South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1919-06-15
POTASH and PERLMUTTER
Discuss Being Up in the Air
AS Applied Transatlantic Flights Crown Jewels and League
Nations Speeches

TO the originals. Mawruss?" Abe
asked.
What should or happened TO them
Norris asked rhetorically Il bet yer
that not cnce but hundreds Of
times, an Austrian emperor has TAX
en- one Of the ladies OF the Vienna
opera house ballet 10 the vaults Of
the Vienna Safety Deposit and Stor-
age company and just TO show her
how much he thought OF her, when
she said: My amt that a gorgeous
stone. he said: Do YOU really like
It? and pried it out of its setting
right then and there"
And I also bet yer that when the
ballet lady got a valuation on il the
next day" Abe said, the pawn brok-
er says to her: Amt this a dia-
mond which the emperor pried out
out Of his crown for you. and when
she said: Yes, he says that the fixed
loaning value OF an imperial pried-
out diamond was one dollar and
eighty-fve cents, and from that
time on. the ballet lady would be
very much off all emperOrs."
1T seems 10 me that in all the
other countries Of the world where
kings and emperors still hold onto
their jobs, Abe. il wouldn't be a bad
thing for the government 10 check
up the crown Jewels on them, in
case OF emergencies like revolutions
or having 10 pay war indemnities. -
Morris remarked. which l wouldn't
be surprised if right now, the Ger
man people is figuring on raising
the first billion dollars on the Ger
man crown jewels towards paying
the first billion dollar installment
OF the war indemnity, and when the
government appraiser gets ahold of
them. he will turn in a report that
they are not even using that kind Of
stuff in decorating soda fountains
even.
In that case the German gov
eminent Will probably try TO ar
range a swop,' Abe said, trusting
TO luck that the allied governments
having agreed 70 take them crown
Jewels at the value placed on them
by the kaiser, will not discover their
real value until they've changed
hands. Mawruss. in which event the
German government will claim that
the substitution took place after the
allies received them and did the al
lies think they could get away with
anything as raw as that"
Even the Germans amt got such
a nerve" Morris commented
Amt they?" Abe retorted We'll
how about the counter-claim they
are now making for an indemnity
of S3,04S,300,000, aus gerechnent?
Them Germans has got the nerve 10
claim anything they think they're
got the slightest chance OF getting
away with. Mawruss, so they stick
in this indemnity which they say
they ought to receive from the al
lies because the blockade which the
allies kept up against Germany dur
ing the war caused such a shortage
in food that one million less Ger
man children was born during that
time"
Three thousand and forty eight
dollars and thirty cents is a pretty
high valuation 10 put on a German.
and a newborn German at that "
Morris commented. You're sure
that the thre thousand and forty
eight dollars amt a mistake be-
cause thirty cents sounds like the
! correct figures to me, Abe"
The birth reduction amt the only
item in their bill, Mawruss," Abe
continued They also claim that
the blockade prevented the import
ing of rubber. camphor and qui-
nine"
And, I suppose they claim that
/ tire trouble. moths and malaria in
creased something terrible" Morris
said We'll. they're going 20 have
just as hard a time proving that
/ claim as Senator Reed would that
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