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Show Germans Shocked When American Farmer Boys Ignore Burgomasters 'R J-KIJN- J'VI' -4 Formality and ceremony received a aumber of Ibf ralhpl r,:ll(?h jolts during a tour of Germany just completed by Ihfteen American farmer boys who came to this country with a shipload ship-load of milch cows given to Germany by farmers in the United States. The young meu have returned to Berlin after a trip of sixteen days ! to many of the principal cities of the country. The Americans are natives of Indiana, Kansas ami Texas and they brought to this country coun-try the unconventional atmosphere of their prairief Reception committees v.hlch gathered gath-ered at stations, expecting to welcome; ;i frock-coated, silk-hattej delegation. 1 were astonished to see tho breezy Am-I Am-I Orleans swarm off their special car and. Ignoring dignified burgomasters .and officials, extend their hands ln ;,reetiiKS to farmers, shouting: .Ki 1 1 . Jii I UIMERS. "You fellows work; your hands aro calloused." ln'somc places there was outspoken I astonishment at the unconventional manner of the Americans, and Jhelr disregard of the tecllnn-i of high o-' o-' fitials, but W. K. Schmidt, represcn-Itatlve represcn-Itatlve of the German Red Cross, who .accompanied the Americans, was al-W8,ya al-W8,ya on hind to evj.ialn matters. f.l i: WOMEN M 1 8. "Germans don't understand them," he said today. "They are awfully de-ccnl de-ccnl fellows ;:nd polite In their way. too. Every man in a party riding on .1 Street car last night got up and promptly gave women their seats Tho Germans on board kept their seats-The seats-The trouble was merely a matter of viewpoint." Stories of tho tremendous size of the farms In ihe Mississippi valley were told Hrrr Schmidt by the visl-I visl-I ters who could not refrain from re-j luting some anecdotes that would seem quite venerable In America. They told him about the man whose farm 1 was so large that he began planting j corn at one end of a field In tho spring und found before he reached the othor oho tha,1 aba corn harvest had begun. Kerr Schmidt n tallated by promising to show them the field of Templchof, near Herlln, "WheffcJ people equipped with spoons go out ln the morning to fill their buckets with maple syrup " I MM .K As . T IN DEN l Tho only unpleasant incident occurred occur-red at liochum, where the Americans 1 wc-e crlili ivd for speaking Kngllsh. j "Why don't you speak German'.'" a man asked them- "You are in Ger-many Ger-many and not America." "'c speak what we want to." carno; th' quick rejoinder from a Kansan. aril the matter was abruptly elroppcd. No Germans were permitted to enter en-ter the Americans' ear, although after the first few days all feur of antagonism antag-onism vanished. The Americans, after being given their first sight of Germany, declared they liked the country, but Peter An-, lr . of tllbing, Kan , snmmed up thoi sentiments of the party by saying. I .( Ml CH .Ml vi ,in "There is too much misery here.. There are too many rich and poor. Hut ihpn it Mpoms the oeoDle must be I 0110 or the other Kansas suits me." I The Gorman Red Cross does not 1 plan to take other Americans on tours of the country, Hcrr Schmidt said today. to-day. "Don't you like Americans?" he was asked "Yes, but we haven't enough money," mon-ey," h replied. ' The American Dairy Cattle company, which forwarded the nillrh cows to Germany, askeel us to do this that the beys could report on Mentions on their return." ( IQLDREN NEED MM K. j Asked if what they had seen would 'appear to Justify the gift of the cat-I cat-I tie to Germany, several of the Americans Amer-icans said: "We have had plenty to eat, and J have been banqueted everywhere, but ferywhere we have seen hungry chll-drn chll-drn and tubercular adults who need inlllc." If I hnd a hundred cows," continued contin-ued onu of them, "1 would give them 1 all to Germany tomorrow." His companions nodded agreement ! with his words, 00 |
