The evening herald. [volume] (Albuquerque, New Mexico) 1914-1922, 1921-06-11
ny MILTON BRoNNER.


ami Italy. for instance.
iiut Germany = bankrupt In hope
and tudcaNor. n IN bankrupt In vim
ant zes. of living. IL IL bankrupt Of
faith IN the future.
The average German OF today--the
fellow Ike you and me and Nclghbor
Sm.tha-can hardly soc CLEAN OF
hoIc ahead. He h rid Of his ex
pcnsive kaiser and the other minor
kings and grand dukes aud princes.
He - rid OF a great expensive army
aud navy. TIC Is rid Of conacription.
lie has a republic Instead Of a mon
archy. But nowhere does he see
unity or peace or satisfaction.
Politically Germany Is a house not
only divided against Itself. but many
times subditlded
There are politicians who dream OF
thr restoration Of the monarchy.
There are political parties which
dream Of Boishevism. Even the So
cia,ints are subdivided into various
parties with their various representa-
tives In the Reichstag.
Class consciousness has not been
abolished. II his been intensified
Il is not now the proletariat against
the afistocrat. but the worker again.
The war profiteer and. In another
senfo. tho town dwclicr against the
farmer.
II tho German is fairly well on. the
state takes much OF hts estate and OF
hts income In taxes. II he IA a work
er. II grabs 10 per cent OF his wage.
IL he succeeds In getting his earnings
inct eased, he finds that the cost OF
food. clothes and housing has more
than kept pace with the extge money
hu has earned.
He pays SIX times as much for his
daily paper as before the war. ~
costs him eight times as much to
rid, in the street car His food. coal.
gas and rent have gone up from five
tu eight times.
Iso earns perhaps. 500 10 500 marks
PEE week. ana the cheapest suit OF
clothes Is i,b0O marks. Shoes cost
from 30 marks up. shirts SO maI Ms.
SOCKS II marks
HIS glass OF beer. which tastes to
him like near tccr. costs 1 mark.
Evatything ne smokes costs much
more. tits wife complains she cant
run the household and ciothe the
children ON what he allows her
IL ne seeks consolation In his news
paper. the chances are that he reads
OF tho fresh taxation the govern mont
VIII have TO assess In order TO meet
the eilied demands for reparation pay
menis
have heard many people in wash
inston. l.onIon. Paris and Brussels
be vail the fact that Foch agreed 10
an armistice before the allied armies
marched into Berlin. They argued
that only In this way could the Ger
mans have been thoroughly convinc-
ed a at they were beaten In the war.
/ But after "a month In Germany, l
think every German knows he was
lcKod.
Everything tho German reads.
hears ana sees remindu him OF II:
Eremon "a dead seaport.
Allied troops IN the Rhine.
i.uhr steel mills closing.
saxon textile factories on part
time.
Munich's famous raiety all gone.
German munoS low-rated.
herman army a more police force.
German navy at the bottom OF tho
| sea
German merchant marine I'm NOS
Session of the allies
Aired commissions all over the
country.
Germany's future mortgaged to the
allies.
Mcn like Walter Rathcnau, head Of
the great electrical trust, or Hugo
SHINES. with his finger In a hundred
Industrial pics, or Arthur Won Gwin-
nee the great banker, and shipping
i
AMI theories. but the future is 80 un-
certain that they prefer not 10 discuss
things.
Big business does not know what
may happen in Germany itself n
faces not only huge taxes and great
! Increases In its payroll hut an in
crcusing difficulty In getting raw
materials, not TO speak OF the dini-
I Guilty Of finding markets which Mil
accept German goods.
+. Tho result OF all this pessimism and
depression and oven hopeicssncss b.
! "A slowing down Ia the national lift
Tho trains are slower and fewer
r Tho street ears "un at longer inter,
. vais. The cities are not a. bright,
4 lighted. The gas Ia not OF as higi
10 qudli;y. The shops are not as vel
stocked.
ri You WI 1dor into the great depart.
o mcnt stores OF Essen. Hamburg, Bier
Z I'm, Dresden ana Lcipsio and ar,
p struck ~ the comparative emptiness
- and silence only the theaters ant
- movies and restaurants aud beer gar
n dnhs are filled.
a Add there are many things yoi
A miss in this after thc.war Germany
dl N'u never run into tho parades %
e. troops that sou used To see. Noi
4 miss the military bands which use,
I. TO riNc daily concerts IN the parks
4 hoa don't see ~ 'hly dressed women
Il goiug around with expensive toy dogs
% pr, thing you do SEQ cverywhef'
"a ia a., old gray green coat OF tho Gt
mtu soldier But the men who ar
a wearing them are not soldiers nov
81 They are plain citizens who ar
h. wvirng tho old army iankct bccaus
x it 70 made of arrticeablo cloth anl
% thsy can't AFFORD new coat.
II ono thing is as Il was before IN
war. l dont know how they manag
"A n, but German cities are atill tn
most apotlcss IA the world. tn
stro,ts are clean and the park
ana open places are 10 bcautifu
trim. The lawns are perfect and IA
paasirs are riot OF color.
doubtless you wonder how thing
n 20 o1 al an II Germany Is really bank
= ruit IN business. when "a firm
hH 10 rupt. its assets are seized tu
soll for the creditors and the urr
.s ceases 90 be-.
"A But you csn't do that when IA
a government OF 90 million people can
s- meet ia debts. You can't sell thci
= oui and bundle them out. Tho .
millions with their industry, the
is productive capacity, their wants sti
le remain,
Ara a NATHAN ~ that ssxe con kee