Yerington times. [volume] (Yerington, Nev.) 1907-1932, 1921-02-02
THE WEALTH OF NATIONS

The estimated wealth OF the States three
hundred billion dollars gain OF fifty billion since the out
break OF the great II 1914 1t should be thought.
however that this country alone proted during the
for the estimated wealth OF Great Britain placed at two
hundred and thirty billion, increase of hundred
billion since 1914 The gain is due to the wealth obtained
through the acquisition OF Mesopoamia oil fields, the Afri-
territory taken from Germany and the free field left
Britain for the time being the result OF Germany elm
naton S trade rival
Likewise the wealth of France estimated at one hundred
billion has increased thrtyfivc billion since 1914 Italy
and Belgium reported have added e-thr their
wealth and Japan about fifty per cent.
On the other hand Gemanys wealth is said to be down
from eighty billion about twenty billion while
Austria is said to have dropped billion Dearborn
independent
The ity-two billion which Germany must pay for its
four years indulgence in carnage and destruction big
OF money. almost uncomfortable. but is only about
half what the OF the world would had have to paw had
that nation been successful and victory precled upon its
banners
The United States alone scheduled pay fifty bill
lion dollars and England France and Italy would have had
to pay fifty billion between them Belgium Ireland and
other small countries would have become German prnci-
palities.
1t will be hard matter for Germany pay the bill
demanded and it will period from thirty to forty
years to complete 1qudataion II means that they have
to get their right down to the wheel and grind for
that term OF years but it also means in the absencel Of
compact League OF Nations that the OF the universe
is safe for that length OF from wars OF great nayni-
tude
It is hard on the Germans but the world should re-
member what their bill would have been had the kaiser
and gang been the victors.
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The State Bar association in Reno last week Sew
erai important changes in existing laws proposed
Our statutes are sutted with contradictory of
each other and 1t seems to the lay mind that we would
De mitch better OH about hall present ambiguous and
obsolete laws were wiped off the books.
instead OF ncumbering with batch Of new,
laws, the present legislature would earn the LASTING GRAFT
tude OF the people if they would Just pass law -epcajn
many OF those already existing
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Our esteemed contem. the Reno Gazette solennlv oh
serves: and presently the United States will
make Its appearance in the diplomatic field with Presi
dent and Congress in complete harmony" From the
present outlook that appearance will be about as har
inonlous as chorus of Kilkenny cats
Louis Spelier, the Gazette, political dopster who &c
also member OF the assembly, has introduced bill in the
legislature 1T is bill to regulate dealers in ;unL
No"1ng from Spelier, it should properly be entitled
"a bill to regulate dealers in bunk
once seekers going to Washington to interview the Dr
dent-elec should remember that the roads in March ara -
bad shape for walking home
ne fellows who step the gas are lucky if later thew
'aole 10 step INTO the hospital operating room
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