The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1922-01-22
BY FRITZ EBERT, JR.
~, ~ the President Of the German

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......,,frbt 1922. Inter News serVloe'
nTptJN-Berlin is seeing riots
Mobs assemble, tear through
s,reets, wreck show WINDOWS
VIA thunder shops and stores lheac I
',,r5ges unfortunately are no
"",,rances in Germany. Ihere
"', heen thousands of them; we
''' oimost become accustomed 10
u'No md these latest disturbances
Hsrliu in all probability slsnliS
r. beginning of "A new grave Crisis
Wy IL said that these plundeters
.,l balf-grown youths mlsled py
,,,munists. That Is not incorrect
gV'.,' are. part of them, halt-grown
lh,t and the communistic agita-
s, Mas bcen particularly intense OF
~" But neither the half-groWn
.,,t,I,ns nor the communists arc
,bg rcal key to the situation.
The catastrophal plunge OF the
I.,or. which began I'm autumn, mas
. icd TO a tremendous rise IN prices
prices in Germany today nave
reached height whlch tney ul9 no. no.
r,orh even In the worst days OF inc
,r.,r in the so-called "sneak-tradc'
tschleichhandell ,-,...
one cgg cost five pfennigs before
the var-for ten pfennigs you could
ysf three. To-day you cannot get "a
GOOD fresh egg for $50 marks, or
10 times the pre-war price.
The best way to make the rise
c1,ar to American readers Is 10 sup
nose that the price OF one egg had
iumpcd from five cents to $3.50.
similarly a pound of butter used
IN cost l.2O marks; now 1t costs 90
Wages Not In Pace.
Needless to say, the wages 90 hot
lepp mace with this increase IN
nriccs. Tho book printer who for
merly belonged to the best-paid
workers. has long since had a wage
which scarcely came up to 20 per
cent Of the minimum necessary for
his existence.
There are still numerous workers
7 i'm Germany today who earn 800
\ marks weok--S2. Bad as is the
posltlon of those working fun time.
that Of the many part-time workers
10 extraordinarily distressing, and
that of the jobess, whose number
probably will soon grow consider
ably. is hopeless.
The ever-growing misery of the
workers is the motor that sets the
masses into motion, makes them
wreck stores and fill their pockets
and hands with whatever they can
carry. Certainly these people are
ameliorato their misery by such
actions. on the contrary, they only
add to the plight of others.
But people who haven't a single
shirt left who run around with di-
lapidated shoes and through whose
ragged clothing whistles the ley
north wind-people who are forced
TO pawn or sell piece by piece their
miserable belongings in order to
quiet their hungry children for few
brief hours-such people do not
think of consequences, They have
nothing to lose and in their despair
they easily believe INSCRIPTIONS
agitators. who tell them that they
can conquer the whole world and
make an end to all suffering If they
storm the city walls and tear
through the streets bowling and
plundering. No exhortations help, no
reason obtains where despair drives
the masses.
Warning To World.
That is a bitter truth n warning
TO the world not to continue to wipe
its feet on the German people and
make them the butt of avarice and
conquest.
Corvoarv has declared repeatedlv
and solemnly that She will do every
thing to fulfil the obligations which
she entered into under tremendous
pressure NJ. BRAND, speaking at
Washington, was Obliged to make
meritorlous mention of the efforts OF
the Wirth cabinet 20 fulfil' th"~o oh
legations. Even France seems to he
willing gradually to acknowledge the
German will of fulfillment.
But even the firmest will must 20
shipwrecked on the rock OF grim
reality. Thus we Germans, animated
with the honest will OF fulfillment,
look forward with dread to the time
when we may be compelled to say:
We can go no farther"
II Is because we figure with that
probability and because we know
that the day on which II becomes a
fact will be catastrophal not for
Germany alone that we continually
demand the revision of the Yer
sailles treaty and its subsequent
arrangements.
Has that treaty--in spite of the
conscientious fulfillment on the part
Of Germany-brought any material
advantages to the victorious nations
particularly to their working masses
Ore can arsv'er this ouesti0o nl-
most Internationally in the negative
Alarming Unemployment.
The dumping of German goods
upon the world markets, caused by
the Versailles peace, is the cause OF
me alarming unemployment situa'
ton IN the Entente 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--haye become
e-underbidders. And in Germany
the workers lack work because
owing to the depreciation of money
Na''" Fe"mauv - no. adnOUotoly
SUNNY herself with raw materials
However, Germany is not only
compelled to pay every available
penny hut beyond that she is pre-
vented from building up her econo
mic power, which would help tn,
Giles as much as II would help her
Ten thousand flying motors hav,
oeen destroyed, as have other i'm
portant things which easily couli
nave heen converted TO purposes o
production, and now there Is seriou
aux ~ compulsory destruction o
slEantic Industrial undertakings.
inc Federal German Workers
winch formerly served only wa
production, have been long since re
constructed entirely upon pesc
naSls. There are in those works n,
,ohEer any machines which could b