The Cordova daily times., 1922-02-03
PLIGHT OF GERMANY TODAY
 DISCUSSED BY YOUNG EBERT

of Germany-brought any material advantages to the victorious nations, particularly to their working masses? One can answer this question almost internationally in the negative.
 ALARMING UNEMPLOYMENT
 The dumping of German goods upon the world markets. caused by the Versailles peace. is the cause of the alarming unemployment situa- tion in the Eentente nations, the United States and other countries
 American. English. French and Ital-
 ian workers are cold and hungry be- cause their German comrades against their own will-have become wage -underbidders. And in Germany the workers lack work because. owing to the depreciation of money value. Germany cannot adequately supply herself with raw materials. However, Germany is not only compelled to pay every available penny. but beyond that she is pre- vented from building up her eco- homie power. which would help the Allies as much as it would help her.
 Ten thousand flying motors have been destroyed, as have other i'm
 portant things which easily could have been converted to purposes of
 production. and now there is serious talk of compulsory destruction of gigantic industrial undertakings.
 The Federal German Works. which
 formerly served only war production.
 have been long since reconstructed entirely upon a peace basis. There are in those works no longer any ma
 chimes which could be used for the
 manufacture of single military rifle or cannon. Where formerly grenades and guns were made machines are today making office furniture, motor cycles, also sport weapons-but only
 such articles as never could find any use in warfare
 FOUR MONTHS TO MAKE SHELL In case of mobilization it would take at least four months to manu- facture single shell! This applies to all of our former war plants, even , the biggest
 Yet the master achievements of German engineering and technique which are in the Deutschen Werke , and which belong to the German
 people are to be wantonly destroyed
 simply because at one time they served the manufacture of war weapons.
 the French government continually speaks-a policy born of the will to le just? On the contrary, it is a policy of vengeance-a policy cer- tainly not designed to heal the , worlds war wounds. And it is this rolicy which makes it so extraordi- rarily difficult for the German Re- publicans to suppress the revenge idea in Germany.
 It is five minutes of twelve"- high time that the world awoke to
 realities.
 One thing is certain--if the En- tente insists upon it's pound of i flesh" then the disintegration of the German nation will progress further;
 then not few hundred starving peo-
 pie will tear through the streets plum 1 dering. but the catastrophe will seize the entire nation and plunge it into 1 the abyss-and it surely will drag
 the rest of the world along. It is our duty to warn of that dan- ger. We fulfill this duty not alone in the interest of Germany but in the
 interest of the whole world The , German nation has no idea of refus- ing it's cooperation in the world s reconstruction. It feels itself honor DOuuu IO 1uIIleI IudI TtCOuSItuCLlOll
 with all it's might and means. Therefore, Germany is not beg
 ging for mercy. imploring charity,
 but it demands-Justice!
 We demand justice which will give US a chance to unfold the best that is ill us; justice which recog-
 nizes us as an equal member of the
 community of nations; justice which
 gives us the strength to cooperate
 with the other nations in establish ing permanent world peace.