The Washington times., 1923-02-17
FOREIGN NEWS AGAIN
is BETWEEN THE
LINES
BY HERBERT KAUFMAN.

by dERBERl KAUFMAN.
ToNsIEUR CLEMENCEAU eats onion soup and says
lVl nothing. strange and significant silence.
Meanwhile wait for disclosure Of those vast
Of and munitions and for word Of the secretly
drilling forces suggested in his speeches and articles
here.
to believe that the Tigers to America
a subtly staged prelude to Poincare program.
Belgium saws wood and wears muffer. MussoIini is
talking President Harding and Secretary Hughes play
sphinx.
Holland France and Scandinavia maintain
neutrality. Not peep from Tokyo
Or from Moscow, France sticks her head further
through the reparaions window and cameke proceeds to
crowd into possession of Germany.
All pretense of mere economic occupation is gone.
General Degoutte hints and the British cabinet claims
that Paris prefers the Ruhr basin to indemnity.
France would rather render that fat goose than take
gradual share of its eggs.
Cuno knows this He realizes that conflict Poiu
and population will later nflame the situation
and breads to see his country spitted on bayonet
Ludendor has been asked to curb the activities of the
nationalist group breaks now Germany's future
cooked.
The British hold on to their little strip of territory and
keep it closed to French troops and trains.
Eighty eight labor members Of parliament petition Wash
ington to Join in world conference and help
catastrophe of indefinite scope.
Matters are coming to head.
The mark has dropped from forty to nineteen thousand
There's more than financial manipulation in that Take
it rather anticipation Of international action
Important foreign again between the lines this
afternoon.
The Man Who Believed In America.
A NDREW CARNEGIE considered the United States
Steel Corporation was hopeessly overwatered by its
So he played safe and took nothing but bonds for his
plants.
Those bonds listed 1O3 Steel common drown
ing in suspicion sold at dollars share during
1907 panic Yesterday it quoted little above 1O7
with book value of 1855.
You may remember how popular opinion cruciied Morgan
for capitalzng the concern at billion dollars
Within two decades the business is worth almost three
billions after paying taxes which not
contemplated at the time Of organization.
odgan Deneved IN Amer ; ne d0rssaw ana Ioreoid
Our future is in the hands of optmists. The who
doesn't think that tomorrow will be bigger than today
tears hole in his pocket.
A Prince Who Once Played Pauper.
THE new Italian ambassador knows more about the
United States than you do
He studied engineering in eastern college,
shoveed his information of Montana mines, dug
the gold fields Of Alaska and learned about labor
and stamping mills.
If of diplomats were well qualified to
deal with their responsibilities Mr. Hughes and Mr. Hoover
would have fewer tangles to straighten.
II more OF our aamnstra1ors were as familiar with
people generally knew about the fascist spirit we'd
Anything may out of kingdom where paupers be-
prime ministers and whose princes play the
pauper
A Plot For Frances HOdgsOn Burnett.
FRANCES HODGSON BURNETT, who loved to peep
garreIS ana invoke Ialry gOumOtners, would
possibilities in The tale of the struggling artist and
the mllionaire's daughter
There two Ruth Morgans-one with nothing but
hopes and ambonsone who receives twenty
dollar checks for spending money
Mischance possibly the curious Fate sisters sent the
twenty-five hundred dollars the girl in the hall
She promptly returned it.
One of Mrs Burnetts nice little stories would begin to
grow interesting at that point.
But such things happen exclusively in the land of magma
ton Mysterious Oriental servants only of books
with gifts Of food and rament for browbeaten
phans.
Nabobs in real life go searching for the shabby
childhood friends And the Morgan incident prob
badly closed with criticism of postal service
STILL it would have been wonderful IF
He Fed The PenniLess and UnenipLOued.