ATTITUDE OF
GERMANY STILL
UNCHANGED
WEIMAR, March 13 (Correspond
ence of the Associated Press).—The
German National assembly has been
at work some weeks now, and ha3
demonstrated, among others, two
things clearly. It is unable to do
business much more speedily than the
old Reichstag, chiefly because there is
little unity and much dissension be
tween the parties, and the old order
of things has changed very little de
spite the myriad of new faces.
The latter is perhaps the most im
portant point, because the Assembly
was hailed by countless German
papers—and particularly by the agen
cies that supply the outside world
with news—as the birth of the new
republic,, the beginning of a new regi
me, the living emblem of the passing
of the old.
It is new in a sense, and the old
regime has passed perhaps, but there
are enough of the old people left, and
so many of the new people are not
much unlike the old, that the effect
in the Weimar theater is not much
different from the Reichstag. One
hears precisely the same arguments
from the floor, watches precious time
fly by over the same or similar argu
ments as used to make one despair of
constructive legislation. ,
Perhaps the most striking thing is
the tone of the great majority of the
party speeches. Just one delegate
has had the courage to attack the
Conservatives and the moral strength
to go on record as admitting that Ger
many had something to do with start
ing the war.
Man after man, regardless of party,
has, in speeches, proved to his own
and the house’s satisfaction that Rus
sia, France or England, not Germany,
started the war.
Several have declared that neither
the German government, nor the Ger
man people wanted the war, or knew
even that it was coming, let alone be
ginning iCor having the remotest to
do with starting it.
One lone man has had the courage
to tell the house that the German
treatment of Belgium forever forbids
German complaint from being effect
ive. The great bulk of the delegates,
as the great bulk at least of northern
Germany, seems to have adopted the
attitude:
“Well, it’s all over now. We, the
people, didn’t start the thing at any
rate, so let’s start out even and square
with no hard feelings on any side.’
And singular as it may seem, there
doesn’t seem to be a person hardly
who can get the viewpoint of any for
eigner, even that of the now populai
American.
The assembly is the principal out
let for every known kind of propa
ganda, indulged in nearly as vehe
mently and excitedly by the Social
Democrats as by the Conservatives.
First there is the Alsace-Lorraine
question. It comes up three, four, a
dozen times a session, and always
rouses the same enthusiasm. Every
old and shop-worn argument is trottec
out and cheered. It'has never oc
curred to the Germans that on the
other side of the fence there are fairly
good arguments to support France’s
retention of these provinces.
The junction with Austria provokes
an almost equal enthusiasm, and it
would almost seem as if half the
speakers insert it in their speeches
for that purpose alone. A countryman
from farthest East Prussia can be
sure of a “bravo” if he mentions the
brethren in Austria yearning to be
come the tail end of the German kite.
The Schleswig-Holstein question has
come to the front lately and Germany
is filled with propaganda to show that
Schleswig should and must remain
German.
No speech is complete without at
least a reference to Poland and
Czecho-Slovakia, and the longer the
reference the more bravos. Yet not
one of the speakers hut knows that
these questions will be settled, for
good or ill, by the peace conference.
The failure of the German to change
materially is in no way better to be
observed than in his attitude to the
question of the conduct of the war.
It is only rarely that a criticism of it
is heard in the house, and the general
feeling seems to be that, if anything
was wrong with it, that is all in the
past and should be forgotten or over
looked by Germany’s enemies.
The prisoner of war question is as
puzzling to the student of German
psychology just now as anything else.
Virtually every speaker touches upon
the prisoner question before he leaves
the tribune. Tell a German, first, that
the armistice made no provision for
the return of German prisoners, and,
secondly, that while Germany begs
daily for food, she attempts at the
same time to saddle herself with 800,
000 more mouths to feed, and it has
no effect on him. It cannot De sneer
pity for the welfare of the prisoners,
because plenty of Germans know only
too well how slim the food is.
The assembly has had its fill of
speech-making that consists chiefly of
party programs that everyone knows,
or more frequently in attacks, often
personal, that show how bad the feel
ing Is beneath the surface. Now it
proposes to do some real work in com
mittee. The press may not attend
but gets what the committees care to
give out, unless some member tells
tales out of school.
Listening to delegates to the as
sembly, and talking to Germans out
side of it, the correspondent finds that
the old German viewpoint he learned
to know so well during the war until
the breach with America, is still
abroad in the land, though in less
truculent forint
The German thinks differently from
any other human being in the world,
and therefore does not understand
why he now should suffer, why every
thing cannot be placed on a basis of
status quo ante, why anyone should
hold against him a conduct of the war
which-he claims he had nothing to
do.
He complains bitterly that some of
the troops of the armies of occupa
tion force the Germans to bare their
heads when an officer passes, or walk
in the street. If the answers are
made that the Germans did just that
in Belgium and northern France, he
replies that one indignity does not
warrant another—and overlooks the
part that human nature plays in the
way of reprisal.
It crops out every day and generally
several times a day in the assembly
UMPIRES AND
PLAYERS ARE
BEING CHOSEN
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CHICAGO, April 10—With the
signing of “Augie” Moran of Phila
delphia, president Hickey of the
American association tonight com
pleted his staff of umpires for the
coming season. The double umpiring
system will be retained.
Moran and George H. Johnson of
Chicago are the addition to the staff.
Moran, a veteran, was signed to fill
the vacancy caused by the loss of
Ollie Chill, who will join the American
league staff, and Johnson will take
the place of “Ducky” Holmes, who
held out for an increase over his
1918 salary.
Moran comes to the American as
sociation with a good record. He has
officiated in the National league, Pa
cific Coast league, International and
Southern leagues. ,
The remaining members of the 1919
staff are Louis Knapp of Louisville,
James A. Murray of Minneapolis, W.
F. Finneran of Erie, Pa., Robert Hart
of Lowell, Mass; F. R. Connelly of
Boston, and Buck Freeman of Wilkes
barre, Pa.
President Hickey has decided to
abandon the practice of holding a
rules meeting with the umpires in
Chicago before the opening of the
season. The question will be covered
this season by correspondence which,
President Hickey believes, will be as
satisfactory as a personal conference.
Encouraging reports are being re
ceived by President Hickey on pros
pects for the 1919 race. All' of the
clubs are being strengthened by
new talent.
An infielder and outfielder and a
second string catcher will about com
plete the team which will represent
Minneapolis. Manager Joe Cantillon
has acquired Pitcher Rube Schauer,
whom he feels will add the necessary
strength to his pitching staff. The
other pitchers on the roster are Roy
Patterson, Whitehouse, Talley, Lind
berg, Thomas, Miller and Williams.
Jourdan, another acquisition of the
Millers’s is rated to be one of the best
first basemen in the A. A. He was pur
chased from the White Sox. Rondeau
and Lelivelt are the two candidates
ior me uumuiu. v tii^Liuuu is sum uj
be on trail of another outfielder. This
would give him three of the hardest
hitters among the outfielders in the
league.
Olaience Rowland, new owner of
and leads nearly every “enemy corre
spondent” to the conviction that the
“new” German is not at all unlike the
old one, only grown a bit more humble
when that is useful, but typically him
self when he ^pts to talking before his
own kind, and utterly incapable even
of understanding anyone else or any
other standpoint than his own.
the Milwaukee club, is assembling a
flock of players to report at the
Evansville, Ind„ training camp this
month. Rollo Daringer, a veteran
short-stop, who played for Rowland in
the days of the Three-X league, is
among the latest players signed.
Milwaukee fans will give Rowland
and Hugh Brenan, his partner, a “get
together” dinner in Milwaukee Tues
day night.
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