Mexico weekly ledger., 1921-07-07
A.P.GREEN Tells
OF CONDITIONS
ON CONTINENT

Green Tuesday to a representative of
the Ledger. He returned from a bus
mess trip TO England and the contin-
emit Monday night
England is over-rum with strikes"
and France has hardly reached nor
malacy," he continued, 'fbut l did have
a great trip"
Il left New York June 4th on the
Olympic" and returned from there
on the 'Ac~quitania" June twenty fifth
and spent exactly two weeks on the
Continent, visiting France, Germany,
Belgium, Holland, England ard Scot
land.
France is making terrific strides re
pairing war damages, and in travel
ing on the battlefields unless you knew
you were in the battle country, you
would see very little evidence of it.
Trees that were gassed and had no
leaves last year are in full leaf this
year and hide all evidences of she'll
ing. Trenches and shell holes are
filled up and crops and grass are
growing over them. The roads have
been repaired and all the debris of
the war have been removed and many
of the houses rebuilt. In another two
years, the battle area will be the
same as it was before the war, with
the exception of some of the larger
buildings having to be rebuilt.
"The French people have settled
down to work in earnest and are put
ting in ten to twelve hours a day
on the farm and in the factory-as
are likewise the Germans, Belgians
and Hollanders. England, however,
has not settled down and is torn with
dissension, labor trouble and strikes.
The week / was there was their
twelfth week of the great coal strike.
Every industry and most of the trains
stopped. Unless England settles down
to work quickly and irons out her
labor troubles, she will be left far
behind in her race for world COM
MERGE.
"The same financial depression exist
ell over the Continent as does in the
United States. Money is scarce,
trade is only about one-third normal
aud there is much actual want and
Suffering. Very few crippled men
are seen, but the streets and country
are OVERLOOKING with idle men to
whom the government pay an out-of-
work weekly wage. Industrial de-
preston is world wide and men from
Australia, India, Philippine Islands,
China and Japan all say conditions in
their country are about the same as
with us.
II found it very hard to do business
abroad on account of the cur
rency exchange-our brick in French,
Belgium and Dutch money being
three times as high as they could buy
their own brick for export. There is
no question but what our prosperity
is linked with that of Europe and I'M
til the European nations settle down
and iron out their own difficulties and
begin producing, we are not going to
have any measure of prosperity in
America. Both London and Paris
have regained their old pre-war ap-
~ .no . . To-. ~ rrnhn hou lg1nnxryn
them in the pasb there is no physical
difference in what it was in pre-war
times.
England and the Western part of
the Continent are in the middle of
the worst drouth for years-their last
rain being December 10th. Crops are
in a bad way and the country looks as
brown and burned up a s Audrain
County does in October. The day !
left London they began rationing the
water and only turned it into the hy-
drants two hours a day. The weather
in London during the month of May
was the hottest ever known-one day
the thermometer reached IS degrees.
'SThe ocean trip both ways was UNI
usually warm in spite Of the presence
of numerous icebergs and the sea was
as smooth as glass the entire trip.
81 was sorry I could not accommo-
date the Colonel and report the
Dempsey Carpenter fight for the
Ledger. I am very fond of scientific
boxing contests between little fellows
but do not care for the more or less
brutal fights one finds between most
large men in the heavyweight class.
Practically all the publicity given to
the newspapers was paid for and it at
tracted an immense crowd in New
York of curiosity seekers, but there
was very little talk Of the fight around
the hotels and on the trains. Specula-
tors were hard hit, and at noon Sat
urday, | was offered q 5000 ring sidal
seat for $1,000, but I thought ] had
much better use for my time and
money than that.
After seeing Europe In its present
CONDITION and living as the Europeans,
the main pleasure Of the trip is IN get
ting back home and realizing that you
are an American and ! living In
good old Audrain County, Missouri,
and are not in Europe for good"
II skEEf HHM4EWAa l
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