The Cordova daily times., 1922-02-03
By FRITZ EBERT, Jr.,
Son of the President of the German
 Republic

BERLIN, Feb. 3.--Berlin is seeing 1 riots again. Mobs assemble, tear through the streets, wreck show windows and plunder shops and stores. These outrages unfortunate ly are no rare occurrences in Ger many. There have been thousands of them; we have almost become &C., customed to them, and these latest disturbances in Berlin in all proba- bility signify the beginning of new grave crisis.
 II It is said that these plunderers are half-grown youths, misled by i Communists. That is not incorrect. They are. part of them, half-grown youths, and the Communistic agita- tion has been particularly intense of late But neither the half-grown ruffians nor the Communists are the real key to the situation.
 The catastrophal plunge of the mark, which begin in autumn, has led to tremendous rise in prices. Prices in Germany today have reached height which they did not reach even in the worst daps of the war in the so-called Sneak trade" schieichhandeD.
 One egg cost five pfennigs before the war--for ten pfennings you could get three. Today you cannot get a good fresh egg for $50 marks or seventy times the pre-war price. The best way to make the rise clear to American readers is to sup pose that the price of one egg had jumped from five cents to $350.
 Similarly a pound of butter used to cost 1.20 marks; now it costs 50 marks. WAGES NOT IN PACE
 Needless to say, the wages do not keep pace with this increase in prices. The book printer, who for merly belonged to the best paid workers, has long since had a wage which scarcely came up to 70 per cent of the minimum necessary for his existence.
 There are still numerous workers in Germany today who earn 500 marks d week-$2 Bad as is the position of those working full time. that of. the many part-time workers is extraordinarily distressing. and that of the pobless, 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 thep can carry. Certainly these people are mistaken if they believe they can ameliorate their misery by such ac- tions. On the contrary, they only add to the plight of others.
 But people who haven't single shirt left, who run around with di- lapidated shoes and through whose ragged clothing whistles the icy 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 og consequences. They have nothing to lose and in their despair they easily believe unscrupulous agi- tators, 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 ob- tains where despair drives the masses
 WARNING TO WORLD
 That is a bitter truth, warning to the world not to continue to wipe it's feet on the German people and make them the butt of avarice and conquest
 Germany has declared repeatedly and solemnly that she will do every thing to fulfill the obligations which she enterted into under tremendous pressure. M Briand, speaking at WatshingtOn was Ohliped to make