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long ago." A few weeks later the bread ration of the men has again been reduced, but "the officers atill wallow in plenty and luxury. Almost every week there is a big dinner in the mess, at which "at lease five meat dishes are served.”

officers,"

SCHOOLBOY VIEW.

RADLEY BOY LOOKS AT AMERICA.

INTERCHANGE VISIT. [The causes of the dermoral-Evidently dangerous ideas are al-

The first half of our tour con- isation of the German fest, ready about, for Stumf notes: alsted of sightseeing and visiting which culminated in the revolu. One must always remember that various universities and public in- tion of 1918, are revealed in the resistance at the present time stitutions, such as the Naval diary of an ordinary seaman, might injure the Fatherland and Training Academy at Annapolia. Richard Stumpf, who, a Berlin arouse false hopes in the minds of The Academy at Annapolis is correspondent points out, is a our enemies, We are quite able," most lavishly equipped, and on he adds, "to distinguish between the swimming bath alone the witness of unusual value.] The explosion which started the the German Fatherland and its Government spent about 270,000. Revolution of November, 1918,

The buildings of some of the took place in the German fleet. It all weighed in hospital, and they are not likely to last, for in In January, 1917, the crew are' universities are very fine, but had been preceded, more than a year earlier, by grave acts of Stumf proves to have lost, eleven America the best of buildings are pounds: To the question of thelin danger of being pulled down insubordination on warships,

chief doctor whether he gets after ten years to make way for which had been punished by two executions and a number of long negative, and is then told that he In the second half of our tour

enough to eat, he replies in the new developments. hard-labour sentences. Important as these events were historically, may go. In response to repeated we visited a number of schools in we have hitherto lacked an ade- complaints that the potatoes are New England which we found quate explanation of them. The uneatable, the first officer makes vory similar to our own, though theory put forward by the apolo- Whoever doesn't like the pota-are that corporal punishment and a speech, which ends conclusively:smaller. The chief differences gists of the old regime, that they toes can leave them, and if any-"lines," which play so impressive were caused entirely by the sedi- one else comes to me about them a part in our schools, are unknown tious agitation of the Independent I'll have him locked up." But in and the sins of the American Socialists, and were, in fact, the May, 1917, Stumf remarks, that schoolboy, which, we were assur "stab in the back" of which Wil-"on board there are still a good ed, are few, are punished by gat helmian Germany perished, hundred who don't know that ing and other restrictions on pri- has been refuted by Parliamen hunger hurts," and he asks bitter-vileges.

we have the confession

tary investigation and half a ly: "Who could conquer a Ger- The fagging system is abhor- dozen lawsuits. Now, however, many with a popular King at its rent to the democratic mind, and book which was published a week head, and without the saddening perhaps for the same reason near- or two ago has thrown a brightly antagonism between poor and ly all authority and discipline are illuminating light on this interest-i ing question. Its title is "Why rich, and especially between offi- in the hands of the masters. The

cer and soldier?" the Fleet Collapsed," and it is the

prefects, who are often elected by' "No Fun Without England.” diary of Richard Stumpf, who

the boys themselves, have com- was an ordinary seaman on board Jutland he would "rather be a

On the Arst anniversary ofparatively little importance. the battleship "Heligoland," from glave of the English than a Ger-part high, but since the boys make School bills are for the most the outbreak of the war till the man soldier." So far has he de. their own beds, clean the rooms, spring of 1918, when he was clined since the opening pages of and wait at table, a saving of £40 transferred to the "Wittelsbach." his diary, in which he wrote the a boy is made every year, except If this extensive document, interesting confession: "Against in the case of heavy breakages. which covers more than 200 large England, the false and infamous, For fear of these, at some of the pages of painfully small print, was not commended to the reader has our fleet been built." Later schools the boys are forbidden to by the Socialist Reichstag deputy whereas at the outbreak of war it and crawl about as if paralysed that, walk, briskly in the dining-room, Wilhelm Ditimann, and if it had was thought "that the thing Forms in school are divided not not been quoted extensively by would be no fun without Eng so much according to intelligence his Centrist colleague Joos in the land," it is now realised to be pre-as according to the year of leaving Parliamentary Committee on the causes of the German debacle (be- cisely England that has spoilt the school, and their work is fixed in

joke. fore which, moreover, its author

set year courses, The revolution in Russia has an was exhaustively examined as an immediate and powerful reaction explain all these things to us and Our hosts were very anxious to expert on the mentality of the on the crews of the German fleet. make forecastle), the critical mind When Stumpf hears that the men antiquated English ideas.

every allowance for our would at once suspect its authen-of some of the Russian warships) ticity. Stumf is so obviously

But we found several other cus have thrown their officers over-toms that struck us as strange. above his lower-deck part. His board, he writes: "Bravo! That knowledge of things in general, is something for us Germans to Training Academy at Annapolis For instance, at the Naval and especially of international imitate." By the end of June, in every form each boy is requir politics, is certainly equal to that 1917, he cannot see the first officer led to produce a photograph of his of many members of the Reich- of his ship without thinking, "If "girl" From these photographs stag.

only I could cut his throat." He one is selected by general vote to An Unprejudiced Witness,

remarks that "if one listened to be the form girl; her picture is However, the sponsorships al-the talk of the sailors one might painted by ready mentioned allow no doubt think that the events in Russia artist, and from then on she pre- magazine cover as to the authenticity of Stumpfmust soon be repeated here." He sides over the destinies of the and his diary, and, that being so, still thinks himself that Germany form.

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he must be accepted as a witness is "far from an upheaval of her Another amusing custom we of unusual value. As a member foundations," but in August he saw at

Columbia University,

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of one of the Catholic trade unions has come to the conclusion that where several Sophomores, or men (before his naval service he was, "heads must fall here." and he now again is, a tin-found-

of their second year, clothed in But though he finds it "pitiful black robes similar to those of the er at Nuremberg), he was im- that so capable a people as the Ku Klux Klan, had seized on mune to the viruses of Socialism Germans should be so miserably number of freshmen and set them and Red Internationalism, and so lcd," he still writes of "the pure in some stocks, pinning to them escaped those biases which made figure and noble intentions of the placards reading:- the average Protestant German Kaiser." On Feb. 2, 1918, he workman an invariable and ruth- notes that "everywhere the lower less critic of the institutions and

authorities of the old regime.

garded the war.

strata of the nation are ferment-

iny and seething," and prophesies

"I am smart, I break Fresh rules. Offence, not wearing hat."

This, they told us,, was, known

new to us, there were only three

It would be difficult to secure to that "if there were a man to con witness better qualified, both centrate the existing discontent, as "hazing." positively and negatively, to pro-one of these days the great erup. Though many things there were nounce on the sentiments with tion would be inevitable." which the German lower deck re- To show that, in spite of his dia. that we actively disliked-pump- As seen through the eyes, and illusionment, embitterment, and kin pie, sweet potatoes, and the hard words, the diarist till the "cutting-in" system at dances. the cars, of very end was anything but an ex- Pumpkin pie is a standard Ameri. Richard Stunf, the gradual de-tremist it is only necessary to can dish, and something of an ac moralisation of the German fleet, quote his entry on Oct. 16, 1918: quired taste. The taste for sweet which culminated in the insubore we gratify the wish of this potatoes, which I have not seen in dination of 1917, and the revolu- cold-hearted plutocrat (President England, cannot be acquired. It tion of 1918, was mainly caused Wilson) and send our Kaiser to must be born in one.

heard through

hardly ever stops, and the girls dance continuously. Whenever a man wishes, to dance with a girl The touches her partner on the shoulder and the partner imme- diately surrenders her. This is Isaid to speed up the already fast

rate of marriage.

by the incompetence, self-indul- the devil, I shall always be The cutting-in system is in gence, arrogance, and brutality of ashamed to have ever been a Ger- force at all dances. The music the officers. Naturally, the long man.". inaction of the fleet, the apparent- ly purposeless oscillations be- tween Kiel and Wilhelmshaven, the sickening of the heart by hopes perpetually deferred and gradually proved to be entirely vain, and the corrosive shortage of the primary necessities of life, were all important contributory causes to the final break-up, and as such figure prominently in the diary. But the embittering and enflaming factor is always the at- titude of the officers, their failure to understand and sympathise with their men, their selfish junketings at a time when the forecastle was on half-rations of bread, smeared sometimes with rancid lard, boiled up again with a few apples and onions to disguise its excess of flavour.

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Food Shortage.

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By Whitsuntide, 1915, the shortage of food has become suppurating sore, but this, again, is only because of the contrast be- tween the conditions of the off- cers and those of the men. "While we must be satisfied with half the bread ration," says the diary; "in the mess there are. jjunketings and carousals,' at which six or seven courses are served up."

ME!

AND MY BEST FRIEND AFTER MOTHER.

The great danger, of course, is to "get stuck", for the evening with a wallflower, but Harvard men say that it is allowable when stuck to hold a dollar bill behind the girl's back for the first who will cut in to take.

A minor annoyance was the railway service, which in speed, efficiency, and cleanliness was far behind anything in England. In transport and in traffic control the Americans have a good deal Ito learn from us.

No remarks about America would be complete without some reference to Prohibition; and 1 must confess that nearly all the Americans we met said that it had done great good. At the same | time, during five days in New York I saw more cases of drunken-' ness than I had ever seen before. A quality which we found in no way exaggerated by report was American hospitality. Everyone As a specifle for infantile indid his best to give us a wonderful time and the most pleasant digestion, vomiting, constipation,

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