Evening star., 1922-06-18
'JEA[OUS|ES WRECK
| EUROPE FINANCING
Morgan Like Charlie Chap
lin in Negotiations, Says
MaximiIIia1 Harden.
BELGIUM AS SUFFERER
France and England as Advisers
! in Scenario Involving Re-
'cent Fiasco,
BY MAXIMILLIAN HARDEN,
Germany's Foremost PubIfcist.

BY MAXIMILLIAN HARDEN,
| Germany's Foremost Publfcist.
BY cabio to The Star. Copyright. 1922
BERLIN. June 17.-Permit me,
dear reader. to put my dispatch to-
day In the form of Charlie Chaplin
scenario entitled 1.-The Loan"
Despite his short coat and wide
trousers. which do not remind one
OF Wall street. everybody credits him
with the power of settling Europe's
nnancial troubles and general dis.
order. He receives a polite invita-
ton from a creditor quartet. while
debtor. whose groans can be heard
across the ocean, promises by wire
less to sing nothing henceforth but
Charlie Ueber Allies if his under
taking succeeds. When he applies
for his passport Uncle Sam warns
him that this time he is not going to
a tragic. but to comic, lunatic
lasylum, and that, as an America n
and the urgently invited savior, he
Will have to pay forty times ordinary
|prices.
TIE Olympic quivers with pride as
she takes the worlds favorite aboard
land lifts anchor amidst rejoicing.
Even the ocean Is too respectful to
be rough. Three capital ships and
a submarine fleet with 1871 reporters
laboard sail from the nearest harBor
to meet the salvation steamer A ho.
tel has to be rented for the secreta
ries. who are crammed with letters,
many tender love missives. but most
iof them begging for money. which
the writer's jokingly call loans.
First episode: What won't and
jcan't be repaid is in this film called
loan. His little moustache witches
and our hero comprehends the situ-
Iation at a glance.
These good people who receive me
with such kindness have a debtor
from whom nothing is to be gotten
today or tomorrow and they want me
to advance him money wherewith to
pay his debts. Their confidence
touches me, but before I consent
must examine the condition of this
debtor whom I am supposed to heal"
| Meaning of Assistance.
He questions a nearby gentleman
who looks like Clergyman who's
left the church for the cotton trade
says;
That is an unfortunate expression,
Mr.. Chaplin. If this fellow gets well
too quickly he may injure our trade
hve-year famine cure while our Chris
tan hearts bled at the thought. What
we want is to prevent him profiting from
paper money. and we can't do that
by helping him make his money
worth more than the paper whereon
it is printed. We hope you'll do this,
and with your great prestige explain
to our friend. ally and principal
|creditor how this debtor must be
lspared: otherwise If he pays too much
our trade will suffer more than ever"
Second episode-The invalid's to be
only half cured Two of a quartet
ready for any sacrifice the others
j will agree to. Somebody with wav-
ing banner and Jacobin cap ap-
proaches and says with exaggerated
pathos:
| Don't let my dear hypocritical
friend lead you astray. This Mr. A l..
thinks s spsaRs aRy OF Of smss and
3Golgotha he really means Cardiff and
Birmingham. The invalid must re-
cover. for only then can he meet our
demands for payments. which are just
and which we will not reduce. like
dishonest shopkeepers. That is Of
course, unless We receive compensa
ton elsewhere. Don't forget article
zoo, annex z, says the reduction OF
debt only can occur by unanimous
Iagreement. Don't waste your time
considering a little loan of 100000
100000 paper marks. That's no use
to me. My neighbor. who is suffer-
ing from rupture of neutrality. has a
would be left to me- You have
enough common sense to understand
I can't abandon my right to sanctions
which halt the debtors breathing for
a time at least. Outside of these lit
tie exceptions go as far as you like"
Whose Obligation, Question.
Charlie looks at the thermometer.
1t is 100 in the shade. Everything is
Did anybody ever hear before of
the borrower making conditions to
the lender or a bankrupt nation call
ling a tremendous sum a little loan?
|They want me to send heaps of money
to Europe and let the receivers decide
what's to be done with it. All of
them have different ideas, and, be-
sides, the weakest is to have his breath
Icut off for a time to strengthen him.
These people seem to have had sun
Istroke. I wish I had my fire hose.
iOh, for custard pie! 1t would cover
Imy retreat"
On the promenade deck of the
George Washington. homeward bound.
The has a sudden thought.
Perhaps this whole comedy was
lust to show us that we who paid for
1.-The war with our blood money shall
lnot be victors without compensation,
but we must abandon all of the bill
lions lent to Europe and even send
| more, go that the old world may be-
gin to get in order again. Were those
people so stupid they thought l
wouldn't see through their trick? No
! doubt If 1 had granted the loan 1t
| success in Europe, but it would have
killed me forever with the American
public"
The grand young man then puts his
finger to his brow over his melan-
choly comic eyes and decides to
launch his new film, ''Chaplin and the
Loan" If it's shown next season