The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1919-10-11

il needs OF eFeTgtutub ouu oet " t'e
abundance II can supply sustenance
for Europe. This year and the next
will be the worst. After that We should
be able to supply ourselves with food.
II is well you use machinery to har-
vest your crops. In Belgium, 1t is
not so. Before the war all the work
ings of our fields was done by hand"
There was a wistful note in his
voice as though he were thinking OF
the men who would go to the harvest
no more.
"All your people are prosperous
he continued. THE have money
When | was in the stock exchange.
That is the center of the worlds inan-
ces. Turning briefly to American In
yestments in Belgium. Albert said
proudly: "our people are thrifty
and they will pay their debts"
Keenly interested in finance he
nodded approval at the suggestion
the purchase Of Liberty bonds had
taught lessons of thrift and COM
mented on the fact that what he called
Estate bonds were not widely held
| until patriotism open an unexplored
field.
But everyone had money to buy
them with" he added with a smile.
The kings face grew grave when
labor unrest throughout the world
was mentioned, and he spoke inter-
estedly of the conference Of capital
and labor at Washington designed to
find a solution.
"It is WE'LL" he said, that there al
be a conference for then a settlement
is possible. 1t is not so good when
men stand with rifles in their hands
ready to fight"
Here again he spoke of the incentive
to production which lies in the wner
ship of property and the economic
collapse of Russia was mentioned.
"The peasants are eating themselves
up" he said. They are not sending
their grain to the cities and the cities
are starving. But you do not have
Bolsheviki here. Your country is too
great and your people are too pros
porous"
Conversing with King Albert, it is
difficult to realize he is a monarch.
When there are no receptions to at
tend he dresses in blue civilian
with an army shirt and a
soft four-in-hand tie of the same
material. He bears himself with dig
but in it is nothing of the wall
of reserve and reticence which usually
is associated with royalty. The i'm
preston he gives is that he is a man
first and a monarch afterward.
Those he receives are made at once
to feel at home. All through his trip
he has maintained the same gentle
rs your Majesty enjoying the trip"
he was asked.
at is all very wonderful. The peo-
pie are very kind and very inter
esting."
And do you enjoy kissing the
babies along the way7"
Babies are babies everywhere" he
with a shrug and a smile.
and one must kiss them wherever
one is"
Have you been annoyed or amused
by the persistency of newspapermen
along the way?"
This is a democratic country" he
answered, land the press must tell
the people what is going on. To do
they must see with their own
eyes. A public man must expect that
and why should he be annoyed? 1t
is not amusing, for your journalists
are doing only what they should do.
press did a noble work in unit
ing your people for war and did 1t not
so very much to solidify sentiment so
your country could come into the war
with nothing to gain for itself?"
incidentally the king set at rest for
all time the legend tina he was a re-
porter on an American Newspaper for
a brief period when he was in the
United States t~wenty-one years ago..
NO" he said, with a laugh, Il am
sorry it was not so, for l might have
much. Your reporters know
everything"
There seemed to be nothing sardonic
in the latter part of his reply.
Americans throughout the country
have a great admiration for you, sir"
he was told.
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