The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1922-12-24

est printing presses on earth In Ber-
i'm go miles off as they roll out the
marks by the billions We can even
hear Gncie Sans cry for fair play
and common sense, from over the
ocean, while from the chamber ut
deputies Just below us the speeches
OF the French politicians, who de-
mand that the Germans shall pay for
tho damages thoy havo wrought in
north France. sound loud in oui
ears.
What ia that mournful dirge that
comes from tho Old Lady OF Thread
needle street2 Mcthiuks we have
heard 80 before:
"lt Ia n very good world to live in.
To lend. TO spend, or 20 give in.
But to beg or TO borrow or to get
ones own,
II IA tho very worst world that ever
was known"
We can hear Uncle Sam clap as ne
listens. while he bursts out with "A
quotation from Hamlet.
Neither a borrower nor lender be;
For loan oft loses both itself and
friend,
And borrowing dulls the edge OF
husbandry."
And from the chamber OF deputies
n representative of tho department
du Nord searches the Bible and gives
us that verse of Solomon:
THE borrower Ia servant to the
lender" and then adds with a shrek
as he thinks OF the German;
And namo OF n name, he shall
Oel"
To the Man on the Street.
But, seriously. 1 want to give you
some views OF the financial situation
In this part of Europe as Il looks 10
the man on the street. In the first
place I am not an economist al
though / studied political science at
college. am not statesman al
though much OF my life has been
spent at our national capital with
tho alleged mon OF that class. | ain
not even a scientist, although some
how. | belong to the Cosmos club
most of whose members can tel
you the exact number OF winkers on
the eye of a flea, write volumes or
the hip bone of a gnat, and to whom
every star OF tho milky way ~ a.
well known as the stones you tread
on the path TO your work. l can not
even think in millions and billioul
hut have to get down to tens, hun
dreds. and thousands TO know what
things mean. In short. / belong e
the plain common folk who worl
Tor their living. and figure ever,
itom in dollars and cents More
over, although born In Mansfield
Ohio, / am like the man from Sc
dalia. Mo-. In that l have 10 b'
shown. say this that you nlR!
know what sort OF eyes you are look
ing through as we study this finsn
Cial muddle.
France Is Not Poor.
Before starting out let Ms look n
the wealth OF the French, The paper
are full OF their woes, and In tina
which follows | would not minlmiz
them or nbate by one jot the terri
hle losses or life and property the,
suffered In the war. Their loss O
man power IN the vast uumbe
killed. crippled, ana dead through
privRtion and disease, number al
most three millions, even including
their gains from AlsaCo Lorraine.
But to say the French stomach
now hug their baCkbonea and tha
they are out az the elbow and dowl
az the heel Is not true, The worker
are fat. sleek, and well clad. Thi
IS shown by my pictures The peas
ants. long famous as the thTiftics
and richest OF Europe, have neve
been rlcher and thrittler than now
Every one Of them, l might say. ha
his wooden stocking hidden und"
the rAfters bulging with money o
bonds, and he invests more an