The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-07-06
GERMANY COMING BACK.

Apparently there is no reason for
Germany's best friends to worry about
her. The indications are that she will
be back on a pre-war basis of pros
perity before the other countries that
were mixed up in the recent unpleas-
antness get started.
The London representative of the
international trade service of the
Guaranty Trust company of New York
has just returned from a tour of OBJ
servation in Germany. during which
he visited Berlin, the great Industrial
centers of Essen, Dusseldorf and
Dortmund. and travelled thru the ag-
ricultural districts between Berlin and
the Dutch-German frontier The fol-
lowing is an extract from his report:
ALI the way from the Dutch border
to the German capital was an unend-
ing panorama of waving grain The
German crops are unusually far ad-
vanced. Both the rye and the wheat
crops are very promising and the out
look for the sugar beet crop is also
very good. The oil seeds have bios
somed fully and show good prospects.
While a large number Of loco
motives are in bad order, there is
under way and also new canal con-
struction. And wherever there was a
chimney stack it was belching smoke.
As compared with Holland there is a
marked absence of cattle and horses
and the labor in the fields is being
performed almost entirely by women.
In Berlin all the hotels are crowded.
The price of accommodation in Ber-
lin is about the same as at hotels of
corresponding class in Paris and
Brussels. prices having been raised to
cover the depreciation in exchange.
all kinds and even fresh milk is now
available for families with children,
those without children using canned
milk.
In the great locomotive shop Of the
| Krupp Works at Essen, heavy loco
motives are turned out complete at
( the rate of one a day. In another
| shop wagons are manufactured at the
| rate of eight a day. In still another
| building nearby five-ton motor lorries
were being manufactured alongside
| of small motor scooters.
The articles manufactured at the
Krupp Works today cover a surpris-
| tngly wide range. They include rail
way supplies of all kinds, cash regis
| tiers and adding machines, surgical
instruments. doors for safes, Diesel
! engines, iron and steel products of all
kinds, machines for textile and paper
| industries, apparatus for moving pic
| tur es, dredges, floating docks, pneu-
matte tools, etc. The Krupp Works
are also manufa curing at the present
| time machinery for making artificial
| teeth. They are not only manufac-
turing the machines to make the
teeth but they are also manufactur-
ing the teeth. The Krupp Works
| are turning out this large variety OF
| goods with exactly the same workner
/ Nxyhn made VA fg1fYnffinnG livery fnn
which was used in the manufacture
to manufacture the articles of peace
| Even swords are being beaten into
candlesticks. At the Germania ship
building plant, owned by the Krupp:
in Kiel-Gaarden, they are building
passenger and freight steamers. A
the Krupp Works today they are EN-
ploying more men than before thu
war, about 100000 as compared witt
$4,000 in July. 1914.
At Dusseldorf, there is located tbs
Rhein Metal Fabrik. This plant hai
also readjusted its operations from {
war to q peace basis and today rank
as one Of the first railroad rolling
stock industries in Germany. In les
than a year they turned out 1000 10
comotives and 1000 freight cars and
their monthly production at the pres
ent time is 80 locomotives and 30t
freight cars. This concern also hai
more men on its pay roll than be
fore the war and, like Krupps. is exc
cutting q large volume of foreigl
orders.