The Washington times., 1921-08-10
Today
How Does She Pay?
TOO Bad" Said the Boy.
Over tho Hills, New Style.
6ewiidered BoIshevlki.

pamphlet on our German export
trade and you win wonder where
Germany gets the money, how
her statesmen manage. In the
year 1914 we sent Germany goods
worth $340, 900 900 and imported
$191 ,000, 900, balance in favor Of
the United States, $149, 900, 900. In
the year just closed our exports
to Germany are again in our
favor. Buying from us gigantic
quantities of cotton and copper,
Germany with her deprecated
currency must pay in dollars.
How does she manage it?
The Government needs about
Ave thousand millions for spend
ing in the coming year. 1t 10
running behind in collections, and
there Is much talk Of economy.
Could any economy be simpler,
easier, more rational than bring.
ing American troops back from
Europe? |
What good are they doing?
Germany and France both would
like to have them stay. Perhaps,
but that does not interest the
American taxpayer. He would
like them to come home and stop
spending his money.
To know how swiftly and
straightly this world is going to
the devil, financially, read Frank
Cobb's article, Economic Aspects
of Disarmament" In 1910 Lloyd
George said the world, spending
two and quarter billions yearly
for war, could not endure the
strain. 1t did not endure. War
came in 1914.
Now that the war is over the
worlds nations are spending
from eight to ten billions q year
on war. The war wiped out
three hundred and forty-eight
thousand millions of the worlds
wealth. Now it takes the inter-
est on two hundred thousand
millions to keep the world ready
for the next war.
That has got to change or the
world is bankrupt.
When the next big war comes,
If nations are foolish enough to
permit it, it won't make any
difference who wins or loses
for, as Frank Cobb says, "Vic-
tor and vanquished alike will
perish in the ruins of the civil
lization that they have de-
stroyed."
A boy Of fourteen admits
wrecking Q Delaware and Lacka-
wanna train, killing two, injur-
ing others.--Ha-xantsd to. see
something smash, repeatedly put
pieces of metal on the tracks,
at last succeeded, and looked at
the wreck from the top Of a
tree. ~
He was caught attempting
another wreck and told that he
had killed two men. He re-
piled, "That is too bad" The
authorities don't know what to
make of him, such callousness
amazes them. Plenty of kings,
full grown, have done the same
thing on a big scale, wrecking
nations instead of trains, and
when told they had killed thou
sands or millions they, too, have
said, That's too bad" immedi-
ately planning other wrecks.
The Navy asks a law to for
bid selling war decorations be-
cause it '1essens their senti-
mental value" If those that
earn the decorations were de-
Gently treated by the Govern
ment fewer decorations would
be sold or pawned. In Chicago
crippled and gassed soldiers are
actually in the poorhouse.
over the top to the poor
house." is new title. Mr.. Fox
might make a picture out of
that.
Secretary Of the Navy Denby
says: "Battleships and infantry
win wars"
Infantry, yes, with the aid of
trench diggers, barrage fire,
tanks, flying machines and asfew
other novelties.
But what in Mr.. Denby's opinion
did battleships do in the last war?
They had one fight without def
mite result, victory, or meaning in
the North Sea. Their they went
back to hide from submarines and,
rs Mr.. Denby may learn from
British records, British battle
ships, carefully hidden away, were
protected by lashing merchantmen
alongside them.
The flying machines, more than
all infantry and battleships COM
bined, will win the next war. Mr..
DENLY surely learned something
when he saw an armored German
warship Eearly a thousand feet
long sunk by bomb from an aero
plane, the bomb not touching the
ship, simply falling into the water
beside it, and sinking the ship by
the impact of the water.
Bewildered Bolshevih are learn
ing that the valu, of pure theory
is limited. At first they said,
1--WE will make money ridiculous