The Seattle Star Newspaper, December 11, 1919, Page 14

* come an accomplished fact 3 ‘German Junkers, in the autuma of }, bad the ides of making Luden- ff the real dictator of Germany é Abd putting an end to the revolution: ferment that was working thru under the guardianship | the Wberal and radical elements the reichstag Partiament had compelled the em. | te bow to its demands and) was really a portiamentary | » limited tho be might) be by the emperor's prerogatives. (8 wero spreading thruout the spectal by Published by The Star & te Copyrirhted. 19 ted in Creat Brit by Meser All right: Bartel; tn x rails reser: A WAV.an countries At the end of October Count) ling succeeded Dr. Michactis. He | the first chancellor to be nomin: | by the crown with theSconsent | Pet the majority in the reichstag. 80 for the maintenance of order after had the balance of power been in favor of partiament, and Same process was iMustrated by ministerial appointments this time onward the reichsta: ly was even more than ty jointly responsible for the iry's misfortune General headquarters did not hear @f the nomination until it we be n the atime Count von Hertling had to think better of us. He was cnown to me. We expected of him fulfillment of the tasks which to the government in the prose tion of the war; these were, strong nal government, raising the spirit of the people, the exe | ‘of the proposals as to recruit which we had already made to Michaelis, and finally, the de nt of propaganda against the more I entered into com- cation with the war minister the head of the war depart which had been for consider: | time in the hands of General Scheuch, regarding the need of | lying the army more liberally, could not bring them to a de h. No doubt both these gentle. } Were suffering from ce of the unsettled eco which instead of ove they allowed to paralyze “I constantly recurred to the sub which had prompted my pro- of the autumn of 1916, name the necessity for utilizing al! the peces of the country to achieve vie + It had become perfectly that, the auxiliary service act Mot fulfill its object: on the con-| , it did harm. Besides that, it to place the working capacity the individual at the disposal! of country, and to return the re Men to the army in suffi numbers. e in SAN DIEGO MAN 25 POUNDS — TAKING TANLAG fas In Poor Health Twelve _ Years, Six of Which He Could Not Work have gained twenty-five pound: steight and am just as full of energe and as strong as I ever war since 1 began taking Tanlac,” said G. 1. Biekell, who resides at 445% Louisiana street, San Diego, Cal! recently. Mr Bickell is the father of the publisher of the Faulkton Ad vocate, Faulkton, S. Dak., it which | state he resided before coming ‘| California. Continuing, he said: | “Twelve years ago while in Mitch-| el, S. Dak, I suffered a general! breakdown. It just seemed that my/ whole physical machinery went Wrong all at once. I lost in weight very rapidly, and, of course, my| strength went also. I had scarcely | aQny appetite and became so nervous) I could get but little sleep. I was also badly constipated, and had to be taking some kind of laxative ail the time. I finally became so weak and run down I just had to quit work entirely and for #ix long years I was unable to do a thing. “I had tried lots of different kinds of medicines but none of them @id me any good, and I went to Denver. Colo., in search of health and while there I began to read! about the good Tanlac was doing,| and one case 1 read of was so sim-4 flar to mine I decided to try it,| and shortly after 1 began taking it I began to feel stronger and to pick up in weight, and my appetite be. gan to improve. In ali I took eight| botties of Tanlac while in Denver,| and the way it built me up was re markable 1 was soon able to go to work again, and I worked steady | for sixteen months, and then came here to San Diego. and am working every day, and feel fine and strong and am not @ bit nervous, and am never troubled with consfipation any more. It is a pleasure to ree- ommend Tanlac, when it did so much good for me, ond 1 advise every one to take it who is in the} same condition I was.” Tanlac is sold in Seattle by Partel Drug Stores under the personal di-| rection of a special Tanlac represen | tative —Advertisement For Liver and Bowels Dr. Carter's } K. & B. Tea A Mild, Gentle Vegetable Laxative and Healthful Drink You can keep the whole famtly in| good health if you will brew a cup! of vegetable toa every other night| and have them drink tt Just before | going to bed. For véry little money you can get! a@ package of Dr. Carter's K. & 8, Tea, and after you and the deur ones have used it for @ week you'l!! say it's the finest. gentlest and most complete tonic laxative you ever ran! For stomach, ver and bowels and to purity the blood, nothing is more reliable Give it to the little ones oat. They lke Joe of mood “MY THOUGHTS AND ACTIONS” By Gen. Eric Von Lundendorff _ arrangement with (he MeCly Harper y Hutchinson & 4 for France, Belgium, | medi -/ our seeing none but the oraltted. |al had written! war industries of Germany, fathered by the new and rapidly growing in it socialist party, the ally of the Russian Bolsheviki. So to Ludendorff came the sug gestion that he take the chancellor. ship and become another Bivmarck whe would drill the people under » policy of “blood and iron,” as he wanted them to be drilled. lc wae tempted. Me had a severe mental struggle before he could put the scheme aside, Had he attempted it possibly he would have brought on the German revolugon even sooner. Ne and Brothers All ri ompany and the London Italy by Frateiti Trevel, tn Canada and Helland, Russia and the The question of drawing the em ployers and work-people closer to gether, which was so immensely im portant for the transition period, and the war, had made no progress At the rejuest of General von Scheuch, the field marshal and I re cetved the representatives of the free unions (fret gewerkachaften), and latér those of the Christian unions (christliche gewerkschaften and the associations (@ngeste! employe verbande) We told these gentlemen how nex essary it was to maintain and raise the spirit of the people at home otherwise that of the army must Inevitably suffer. Yt was not our business to deal with the aux!iiar service act itself They promised to assist in improving morale and de- nounced the strikes; to my satisfac tien they realized their great respow sibility. They made a number of sug tions regarding working cond at home, which tho they did tely concern me, interested me considerably, and were passed on to the government departments con-| cerned with the request that they might be adopted. I hope that tn our discussion [ clearly explained t t im: them the connection between the army and the people at home, and WELL - that they grasped the ereat im portance I attached to the effect of internal conditior the country on 4 the Miuct of the war “LEADERS OF WHOLE NATION" T were our guests at ner n doubt folt that we treated men of different opinions to our own with respect and almed at securing collaboration for the good of the country The stupid gossip about “ca t industry” died down somewhat after this visit. We had quite different ideas. We regarded ourselves as the leaders of ® part only of the mation, which was at that time still capable of defense. In this also we were, tho not openly, in opposition to the government which depended consciously and en: phatically only upon that section of the people represented by the left majority of the reichstag, and had more or less democratic and radical | ideas, while the other section was completely eliminated. The manner in which the law wae weakened in favor of tht t, where by strikes were facilitated and those * re willing to work rendered Jefenseless, a young men were «@ ywed to comb and run wild stead of being ducated, and the promulgated sid inet the right, sow the goverumment | GARRISON ARMY f SLACK I discussed with that war minister | the ble paewnem: at home, | owher things 1 pointed out that I 4M@ not consider the super. | vision of the press to be adequate. ‘The spate of affairs in the garrison | arty was discussed. The training and discipline of the men wore not | up to the required standard, saluting | had become slack and was generally t No doubt the garrison army had to contend with great difficulties. | The shortage of suitable officers was incewasing. The army at the front could not spare fit officers, but there were “a number of unfit || office who still 5 ed their s f will. But they, too, | were trying to get to the front, which they were often forced to do| by the extremely low rates of pay prevailing at home. a In this respect, too, nothing bet drastic innovations could have brought any improvement. How- ever, conditions in the training units led the war ministry to reinforee the! recruiting depots of the field army | as far as posible, so as in this way | to get the recruits away from home sooner and bring them into touch with the front and thus make them into reliable soldiers. The contingent | of 1899 was transferred to the re-| iting depots during the winter of || T-18, SOLDIERS | I had again examined the question|| of insuring the draft required to! continue the war. I considered it so important that I thought the people EVENING WEARY ° 'TTO AUTO 1 FRECKLES AND HIS FRIENDS Good el DON'T You TELL] HER You've GoT TT WORIT AT TH OFFICE al MR. BRYSDN- DRoP WELL, WHY L WHATS THAT ? TNIGHT ? GOOD NIGHT W AGAIN. - WE'D TALC AN’ THE SEATTLE STAR—THURSDAY, DEC. 11, 1919. Nov MUST Be REAL Fish, BAG TWO TWAT FELLOW CERTAWLY \S A PECULAR DUCK = 4 _ You \F Youd bt iim. | ALWAYS @IVE Va OWE Presesy FoR ME UE To A TRUSTING WIFE UKE ANNIE Just TY’ GET OuT To | PLAY POKER. WELL, i | SHOULD SAY >) NOT~ wiby | Love G MY WIFE Too sf | MUCH To STooP @ So Low AS To 1 LIE T’ HER roe The Merry Sh oppers— “THE House AHO ONG FOR Wane ARM OFF Pop. TH ) FELLA LEFT KEEPING UP WITH THE JONESES ITS A’ FINE TINE TO TELL “THAT'S ALL THESE BORHRO RAZBOS Do” SUTWILEN MEALS 1S ROH, “TO WORK UP fol APPETITE ~ AMD TLL BET T WAKE A SHAPPY LOOKING SMIDWICH must at last take an active part in it. It could only be solved in a sat isfactory manner {f the peopl coule and to decide its own fate for itself. j concluston. live only for the duties of his exalted On the 10th of September, 1917, An enormous responsibility rests, | position os war minister, act with | grand headquarters had made serious ‘arefore, upon all departments con-| energy, and make the country we} representations on the subject to the cerned with the eations discussed | the dangers which threatened it imperial chancellor. The field marsh. 8P°V*- “The drafts for the field army are at present insufficient; in particular, all arms are alarm- ingly short of trained reinforce | ments... . “If we fail to provide the nee | essary drafts the success of the war will be jeopardized.” We considered that, besides raising tation or refusal, 1/4nd at once. If we do the army will was not yet ripe for reconel be made to wee the situation clearly Yet bring the war to a satisfactory | We needed a chancellor wh In particular the reichstag, the trades unions, ete., must not be | lett in doubt that they, too, will in cur the most serious blame by hesi- “It is unnecessary to point out jthat, after months of del \diate netion Is necessary.” But this letter aleo proauced no re | sult, Whether the reichstag was ever informed of it I do not know After I had come to know the im + imme- the warlike spirit and further propa-'perial chancellor, Count von Hert- ganda, it was necessary, in order to ling, I became convinced, and had to secure drafts, to improve the auxii- reckon with the fact, that he, too, ‘ary service act, increase the output was no war chancellor His plat. of labor, draw the largest possible form was entirely that of the major. number of fit men from the fac ity, of which he was in a wense the tories not later than the spring 1918, and prolong the term of viee. The document onded as fol- and distinctly lows: WARNS THE TRADE UNIONS: in | NO TIME FoR critical if we do not act with emergy, | tiou chancellor.” 1 of product, and his program-was peace ser- by understanding. He aid #0 clearly his first great speeches, without finding any sort of echo in the countries of the entente, feverish and can’t|— “But this it is my duty te em- RECONCILIATION it and it does them! phasize—the situation must become He called himself the “reconctlia- 1 think the ume WHAT DID You Ger Him FOR Him seLe? | SOMETHING , MR GO OUT PoKeR ~ Hi AN’ DON’T {08 OF ALL THE ABSENT- MINDED PEOPLE tt I Do BEVEVE WE'D LEAVE Uis WEAD IF IT WERE Loose! Ax SIR’ DO EXAMINED TW MEd — THESE GHD Wil PASS UP A MIRAL TO SHAKE & WILD ANKLE IN ALL A NeW TRAVELIG BAG ~ Yes, AN’ LET ME TELL You | MY HUSBAND DON’T Ue T Me -IF HE wi WorRey 1 AM ® PHYSICIAN! I HAVE YoU @ND CAN LOCATE NO BROKEN Bones! APpenrectT secur GALLAGHER - $ TO TNIGHT AN’ PLAY CAN GO - ORGET 1T. WHY “\TW’ (OBA OF PUTTIN’ | do Him UP T’ LiE- bo \ } You THINK For “ y é Ta’'s wnat | BouvcuT MY HUSBAND AND 1 HAO MY ENITIALS Pur on (T= Ho-HO-HAK-HAK ~ FALSE TEETH would All this was contrary to the ture of Count von Hertling. He was Kilful in manipulating the parties of the reichatag, but gave in to ther even in cases where the war de. |manded different action. Honest In. | na. | |tentions had induced him to accept office, but the times demanded “a | strong personality. The burden | was too great for a man of his great} age and frail physique Was I once more to tell that to his majesty? Who was to become chancellor, since his majesty had so often pronounced against Pr: Bulow and Grand Admiral von Tirpitz? Who was the man who would throw himself into the breach and join in the fight, who would unite and lead the people by the compelling power of his aims? Many had already approached mo with the suggestion that I should become chancellor. 'This, though well meant, was & mistaken idea. The work I had to compass wag enormous. In order to carry on the govern the in- strument, © required an unusual capacity for work. It was inconceivable that 1 should take over in addition the conduct, of a govern: ment which on account of its ex- tremely clumsy working methods required even more than one man's whole time and strength. “A SEVERE MENTAL STRUGGLE” Lioya ce and Clemenceau might be dictators, but the details of the war did not concern them Germa 's dictator would have to be in Berlin, not at general head- quarters. He would have to be a al} home conditions, Such a man countered. | Circumstances were very different | from what they had been in previous | wars. The analogies which were su. | Rested to me at that time did not fit at all; times and circumstances could in no way be compared. Fredorick the Great was a monarch possenne, of God. Napoleon knew, at any \rate, at the outset of his dazzling career, that he had all France be- | hind him. ONE . HOWEVER, WAS CERTA: HE POWER MUST BE IN MY HANDS, There was no alternative, I must at the front, continue the struggle man with an intimate knowledge att addition to my tremendous task Berlin might have followed. 1 could von | not take over the task; of that I be- came convinced after @ severe mental struggle, I was not deterred by fear of responsibility, but by the knowledge that the strength of one man would be inguffictent to lead at the same time the people at home and the army at the front in this world-wide war of nations and overcome all the Opposition and friction which, as a notorious representative of militar-}asmuch as he was a decided sup-|sight. ism, 1 ghould everywhere have en- porter of the idea of diving that|guarantee by all druggists . ¥ with the government in order to ob- tain what the army needed for its last and final victory. | knew how arduous it would be, but hoped that the fall of Russia would make a sat isfactory solution possible. This was where the situation differed from the me of the resignation of the first war chancellor in July, 1917 Under the chancellorship of Count von Hertling the question of Alsace- Lorraine assumed another aspect, in- ‘ and | his authority by the grace | |country, in which case Bavatia was to get Alsace and Prussia Lorraine Imperial Chancellor von Bethmann had already had discussions with Bavaria about it. I could not see what good could come of the idea, and feared that this particular solu- tion would cause irritation, par. ticularly in Wurtemburg. We could only ask the chancellor to take the |necessary steps for starting the dis- cussions in which the fundamental principles of the question would bo laid down. Since then business has been dormant. I had, advantage of his influence in Rome As an established leader of the centre party and former Bavarian prime minister to settle the ecclesiastical affairs of the Reichsland in a national German sense, but he achieved nothing. 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