S— Bellefonte, Pa., June 13, 1919. FARMING IN GERMANY. Corp. Ralph M. Musser Gives Glimps- es of ‘Life Over There. Mrs. George Musser, of Boggs township, has received the following letter from her son, Corp. Ralph M. Musser, of Company F, 56th pioneer infantry with the army of occupation: Coblenz, Germany, May 5. Yesterday I went to church in the morning and the day being an ideal one Harry Hassinger and I in the afternoon walked eleven kilos down the Rhine to Bensdorf. We returned too late for mess so took coffee and doughnuts at the Salvation Army canteen. In the evening we both went to the regular “Y” service and heard Dr. Foster give a splendid address. Returning to our billets we played with the Deutch youngsters until time to make for bed. You have no doubt read the poem of “The Calf Path.” That must be the way the first residents of. these little villages laid out their streets. And the atmosphere in many places could stand purging. The men who till the land live in the villages, as we see long stretches of land without the sight of a house. They have Bald Eagle valley beaten all hollow for farming little patches. For instance: On one of my rambles last week T saw a little plot about 18x15x12 feet in size, lying up alongside of a steep, rocky slope, and which was reached by a ladder. If you have ever seen a community where the people were engaged in gardening for a livelihood you will have a good picture of much of the land I saw yesterday. The tillers of the soil must practice a very intense system of farming. In general the gardens are well tended and the crops flourish. © The American soldiers scattered along say the Germans work their gardens day and night. The trolley lines in this country are owned by the government and the fare is very reasonable. Yesterday I rode almost six miles for less than five and a half cents (80 pfenings). Today I have no regular duty as- signed so am preparing to take the “Y” trip up the Rhine at 9.45. An hour ago the sun was out and gave every evidence of a fine day, but now the sky is overcast with clouds and maybe the weather will not be as fine as I'had hoped it would. Three Centre county boys turned their faces homeward last week, namely: John Bryan, Russell Wit- mer and Daniel Fetzer. Was sorry to see them go and hope we. all may fol- low soon. . Gilbert Waite is not in the best of health just now. He has a very bad cold and sore throat. There is noth- ing alarming in his condition but the medical men have assigned him to - special quarters apart for a few days. He has a nice, large, well-lighted room, with stove, and all he has to do is eat and sleep. P. S—Am now passing up the Rhine with Bingen as our destination, a six hour trip. The scenery consists of a delightful blend of meadows and water, vineyards and orchards. Nu- merous castles stand out in bold re- lief on the heights of land (or rather rock). Products are wine, cherries and oil from rape seed. The day turn- ed out ideal and the assembled Yanks all seem happy, tho’ far from home. RALPH. “Quit the Job.” “One of the most remarkable fea- tures of the world war was the ana- thetic manner in which the German people accepted the news of the final Jefeat and abdication of the Kaiser,” remarked ex-Ambassador Gern:u. “In this respect they reminded re very much of Sven, the Swed. “Sven had been nursing logs down the chute to the buzz saw fo several hours, when the boss came along. “ ‘This bane too much vark for one man,” Sven told him. “All right, said the boss. send John down to help you.’ “An hour passed and the boss came past again. Sven made the same complaint: ‘This bane too much vark for one man.’ “‘But I sent John down to help vou. Where is-he?’ . “¢Yohn, he ain’t bane here some time. He vent down be’ween two “logs. 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Berlin.—America won the war, ac- cording to Field Marshal Ludendorff, who expressed his authorative opin- ion very explicitly to me as follows: “France and England would have been beaten in 1918 but for America.” General Ludendorff’s keen logical analysis led to the laconic statement that “America proved to be the de- cisive military factor of the war. The American reserves swung the decis- ion. They alone made it possible .to pull the worn-out French and British divisions out of the line and to reor- ganize ever fresh offensive armies.” The loss of the war seemed a sen- sitively sore subject about which to question Ludendorff, but he stood the gaff without betraying a quiver of emotion. His attitude toward life ap- pears to be to stand up and talk of the past with stoic dignity, as becomes an old soldier. 1 gathered the distinct impression that Ludendorff has no special love for America or Americans, but, on the other hand, is honest enough not to affect a fake affection, preferring to regard America as a worthy foe unfortunately encountered on the bat- tlefield. I have no reason for wanting to flatter Americans,” he said to me, | home every evening, enemy broke through cur line on that day,” he said. Ludendorif did not say so in so many words, but I gathered that Au- gust 8 brought the revelation that the fighting value of Germany’s first line troops—their morale—had sunk so low that Ludendorff knew by intui- tion they could not hold longer against attacks which normally would have been relatively easy to smash. Ludendorff said he could not sin agains the Fatherland by discussing the depreciation of the front line troops with an American. He did say: “From the ease with which the front line was breached on August 8 my intuition as a soldier told me that the enemy would keep up the attacks incessantly, uninterruptedly day after day from then on.” Military intuition therefore had told Ludendorff that August 8 was the beginning of the end. He is con- tent to leave his military stature to the verdict of history. His last words to me were: “I did what I did for what I believ- ed were the highest and best interests of my Fatherland.” Ludendorff lives the simple, retired life of a pensioned officer. He is at spending much of his time at his desk writing. He occupies the apartment of friends on “and neither have I any reason for the first floor in Victoria strasse of withholding my just verdict of hate, either.” Bitter as the realization ‘may be to him personally, he sees that Germa- ny’s sole salvation lies perhaps in re- gaining the friendship and in not en- couraging the enmity of America. YANKS GOOD, BUT NOT WELL TRAINED. “It is my wish that the two coun- tries may find each other again,” Lu- dendorff said. It is understood that he deals ex- haustively with America’s part in the war in his forthcoming book, but he said in response to questions: “I won’t say a word about my book. I don’t want it to appear that I am try- ing to advertise it.” : Of the American army he briefly: “The soldiers were good. training, however, was not world war standards.” What Ludendorff considered short- comings of training, due to a shert time in which the Americans had to train, really made no difference, how- ever. They were trained quite enough to win the war, because they arrived in time and in sufficient numbers. Ludendorff does not hold that the war was won and lost at the Marne. and his view of the second battle of the Marne will come as a surprise to most American readers. He said: “Fighting in the Marne salient was in the nature of purely local engage- ments.” He regards the Argonne-Meuse of- fensive as the American army’s great- est performance in actual fighting. “The Argonne-Meuse offensive was very uncomfortable to me.” he said to me with a slight smile. I said I had never understood just why the German specialists keep harping on August 8 as the decisive day on which the war was lost, or said Their up to the day on which the German hichest leadership gave up the war for lost, or no longer possible to win. : “Foch is of the same opinion as I am,” was Ludendorff’s reply. “August 8 was the first day of the Franco-Brit- ish offensive at Amiens. Nothin ‘on- cretely, the break, through the line was not very wide nor extraordinari- ly deep. ’ Then Ludendorff, in one illuminat- ing flash explained why August 8 was the decisive day for him, although nothing much happened. “It was the ease with which the gam: ERAT the Tiergarten and said that he made the transition from the highest mili- tary leadership to civilian life very easily. He does not expect to visit America.—By Cyril Brown. i Labor Shortaze Forecast; Save Man- power, is Plea. Ve venture the prediction that be- be so great that business men farmers will be scrambling for men. RICH MEN URGED TO BUILD HOUSES. A great opportunity presents itself today to men of wealth. The employ- ment of thousands of men now out of work in the construction of housing which is so badly needed is the role which might very properly be filled by an institution similar to the Rock- erfeller Foundation. time, according to Doctor Kirchway, there are 100,000 men unemployed in ! New York city, says the New York | We are faced with the after- | Private industry and | enterprise are for the moment per-: So great has been the upset | in price levels and in production to! Times. math of war. plexed. meet the general peace-time require- ments that cautious men of business think it best to wait until prices come | down, until conditions become more stabilized. Meanwhile, by this very process unemployment becomes great- er, and that, too, irl spite of the fact that there are not enough homes to shelter the city’s population. Here is an opportunity for work of real be- neficence. To provide proper homes for the people is one of the worthiest obiects of human endeavor. Proper housing conditions have been regarded as the | basis upon which all other reforms and betterments must rest. Without decent home surroundings, light and air, proper sanitation, we do not have good citizens. All of this has been said many times before. The surpris- ing thing is that in this country, at least, there has beeh comparatively . little interest in it among well-to-do i fore next year the labor shortages will | and | To meet this condition labor-saving | | machinery should be brought into use everywhere and as rapidly as possi- ble. Household work can be lessened greatly by modern electric equipment. ; Work on the farm and in the factory still offars an almost limitless for labor-saving .equipment to sup- plant or supplement muscle power. Every manufacturer should as quickly as possible so improve his plant, and when necessary so equip it with labor saving devices of every kind as to be ready to meet the cer- tainty of a great labor shortage. With an enormous wheat crop as- sured, at high prices for the farmer; with general improvement in all agri- cultural conditions; with highway work getting under way on a very large scale; with a. marked revival of general constructive activities; with a heavy emigration and but little immi- gration, the labor situation will soon become acute. The wise man will be the one who now lavs out his entire campaign to utilize to the fullest extent every la- bor-saving machine available for his factory, his farm or his home.—Man- ufacturers’ Record. “What’s in a Name?” “Our opponents have always got a flippant answer ready,” said a Con- gressman in an argument. ‘“They’re like the waiter in the cafeteria.” “Waiter,” said a patron, there’s not a single oyster in this oyster soup.” “ ‘Well, said the waiter flippantly, what about it? You had cabinet pudding yesterday, but you didn’t find Josh Daniels or Newty Baker in it, did you?’ ” Mistaken Identity. Lightning knocked over three men who were sitting on boxes in front of Sawyer’s store yesterday. One of them was knocked senseless; the oth- er two exclaimed, “Leggo! I'm com- in’ right home.”—Milltown Banner. —— A field | | who desire to aid with their wealth the well-being of their fellowmen. Money expended now in building serves a double purpose, meets a co- incident need, the need for employ- ment and for housing. The public clamor against the in- creasa of rents was directed a month ago to the Legislature for laws to prevent undue increases. Today the demand is being made on the city government to provide homes for the people. Nothing of the kind will be necessary if the great leaders, the broad-visioned and far-seeing men of wealth, can be brought to see the pressing need for housing. Such men, so quick to apprehend the needs of industry and commerce in all parts of the world, should see the need, rapid- ly developing into a hardship, at their very doors. Perhaps it is because in- vestments in real estate have hereto- fore been regarded as outside the scope of or beneath the notice of cap- tains of industry and commerce. In the new world that is dawning, such fundamental matters as proper hous- ing are assuming the importance they deserve. : One great corporation has built over 20,000 houses in the last ten vears as a matter of business because it could not afford to depend upon the speculative builder properly to care for the employees. If this “enlighten- ed selfishness” pays, we believe that enlightened unselfishness will pay al- so. The great achievements of Amer- ican business enterprise and initiative in the past are a sound basis for the belief that a means will be found to provide necessary housing without calling upon the State or Municipality to engage in the building of houses. 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