The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1922-12-31

chauffeur when the latter handed
him back bills to the amount OF
$4,000 kronen as change.
Your Mortgage ON Belgium.
All this is a preface to some inVcs-
legations / have been making these
past two weeks regarding your mort
gage on Belgium. 1t shows why l
dare not give you the figures In this
European currency. and why eli my
calculations must be in American
dollars and cents. According TO fig
ures furnished me by the treasury
department at Washington. on the
18th of last May. Belgium owed the
United States just about S429 ,0O0,-
000. II is not much, perhaps, in the
total OF more than $4,000, 100000
which the several foreign ma
tions owe us, but it represents over
s21 dollars per family and would be
a tidy little sum to put into public
improvements il we could have the
spot cash. Four hundred and
twenty-nine million dollars would
make 10000 miles of new railways
at $4,000 a mile. 1t would make
more than $4,000 miles OF
first-class motor highways at
$4,000 mile, or enough / 10
reach around the world at the eqha-
tor and build also a first-claes
Roosevelt route from Seattle to
Boston.
A System of New Motor Highways.
With this money that Belgium
owes u.s. which we raised by our
Liberty bonds and which is In addi-
ton to the many millions We gave
in charity to feed the Belgians dur
ing the war, Uncle Sam could create
a system of new motor roads. Zig
Tagging this way and that. taking in
almost every principal oity Of the
United States. The road might start
at Boston and go via New York,
philadelphia, Baltimore and Wash
ington, through Pittsburgh, Wheel
ing, Cincinnati, and on through
Louisville. Nashville. Memphis and
birmingham TO New Orleans. This
first lap is less than two thousand
miles.
From New Orleans the fine new
highway could be pushed on 10 Dal-
las and FL Paso, and thence over
the mountains to Los Angeles north
TO San Francisco, Portland and Sc
attle. and still not use mp the 1000
miles which, for easy figuring, we
will estimate for the next lap. From
Seattle it could run on east over the
Cascades to Spokane, ana thence
over the Rockies on TO ST. Paul,
distance OF less than two thousand
miles, where, turning south, 1t might
take in Sioux City. omaha, Kansas
City and st. Lout$ and again reach
New Orleans with perhaps two thou-
eand miles more.
The fourth section would bs an
other thousand miles OF the best
road going from New Orleans north
ward through the Mississippi valley
10 Chicago, taking in Peoria and per-
hans indianapolis. and extending
from Chicago east to Detroit and
along the shore OF Lake Erie to To-
| ledo, Cleveland and Buffalo, ana
1 thence going on to Albany and Bos-
ton. easily covered in an allotment OF
| 1900 miles more.
So far we have used up less than
! $4,000 miles of our new auto
mobile highway. We might dou-
| ble it's length, and, could we bridge
| the Atlantic, still have enough
money left for a road from Boston
/ 10 Panama and run two tracks
! through our zone along the canal. Or
suDpose we could bridge the Paclflc'
1 the extra 1900 miles would allow
no 10 motor on our own roadway
from San Francisco via Honolulu 70
/ Manila, with more than eight thou-
sand miles over TO take IN Guam anu
| Samoa and the Hawaiian ISLANDS on
| the way back.
All this might be done with the
money we have loaned 70 the Bel-