The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1922-09-14
GERMANS START
FOOD RI0TINC.
5000 Workers In Mob At
tack Police

!. BERLIN. sept. ii.--Disorsicrs
pressglng the serious food crisis
s.~a.rled for Germany this win
ter sralse out IN different parts
u the nation today.
A mob Of 5000 lsborcrs al.
lacked police al Beehum.
The police succeeded In keep
ing thu rioters from piundcring
>hops.
workers In locomotive factories az
Munich staged demonstrations. dc.
nandine a bonus to meet the high
cost % living.
At Thurings the ministry of Jus
,sce has Installed an snti.profiteering
department, plain clothes men hives.
sigating prices and arresiing prof
itccrs
LONDON. Sept. IL. - Bread
riots arc the neat great menace
/ ~ GrrmAny-an explosion that
will be felt In America and TIM
rest Of the world.
That y the gloomy forecast
made hy Prank A. Nsndcriip.
famous American banker and
student Of economics. Nsnderiip
i on his way home after five
months tour Of Germany,
yrsnce. Italy. Switzerland. Hun
gary. Austria. Rumania and
Cseeho- Slovakis. during which
he Travelled By auto In order 10
reach rural villages a. well as
the big cities
Il fear serious trouble IN
Germany" vandcrilp said. Before
long YOU may see some recovery In
the price Of the German mark. and
people win say the trouble Is all
over. But don't be fooled by this
FALSE normalcs.
Next winter. when coal Il scarce
and food is dear. there win be cffti-
cal times In Germany. The danger
will be from bread riots. Sixty.five
millions og Germans viii not take
thcir troubles as quietly as the Aus
TRANS have done.
However. do not look for any
attempt az a monarchiai coup. The
morarchists are too clever for that.
They know II they seized power now
they would Be grabbing a falling
sssrket: they could not bring about
eheaper food and greater production.
and they would be cursed for every
sllment existing
vanderiip emphasized thar his tour
Of Europe was not as an official or
unofficial observer for the United
states government. but merely a tour
Of personal study.
People cali me a pessirniss about
Europe he said. The plain truth
u that n n very easy to be an Opt.
mist II one stays In America. and
very hard not 10 be a pessinist II
one comes over and studies Europe.
AN over Europe ! found the
plain people - the city workers
and the peasant farmers - sick
Of war. and yet fearing u: All
hungry for peace. and yet feel
ing that they haven't got u on
any secure terms
Every time you turn around you
ind the situation full OF vicsous cir
cics. Taks the matter Of the aliicd
debts to us. arm not one Of thcss
who have advocated cancellation OF
those obligations
Here begins the vicious circle that
makes ere almost fear the problem
Il insoltible--the allied nations can
only pay us IN gold or In gocds.
they haven't got the gold and can't
get Il: and n they seek 20 pay us
in goods. we At once put up a pro
sscfive tariff waii 10 shut out these
products. ~ we don't. there is dan.
ger that our own factories would be
closed and our own workmen thrown
out Of Jobs.
Il do not agree with thosc Ameri.
cans who say We have no interest tn
Europe. And put the economic IN.
ferer- the lowest IN the scale A re
Aored Europe would. Of course. buy
our surplus cotton and wheat and
raw materials and manufactured
goods.
But America has moro than .
dollar and cent interest in Europe
The greatest loss 10 US and this world
would be II Europe crashed. and
ceased 70 be a great intellectual ar
tisfic and scientific center Of activity.
Il think America should be repre-.
scented on the PREPARATIONS commits
aon. Entirely apart from our claims
10 repayment by the allies. we have
very great interest and desire 20
nee rs~or.e restored 10 real peace"