The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1922-10-22


raY. g. C.rp.ntsf day. almost S25,-
600 an hour. and S4OO minute,
year IN and out. Put your watch 10
your ear and listen TO the ticks. Six
good hard dollars should be drop
ping from tho pockets of France In
to the United states treasury every
time the sound strikes your ear
drum,
5000 per Family.
liut this la more than question
ot Unclo Sam's pocket II is pucs-
ton of your pocket and mlnc. IOd
and | really hold the mortgage. We
raised the money, some of MS by bit
ter priNatiuus. when we each put
our savings into Liberty bonds. We
are paying taxes for those bonds to-
day. and we shall continue to do 80
until our national debt is paid off.
This means that every one of the
20,00O.0O0 families I'm tho United
States has on the average 5000
SHARE In this mortgage on France.
lf yOu had a $500 mortgggo on n
lot or a farm In your neighhorhood.
would you not want 10 look AT tho
property, and know something about
the man or woman to whom you
gave the loan? That Is Just your po-
aition az TO France and the French,
ana that Is what | would hav. YOU
remember IN reading these letters
ON the France of today.
The French Republic.
In the first place. what IL France,
by aud large, and Just where does
IL iie2 shah first take up the re-
public IN Europe. f"r ;hat Ia IN"
heart of your mortgage. The vast
colonial possessions outside win be
treated OF later. France In Europe.
with Alsace-LorrAine and the other
patches II got by the war, mca-
sures n little more than two hundred
thousand square miles. 1t is Just
about equal TO Ohio, Virginia, Ken
lucky, Indiana and Missouri put to-
gethcr II Is more than ouc-flfteenth
as big as the main body OF the
United States and II IL very re-
apectahle part of all the dry land on
the globe. Tho sCIcutiBta have moa.
sured tho globe. and | figure that "
all the dry land were gathered to-
gethcr into one block and divided
into 260-nCre farms, ono acre OF
every one OF those farms would be-
long to tho French. This IL on the
basis OF France owning nothing OUT
side her own boundaries
Enormous Colonial Possessions.
hut now let us take In addition
the colonial possessions, including
those France got by the war. Put
them together and they equal more
than five million square miles. They
are about onC-clcycnth OF all the
carth's land. 40 that " the division
we're made into il-acre fields
France would own one acre in every
such field,
our mortFaEe grows bctter and
better II ls true some OF these col
onirs are not OF much value, | have
set my foot upon nearly every on,
of them. and much OF the lnud Is not
worth more than sand spit on IN,
ocean. Tho desert Of Sahara, al
though u has Oasrs which combined
are equal 10 the state of ohio, Is foi
the most part barren, ana the Jun
giles OF the French Congo aud the
ovcrrlowcd lands OF Cambudia al
the mouth OF the Saigon river are
not very much better, hut there are
large tracts OF fertile soil every
whore. France has I'm Asia alone
n country more than ton times a.
larEc as South Carolina, She has In
Guiana ON the north coast OF South
America and I'm tho West Indies
. more land than I'm 10 states the sl2o
ut Pennsylvania, and her little Is
lands I'm the Pacific ocean are llrg
or than NRRachuyofts and Rhode
Island combined. Her blggcEt pos
sessions are On Africa. where she
has, including tho vast tracts she
got from the Germans almost one
. third more territory than is com