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Evening star., 1922-08-27

port Of S. H. Perkins Of the United
States sanitary commission. the vet
Grams were given preference in sub
ordinate government positions, where
upon the pension ceased. In Germany,
too. there existed no agency for re-
training the wars disabled.
First American Pensioners.
"In 1889 the Plymouth colony pass
ed a law to the effect that every
man who was disabled in the war
against the Indians should be taken
care of by the colony. Similar laws
were enacted by other colonies at later
periods.
"In August 1875. the Continental
Congress passed a law providing
abled in the service. 1t was never
carried out because Congress had no
funds at that time However. it had
the desired effect Of stimulating re-
cruiting.
mo effort was made to re-educate
or reconstruct the disabled veterans
of our revolutionary. Mexican or
civil wars. Pensions were given or
bounties Of land granted. According
to the report Of the pension com
missioner for 1917. $2.754,974,10S has
been spent for disability pensions
since 1860.
"1n Italy the program of voca-
tional training met with many diff
culties and obstacles in its inagura-
tion. Prior to the war Italy had no
system of vocational training and
therefore 1t was necessary for the
entirely new program: In Germany,
however. a vocational training pro-
gram for those who had been dis
abled in industry was in operation
long before the world war, and it
was only necessary to take this sys-
abled in the war Italy was also
handicapped by the fact that there
were no factories for the manufac-
ture of prosthetic appliances as all
Such appliances had been imported
from Germany. 1t was therefore
ment to encourage private manufactur-
ers to produce artificial limbs, and 1t
was also necessary for the Italian gov
ernment to supplement these private
endeavors by a government plant for
the manufacture OF such appliances.
U. 8. System Highly Developed.
The re-educational advantages Of
fered by America, however, the Vet
erans' Bureau explains, were never
enjoyed by veterans of other wars
in this or any other country 1.-The
same plan," says the bureau" was
inaugurated in England by the PEN
sions ministry in May. 1918, followed
by Canada and France, but in
neither of these countries has it
reached the high development of our
own rehabilitation program. In Ger
many this problem is left in a large
measure to private initiative and char
ity and is merely an expansion Of the
private relief for the industrial cripples.
"In the United States, however,
there had been in operation for a
few years previous to our declara-
, ton of war, the Federal Board for
Vocational Education. This board was
engaged in the encouragement of
vocational training through a form
of federal and state aid. This voca-
tional training was limited to those
who were disabled in industry and
to the other vocational training
projects which had developed during
the past quarter of century in this
country. This board also encour-
aged domestic science.
when the, rehabilitation Of the
disabled veterans was first inaugu-
rated through legtslation. the ad-
Evening star., 1922-08-27

to be drawn into such paths. Despite
iast year mistakes, partly the fault
OF Paris governments objectionable
weakness and Lloyd Georges meg
cries of the English brotherhood Of
arms and we recall also that, until
1918, France and Great Britain were
allies without sacrificing the dignity
OF their respective interests No
benefits are possible from the sug-
gested Calliaux policy.
"Germany Must Pay"
Germany must pay France. She
must extract the money from her
pocket. Germany resists obstinately.
Economic agreements between French
and German industries are discussed
There is nothing against this. but II
remains to be seen whether any such
method would provide plan for pro-
viding payments.
to create solidarity of special in
terests which later would serve
against Frances Versailles claims.
Therein lies a trick not to pay rather
than an effort to meet honest obliga-
tions. 1t is wise to take warning.
Moreover. what could be Frances
political relations with Germany on
basis of this understanding. where
Of the object prudently is concealed?
1t would be futile from a reparations
standpoint, while the political view
point must be obvious as preparing
to return 10 a continental bloc sys-
tenn. Such a bloc. with Germany in
the center having IN twenty years
time 100000 inhabitants more than
France. would be equivalent to Ger
man supremacy in Europe resulting
sooner or later in war against Eng
land. Wise Frenchmen cannot &C
cept any such hypothesis.
Instead. there will be devised
peaceful and energetic French policy
which will be respected by England
and which can compel Germany to
pay her debts. 1t will aim at a
Franco British alliance and. while
cannot say 1t is near, I can say that
sooner or later it will arrive.
GnnYriRhf 1902
Evening star., 1922-08-27
FAITH In AMERICA GIVES
GERMANS HOPE OF RELIEF
Maximilian Harden Says Mad Belief That
u. s. Will Cancel Debts Persists; Ra-
pallo Held Worse Than Versailles.

state and town budgets will not break
down, causes the middle classes,
especially brainworkers. to tremble in
thinking OF the coming winter. All TINS
was not caused by the failure of the
London conference or the postponement
friendly Paris. but by tardy recognition
of the inevitable defeat In the greatest.
most cruel and costlieSt war in history
and by the careless. sterile policy or an
inadequate administration waiting in
idle hesitation while cursing the French
and whining to the last because OF a
wrong idea of the reparations exacted.
Poincare is a lawyer and stubborn
constitutionaliSt and will not move
hands breadth from the position out
lined by the parliament majority. He
believes that he ought not to disarm
Germany's monarchist nationalist move
ment while the present German repub-
lican government continues the stupidity
of Rapallo. Tchicherin's anti-French
speeches favoring the belief that the
monarchist Gen. Won Seeckt is about to
conclude an offensive alliance with
Trotsky. whose visit to Berlin soon Is
announced
Justice Begins at Home.
Instead of seeking faults of others.
which is a bad German habit. we must
first admit our own mistakes. Why
suppress the fact that before the Ra-
pallO bomb, limitation OF the Rhine oc-
cupancy was possible? Poincare. speak.
ing to the German ambassador, said
that Germany must pay reparatfons
losses to civilians. not the military PEN
sions. Why is Germanys misfortunes
attributed to the Versailles treaty,
which has not been executed? Why is
the fact suppressed that all French cir
cles desire an understanding and COLA
boration with Germany today?
Why is this? Because the nationalist
terror hinders almost everybody from
daring to utter word that would bring
understanding to the French mind.
Wirth always is meaning to fulfill the
desired terms. but cannot. so he calls
to the world: "Germany's on her death
bed; and wonders then why there Is
no response from badly libeled lands.
1t is true that Germany is not recover
ing her export trade. but her people.
who support themselves plentifully with
agricultural pursuits, all live, and. with
France. will seek a new humble type
of European economy from our own
strength. When that time comes
Americas help will be unfailing. The
real service which the great republic is
unable to give today will come. l rec
ognize that today, more than ever. JUS
tice begins at home.
Copyright. 1927
Evening star., 1922-08-27
The Story the Week Has Told

Bnes. the great premier f~czechoslevaka.
es1es @
ssS 5 Of ,basa ss s. e
happily solve Austria's economic problems. ms,
and should the .su.t be n
large pan German element in Austria and still
their clamors for union with the reich: One ne
little entente was to prevent union Of Austria
with Germany and the best way to efess hs,ta that
Of French policy is aserandizement Of the little
to be presumed % that the talk Of admission Of
Austria to the little entente as recognized
union with the reich at the first opportunity.
any othe, Of the allies great or little; to
almost equally opposed to aggrandizemsnt Of
the little entente for she sees a in sSar such ae
France and of that Of Jugoslavia whom her
fears suggest. the other members Of the little
troversies N With italy. s''N " '' ,.,
Indeed. the Italian government has dispatch
czechoslovakia. Germany, Jueoslavia and Ru-
mania. to the effect that either the fait ac-
p that Of Austrian entrance c into the little en-
tente would be regarded by Italy as casus
belli.
There is strange talk of Austria becoming
protectorate of Italy. of the Duke OF Aosta as
sunk pretty low. but she would hardly consent
70 that Shade; e Otto the Great act tbst Of Leopold
ton e'psi from ehs the French eovernment to Visit
make every ,' effort to dfsinfect his mind Of
German faint t. and win him over ,r,n to Frensh asa
heels of the French note, sent seipel hot
foot to Verona, Italy. where. at last report he
italian foreign minister. new situation OBJ
viously of considerable Importance.
treaty is projected to bind the members of the
little entente In intimate union for twenty
years.
RussIa.-At meeting some weeks ago in
New York of the principal officials Of the
American Relief Administration it was de-
cided to continue food relief to Russia for
several months longer at least The chief
problem remaining. however. is one OF santa
ton-to check disease in Russia and to pre-
vent its spread out of Russia Another grand
Children who have been separated from their
families and who are under the care OF the
AIR Already % the American Relief Administration
has distributed about ss.oooooo worth of medi,
about 100000 people against smallpox.
typhoid. cholera and para-typhoid, bu, the
spite Jealous experiments. serum effective
against it has not yet been discovered. The
gives out that in the districts Of Russia in
vestigated by it ss7; 900 cases of typhus were
reported up to May 20 81 this year. as against
only $4,000 for the entire year 1921:
An article has been inserted in the new
soviet criminal code making punishable by
one years forced labor the giving of religious
instruction to minors in any educational insti-
tuition. public private.
The reformation of the Russian Church
under the auspices of the soviet government
is thing to make the gods laugh sweetly. but
after all. it may fairly be claimed that Lenin
is as. holy and unctuous a person as was
Henry VIII.
X X
Near East.-The governments of Great
Britain. France and Italy are planning for a
conference the near east questions, to be
held in Venice the conferees to include rep
resentatives of those governments and of the
Evening star., 1922-08-27
BY MAMMALIAN HARDEN,
Germany's Foremost Publicist.

BY Cable to The Star.
BERLIN. August 26.-The latest
tdea here is that when the elections
In the United States are concluded
things European must improve and
that despite previous defeat of Ger
man hopes. sunshine must come
through the Stars and Stripes. A
mad belief exists that when America
reaches an economic agreement with
Great Britain over eastern Asia and
the worlds oil distribution. she will
cancel her European debts and that
England will follow suit thus con-
siderably lessening German repara-
tions.
spite the fact that the French
financial mission froze to death in
Washington's midsummer heat.
Everybody should understand that
a land of youthful vigor like the
United States, though ready to CO.
operate. will not sacrifice a large
amount of her capital only to pre-
serve Germany from the rough treat
ment of her creditors. Germany alone
would benefit. Britain and France are
Indifferent whether they pay less be-
yond the ocean or receive less from
this side.
For years Germans have cursed
Americans and Englishmen as the
originators of all ill, but they now
hope for salvation from them and
decry the French governments asso-
citation Herewith. The chronlcler
these days can easily believe the
words of Goethe that peoples always
remain children. although these words
' corroborated would kill off the idea
OF democracy.
Americans Demand Facts.
Yet erybody must try to prepare a
fitting spring for democracy. The nrst
condition is to see realities, not Wnat
demagoguery makes believe are realities
american business men have neither the
time nor the inclination to study the
,ucnotonous reparations propositions
Whether they present comedy or a
tragedy. they would rather see all cables
cut than to read the Berlin dispatches
Cursing Poincare and the French policy
That the dollar buys 1.400 marks.
that prices are rising heavenward. with
wages increasing tremendously, so that
il is necessary to have notes printed day
and night at the Reichsbank so that
Evening star., 1922-08-27

INCREASE of $3.50 in the average
earnings Of a large group OF
typical wounded soldiers VINO
= have been retrained for work
other than that which they followed
before the war is pointed to by the
Veterans Bureau in comprehensive
study and comparison of rehabilita-
ton and pensions in America and
other nations as conclusive argument
that retraining pays. The average
was raised from $1,155 to s1,4s5.
Can any one question the wisdom
of the original policy OF Congress,
says statement from the bureau
"in reconstructing this human sal
wage Of the war into happy' saiaIy-
earning taxpayers, rather than rele-
eating them to soldiers home or
leaving them forever dependent on
government disability pension!
From the cold, cruel angle OF dol
lars and cents the bureau believes
that to refrain wounded soldiers Is
cheaper than to pay them pensions.
A Civil War Comparison.
For instance, II a man who lost
both hands in the civil war were hv-
ing today, says the bureau, he would
have received from the government
in pensions a total of $685. accord
ing to a scale presented by the Car
nepie endowment Not only was he
entitled to this amount in pensions,
says the bureau statement, Dut at
the same time he would not have been
a. producer. Do not think for mo,
ment that he was not Justly enulieo
70 every cent of it. Any man as
ah,ed in the defense Of his country
is creditor of society for a perma-
nent benefit conferred on 1t:
But had this same man been dis
abled in the world war, the bureau
goes on to explain, 1T would nave
Seen nossible under our rehabiiita-
tion nroeram to re-educate him to a
new profession, as has been done IN
many cases, and that man could again
he a factor in economic productlon
and eif-supporting. There are men
in lust that condition who have peen
restored to an earning capacity III GA
cess of their pre-War wage.
$1,000 Now I'm Training
"rhere are now more than 10000
disabled veterans in training in the
rehabilitation division of the Vet
erans' Bureau being trained in 1929
educational institutions. Approxi-
mateiy $4,000 have completed voca-
tional training. More than 10 per
cent are in training in agriculture.
most Of whom were farmers previous
to their enlistment. Their disabiIi-
ties prevented them from returning
tn the heavy farm labor. and they are
being retrafned along agricultural
lines for executive or expert posi-
tions.
have completed their vocational
training has been a source of diff
Guilty in all countries having a re-
habilitation program.
"In England employment has been
attempted through a PATRIOTIC appeal:
have been allotted a percentage of
disabled employees which they were
expected to employ. If the industry
employed the number of disabled vet
.erans allotted to it, such an industry
would be placed on the kings roll.
This form of obtaining employment
has not been altogether satisfactory.
and the soldiers organizations in
England have urged the government gInn,t
employment Of the disabled.
.aThe labor ministry. ot Great Brit
Evening star., 1922-08-27
TARDIEU SCORNS RUMORS
OF GERMAN ALLIANCE.
Germany Must Pay France by Digging:
Down" He Asserts, sAnd Money Must
Come From Own Pocket. :;
BY ANDRE TARDIEU.
Former French High Commissioner to
the United States.

BY ANDRE TARDIEU,
Former French High Commissioner to
the United States.
By Cable to The Star.
PARIS, August 26.-One reading
the papers might think France was
mad over the question of a direct
agreement with Germany which it is
pretended will solve the reparations
problems. Rest assured. there is
nothing in it, Some Of it is literature
and there also is an attempt to revive
a condemned policy
The end of the London conference
was new proof that our relations
with England are exactly our rela-
tions with Lloyd George. The unsatis-
factory results were sufficient to
initiate among people who write
without thinking the thought:
There is no progress in talking
with Great Britain: let's talk with
Germany direct"
The possibility of such talk de-
veloped when Hugo SHINES in the
German press takes the attitude of
a man imposing conditions. 1 dare
not affirm this sufficiently to make
the impuisive people who write re-
fleet, but serious people will under
stand.
Scores Calliaux Followers.
Besides the impulsives the follow
ing Of Joseph Calliaux. whose
strength is inconsiderable, are active
in advocating German alliance.
They tried this before during the war
when they advocated a peace without
victory. This caused Calliaux's con-
demnation and the suspension of his
civil rights. The group also an
Of NJ. Herriot, official leader Of the
party which Calliiaux really leads.
They desire to substitute a Moscow
Berlin policy for that which has ac-
tuated France since 1909.
The French masses are too sensible
Evening star., 1922-08-27
Take a Dose and
Live to Be $50

A Swiss doctor now says he has a
serum that not only cures tuberculosis,
but enables the patient to live $50
years.
One might object that coming just
at the time when an American savant
has decided that the world will end
in a giant earthquake next fall. and
another American professor is doing
his best to blow it to pieces with an
explosive atom, this remedy for the
shortness of our days is a bit late.
And, anyhow. people will not take
much stock in it until 1t has been
demonstrated.
A French writer says If the good
doctor tries to sell him any Of the
stuff he will reply: Come back in
150 years and WeU talk about it"
Evening star., 1922-08-27
The Fiddler's Bill.

THE two strikes in fuel and trans
i portation, which dislocated Amer
ican commerce this summer. cost the
strikers billions in wages. But this
was only the first cost of the strike.
They cost the owners of the railroads
and the mines millions in profits. The
millions in profits and wages were
still hut a small per cent of the cost
of the strikes. Farmers, who lost
perishable products, paid millions
more. Grain growers, whose market
was broken by the lack Of transporta-
tion; laborers. whose days work was
reduced because of shortage in fuel
and TRANSPORTATION, lost millions more.
And consumers of hundreds of neces-
sary articles, who paid the tax impos-
ed by paralyzed industry upon COM
merce, will lose millions more. and
that tax will be collected all fall and
far into the winter. Well could we,
as American citizens, have put up the
strikers and their families at the
best hotels in their towns and paid
their board If they had gone on work.
ing. The fddler's bill for these strikes
is tax that no man can escape.
Every one pays it. And the public
interest In these industrial quarrels
makes them public matters. The
strike in industry is not a private
affair 1t must come under public
control. The worker and his master
have no right to brawl at the public
expense. We are a smart people-we
Americans And we could solve this
problem If we would only think about
it. But when we think we are think :
ing about it, we are merely trying to
rationalize our prejudices: trying to
make our set and confirmed beliefs
Justify some theory. Until we abondon
our prejudices and begin honestly in
curing for the truth, for some really
sensible. new and possibly revoiu. ns,t'e
this taneie. the fiddler will keep
bringing in one bill after another for
these fool industrial jazz dances until
we are bankrupt and civilization is
gone to rot.
Evening star., 1922-08-27
Retrained Disabled Veterans Are Earning
Higher Average Pay Than Before the War

Of the act was placed in
the hands Of this vocational board.
the training program for the dis
abled veterans being placed in a di-
vision Of this board known as the
rehabilitation division.
This division was made part of
the United States Veterans Bureau
under the act of August. 8, 1921
(known as the Sweet bilD, which con-
solidated all soldier relief agencies.
Evening star., 1922-08-27

An OI0sI1meT UOucs
HvER since men first collected in
L villages and brought their horses
and cows and sheep with them men
have come in from the country hay
lands selling hay. The hay market
is almost as old as the wheel in the
life of man. In every American town.
since the white man settled on the
devoted to the country man who came
to town with a load of hay. This
country man has been the subject of
personal paragraphs in the local
newspaper for 200 years. He is
to know about crop conditions. The
load of hay is the symbol of COM
merce between the town and the
country. and the hay market was the
common meeting place of agriculture
and business.
And without due notice in writing
the hay market is gone. And with
its going an ancient institution has
disappeared.
The horse has gone from the town.
mobile refuses hay and the truck
chews no cud. So an institution as
old as Ninevah and Tyre, meeting
place of urbanity and rusticity. sud
denly has been wiped off the map OF
civilization. Some one should erect
where the hay market once stood:
commemoration tablet: Here for
10000 years and more men bought
hay. Here the honest farmer with
zen who lied about his need of hay
met and gently tried to cut each
others throats. and now the auto
dealer skins them both. So the old
order changeth lest one good custom
should corrupt the world
Four hundred thousand dollars IS
the sun ,ohich one of our gentleman
bruisers has offered to another
gentleman bruiser II the second
gentleman tcili stand up in a prize
ring and let the first br,liser beat him
all easy money is hard. ~ you doubt
It, ask the man t1ho married 1t.
THE tariff is always a back
i scratch. For giving the sheep
men the right to rob US on wool, the
sheepmen give the beet sugar men
right to rob us. and the beet sugar
men give the farmers right to take
theirs. and the farmers help the cot
ton mill owKers to gouge u.s. and they
in turn, help the dye makers to hold
us up and they all turn their backs
while the lumbermen turn our pock-
cts wrong side out. II just ose rob-
ber could be dragged out of tf.s con-
spiracy it would fail to get 6dough
votes to be effective.
The sugar tariff is the mos. inde-
fensible larceny on the list. Why
should not the American people begin
trying to- kick out that stone of the
arch of the home of forty thievss
generation ago we had a lot of 'Sugar
senator's" and their iniquity brought
about the direct election of United
States senators. Surely sugar is as
sweet as it ever was. and surely the
sugar senators today are as brazen
as their predecessors. Why not take
a shot at them? This is the open
season. This is the time to shoot the
pianist who really is doing his worst.
Recalling q certain scrap of paper
ei0ht years ago: 1t may be sceu to
remember that today 1t tolees more
than thousand German marks to
maize q dollar.
Copyright lsz2.l -
Evening star., 1922-08-27

With all these marreIs of science
thok are thrilling the human race
these dogs, it soill be difficult to torite
a ,se.o. Bibre for ony neio cult No
oss Nves soith isogss0ttow to thdss1e