The Washington times., 1922-08-23

Grand Maneuvers.
1,oooth Birthday.
Judge Gary Distributes.
Potatoes 75c a Barrel.
BY ARTHUR BRISBANE,
(copyright. isi1)

by ARTHUR BRISBANE
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The French army is about to
indulge in "grand maneuvers'
intended TO impress Germany,
refusing to pay what she hasn't
got, and to impress England
who won't mako Germany pay
what she hasn't got. It is q
good deal like the old nursery
rhyme. "Stick won't beat dog,
dog won't bite pig, pig won't
get over the stile," etc.
Germany says she won't
pledge her mines in the Ruhr
region, and she won't transfer
all the gold she has to the
care of the allies.
France, absolutely dominating
Europe in a military way, can
take the mines, and the gold
too, If she chooses. The Ger
man mark drops a little lower,
the French franc also. So much
for that.
While Philadelphia prepares
20 celebrate tho 150th anniver-
sary of the Declaration of In
dependence, the old town of
Goslar, at the foot Of the Harz
mountains, celebrates its one
thousandth birthday. In that
old town of interesting history
and adventure you may inspect
manuscripts written by Martin
Luther, statues of eight German
emperors, the Kaiserhaus, old
est building (except churches)
in Germany. To learn how
solidly they built, you visit the
"Zwinger" tower, with it's stone
walls almost twenty-five feet
thick.
For thousand years the
old town has stood, some
times half burned, once a free
city in the Hanseatic League,
once taken by the Swedes,
and since the beginning of the
last century owned by Prus-
sia.
What will have happened in
Germany and elsewhere in Eu-
rope and over here when Goslar
celebrates its two thousandth
birthday? That day will come
around quickly, as the first
thousandth anniversary has
come.
And what win have happen
ed one million years hence,
when this race begins real life
with ninety-nine million years
to 90, according to scientists?
There's really no hurry.
Judge Gary, of the big
ssses ssssi of iSs. isssss IsSorers %
per cent. That Is q consid-
cradle army. To increase the
pay of such crowd Is, to bet
ter times and general pros
perity, what irrigation is to- a
farm. ~
Every dollar thus dis
tributed will be spent as the
men get il and business will
be promoted. That wouldn't
happen IL the money stayed
locked up in one big pocket
book.
Would you like to be truck
farmer? At Farmingdale. New
Jersey, last Saturday, potatoes
sold at rs cents for a barrel OF
l65 pounds. Seconds" smaller
sized potatoes, could not be sold
at all. :.
The grower got less than half
n cent a pound for the potatoes.
A hundred miles from Farming
dale, on the same day, potatoes
sold to consumers for $6 a
barrel. The problem Of the
United States is distribution,
cutting down the profiteering
wall that separates producer
from consumer. That problem
doesn't seem to interest the
Government.
Three years ago Samul Green
berg was selling whiskey made
Of wood alcohol. Michael Kulick,
on the way to a wedding,
stopped in and had two drinks.
A few hours later he was stone
blind. The jury gave him q
verdict of, $25, 900 against Green
berg. Greenberg went into
bankruptcy. Two days ago
Kulick went to the poor house,
TO spend the rest of his life.
There ought to be a law and
n Judge TO put Mr.. Greenberg
TO work, preferably at hard
labor, earning money to support
the man made blind by his Grim
inal traffic.
To meet the lack of coal,
Henry Ford puts oil-burning
furnaces in his big plant, with
out making one of the $4,000
workers in it lose a days work.
You can do anything and face
anything II you have MONEY,
MERCY, INTELLIGENCE.