Evening star., 1923-01-07
GERMAN INVENTIVE
GENIUS IS REVIVED
Scientists Again Devote
Themselves to Curing
Ills of World.
FORGET BLIGHT OF WAR
German Editor Says Their Ex-
ample Should Be Followed
by Allies.
FORGET BLIGHT OF WAR
BY MAMMALIAN HARDEN,
Germany's Foremost PubIicIst,

BY Cable to The Star
BERLIN, January 6.-Europe has
not made a forward step in the last
year and Germany is headed toward
the abyss.
Despite this. Teutonic science has
demonstrated that it still is worthy
OF support. A German engineer,
Schieferstein, has invented a new
system of vibration which utiIizes
machine energy far better than ever
dreamed. from the simple moving
machine TO the finest electro mechan-
ism. 1t lessons the loss of energy and
gives new motive power to industrv
an American company has purchased
the patients. which will prove more
important to the world, so far as
economy is concerned, than any
amount OF new laws and new treaties.
the krupp firm has decided TO de-
llVcr all goods to Russia PAYABLE
from the proceeds of the future
harvests. This may lead from money
chaos to system of free exchange.
German scholars and research
students have succeeded in curing
and obviating the danger of the
nave
mined that the malady which, since
1916. has decimated entire provinces
can be engendered in animals nv ar
tinclal cultivation of germs, and thus
nave provided an easy method of
treatment which now has the disease
under control.
The French Demands,
POSTWAR distress has developed the
nXatlon Il:iat or atmospheric nitrogen.
obliged to import even more food
StuHS, thus increasing her unfayor-
able trade balance and DESTROYING ali
possibility of paying her creditors.
DeSplte this France continues to de-
mand IN reparationS in kind sc. 600
tens of nitrogen, equivalent to l 500. :
ooO tons OF wheat, and bases that de-
mand on statement that Germany
doeS not need nitrogen. How ignorant
~ european countries are of the needs
of their neighbors
AS these scientific advances are use
tul to the whole world and not to
germany alone, so the spirit of re-
search and technical science is being
animated toward new creations, and
a people often wrongfully discredited
is opening new vistas for humanity in
many spheres.
Remember this when you hear
Whines and angry curses coming from
Germany and think the Germans
never DO anything else. No statistics
yet are available regar riding the cost
of the fruitless conferences at Cannes
Spa, Genoa The Hague, Moscow. Lon
don and finally Paris. If counted, the
sums spent in this fruitless manner
would total huge sum. and IL the
equally unproductive cost OF the oc-
cupatton of the RhineIand and a
dozen and a half German parliaments
whose rhetoric flow was unheeded
were added it would certainly reach
two billion gold marks, which might
have been utilized in repairing the
European chaos without causing suf-
fering to any one but the favored few
office holders. Even then the reckon
ing would not include the principal
items of armaments and bureaucracy.
The Hughes proposed conference of
experts surely would be more effec-
tive than the meeting of superannu-
ated politicians, but even the greatest
financial expert would be Influenced
by his own cOuntryS special interests.
Even King" Morgan did not forget
the customs tariffs in his recent state
ment, so perhaps the result would
again only be compromise between
conflicting national egoisms.
Yet the problems are solvable if
Europe would only arouse herself to
unity Of majestic common sense,
realizing that reparations, though a
prominent symptom, are not the cause
evil caused by war cannot be cured
by one nation alone, no matter how
guilty. but by collaboration. Because
this is the simple truth il is driven
into dark kennel like a dog barking,
while hundreds of lies warm them
selves on the hearth like fat pigs.
Living Cost Advances.
January, 1922. break cost 10
marks: an egg, az; quart of milk,
5; pound of beef, "a; tram ticket,
|; good coal per ton, 43o; cast iron,
1000. In January. 1929, these prices
are respectively: Bread, $50; egg. 95;
milk, 200; beef. $40; tram. 70; coal.
$4,000; iron. $4,000. The dollar has
risen from 1S7 TO 7,4o0, the gold mark
from as to 1,S00I
The weekly minimum cost of liv-
ing has advanced from 1900 to $4,000
marks, the floating debt from 265
billion to 1900 billion paper marks.
Only blind folly can believe that a
lank sunk to such conditions is ca
pable of producing within its borders
enough OF an industrial surplus to
heal the sickness of an entire conti-
nent.
That this land can produce anything
more than is absolutely necessary for
itself sounds almost like a miracle,
yet it is true.
fCopyri1ht. 1921