Harper's New Monthly Magazine Volume 139 June to November 1919 . nt that no gov-ernment would ever againbe able to force the man-hood of the land to thatsacrifice. Nor was it anygreat fear that so smallan army would be in-adequate to the require-ments of democratized Germany. But the ques-tion was, What onearth can we do withall our officers, if you only allow usforty-five hundred? Prohibition, I be-lieve, raised the same grave problemwith regard to our bartenders. But as Ivisualized our own army reduced to thesame stern necessity, the panic wascomprehensible. However, the predica-ment is one
Harper's New Monthly Magazine Volume 139 June to November 1919 . nt that no gov-ernment would ever againbe able to force the man-hood of the land to thatsacrifice. Nor was it anygreat fear that so smallan army would be in-adequate to the require-ments of democratized Germany. But the ques-tion was, What onearth can we do withall our officers, if you only allow usforty-five hundred? Prohibition, I be-lieve, raised the same grave problemwith regard to our bartenders. But as Ivisualized our own army reduced to thesame stern necessity, the panic wascomprehensible. However, the predica-ment is one the Germans can scarcelyexpect the Allies to solve for them. War, said Voltaire, is the businessof Germany. One realized the plainfact in that assertion more and more asnew details of the thorough militariza-tion of land, population, and industrycame to light under our , labyrinths of tunnels,such massive stores of everything thatcould by any possibility ever be of usem the complicated business of war,every man up through middle age who. MILITARY POLICE A. E. F. REGULATING TRAFFICIN THE TOWN OF COCHEM had two legs to stand on marked with hisservice in some form in Marss work-shop; there was some new hint of themilitarism at every turn. None the less,striking was the aggressive propagandain favor of war and the loyalty to thewar lords in every corner. Not merelywere there monuments, inscriptions,martial mottoes to din the military in-clination into the simple Volk whereverthe eye turned, wherever the footstepsled. In the most miserable little Gasthausrooms, with its bare floors and nothalf enough cover on the beds to makea winter night comfortable, huge framedpictures of martial nature stared downupon the shivering guest. Here hung alife-size portrait of Hindenburg; there awar scene of Blucher crossing the Rhine;beyond, an Opfergaben des Volkes, in 320 HARPERS MONTHLY MAGAZINE which a long line of simple laboring-people come with great deference topresent
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