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12 WINNETKA WEEKLY TALK, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 1922 Good English The Chicago Daily News makes a remarkably graphic editorial an- nouncement of its publication this week of the German ex-Kaiser's Own Story of the War. It is an unusually fine literary performance. Here it is: The ex-Kaiser"s Own Story "The sacrifice was in vain"--Thus the ex-kaiser of Germany in his amaz- ing autobiography sums up the re- sults of his abdication. That is only one of the innumerable sententious judgments passed upon great events, upon anointed rulers, powerful statesmen and military com- manders by the leading participant in political affairs of Europe for a period of thirty crowded years. The Daily News has co-operated in the negotiations for the purchase of the American publication rights to the ex-kaiser's own story and takes pleasure in announcing that it has the exclusive privilege of newspaper se- rial publication in Chicago and the surrounding territory. Not since Napoleon, exiled on St Helena, dictated his autobiography has there been written a story of a ca- reer than can compare in importance with the story told by the ex-em- peror now in exile 'at Doorn. As a historic narrative it is of absorbing interest. Yet, like Napoleon's, it is re- plete with extraordinary misstate- ments and weird misconceptions. It is, indeed, a piece of self-revelation that must make it a fascinating study for students of the mentality of men who have exercised large authority. Here for the first time the world is given an adequate opportunity to dis- cover the mental processes, the domi- nating opinions and the accepted mo- ral guides to action that made Wil- liam of Germany the overshadowing figure in European affairs during three spacious decades filled with significant events. What did William think of Bis- marck, his imperial grandfather's jron chancellor, whose services he so soon dispensed with after he suc- ceeded to the royal and imperial thrones of the Hohenzollerns? Wil- liam tells you at the beginning of his memoirs. And starting at that turn- ing point in the life of a great and virile nation, he proceeds to relate his version of the developments that slowly but implacably divided Europe into two powerful armed camps and so prepared it for the day when the commence at 2 o'clock. Mrs. Milton Shirk, who has been connected with nations, so aligned, suddenly grappled in a titanic war. The recital gives in a long succes- sion of lightninglike flashes the vivid pictures of the mind of the crowned war lord who at a great moment of ~ crisis spoke the fateful word that set his perfectly appointed armies march- ing against Russia and against France. To read this recital covering the years of his rule is to watch the ten- sion grow and grow until that word was spoken. Thus is gained an inti- mate picture of the mentality of the ruler who precipitated the conflict that involved the whole world in its perils and losses and that ended in his own abdication and flight. The story of that abdication as told by William constitutes a narrative of peculiar interest. The most powerful of the rulers of earth is seen standing dumfounded, abashed, alone, as if without a friend. The hesitations, the sudden rages, the crushing disillu- sionment of the imperial sacrifice, sternly warned by his chancellor to stay away from his armies, to stay away from the country over which he had ruled so many years, an Ishmael- ite invited to flee for his life before the irresistible advance of his ene- mies--here is an ironic picture not easily matched in the pages of his- tory, though defeated and fugitive monarchs are plentiful in those pages. Why did this deposed war lord, fallen like Lucifer, driven by his foes, rejected by his people, fail to com- mit suicide? William solemnly sets forth his reasons for choosing to re- main alive. And then he goes on to tell what he thinks of the peace and of the present plight of Germany and he gives his views of Woodrow Wil- son and the fourteen points and of the American people. He tells, in short, practically everything that you want to have him tell you. Some of his judgments are keen and sure. Some Winnetka Weekly Talk ISSUED SATURDAY OF EACH WEEK by LAKE SHORE PUBLISHING COMPANY 1222 Jentral Ave, Wilmette, IIL Telephone .....ccceveeces Telephone .....eoeovscess Wilmette 1920 SUBSCRIPTION. ........ $2.00 A YEAR 'All communications must be ac- companied by the name and address of the writer. Articles for publication should reach the editor by Wednesday noon to insure appearance in current issue. Resolutions of condolence, cards or thanks, obituary poetry, notices of entertainments or other affairs where an admittance charge will be made or a collection taken, will be charged for at regular advertising rates. Entered at the postoffice at Winnet- ka, Illinois, as mail matter of the sec- ond class, under the act of March 3, 1879. SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 1922 of them are bizarre. Some of them are ludicrous. It is a most revealing story. Its hero is William the ex-Great. Yet all its unique chapters, all its sketches of the characters and the motives of men in places of power, all its grandi- ose recitals of things achieved or at- tempted recall Shakespeare's lines: "For God's sake, let us sit upon the + ground And tell sad stories of the death of kings." It is a somber recessional at the close of the day of kaisers and czars, of royal dukes and serene highnesses of every degree. 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