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The Washington herald., 1921-06-12
PLAN TO DOMINATE CENTRAL
EUROPE FACES NO OBSTACLE
AFTER AUSTRIA IS,ABSORBED
French Policy to Thwart Expansion of Ger
man Empire Lacks Support of Britain
And Italy.

adoption Of a policy which will per-
manently bar this expansion Of Ger
many, since this expansion carries
immediate and deadly peril for
France. but not less certainly
threatens Italy and Great Britain
and promises the servitude Of most
Of the recently liberated peoples Of
the succession states.
Britain and Italy veto French pro-
posals- and the United States tends
more and more to follow the Brit
jsh lead, while all three agree in
insisting upon German compliance
with a minimum reparstions pro-
gram
Had Germany in her blind folly
persisted in declining TO submit 10
this minimum demand. her ruin
would have been accomplished As
IL is. the worst would seem to be
over for her. Her immediate future
Is certainly not likely to be gay.
but beyond there is a promise Of
ultimate attainment Of all that was
reasonable in her old program. Her
three great questions are found on
the Rhine, the Vistula and the
Danube, now. as in 1914. but who
shall say that a generation hence
what was impossible for the Ger
many Of william II may not prove
easy for the Germany of that
period7
France Needs Allied AID.
Unless Great Britain and Italy
agree to support France in blocking
German expansion on the vistula
and the Danube, France will have
to abandon the effort II France is
compelled to abandon her present
policy, German domination of Eu-
rope east Of the Rhine and the Alps
Is almost Inevitable. But Italy and
Britain are agreed in opposing
French policy and the United States
is certain to do nothing to support
the French, beyond the immediate
claims upon Germany for repsra-
tion for devastation during the late
war.
Meantime the Austrian question
deserves an attention IL is not re-
ceiving on this side OF the water.
II Germany can acquire the Aus
trian state, she will still have won
the war and taken the first long
step toward restoring that empire
which was hers when she lost the
second battle of the Marne.
As a consequence Of her defeat.
Of the sufferings and burdens which
followed. German war spirit is
likely TO decline rather than in
crease in the next few decades. But
the immediate German objectiyes,
the liberation Of the German mi
norities in Polish and Czecho-Slo-
vakian territories and the annexa-
tion of Austria are not likely 20 be
abandoned by any generation OF
Germans, however pacific in spirit
In any event reading German his
tory in the last half Of the nine
teenth century, German policy in
the twentieth is not hard TO fore
cast Economically. Germany stin
has hard days ahead; politically.
her sky is clearing.
Ccepynfht iszl.)
The Washington herald., 1921-06-12
By FRANK II. sIMoNDs.

The hrst of June, which saw Ger
many at last performing in accord
ance with her promises and making
the nrst payment on that long ac-
count which will run for a full gen.
Grafton, may easily prove the most
memorable date, so far as Germany
and her enemies are concerned.
since the signature of the armistice
OF Rethondes in Marshal Foch's
railway wagon, now one of the
treasured relics of the Invalides
museum.
1t would be foolish, of course. to
suggest that this act of submission
on Germany's part represents a
hnal and unconditional surrender,
and that henceforth we shall have
only order and growing confidence.
No. as the upper Silesian dispute
well indicates. nothing of the sort
Is to be expected. We shall have
incidents and more incidents, but
in the final analysis we may hence
forth count on German submission.
Has Bowed to UItimatum.
The great problem of the past
three years, ever since the close Of
hostilities. has been whether Ger
many could bring herself to do that
minimum which was essential IL she
would escape ruin.
She has done this in bowinE to
the recent allied ultimatum. Up to
the moment when she yielded IL was
always possible, frequently likely,
that German bad faith, stubborn
ness. misinterpretation of world
opinion. of Anglo-French relations
and of American policy, would lead
her to invite that French action
which would inevitably have meant
the ruin of modern Germany and a
return of such chaos to the center
of Europe. as followed the thirty
years war and eliminated the Ger
man as a factor. up to the coming
of Frederick the Great. and even,
in the larger sense, until the down.
fall of Napoleon
Situation should Improve.
But modern Germany is now quite
clearly bound to survive, Her
losses have been made, territorially
and politically her situation should
now improve. And in an examina-
tion of the pathway which this
Germany, at last measurably es-
capped from the larger ruin which
her defeat threatened, perhaps
there Is no better point OF depart
ure than a brief recapitulation Of
her losses.
At the moment when the kaiser
launched his first troops against
Liege and deluged Europe with his
declarations of war. the German
empire had an area of just short Of
100000 square miles. The census
of 1910 showed a population of S.
to $4,000. 900.
Loses Colonial Empire.
In addition the colonial empire
exceeded 1000, 900 square miles In
area and contained above 100000
inhabitants. As consequence of
the treaty Of Versailles, Germany
lost all Of her colonial empire and
The Washington herald., 1921-06-12

over the lower Danube at Belgrade.
On the contrary. Russian policy is
far more likely TO fall in with Ger
man in the matter Of Poland and .
new partition. N any eventSRussia
Ia out of the way. No real obstacle
remains in central Europe. Italian
apprehension may come day be
awakened. but today Italy is domi-
mated by resentment toward France
and secular dread of the Hapsburg,
which leads to resignation In the
matter Of the proposed absorption
OF German Austria by the German
reich.
France Seeks safety Only.
There remains only France.
France has constructed a system Of
alliances. Poland, Rumanis, Czecho-
Slovskia- But it is idle to suppose
that looking to the long future,
France, singlehanded. can maintain
these states against a Russo-Ger-
man alliance. Nor is France likely
to persevere in this attempt, pro-
vided only the future gives her
some assurance of safety from Ger
man attack, for il Is security which
France seeks. A Germany, aggran-
dized by the recls nation Of German
Polish provinces. by the annexa ton
Of Austrian lands and of the Czech
provinces Of the old Hapsburg do
main. would insure the conquest of
France. provided German policy
elashed with French.
Might Find Ally I'm Russia.
1t is possible that, once Poland
were crushed between a restored
Russia and a reunited Germany,
France would find a new ally in
Russia, once more seeking Constan-
tinople and finding the old German
rival on the march for the same
destination. II is conceivable that
Italy would take alarm in time, be-
fore Czecho-Slovakia, as well as
Austria. had passed under German
control. But neither contingency Is
at all likely. What is most proba bic
is that when Germany at last feels
able and ready TO resume her ad-
vance into the middle Of Europe. or
before that. when she seeks by force
to restore her old Polish provinces
she will find that the first step must
be new campaign in the veSt
still Aim mt Domination.
1t is idle and even ridiculous TO
imagine that the Gern1a ms are more
than nomentarily checked in their
great design to dominate the cen
ter of Europe. The war has cost
them terrible losses and ended in
bitter defeat. but it has advanced
them toward their goal by elimi-
mating Russia and disrupting the
old Hapsburg empire, which, while
allied to Germany. still constituted
a barrier to German aspirations in
a considerable degree. Now Ger
man policy must seek to absorb
Austria peacefully, prepare the way
for the acquisition of Bohemia and
Moravia, strive for the reconquest
of the Polish marches. But war is
a remote contingency.
France, in the supreme council
and In the world, appeals for the
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cover the Prussian territories.
Polish originally. but won from Po-
land by Prussia, which were ceded
to the Polish republic by the treaty
Of Versailles. Until such time as
this end can be attained, Germany
is cut In two. her old unity of 1915,
established through the medium Of
Prussia at the congress of Vienna,
established earlier by Frederick the
Great by the Siiesian war and the
partitions Of Poland, is abolished.
II, by chance. in the next two
decades a strong Russian rises, Ger
man statesmanship will unquestion-
ably seek in Petrograd or Moscow,
a new Russian ally. a partner Nm
another Polish partition. In any
event one may table upon the fact
that the primary purpose of Ger
many henceforth indefinitely, will
be the recovery of Danzig, West
Prussia, Losen, and any part of
upper siiesia which may presently
be granted to the Poles. as a con-
Less Coneerned About Rhine.
We Americans hear much OF AL
sace-Lorraine; the Germans have
concentrated their passion upon the
French and 1t Is natural to connect
the two facts. But the truth is that
the Germans actually rage at the
French because Of French policy
Upon the vistula far more than
upon the Rhine. That France
should reclaim her lost provinces
struck all Germans as natural, how
ever bitterly they denied the Jus
tice Of French claims. But French
support of the Poles. French aid to
the Poles in taking from Germany
her eastern marches, despite the
presence there of a Polish majority,
is the unforgivable offense.
Germany, then, will seek the re-
storation Of her unity in the east
This is her cardinal policy for the
future. She will eagerly claim
British, Italian, American support
against the French in the supreme
council. since the French will be
there the advocates of the Polish
cause. Outside of the supreme
council she will bend every energy
to achieving an alliance with any
new Russia which may emerge. the
basis Of the compact being the par
tition Of Poland.
Wants Union With Austria.
Germany's next purpose must be
expansion. Already she is bending
every effort to obtain the consent or
her conquerors to the Incorporation n
of Austria in the German reich.
Such an Incorporation would mean
for Germany a gain of 5000, 600 in
population, all German-speaking,
and $4,000 square miles OF territory,
The Washington herald., 1921-06-12
MULE SHOES MARK
TREASURE LEGEND

A number of peaks in the San Juan
National forest offer exceptionally
fine views to the climber who is able
to reach their submits. The more
important are Summit peak Qs.32s
feet), Pagosa peak (1s,s75 feet),
and Treasure mountain 13.2oo feet).
This latter peak takes its name
from an old legend that Itch treas
ure was buried on the mountain
near three spruce trees marked with
mule shoes. No one. however. has
ever been able to locate this buried
store of gold. The trees with the
old mule shoes blazed upon them
can he seen close to the top Of the
mountain.
The Washington herald., 1921-06-12
GERMANS BEGIN HUGE TASK
OFPAYING WAR PREPARATIONS

By bowns to the allied umum Germany averted return Of
chaos central Europe, Sinonds .--T,
brief captustion of her losses is as follows:
colonial empire exceeding 100000 square miles in area and con-
tanning inhabitants. -
I OF miles in Europe.
A shrint1ge of 100000 in population
Elimination Of her feet
A large part OF her marine. -
Germany has paid in reparations about
1t has agreed and annual tribute
Of $7soooopo for full generation.
has agreed sra and
tribute Of $soyoooJooofo for full generation
The Washington herald., 1921-06-12

sings on Sunday nights. This audi
torium is now under the manage
ment of Byrne and Dillard. who
operate a number Of amusement aud
dancing pavilions at Hartford,
Conn, New York city and Atlantic
city. They aver that the auditorium
will be the finest dancing casino on
the Atlantic coast.
The Ocean Pier ballroom. for the
last decade a famous rendezvous for
the dancers. is again open and under
the supervision of Prof. Harry Ro-
selle, known to thousands Of pa
irons OF this resort
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GERMANY BACK TONORMAL
WITH EVERY MAN AT WORK,
DECLARES SIR PHILIP GIBBS
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and its magnificent hotels. There
is a ceaseIess line of automobiles
streaming up the highway of the
Kurfurstendam. After working
hours, all beer gardens and out
door restaurants are thronged with
people of every class from those
who spend hundreds OF marks 0
their refreshments to those VIII
buy a glass of beer and make 1t
last a long time.
show CheerfuineSs.
In London one does not find such
outward cheerfulness, such a gem
eral resolve to make the best of
life despite all it's hardships. A
casual visitor, blowing breezily into
Berlin and out again, might say
with a wave of the hand that the
city is all right and everybody has
got plenty of money and that all
this talk OF German poverty Is
sheer bunk
That, of course, is not wholly
true. From close inquiries 1 find
that this bustling cheerfulness in
Berlin requires courage, and is in
deed proof of will power. Leaving
out OF account the profiteers and
junkers and lucky spectators, not
an enormous class though an evil
one. the mass OF the people can't
have a margin for the fun in life.
A young girl or clerk in an once,
for instance, gets a salary of 700
or 500 marks monthly.
Before the war that would have
been very handsome, but now, aft
er deducting 10 per cent for income
tax, the residue is so miserable
that / can't understand how a sin
gle man or woman can live on such
a wage, for the mark is now worth
cents, not only in foreign ex-
change. but with some exceptions,
in actual purchasing power in Ger
many itself.
A City of Contrasts.
A pair of boots, for instance.
costs $50 marks, a linen shirt 100
marks. Butter is "a marks a pound
The simplest meal with meat, In
cheap restaurants. costs 90 marks
How then does a well educated
girl who has to be neatly dressed
in city office exist on $50 marAs a
month. less 10 per cent income tax?
Still more surprising is the ques-
tion of how hundreds OF thousands
of people OF that class-clerks,
shopEirls and so on-fnd margin
enough to go to theaters, dance
halls and beer gardens night after
night.
The other evening I went to Luna
park, the great Joy garden in Ber-
lin. 1t is a wonderfully fantastic
place. painted like a futurist night
mare and with an immense open air
restaurant holding $4,000 persons in
a series Of terraces overlooking an
arena where there is nightly
show of fireworks. Every place
was taken. All these families or
single couples were spending any
thing from 5 to so marks or more
In refreshments and fun-riding in
"hip-haps" and "wiggly-wooggles,"
in taking tickets for lotteries and
in peeping into sideshows with
separate entrance fees.
] asked a German lady: where
The Washington herald., 1921-06-12
Bathing Suit
Ban Is Lifted
Wildwood Will Not Bar
One-Piece Attire This
Season.

WILDWOOD, n. j.. June 1.-THE
dimple knee and the one-piece bath
ing suit are not giving the local au-
thorities much concern. They pre-
fer to wait until the latest modes
arrive during the height Of the sea
SON and then make the orders Of
approval and banishment when the
"Munsonite" styles arrive.
The commissioners consider this
the best method of procedure. be-
cause milady keeps her bathing cos
tune Sub rosa" until the sun bids
its donning. Bathing garments
used so far this season have been
along the lines of the average even
ing gown of the metropolitan CEN
ters Suspenders. wees and 'u
effects at the shoulders with the
short skirt and pantalette effect.
Bizarre colorings are as yet in the
minority. Doll babies, dogs and
monkeys are the only fads now in
vogue, but the warm days Of July
and August may create new fads.
Plans Two Theaters-
W. c. Hunt. Haddon Heights, who
operates moving picture theaters in
Philadelphia, Jenkintown. Haddon
Heights, Cape May and Wildwood,
Is planning to merge all OF his en-
terprises into a million-dollar cor
poration. He first entered the mov-
ing picture business in this city
about 10 years ago. Before the sea-
son Of 1922 he plans to build two
more ocean-front theaters. the FIRST.
the Plaza. will be on the ocean side
of the Casino auditorium, and a
beautiful entrance to the theater
will be made on Cedar avenue along
the new boardwalk now being erect
ed in this locality. The capacity Of
this playhouse will be 2.5oo and will
contain a large organ and an orches-
ira pit capable of seating rs mu
sicians
The Rialto theater. the other
structure,t will be along the new
boardwalk at the corner OF Garfield
avenue. 1t will have a frontage of
so feet and a depth of 200 feet. An
organ and orchestra pit will also be
Included in this structure. The cost
Of the building is estimated to be
sloo, ,ooe. The stage of the Rialto
and Plaza will be of such dimen-
sions as to provide space for musi-
cal or dramatic productions should
conditions warrant a change from
movies.
The community development in
the North wildwood section Of the
T. s. Goslin company, consisting Of
Is substantial homes, will be started
during the season. This enterprise
will cost when completed $4,000.
II will be one of the most ustque
housing developments on the Jersey
coast.
Casino for Daneera
The Casino auditorium, for the
last i've seasons a mecca for the
music lovers, will this season be
used as a danciny establishment
during the week days and a con-
cert hall for soioist and community
The Washington herald., 1921-06-12

they will, and 1 am not at all sure
that the world will like it. In or
der to paw the indemnities they
will have to increase their exports
at least five times.
Many Germans, including men
like Scheidermann, with whom I
had long talk. believe II is pos
sible on two conditions, namely
that their Industrial strongholds OF
westphalia and Silesia are not taken
from them and that the world In
it's own interest will aid them with
credits and encourage their indus
trial development.
Cheap Production.
An hour spent in a big depart
ment store like that of wertheim
is worth more as an object lesson
in German Industrial and CONNER
cial possibilities than rolls OF sta
tistics. China, glass. cutlery, fancy
goods, all kinds Of kitchen utensils
and manufactured goods for house.
hold ond daily use are not only ad-
mirably in quantity, but reckoned
in foreign exchange for export puf-
poses. amazingly cheap and beyond
all competition in the United States
and Great. Britain.
With the low mark and low
wages, these goods will invade all
can make safety razors of excellent
quality for Is cents, as they are do
ing. no tariff will keep them out.
They are saving 1906, o,0o0, 900
gold marks annually on their army
nd That
toward wiping out their annual
reparations payment of 2.000. .000, 900
gold marks this year and next. BY
restriction of all imports, except
raw materials, and all luxuries they
will make great savings. By i'm
mensely increased activity and ef-
hciency, organized by big trusts
and supported by trade unions, they
will be in a position to drive for
ward into the world markets with
enormous chances Of commercial
development in Russia.
Must Recreate wealth.
1t Is not an easy game for Ger
many. 1t Is a policy of desperate
endeavor OF a heroic kind among
the working people who must la
Dor hard and long to fulfn this
hope. 1t is merely folly to believe
that the German wealth is sum-
ciently great now to meet her OBJ
legations. She must create this
wealth.
Everywhere I nnd among German
people, high or low. the determine
tion to pay what they have prom
ised IL It Is humanity possible. All
but the junkers. who are sulking
In their castles, have abandoned
the militaristic philosophy.
Among the working classes IL has
disappeared, at least for the present
generation. unless France goads
them too savagely, and I notice
that German children never play
soldier games as they used to.
There Is new spirit in Germany.
1t Is economic enthusiasm with
peace and labor as its sponsors.
They will show the world what
German genius can do In industry.
One thingperplexes me. 1T is GER
tain that Germany can only nay
her indemnities by enormously In
creased exports. but II they are IN
creased to that extent, won't they
ruin the commerce of other ma
tions?
1t Is a devilish dilemma for which
as yet ! can see no solution,
1 see another strange thing. I
see people. braced and energized
oy defeat, whereas the victor ma
tions like England have slackened
into iistiessness.
tossyhsAs. issi.)
The Washington herald., 1921-06-12
BY MARK SULLIVAN,
(Hstsnl Political Correspondent Of :
WashinRtou HeraldO

N0A1onA4 Eeulcai SoncsponQeut OF Tne
Washington Hsrald.)
Very shortly the Panama canal is
going to come into the news in two
ways: 1t is expected that some ssn-
ators will introduce and push Wig
orously a bill for the exemption Of
American ships from paying toll at
the canal. More Immediately there is
likely to be a good deal of commo-
ton about the cost of operating the
canal.
A commission appointed by Sec
retary OF War Weeks, in whose
Jurisdiction the canal Is. IL now on
the way to Panama to investigate
alleged waste and inefficiency in the
management OF the canal. The be-
ginning of this investigation rests
on certain reports which were
brought back to the United States
by members Of a party of congress
men and senators who visited the
canal during March.
One of this official party. Sena-
tor Mckinley. of Illinois, was
shocked by some things he learned.
senator Mckinley is a business man
who built and operated many hun
dreds Of miles of electric railways
in the middle west, and he was
deeply concerned by several aspects
Of the paternal government oper-
alton of the canal.
Maintain Big Force.
The broad point made by Senator
Mckinley is that in 1920 the canal
was used by an average of seven
and two-thirds ships per day, and
that the force of men maintained
on the government pay roll to put
this number of ships through the
canal was 1880. This force con-
sists of, roughly. 1000 white Amer
leans and $4,000 colored West In
dians. In addition to the excessive
number of men maintained in pro-
portion to the work done, Senator
Mckinley and his fellow officials
were impressed by the excessive
amount of pay given, to the work
men.
Back in 1905, about the time the
United States began the work of
building the canal, health conditions
were bad at Panama, and lit was
necessary to give inducements to
get men to go there. But now.
through the work of Gen Gorgas.
Panama has been made completely
healthful and an extremely agree
able place to live in. Nevertheless,
the scales of wages which were es-
tablished at the beginning to in
duce reluctant workmen to 60 to
Panama, are still maintained. The
basis OF the scale of pay In Panama
Is to give the current rate OF pay In
the United States. plus 25 per cent.
High Pay for workmen.
According to Senator McKinley's
report, which melted Secretary
Weeks to action. some of the rates
now being paid are as follows:
Bricklayers, $1.54 per hour. That
means for an eight-hour day the
bricklayer gets s12.32. Carpenters
get $1.33 per hour; electricians, s1.36
per hour; plasterers. $152 per hour;
plumbers. 31.45 per hour; marble
settlers, $1.44 per hour.
In addition to these high wages,
workmen at the canal get the fol-
lowing free advantages; Two
months vacation each year with
full pay; free transportation to the