Evening star., 1919-05-25
The Sweat on Heinie'S Brow.

and naval machines. William IL has al
ready absolved him from the necessity of
further supporting an imperial establishment
These three items totaled s2s5.1s5.437 in the
estimated total expenditures by. Germany for
the financial year ending March 81, 1915.
Heinie andn his family met this levy with en-
thusiastic hooks" Yet it cost them about
$24 year in taxes. Let point out to our
protestor that. say. $50 Of this expense to him
is wiped out by the diminishment of Germany's
military naval and imperial establishments.
Simple subtraction shows $50 worth Of economic
bondage the remainder. That looks better
to US. But Heinie still frowns. So let US
tell him some more.
The total productivity of Germany will be
largely increased by the release of great num-
bers Of potential adult male wage earners from
unproductive military service. The peace es-
tablishment Of the German army was in 1914.
s06,026 officers and men. with naval personnel
of $4,000, total of S79.026. The treaty re-
duces Heinie's army personnel to 100000 and
his navy to $4,000, pushing 764,026 able-bodied
men toward productive labor. The minimum
figure of $42006 the individual earning
pacty Of each shows that this group could
earn by their combined efforts $500. 1916.
7 ooK at that figure. Heinie. 1t means that
l. your released army could pay a little bet
ter than four-tenths of that $50 you and your
wife and your four children are protesting
about if they chose to work to that end alone.
1t means thus that if they should accept the
pfennigs for their toll that they paid
soldiers Of the kaiser. job they never kicked
about economic bondage, your family's year.
ly debt to civilization would be about $50. 1t
at least that that debt would be re-
duced by one-fourteenth by the increase of
Germany's adult male wage earners. Some
where between $50 and SIS will stand your
family's yearly quota Of reparation to the allies
Say $40 for six. A per capita debt
Of $11.66 2-3 year. Heinie interrupts to
point out that, although the peace treaty does
release 764,026 men from his army to produc-
tive labor, the number of men lost to him dur
ing the war more than Offsets this figure. That
is true. But concern is with the peace
treaty. with the profit and loss to Hetnie in
volved in Heinies account with civilization.
His dead and manned an internal and per-
sonal account, the price of lust for world do
minion, as are his internal national debts. That
account would have stood whether Germany
had lost What have been concerned
with is the account resulting purely from the
fact that Germany is loser. In other words.
the peace treaty makes Heinie economically
stronger by 764,026 men than she would have
been had the war resulted in a draw. Heinte's
family troubles extraneous to my subject
X X X
ELEVEN dollars and sixty-six and two-thirds
Z cents year. The gnashing Of teeth over
economic bondage emanating from over across
the Rhine strikes bit overdone. These
quaint threats Of anarchy and bolshevism as
the only way out grow somewhat less i'm
pressive. we<judge that the physicians at
Versailles have furnished what may be de-
scribed as safe sudorihc, effective for fifty
years.
There is another emotion said to induce
sweat, relief after long sustained dread. Heinie
may we'll sweat for fifty years after 1870 as he
draws comparisons between what might have
been and what was exacted from him in 1919.