. 9.—John
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“They will fight,” Dr. Stone writes,
“until they are well licked, and just
now they are as far from it as at
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the start of the war. That is the
cold truth.
“The war situation deos not please
us much. The full strength of the
Central Powers can now be concen
trated on the western anAd short Ital
fan fronts, and they wlil, no doubt,
try to break through or score crush
ing Iws before the United States
can get into full swing. Personally,
I feel utterly optimistic as to the out
come, but I think there is a very bad
time just ahead, and when I consider
how long it will be before the bitter
end is reached and the Huns are
properly licked I get a bit seasick.
“But there is no other way out that
will be tolerable, and we must put it
across. I hope the people home real
ize thls, anr believe they do. The
profiteer and the pacifist, no less than
the actual pro-German, should be
handled as firmly and as relentlessly
as is necessary.
“Sentimental reluctance to tAke
what seem harsh measures may now
cost the lives of many of us over here
millions of dollars and years more
of war; also, the politician and self
seeker and the man with a padded
reputation must step aside or be
kicked out. This job will take the full
effort, intelligence and force—physi
cal and financial—of the whole coun
try, and it must be well directed at
that.”
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