The San Antonio Light (San Antonio, Tex.), Vol. 38, No. 104, Ed. 1 Friday, May 3, 1918 Page: 3 of 16
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Spirit of Militarism Still Remains
Dominant Throughout German Empire
No Indications Yet of Any
Great Lessons Learned as
a Result of the War-mili-
tary Control and Blood
and Iron Policy Remain
Absolute —Public Opinion
Controlled.
By Cyril Brunn.
(Copy right 1918 by the Pre** Pub*
lishing Co. The New York World.)
STOCKHOLM. March 15. — Ger-
mania in 1918 *is still wearing her
old-fashioned tight-laced steel
boned corset of militarism—or strait-
jacket according to varying German
viewpoint*. While the whole body
politic from top to bottom is under-
going war change* the spirit of mili-
tarism goes goose-stepping on un-
converted and unconvertible; nor
have its outward and visible signs its
iron-clad formulas for imposing gov-
ernment on the people its rigid and
ruthless institutions for safeguard-
ing the state its whole technique uf
ruling—with blood and iron if neces-
sary — undergone any material
change.
Its expression at home does not in-
dicate that any great lessons have
been learned as a result of the war.
Germany is passing through the
strangest reasonably bloodless eco-
nomic social and political revolution
while the militaristically tempered
framework of the state of society
persists virtually unchanged. The
death-grapple between militarism
and democracy in Germany is taking
place with seemingly no possibility of
disrupting the ^tate as long as tI)C
discipline of the army is not under-
mined. The slow-mouldering revo-
lution in Germany is essentially and
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SAN ANTONIO STORE
230 E. Houston St. Near Navarro St. J
t Open Saturday Nights Until 10 P. M.
257 Stores in 97 Cities. jW**
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307 Alamo Plaza
Formerly The Bismarck
Under Same Management
Open from 8 a. m. to 11 p. m.
C. R. BASSE. Prop.
Mortgage Loans Safety Deposit Boxes
San Antonio Loan & Trust Co.
(Incorporated 1892—Without Banking Privilege!.)
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FRIDAY.
beginning to be mu recognized by
a struggle be-
tween the spirit of militari*m and
the new spirit of democracy not yet
fully consciuu* of its existence nor of
it* power*.
Mill Has It* ( I tampion*.
The fervent champions of militar-
ism who believe that it alone has
been the salvation of Germany have
not dlmlniahad in number; on the
other hand the devotees of dem-
ocracy have increased astounding)}’
m number rr. rutted • btefb from
the broad masses who until recently
had been either indifferent to mili-
tarism or regarded it as a neces-
sary evil. The military odds are still
with militarism since it controls
the state machinery; democracy's
fight now is for breath and a chance
to live for some slight relief from
military restrictions; not for com-
plete freedom but only for a toler-
able partial freedom uf speech.
Military control today is still ab-
solute. Since June 30 1914 Ger-
many has been living in a legal "state
of siege’’ all the powers of all civil
authorities automatically passing
into tho hands Of the military au-
thorities with the proclamation of
martial law.
All Germany is divided into twen-
ty-four army corps districts and the
< >berkommando in the Marks of
Brandenburg. The commander in
chief of the Marks and the substitute
commanding generals have army
corps districts are for all practical
purposes small absolute monarchs
in their own right. Except in the
three Bavarian corps districts they
take orders if any. only from the
Prussian minister of war who is
commander in chief of the home
forces ni^l theoretically responsible
to the Reichstag as well as to the
crown. Bavaria maintaining some
outward show of independent sov-
ereignty nevertheless through the
Bavarian minister of war adopts and
puts into force all the orders issued
by the Prussian war minister. Un-
der the law of the "state of siege”
the commandinggenerals have seem-
fngly unlimited powers of independ-
ent action subject only to general
guiding principle* that may be issued j
b> th< ndnisu r ■ : wai
iMblk* Opinion < out rolled.
Until martial law in lifted abac- ।
lute military control of freedom of ।
speech and puulh opinion not only t
Im theoretically possible but fre- ।
quentlj prov ed in pra< tice. It ia .
made poasibk b> thret forma of per. J
fevtly lawful military activity; the* 1 J
are military censorship control of (
’ public meetings and preventive ar- ।
rest. In the practice of these sub-
ject only to general directions from J
the Prussian minister of war. each (
commanding general is an autocrat
in his own corps district and there
। arc consequently as many degrees of 1
militarism in Germany as there are (
। practical exponents of it.
J Not all commanding generals ex- (
( ।ri Im thi lr rights full Hen and
there a more liberal minded com- (
manding general gives the impres-
sion that martial law is almost nap-
! ping. The state of siege however
is sharpened Ip all border corps dis-
trlcts being sharpest throughout Al.
J sace-Lorralne. The state of siege has
also been sharp* ned for the bent fit
’ of Greater Berlin. For Greater Ber-
’ lin the article of the Prussian con-
r stitution has been put out of force
whi< h provides that no one can be
’ withdrawn from tho jurisdiction of
the courts as provided by law. 80-
‘ called "extraordinary war courts"
1 have been introduced composed of
p two civilian judges and three mill-
। tary officers. Any one can be with-
drawn from the jurisdiction of the
s | ordinary courts and tried by these
p l mixed military tribunals whose ver-
' diet is final. There is no appeal from
? them. Only their death sentences
s require the counter signature. Sen-
-1 fence is executed within twenty-four
L> hours and death is by shooting.
Tlic Booth Penally.
e Under martial law the extraordin-
ary war courts can inflict the death
‘ penalty not only in all cases provid.
] ed by normal peace time law but in
J a large extended number of cases.
" such as forcible attack on or resist-
ance to civil or military authori-
ties. The "white-weapon" policV sa-
' bre and cold bayonet are still ex-
clusively relied on to maintain or-
der in extremities.
The fight for greater freedom of
speech particularly fur more free-
dom of the press has concentrated
itself in a sharp sustained attack on
the part of the Reichstag majority
against the abuses of the militar.v
censorship. Thore is no longer a po-
litical censorship in Germany today.
The question of war aims and peace
terms has been thrown -wide open
for press discussion. So far as the
political leadership in Germany is
alone concerted both press and
i public enjoy C omplete freedom cf
speech and thought. This reform
however is nullified for all practical
purposes by the military censorship.
There Is in Germany today only a
military censorship exercised by the
several commanding generals of
army corps districts and the com-
mander-in-chief in the Marks aub-
j^ct to general orders issued by the
Prussian minister of war. But this
military censorship is of a very elas.
tic nature and not only is applied to
purely military matters but can be
and is stretched to cover politics or
any other subject of discussion. The
; basic principle of the German mili-
; tary censorship is to preserve mili-
tar> st ‘rets and to "maintain the
1 will to vi* tory.” The peculiar abuses
;of the military censorship result
from the fact that it does not con-
fine itself to preventive measures
but plays an active # positive part in
seeking to control public- opinion. |
••A Systematic Misuse."
"The censorship.” says the Reich-
stag member Erzberger one of the
leaders of the Center party "is a sys-
tematic misuse uf military power for
one-sided political purposes." This
competent critic agrees that "the
military censorship has a double
standard of measurement and that
"it is directed against the polit y of
the Reichstag majority and the im-
perial chancellor." Theoretically the
military censorship is supposed to
be exercised with absolute non-par-
tisanship. but there is no vestige of
non-partisanship. German critics
agree that the* miitary censorshp fa-
vors the annexationists and is obvi-
ously directed against the anti-an-
nexationists; that it favors the Con-
servatives National Liberals. pan-
Germans and reactionaries generally
while exercised with greater sharp-
ness against the Liberal and Dem-
ocratic elements.
The military authorities are able to
show their political partisanship in
an infinite variety of ways. Vio-
lent attacks against members of the
Reichstag majority and leading
statesmen suspected of favoring the
majority's policies are freely per-
mitted; on Ihe other hand the mili-
tary censorship frequently refuses
to countenance equally violent re-
joinders. Certain of the command-
ing generals arc known to be open
enemies of the polities of the imper-
ial government ami give their preju-
dice practical expression through the
censorship. Much commented on
has been the fact that while lead-
I ing statesmen leaders of the Reich.
I stag majority and all its members
I may be freely attacked the mili-
tary censorship permitted no articles
to be published attacking Grand Ad-
miral von Tirpitz though the latter
I in turn is permitted to carry on a
vast political agitation.
I’an-f.irmnns Favored.
Pan-German and other annexa-
tionist pamphlets and propaganda
I matter are permitted widest pub-
licity. Thus a Catholic propaganda .
pamphlet in favor of the papel peace .
of reconcilation is forbidden while :
! a propaganda pamphlet setting forth .
I the beenflts resultant from keep-
• ing the ore basin of Briey is allowed ।
unlimited circulation. Not so how-
ever the various propaganda pain- (
phlets written in rejoinder to prove t
that keeping the ore basin of Briey t
i would be a grave mistake.
! Partisanship is shown in favorit- ' t
ism to Paq-German literature while t
pacifist literature is harshly treated. (
; The military censorship w ill pass pa- f
cifist literature only when it con-
J fines itself strictly to the pure ethi\» '
। of pacifism ami points no practical
moral application to tho present ‘
I war. ।
The partisanship of the military
authorities has shown itself most no- '.
toriously perhaps in the active favor-
itism shown the Tirpitz Fatherlaml
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party both by the military censor-
ship and the military control uf pub.
He meetings. Fatherland party
propaganda literature is passed irec-
ly counter-propaganda in many
cases suppreseed or emasculated.
Fatherland party organization mvei-
Ings and rallies have been freely per.
mitted throughout Germany while
Socialist counter demonstration*
have frequently been squelched it i
has been charged by Radical So* ial-
ists that members of their party have I
been "persecuted." subjected to I
heavy penalties. Radi* al Socialist I
meetings both public and private
largely forbidden ur suppressed I
while the agitation of the Fatherland
party is viewe*! very differently
through military eyes ami tacitly if I
not actively encouraged. It has even
been charged that pressure has in
some cases been exerted on soldier*
to induce them to enroll is the Fath.l
crland party. 4
Tlm* (VnsorS Argument.
The military authorities intrench
themselves behind the stock argu« I
ment that the censorship in enemy I
countries is very much worse; that j
the German military censorship must |
be regarded as mild and generous in
comparison.
In unlit.ir> attempt to I
keep the press of Germany in lead-
ing strings has tended to lower pub.
lie confidence in the press which
because of its inc reasing stereotype*! ’
uniformity aees ita prestige at homt
somewhat diminishing. Some Ger- i
mans have taken increasingly tu the I
habit of subscribing to Swiss papers •
in order to see what if anything. i>
being withheld from them by the
German press.
Military control of public opinion ’
accordingly is b* coming an cl nu it
of weakness in the sense that it Is
tending to undermine the faith ot ।
the public in the independem e of its i
press. The brunt of the fight foi ।
greater freelorn of speech ami of the ’
press Is being borne by the Reich-
stag majority; the press itself has
fallen into a stupor of fatalism. |
broken only by occasional rare ir-
ruptions of self-asse¥tiveness quick-
ly squel* hed by military suspension
of publication. And yet. as a Libera!
Reichstag member has said "the
people know that a fight is on be-
tween the military authorities on
the one hand and the political lead-
ers of the empire on the other. Th*
issue is clear cut."
r\| | \ r 111 114 I IHA IMDX
IX FAVOR OF l\ O."
A decision of lar-reaching impor-
tance has just been handed down by
the United States patent office in the
case of Anheuier-I’.iis. h Brewing As- !
sociation vs. Fred Miller Brewing
Com pan >.
In February. 1917. Fred Miller
Brewing Uonipanv of Milwaukee.
Wis.. applied to the United States
patent office for registration o f it (
trademark. "Vivo." for a non-Intoxi-
cating cereal beverage manufactured
b\ it and sold as a soft drink. The
Anheuser-Busch Brewing Association
of St. Louis. Mo. opposed the appli-
cation on the ground that the trade-
mark "Vivo" was an interference
with their trademark "Revo. ' used
in connection with a similar bever-
age. The' Fred Miller Brewing Com-
pany proved to the satisfaction of
the United States patent office tha
it had used the said trademark since
the year 1905. while the Anheuser-
Busch association did not comnien e
the use of its trademark "Bevo" un-
til the year 1908. ami the United
States patent office has now decided
that in view of the prior use by th*
Fred Miller Brewing Coinpan* of it*
trademark "Vivo." it is entitled t*
the registration of same and the op-
position of the Anheuser- Buscji
Brewing Association has been dlt*
missed.— i Adv *
PENNSYLVANIA BOYS
AMONG SEEKERS FOR
FRIENDS FROM HOME
I
Four From Johnstown Send
Request to Home Folks
Editor.
"When a fellow joins the arm* to
fight f**r the C. S. A.
Ami the* send ’uni t*» the training
camps >omc thousands miles
hvvay.
When Im -Ms a little lonesome spir-
its sorter c rooping down.
Ain't it ni e to meet somebody from
tho obi homo-tow n
Th it; i> a contribution to the Home
Folks column of The Light and ex-
presses the thoughts of many a
khaki * lad boy far from his "old
home-town." Abd the Home Folkt
editor’s hope is that by and by not |
a single lonesome fellow can be i
found i.i any army camp in this
vicinity. During the several months I
tho Home Folks c olumn has been a
feature of The Light hundreds of
lonesome boy have found "home
folks" ami n**t a da* passes without
at least a dozen re«|uests from sol-
diers. As a rui«- an e*iual number
of answers are r« - rived trom civil-
ians eager to i..ak« the soldiers
lives less lonesome . A fellow who i*
living in an army tent takes a keen
delight in gettin r into somebody's
house and even a fellow vv ho has
had servants to w tit upon him all
his life would «nioy getting into a
real kitchen where some nice girl i»
making a cake and will let him help
beat the eggs ami wash the spoons
and pans and things. Maybe he can’t
guarantee to do the job satisfactorily
but he would like mighty well to be |
given a chance to "try his hand.”
R»’om Del Rio. there came a letter
Friday from a member of the en- |
gineering corps saying that three I
other moys and himself al hailing
from Johnstov n. Pa . which is noted
for the great flood which washed it
awa* in 1 889. would like to get in
touch from the hov who wrote to
the Home Foil:* editor Thursday.
Ho writes that hr has been watching |
for «• long time fur Johnstown to ap-
pear in the Hom? Folks column.
An "old-timer from Webster Coun-
ty Invva” is wh.’t a Kelly Field man I
wants to find—anybody from Fort ■
Dodge. Burnside or Lehigh. lowa. .
Another Kelly F*eld boy is hunting
for somebody from Anniston. Ala. >
or Chattanooga. Tenn. This is the ।
second Chattan<»oga boy who liar 1
been heard from in the last week ami •
it does seem that there ought to he <
some Chattanooga people living ’
here.
The Home Folks * olumn is free '
to all soldiers from other states who ’
are in the camps here. Uy sending '
their names and addresses ami tiav I
names of their home-towns to the ’
Home Folks Editor they probably >
w ill find former townspeople to wel- <
conic them into their homes. I
nlnonc nt. tKn 11 nu nu wr>rlist (
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I<>l W. Commerce St—(Adv.)
SELECTED FOR SERVICE
XineUXHi 4 amp Traxis 4>ffirei> to
Enter Tank l>hi*ion.
! Nineteen Camp Travis officers
first ami seeoml lieutenants. ha*u
been selected for service in the tanK
division now being organized and
I have been ordered to Camp Colt.
Gettysburg. Pa. fur training. The*
I are: First Lieutenants John Wilv>
| Monk. Si«lne* John Lane. William F
McDonald. Frank G Hayers. John B
I Muse James B Robertson an*’ Al.
MAY 3. 1918.
'lien W. Turner. Second Lieutenant
1 I'errv IL Blackniere Richard B.
i Blaisdell. I'hillip B. Boland. Chester
i E.irl Paus. Lloyd L. Hamilton
u Henrv IL Holgate. William it. Mo-
man ' William <Toiler Maguvern
! Clark 11. rnrcell. Janies C. Tenlaon.
■ i < >tto ri. Tumlinson and Duncan C. O.
- ’ Wilson.
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