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The New York herald., 1921-05-01
War Is Only Disguised Now
BY Mere Fiction of Peace

You may state the case quite accurately
when you say that France is ruined IL Ger
many does not pay and pay in fun. But If
Germany does pay and pay in fun then for
al least q generation she will be in economic
servitude. men and women unborn when
Germany attacked France In August, 1914
win have TO see the fruits of their labors
turned over to another nation.
AT London Germany said flatly and de-
fianty II won't" To which France re.
Piled, for the moment with allied approval,
You will and you mustl" And allied armies
werc set In motion and a portion of the
Ruhr region occupied
W. are then, face to face with the con-
dtions Of war disguised by a polite fiction
OF peace France. with her economic future
and her present financial solvency at stake
demands German payment in fun, up to the
sum agreed upon by all the Allies In a re
cent Paris conference and notified to the
Germans at the London gathering France
possesses a powerful army and all the nee
cssary machinery for coercion. If Germany
remains defiant, then France can occupy
All Of the great Ruhr industrial region, con-
tanning more than half OF the coal OF Ger
many, and operate the vast manufacturing
plants to her own profit as we'll as employ
the coal mines to feed her own industry
and as basis Of political and economic
barter in Europe.
Germany refuses to meet tho allied terms
but seeks at the same time 10 avoid French
occupation She faces two possibilities
which in her mind spell the same sort OF
ruin. To submit to allied figures means
forty-tuo years Of hard labor. To refuse 10
submit means IN occupation Of the richest
The New York herald., 1921-05-01
America Really Is Most Interested
Party in Reparation Talk

The difficulty with any possible compro-
mise lies in the self-evident fact that any
sum which is within the limits Of even re-
mote probability, say even tho fifteen billions
of the conservative American experts. is so
great that Germany will not undertake to
pay IL. save under pressure and Is bound to
seek at every future opportunity to avoid
paying Even " the sum were fixed at $751;
900 900 900 ii would be a matter of a quarter
OF century before II could possibly be paid
in ful and throughout that whole period
you would have tho same German evasion
attempted and the same need OF coercive
methods on the part of the French.
Under the Treaty of Versailles allied
troops we're to occupy German territory for
fifteen years progressively cvacuating dis
tricts, provided Germany observed the
treaty provisions. But Germany has al
ready violated the treaty provisions, and
the French have indicated their determina-
tion, as a consequence 10 extend the period
OF occupation over the time during which
the payments must be made In a word, we
are going to have German territory occupied
The New York herald., 1921-05-01
Economic Misery to Be Offset
BY Economic Slavery for Years

Yet in what other way can France. Bel
gum and italy receive even a fraction of
that which Justice would assign to them?
II the economic servitude of the German
people must last for generation. will not
the economic misery of the peoples which
were the victims of the German attack last
equally as lcng?
Now, taking up the question of repara- J
tions hgures. the situation is this: At the
Paris conference II was agreed. and the
agreement is written into the Treaty Of Ver-
sailles, that Germany should pay in kind or
in gold M to $4,000 600 600 before MAY
1921; that she should in addition. issue
1,000.00O000 bonds to cover Belgian obliga-
tons. and thereafter two further sets of
bonds Of $40 900 900 600 each Thus the
actual sum fixed amounted to s26. 900 900 600.
But In addition. IL was left to the Allies Ia
demand additional bond issues as they might
decide.
In point of fact while nominally deciding
upon figure Of $4,000 100000 as the sum
total Of reparatons subject to later addi-
lions, the Treaty Of Versailles actually
transferred inc whole question of the fixa-
tion Of the sum 10 the reparations commits
ton, leaving il free 10 decide on a sum
larger or smaller than the $4,000. 600 900
and To determine all Of the modalities Of
payment Tho only thing that was fixed
definitely was the sum Of the first payment.
that Is, $4,000 900 600 in gold or kind before
May l. 1921
The New York herald., 1921-05-01
Germanys Capacity to Pay
Not the Only Point at Issue

When you have considered all the mass of
testimony of the experts, German and allied
alike. you are bound to conclude first tina.
the whole subject is n matter of speculation.
and, second, that some of the most serious
problems involved concern not German ca
pacity to pay but allied capacity to absorb
payments not made in money but necessarily
in goods Even IL the whole question were
submitted to arbitration granted that a
neutral tribunal could be found-and the
whole world is interested in the matter,
pecuniarily interested-the decision would be
largely a guess, for there is no possible
method of proving in advance what German
capacity to pay is or what allied capacity TO
receive payment may be.
AS to the sum at present fixed, all that
one can say is that many experts, including
some American, believe that Germany can
pay $50 900 900 900 i'm forty-two years, which,
as I have emphasized above, represents
present or capital value of $4,000 100000.
At least their evidence Is as good as that
presented by the champions of the Germans
and By the Germans themselves. nor is it
less trustworthy than the judgment OF ex-
perts who are less completely influenced by
any nationalistic sentiment or sympathy.
But unhappiy the financial is only one
aspect Of the reparations discussion. The
political Is even more troublesome. We have
first to consider the frank determination Of
the Germans to pay nothing which they can
get out Of paying-a wholly understandable
purpose but one which leads to evil conse-
quences because the French are fscally
ruined unless the Germans pay all of the
S21. 600, 900 600 of which the French share
win be about St1 900, 100000
The New York herald., 1921-05-01
New International Conference
Could Accomplish Only Delay

Talk of mediation leads to no solution, be-
cause there Is no corresponding agreement
to enforce the terms which emerge from
such mediation. Neither Great Britain
nor the United States is interested in as
sisting France in enforcing any terms by
supplying troops to assist the French in
the occupied area. Both the United States
and Great Britain are vitality interested in
The New York herald., 1921-05-01
Women Crooks Thriving on Riviera
Losses at Gaming
Tables Drive Many
Girls to Theft and
Cheating at Bridge

you are asleep. But the rat is not impro-
vised The rat is professional She travels
with a he-rat to open any door that exists
and assist in her getaway. We know most
of the high class rats. 1t is a difficult pro-
fession. Where are they? Even the schein-
tod pistole' shooting a combination of
three German gases. was found on a nom
professionals Dutch gentleman travelling
with an authentic lady-and, apart from its
possession we have been unable to lay any
thing to them!"
So the answer dawned on him slowly.
1T isn't rats he says, its mice! Once
again, as in the field of sport, the amateurs
have beaten the professionals to it! They
are amateur young lady crooks. They don't
need to picklock doors in rubber suits. They
are acquainted with their victims. They do
rats work in full daylight"
The New York herald., 1921-05-01
Detectives See Feminine Hands
In Most of the Robberies

BY whom? Who did It? Why, young lady
amateurs for the most part and other unde-
tected beginners!
Such is the astonishing conclusion to
which the best police in the world have come
Had professionals alone been guilty they
would know It, Professionals leave trace
especially in these days OF passports and
team work between the police of cities. Here
there Is nothing to take hold Of. 1t is scat
tered work of unknown parties. undis
tinguishable from their victims. 1t is not
the heavy touch of men but the elegant
hand of the born lady!.
How should not women turn crook In the
temptations Of these gambling cities? Look
at the white hands against the green cloth
of the roulette and baccarat tables! Elm
mate the bodies at the elbow. Picture the
coffin shaped table surrounded by hundred
beautiful, cutching hands
Read the local papers. l quote only from
the last two weeks.
From the Ecidireur dc Nice:
AN American woman lost 1000 francs
at Monte Carlo. She managed to get as
far as Lyons, where she arrived without
money to continue her railway travel or
for hotel or food. She was unsuccessful
in trying to cash check, but managed to
induce the American Consul at Lyons to
lnuOTSe IL lSdttEt tHt CHtCk pTONlHk 10 Ds
bad he felt obliged to make a complaint
against her"
Observe the succession. From boule. at
whose popular stakes you can lose, at most,
only few hundred dollars AT a sitting, they
promote themselves to baccarat, where you
can win tens of thousands. The third step
is to make up for losses when no cash re-
mains to stake you. case that has made
immense sensation is thus told by the Paris
Edition of THE New YoRK HERALD:
According to on agency telegram from
Cannes, Mrs. -, wife OF the well
known tennis player, has been arrested and
charged with stealing pocketbook which
is said to have contained 5000 francs.
For several months past. 1t IL alleged.
thefts OF pocketbooks have taken place on
tho course at Cannes. The police found Il
dIfficult to carry out their Investigations,
owing to the fact that most of the people
concerned were prominent British society
folk Eventually, however, a trap was
The New York herald., 1921-05-01
To PIacate Germany Is No Part
of the French Programme

OF course if Germany had ever given the
slightest evidence of an intention to pay
anything, except under duress, the situation
might be different. But German tactics now
are exactly what they were in the submarine
days; the Germans were prepared to prom
to neutral prejudice but they were not
ready ever to abandon the use of the sub
marine, and they not now ready to pay
to pay anything except under pressure The
best proof of their spirit is their steady re-
fusal to abide by those portions of the Treaty
of Versailles which direct German disarma-
ment. Here. too. they have consistently
evaded. deceived defied
AS for the French, they have come to the
end of their patience. Financial collapse is
within sight as a consequence Of the vast
sums France has already expended to restore
her ruins in advance of any German pay
ments The French have made up their
minds that the Germans will never pay ex-
cept. under the immediate and constant
pressure of force. They have declined to be
made the dupes of German tactics any
longer. Their temper is that of the United
States after the final German submarine
blockade of February, 1917
What is even more serious is the fact that
the French have reached a pitch of desper-
alton which precludes the possibility of eff
fective Intervention by any country. France
believes that the rest of the world is not
ready to make any sacrifice for French
safety or solvency. II Great Britain and the
United States continue to give a measure of
apparent sympathy to France each is really
anxious. in the interests of its own economic
affairs, to restore peace in Central Europe
and to obtain this end by such reductions in
the sum total of reparatons as may placate
Germany.
The New York herald., 1921-05-01
Amended German Proposals Would
About Cancel Allied Loans TO u. s

From the French point of view British
and even American policy seems, upon trial
to aim at restoring economic peace in the
world at the expense of France who has
most TO lose by the reduction of German
reparations Both we and the British signed
q treaty at Versailles promising to come ia
the aid of France in case of German attack in
the future, but since we have failed to ratifv
the treaty is dead. France has nothing left
now but her own strong right arm, and II is
strong at the moment. Therefore most
Frenchmen agree that now is the time to act
The German suggestion that the United
states arbitrate and the subliminal sugges-
ton In Mr. Hughes's reply that America was
ready under certain circumstances to
mediate left the French If not cold. far from
impressed If the United States should
mediate. should decide that Germany could
only pay s15000.0O0.000 instead of s21 .0o0.-
100000, would the United States. having re-
duced the sum- agree to help to collect the
reduced total? This was the first French
inquiry. to which the obvious answer was
that the United States would not
But there is a second inquiry bound to be
made before long, If the possibility of Ameri-
can mediation recurs. Europe owes America
some 1000 900 900 2in lans. which will
amount to $4,000 900 900 before any payment
begins. The United States has indicated
that 1t will not cancel these allied loans. But
the chief source. the basic security for the
loans is the German reparations account
Suppose We should as medators fix the
sum of reparations which Germany could
pay at s15,0000 900, from which would be
deducted what Germany has already paid
namely $4,000, 100000 I'm round sum-and
this fifteen billions was the favorite figure
of our experts at Paris-would not all Eu-
rope at once conclude that we were only
interested In seeing that Germany paid our
creditors Just enough to enable them to dis
charge their obligations to us?
And If the United States insisted that
Germany should he treated gently and gen
erously, that her capacity for payment
should he gravely considered could the
United States consistently display toward
her recent allies Of the war i more exacting
spirit than she permitted them to show
toward Germany, recently the common
enemy? Not enough attention has~been paid
in this country to the circumstance Of our
own loans to Europe. The larger the reduc-
tion in the sum total Of German reparations
provided the final figure does not fall below
the sum of our loans the better becomes
our security for our loans. Thus in reality
we are not a disinterested but the most in
terested party I'm the whole German repara-
tions discussion. because we have a larger
sum at stake than any one else
The New York herald., 1921-05-01

Special Correspondence TO The NEW YORK
HERALD
Copyright, 1921, by THE New YORK HERALD.
MONTE CARLO, April Is.
TN the vast tide of travel to and from
the Mediterranean resorts the follow
L ing "donts" are widely published,
warning visitors who have been carrying
more valuables this season than was ever
known or dreamed of before:
Don't go away from your railway ear
section leaving valuables in a bag.
Don't carry your pocketbook containing
money or papers of value in your breast
pocket.
Don't carry railway tickets with your
money so that any one can see where you
keep the latter when tickets are called for
Don't forget that notwithstanding all the
efforts of the French railway companies and
police first class Riviera trains are used
on occasion by well dressed members of a
clever international gang of thieves"
In every great hotel along the Silver
Shore there is a new sign inside the room, by
every bedroom door:
Notice! Security. Bolt your door at
night"
Yet the losses have continued. especially
in hotels. villas, balls and casinos. The sem
sational jewel robberies of the season ex-
ceed total value of $4,000. 900 francs
Put pin in the figure. In Paris the year
1920 has been called "a year of robberies.'
The figures just out. Counting thefts
of money. jewels, stocks, bonds. &c, the
years losses amounted to $4,000, 900 francs.
or 25027 people arrested 4033 were for
eigners
You see In this Riviera season of three
months. when arrests have been few, con
victons nil and practically nothing recov-
cred, a greater total has been lifted than all
the professional criminals got out of Paris
i'm year,
The New York herald., 1921-05-01

that is she would have to take care of the
annual interest on the capital sum, while
paying something each year to amortize the
principal.
1t was decided by the Allies, then, that
Germany should be compelled to pay her
debt in forty-two years, an instalment each
year; that she should meantime pay per
cent. on the capital. Thus her total payment
over forty-two years would be $4,000, 600, 900
and her average yearly payment 81 ,333, $780,
1888. This is the sum which Germany
refused to pay at London, thus precipi-
tating the crisis which now continues and
must lead to grave consequences in the next
few days.
But Germany not only refused in March
to comply with the allied demands and un-
dertake to meet the payments fixed, but
she had also failed, and has continued to
fail, to meet the one fixed requirement of
the Treaty of Versailles. namely, that she
pay in gold and in kind at least $4,000, 100000
by May /. On this payment she stands in
default, and this default opens the way
technically for allied action such has
long been threatened
The New York herald., 1921-05-01
Dispute the Amount Paid
Even Germans Admitting Error

10 be sure, Germany claims that such
surrenders she has made of arms, OF
colonies and of other. things have amounted
in value to the $4,000, 900 900, but this as
sertion is denied by the Preparations Com
mission. The commission estimates at less
than $4,000, 900 the German payments
on this account, and even the Germans
have been obliged to scale down their
travagant claims
Thus the whole discussion at the juncture
which we have now reached turns upon the
single question of the German capacity to
pay The Germans at London not only de-
clared that they could not pay S21 900 900 900
but made proposals which were accurately
described as ridiculous" by Lloyd George
and by all allied statesmen. Indeed the
German figures were so small as to suggest
a deliberate intent to fout the Allies and
as a consequence the frank British policy
Of moderation the manifest British wish to
curb any extravagant French claims, was
paralyzed and France for once saw the
British Prime Minister compelled to follow
the French in accepting military measures
against Germany.
From the day of the armstice to the
present moment the discussion on repara-
tions has ragged. At Paris the most con-
flictng figures were presented to measure
German capacity; one Englishman sug
gested 100000 000, 900. another $4,000 O00.
900. Our own American experts ranged
from $4,000 100000, which is approximately
the London figure, down to s12 500 000, 900,
which more or less comedies with the maxi
mum German offer
The New York herald., 1921-05-01

THE arrival OF May for Europe al
ways a date OF anxiety-brings in
= more than usual apprehensions this
The New York herald., 1921-05-01
Amateurs of High So
cial Standing Battle
Police in Record Sea-
son of Robberies
By STERLING HEILIG.

Special Correspondence TO THE NEW YORK
HERALD.
Copyright 1921, by THE New YORK HERALD.
MONTE CARLO, April Is.
tba 10 az % md from
The nonpartisan leader., 1921-10-31
The Truth About the Threatened Railroad Strike

NATIONWIDE railroad strike is threatened
unyieding selfish and 'pubic- attitude
railway and executives high
confcator railroad rates The Intentionally
force the railroad into STRIKE rather than yield the
demand for rate reduction which will stimulate agrcu
ture and business and thus result traffic with
increase in railroad profits
Railroads No other Interpretation logically put upon
Foant the attitude assumed by the carriers which led to
Big Strike October Co. W " 'N
Pressure for lower freight rates has become too
to be longer resisted But the railroads do not intend
rates until they whether they force another big
cut in railroad nendto the demand for fair rates
will turn public sentiment against the railroad and hence
place blame for high rates the workers. They will welcome
strike. -
UT this is written the railroad labor board the body which
fixes railroad under the transportation issued
statement that ought to convince the public where the
blame lies It will be remembered that the railroad labor board
granted the railroads IL cent in the of
LAST JULY and that this cut has not resulted any lowering
rates. It should be understood further that the
last July in railroad wages put those wages back
Wares Were where they the Of 1920 before the
80 Do,,r last increase granted the
Gu' After railroad wages given their
LdsC july boost the commission
granted the 20 cent increase in rates which has
been effect since the This increase rates. said
Increased granted at that time
last the 2 cent wage cut restored THEY
before the rate raise Of Instead the railroads have
cut at before lowering rates demanded by the public
The nonpartisan leader., 1921-10-31
Labor Board
Puts Blame
on Carriers

then, by a revision of only a part
of the working rules of only one
class of employees, the carriers
have received further benefits,
amounting to many millions of
dollars.
We would suggest that the
wage cut of July 1 be translated
at once into reduction of freight
rates. This would be much more
tangible and satisfactory to the
public than to promise that future
wage reductions will be passed
on to the people in the form of
reduced freight rates.
The people undoubtedly ex-
pected this result when the July
wage reduction was made and it's
consummation now, though some
what delayed, would be- highly
gratifying. That direct benefits
would promptly follow and that
The nonpartisan leader., 1921-10-31


Such reduction the
other would
constitute
a to
materials
for the solely reduction
of their operating
Defation should possible uniform
this time the the Debated
dnotp
chute of organization to break his fall
0HIS from impartial arbtrators representing
M puts the blame for the threatened strike where should
u beon the railroads. The railroads refused the pub
lie the benefit in lower rates of the big of asuy but
have demanded another 10 cent which has brought about
the strike danger impending AS the labor board members
the farmer has been deaed business has good toward
deaion railroad workers have suffered the IL of
last July, but railroad rates still inflated and
Workers Had instead of cutting them with the
to Act Be % wig e anu e oeao OIL 1ne. h e1esos @ t
oppressed - before they will consent to lower rates
word should be said in regard to the rail-
road workers. They did not accept the big cut of last july
They believed the cut was greater than the slight reduction in the
chance Of strike Of railroad over that cut The brotherhood
of July had been reflected in rate reductions benefit the
be But the not only the railroads gobblng all the
resulting in the July CUT without giving the public
benefit lower rates. but they served the other day with
formal notice that the roads would demand further cut of 10
cent before they would reduce rates. This the last straw The
notice by the broherhoods that would October
80 followed 1t their only alternative under the conditions
The nonpartisan leader., 1921-10-31

NTRIKES are bad. They are
- intolerable in vast public
~ utility affecting every per-
son vitality. they are a violent
and unreasonable method Of set
Ting industrial disputes. But
what other weapon to defend
The nonpartisan leader., 1921-10-31
Strikes Are
Bad for All
Concerned

own interests. 1t is too much to
expect that they will not act
when pushed ruthlessly to the
wall by the railroad owners and
executives. And it is a fact that
the hard, selfish and unyielding
attitude of the carriers in regard
to rates is the cause of the strike
threat, and that that railroad
executives and not the men must
take the blame.
There are indications as this
is written that an effort will be
made by the administration to
settle the controversy, tempo
rarily at least, on the basis sug-
gested by the railroad labor
board, thus avoiding an imme-
diate strike. The Leader be-
lieves that the boards recon-
mendation for an immediate rate
cut, before further wage cuts,
certainly should be carried out.
The nonpartisan leader., 1921-10-31

aggregating about
$4O0, 900, 900 pc r.
annum, basing the
estimate on t h e
normal number of
employees. Since