The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1921-12-06

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what does the common inhor~r
svvr there in Europe think Of his
sA---cf his boss How does he feel
shout his government or his king
q his country
How does he feel about his friends
vhc have gone over to seek their
fcrtunes with Uncle Ssmf Is he
halter off than they, Is the II. c.
Z hitting him harder than themr
How friendly Is he to Old John |
Harieycorn,
hborcrs across the line now that he
ixnr shooting at them any more.
Il he hoping for chance To shoot |
a the magsinr
or Is he keen on the League %
Nations and the presidents confer
ence,
have been trying 10 dig cut the
answers to these questions with a
pick and shovel the past months in |
France. Belgium and Germany.
This pick and shovel method OF
making the other fellows acquain- |
ennce IS strenuous and uneomfort. |
Ahte. But il Is about the only de
pendabls way.
LANDS IN FRENCH
BOARDING HOUSE
I landed last July IN wcrkmsn's
boarding house In Douai. . big
manufacturing town In the north. |
east corner Of France The Ger.
mans had arrived so early in octo-
ber. 1914. that they captured a lot
u French fighters besides all the
rest Of the population. EOr four |
years everybody was a prisoner.
After hboring there m steel
phns. visited the coal mines Of |
Lens. destroyed In the effort OF the
Invaders to put France forever out |
- the running as an Industrial com.
petitor. A few days later good luck
1hupught . Job nearly 1000 feet down
IA big coal mine four or five miles |
from Lens and only three or four
miles from the old front.iine
ts~nchesL OF course the Job gave me
. chance 10 sleep In the snme room
and bed with . number Of my miner
0uddies-
Lille. one Of Frances great manu-
assuring towns. and the nearby ter |
ti)s cenfers Of Roubaix and Tour.
seinG. now the home OF much indus
t4Al unrest. furnished easy and in
teresting steps Into Belgium
VISITS KRUPP
H-ANTS IN ESSEN
There. In turn. u. aeis and It's
hbor leaders, the mine town OF
Charieroi. where men work more
t1an 1000 feet below surface. and
~ coal. steel and machinery centers
- Liege. offered . good route into
0s huge Krupp factory Of Eseen.
Ne center OF the Ruhr district
After that my inquiries took me
0ru Cologne and cobIenz into what
rs been called ''ths hot spot Of
Europe" That Ii the saar basin.
which was taken from Germany, and
= now ruled BY the league OF nations
n it, mines I worked with the Ger
ans who are now. strangely enough.
employees Of the French government
Next came the iron country of
rance In and near Alsace- Lorraine.
together with the deep mines and the
~ factories Of south-ccntrsi France
There the great artillery factories
made an unforgetable contrast with
the opening week OF the second an.
nual assembly OF the league OF ma
ions.
WHAT TOuERs ARE
thinking ABOUT
The upshot OF all the. experiences.
observations and conversations in
three languages in five countries Is
something like this:
ONE--JuIes. the Frenchman or
Belgian. and Heinie. the German.
have very much the same line OF
troubles as Frank. their American
fellow worker. Most OF these trou-
bles come from the war baby known
- the high cost Of living.
TWO-Jules and Heinie are a lot
more touchy and distrustful OF their
fellow citizens-cspecially their more
Prosperous fellow citizens and polit-
heal ieaders-than Frank here That's
because they are much more weary
from war Isbors than Frank.
THREE--Jules and Heinie under
stand lot better than Frank that
they can't have good. steady jobs I'M
less their own and every other coun.
Try is getting along pretty well with
lis neighbors.
FoUR-They accordingly think a
good deal more about such things as
Politics, history and international re-
iations because they believe that
these things have a good deal TO do
with their Jobs. They have their eye
On the league OF nations and the
Presidents conference considerably
more than Frank has.
whats life like In . Europesn lsbov-
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