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The mother should observe
what are the tastes Of the people
her daughter is going to move
among, and then guide the girl
into taking an interest in them.
That is, il the choice of future
partners lies among outdoor sport
ing people, the mother should en-
courage her daughter to under
stand these things and to excel
in whatever sport or game seems
to be the chief interest in the
community, and whose center
would give the best chance OF
meeting suitable partners.
THE WISE WAY.
IL girls live in the country,
with parents who have settled
occupations and not much chance
of travel, and only periodical
visits to the metropolis, 1t would
seem wiser to fit them to enjoy
what they have than to give them
IDEAS and tastes which will isolate
them from the community,
II the girls personality is so
strong that she strikes out on
different line herself, the chances
are that she will either make a
career for herself, regardless Of
marriage, or that she will be mag
netic enough to draw a mate
wherever she is, but the rank and
file Of country girls have not
strong individuality, and 1t is to
the mothers of the average am
speaking, not to the parents of
the phoenix's!
So after the girls have learned
enough to make them understand
current events, and not to be
stupid in conversation, the chief.
concentration should be on making
them pretty and attractive, good
at games, able to play light music
and. above all, to be really good
dancers. All the force which
thirty years ago went. to making
them good and industrious and
resigned and worthy should now
be used in making them attract
ive-if the admitted aim Is to.
secure husband.
THINGS TO STUDY.
And if the advice gave about
self respect has been followed,
the girls character viii have
been well formed by the time she
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dustrial Jew alike, are shame
lessly murdered in Germany, amid
the applause of the crowd, when
Ludendorff is undeniable master
of ultra-militarist Bavaria, and
Hindenburg is spoken of asspresi-
dent of the Reich?
France represents victory on
the German frontier France
gone, all the victorious nations
are in danger. If your sentinel is
laid low, where is your security!
PREPARATIONS FARCE.
1t is the same in the matter of
PREPARATIONS. 1t has, perhaps, been
England who has shown herself
the most intransigent in that re-
spect. 1t was she who most in
sisted on repayment by Germany.
The English general elections
were fought on the cry, Make
Germany Pay" Less than six
months after, under the influence
of her business men, and because
of the failure of work, she begins
nunciation.
France advanced more than
ninety milliards of francs on &C.
count of Germany, and she has
only received, under different
: forms, about seven milliards. But
reconstruction is far from being
completed, the fall Of the mark Is
accelerated, and everybody Is talk
ing about the bankruptcy Of Ger
many. Is 1t not already an
nounced that the payment of-pri-
Vate debts of the prewar period
subject to appeal Is to be put off
till 1928? German industry pro-
ceeds apace, the great banks are
making profits and increasing
their activity.
Imagine the immortality, the in
justice Of situation, in which
the victims are obliged to undergo
incalculable sacrifices. to dress
their wounds. while the aggressor
at his ease shouts his hatred and
his contempt In their faces.
It is all of a piece. If our allies
Of the war take no interest In
reparation, it is they who at the
end-will have to support, at the
same time with us, all the conse-
quences-failure of work, finan-
cial upset, economic confusion.
How can the doctrinnaires who
prate to us in favor of Germany
their theories of economic soil
darity" refuse to us the benefits
Of that solidarity?
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titled, 7,795 schools re-established
ont Of 1901, 10000 houses pro-
visionally Or completely repaired
out of 600,0 900 habitations destroyed
or injured-that is our balance
sheet.
How have we faced all these
expenses? By policy of taxa
ton Of an unequaled energy, and
simultaneously by domestic loans.
the greatest that history has ever
seen.
TAXATION POLICY.
No. Parliament has ever voted
so many new taxes as the French
Chambers in 1920. In the year
preceding the war, we paid hard
ly four milliards Of taxation. This
year we have paid twenty-one
milliards; next year we shall pay
twenty-five. Income tax, which
was originally per cent at it's
lowest, has been successfully
raised to 10, IL, 20, and even SO
per cent. Fiscal charges are
about 25 per cent heavier per
head Of population in France
than in the United States. The
conquered Germans pay $13 tax
alton per head and per annum to
victorious French $45.
The sums lent to the state, by
subscribers to loans, were raised
between 1914 and 1921 to 100
milliards. The total domestic debt
is 232 milliards, foreign debt at
the present rate of exchange
about 80 milliards. The payment
of interest and the sinking fund
will represent in the next budget
more than 1914 milliards-call it
81 per cent of our expenses.
WAR RETRENCHMENTS.
We have repaid 10 milliards
and one-half Of the advances
made to us, of which IL milliards
have gone to foreign countries.
We have striven to consolidate
our credit by reducing our fidu-
ciary circulation from the 81 mil
lizards 100000 of 1920, to the
SO milliards 4OO,000,O0O of 1921,
and also by redeeming. as we are
still continuing to do, the gold
we had deposited in the Bank of
England during the war.
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have made themselves persona non
grata with the authorities.
Moreover, the property selected
for confiscation has so far been
the most highly cultivated estates
on which are the most valuable
castles. According to Count Adal.
bert Sternberg, one of the men
whose estates have been expro-
priated, a notice is received stat
ing summarily that the owner.
ship and inventory are to be
turned over to the state on such
and such. a day"
On certain estates the entire
personnel receives a similar no
tice Of dismissal /.
The peasant population still
clings with affection to their old
masters. and mass meetings have
been held protesting against what
they term an illegal and preda-
tory policy" The damaged par.
ties are now attempting to se-
cure redress by appealing to al
neutral tribunal; with the hope or
hating the confiscation and COM
relling the government to respect
the rulings Of the Versailles
Treaty 1.-THE instrument, it will be
remembered, to which the state
owes its existence.
I'VE know full WELL" continues
Count Sternberg, that the gov
eminent will not stop with the
seizure of these preliminary lands
and estates, but will exemplify
the axiom that appetite grows
with eating"
This Agrarian law for break.
ing up of large landed properties,
though. it originated in the de-
sire Of the new state to crafty
the land-hunger of a peasant
population, Is being used for ma
tionalistic ends, by introducing
Czech colonists into essentially
Ger1nan-speaking districts. It is
the same policy, as H. N. Brails-
ford points out in recent num-
Der of the New Republic, which
earned general execration for Bis
naarck when he adopted this
course against the Poles.
Brailsford further says that
the course of an aggressive ma
tionalism has been stamped over
the whole Of Central and East
ern Europe"
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- these days mothers have
to- be seen and not heard,
so to speak. because the
youthful spirit Of the age brooks
no "overlord.' So that fact is
evidently the most necessary
qualification for a parent to pos
sess who wishes to guide. her off
spring wisely.
Since the war, looking for
husband for girls not endowed
with what / call 1T THAT name
less attraction which draws most
members of the opposite sexl is
like looking for a needle in
bundle of hay!
Men grow more and more diff
ficult-and girls seem to grow
more and more numerous! And
they are such nice girls, too!
Far finer characters than the
average used to he thirty years
ago, and infinitely more cap
able.
But just because the relative
number Of the sexes are so dis
proportionate and men have such
a large choice of mates, and girls
are so anxious to please them,
those who can appeal to that
which is stronger in @.lan--his pri-
native instinct appear to have
the best chance.
MOTHERS DUTY.
Now this is not fine, or what
one. could wish, or any of the
things which we elderly ones
have been brought up to believe
in, but If one is giving. advice as
to how to secure stated end,
Of what use to give it upon a
basis of what ought to be--in-
stead of what is!
What is, unfortunately, in Eng
land is that men are satiated with
too many women to choose. from.
So the wise mother should look
around to see what sort of young
men her daughter will be likely
to come in contact with when
she becomes seventeen or eight
cen.
IL they live in the country
their number may not be large.
and all their possibilities can be
pretty well gauged. So let us
begin with them. and the argu-
ments employed would apply also
to town jewellers in the main.
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ance Willis Live" Declares the Tiger Who Reces the Story Postwar French
Effort Toward Rehabilitation and Calls Preparations Progress Date Farce
Declares Germany WOULD Have Dsmembe France and Says Attitude
His Country is Mild Toward Defeated Country by Comparison

Germany had proclaimed that
by the voice of her emperor, OF
her chancellors, by the declara-
tons of her great Industrial and
agricultural associations, by the
manifesto of her inteIlectuals.
Victorious, she would have annexed
the iron ores of Briey, the coal Of
the department of the north and of
the Pas de Calais, the coast region
next to Belgium almost up to the
Somme, as well as the hinterland
necessary to give, economically
and strategically, importance
to the ports, and also Toul,
Verdun, and Belfort. The popu-
lations of these territories would
have been appropriated. And it
would not have sufficed to dis
member France, to- tear from
her the regions which produce
a third of her wealth. She
must be deprived of all re-
sources. "In the interest of her
own existence we must weaken
France politically; and we must
have no pity on her. We must
impose on France a heavy war
indemnity without any regard
for her interests"
END HAGGLING.
I have recalled those words
the words of a secret memoir,
addressed in 1915 to the Ger
man chancellor, Of the Agricul-
tural League. the Industrial Lea
que, the Middle Glass Union,
only to contrast it with our
e moderation. We have not an
nexed one inch of German ter
ritory; no protesting deputy will
sit in our Parliament; we have
inflicted no economic slavery,
no war indemnity. We have
asked for nothing but repara-
ton. A nation which, like
France, has proved in super
human fashion it's will to live
has the right to obtain from
its allies the support necessary
for the execution of the condi-
tons Of peace. There is no es-
cape from the duty Of solidarity.
1t is not enough to sign peace
peace must be realized. So
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War Premier Of France

We have not only proved our
wish for peace-even in the alb
sence of any similar guarantees
abroad-by the reduction of our
term of military service from
three years to eighteen months,
and by the suppression of nu-
merous bodies of troops. We
have shown it in our budget by
the diminution of military and
naval expenses, which in 1919
amounted to Is milliards, in 1921
to nilliards 300,O00,000. and in
1922 are milliards 900, 000, 900.
II you compare these figures
with those of 1913, the reduction
is per cent, taking into ac-
count the coefficient of increased
cost of living. But, in England,
the same expenses have risen 10
per cent; in Japan, II per cent.
We have made the same Sc
rious effort in our civil expendi-
ture. From IL milliards 00,00O,-
900 in 1920, they fell to 9 mill
lizards 900 ,O00,oOO, in 1921, and to
Z milliards in 1922. During the
first six months of that year
$4,000 functionaries have been
discharged.
Who in the world would dare
rise to say that. in our present
condition, we could have done
better?
FRANCE HELPS HERSELF.
France has vigorously helped
herself.
What have her allies done to
help her? What have they
done to secure to her the re-
payment of damages without
which she cannot live? What
have they done for her security2
Pacts of united guarantee
were offered to her to persuade
her to forego the enduring occu-
patton of the left bank of the
Rhine. What has come of them?
One may ask If France is not
more alone than in 1914, when
she had a formal alliance with
Russia. Has her danger dimin-
ished? Who can sincerely be-
lieve that when the artisans of
peace, Erzberger and Rathenau,
the Catholic deputy and the in
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long as the last shocks of war
are not appeased, let us have
none of that haggling which
would bring into question the
victories we have so dearly
bought together. To establish
the new order we must have
the cooperation of all.
France does not even recall to
her allies the promises which
were made to her and which re-
main unfulfilled. She declares
herself proudly determined to
fulfill all her own engagements.
She asks only one thing
that she shall not sink amid
the indifference Of her friends.
Reconstruction and security are
for her necessities. If France is
not paid, If the devastated regions
are not reconstructed, her eco
nomic life is ended. If her
frontier may be invaded on the
first pretext by neighbor whose
only dream is vengeance, her
national life is done. It would he
suicide to renounce that double
policy of reparation and military
security. The treaty of Versailles
will but have marked a truce in
the tragic history of the world
if, ruined by the discord of the
allies, their negligence or their
indifference, it buries under her
own ruins France, the symbol of
Justice, of Democracy, of Liberty.
POSTWAR EFFORT.
Since the armistice, in spite of
the shrinking of her strength
during fifty-two months of war,
France has ardently returned to
work. The enormous mass OF
work and the rapidity with which
it has been performed deserve the
admiration Of the world, as much,
perhaps, as the magnificent valor
of the allied armies. The popu-
lation brought back home to- the
devastated region (4,O56,8S3 had
returned on July, 1 last out OF
4,690,062 who went out in 1910,
the railways entirely reconstruct.
ed, the roads restored, 10000
workshops rebuilt out Of the o.
900 destroyed, 80 per cent of the
Land cleaned Of projectiles and
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a better. disposition of superflu-
Gus forces, to strengthen the
weaker works by re-enforcements
from the stronger ones.
Goal turned into bread, is
their slogan. They do not hate
J him; he has become their god or
fate-a fate with which one dare
not trifle; from which even the
poisonous arrows of their radical
papers glance off harmlessly;
that black beard shining like a
lump Of coal; that pale, flabby
face; the expressionless eyes, in
the depths of which slumber an
onnipotent fire: those hands Of
efficient deeds, and the heavy,
shutting gait this is
Shines
HOW HE STARTED.
"He reached his present pima
Gle of power slowly but without
vacillation; just as his grand
father. Matthias. ran to the King
in Berlin to secure customs i'm
munity for the Rhine. so did
young Hugo fight for the posses
sion of his first Industrial plant
the mining and smelling COM
pany known as the "Deutsch-
Luxembourg after having grad
uated from the School of Mines
and absorbed a course of practi-
cal training.
Fifteen years later he was in
the forefront of the mad race of
European industry. At first, his
industrial colleagues were inclined
to regard him as a bad financier,
not realizing the tremendous or
ganizing power lying latent in
this man. Then came. the war
and the powerful speeding-up Of
German industry. At one leap
stocks of the "Deutsch-Luxn stood
side by side with Krupp and
Phoenix. Shines next acqtfisi-
ton was that of the Rhenish-
Westphalian Electrical Works. At
first intended to provide electric
power for the SHINES plants alone,
these works now feed the entire
area stretching from the Dutch
border to the valley Of the Abr,
including the cities OF Cologne
and Duesseldorf. with an annual
capacity Of one thousand million
kilowat hours.
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H/TIID-GLOVE bolsheyism" is
the name the large land
lao wn e.rs in sCzechoslo-
vakia apply to the high-handed
measures taken by the government
in confiscating private property
and turning it over to the state
Already 100000 acres of forest
land belonging to thirty-seven
owners have been thus axpro-
priated-a drastic measure only to
be fully understood by going back
to events which happened in the
year 1919.
Scarcely had the revolution grown
cold when a group in whose hands
rested momentary power met and
declared themselves q constituent
assembly, although possessing no
mandate from the people, and from
which all non.Czech nationalities,
including important men Of finance
and owners of big estates, were ex-
cluded. :
A constitution was drafted with
out the participation OF a single
German representative, one of the
first acts of the new assembly be-
ing the passage Of a law providing
for the appropriation of the estates
Of the members of the former reign
ing family, as well as the large
properties belonging to the Aus
trian and Hungarian aristocracy.
No compensation whatever was
offered, while others were Tor lands
coming under this category, placed
upon a list for an eventual compen-
sation to be estimated by the gov.
eminent.
The names Of the original own
ers were erased from the lists at
the registration office and replaced
by that Of the state as the new
owner of the properties. Every
sale. every lease and every change
of any kind whatsoever had to be
registered at the bureau for land
ed property" especially created
for this purpose, and permission
granted for SUCH negotiations.
It is only recently, four years
after the close Of the war, that the
government has commenced carry
ing out its real program of confis.
cation, affecting as has already
been stated, 100000 acres of forest
lands belonging to individuals who
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The TifHes-Hcrdld last meek pre-
Sented the 0ietcs OF Joseph CGillG1tE,
former premier of Frances on the
German YeparGtjoits question. THIS
S sSsss e eissnce sas contrary
At THE end of the most
formidable and the most
"A glorious Of wars. France
has not piled the spoils of the
enemy in trophies on her public.
places. In the most celebrated
center of her capital, under a
plain stone of the Triumphal
Arch, she has buried. with piety
and dignity, the remains of an
, Unknown Soldier who died in her
defense.
Who fails to comprehend the
Significance of that act? 1t is
a. tender homage to those who
fell; it speaks also of our resolve
never to forget the horrors of the
war and to keep the promise
made by the Fatherland to the
heroes who sleep in the dust: to
assure to their descendants the
blessings OF peace, to give them
prosperity with honor and JUS
tice, and to that end to maintain
the pact Of reparation and of jus
tice signed at Versailles by twenty
seven states.
What does France desire? To
live.
France has all but succumbed
under the blows Of her enemies.
Four times she has staggered un-
der them; four times she has re-
covered, and has been able, in
spite of all, to hold her own
during that last quarter of an
hour which gave her allies time
to come to her succor.
WHAT FRANCE LOST.
At the armistice France was
painting for breath. but she lived
DGCduSS buo Itdu "IIbcO 10 hNe
The war has cost our country
$50 nilliards of francs; damages
to property and to persons
amounted to 200 milliards; we
had to spend nearly all that mass
of foreign. values which consti-
tuted a large part of the riches
of the country. From being large
ly a creditor country, France has
become a heavy debtor. She has
fallen from her financial prestige.
Worst of all, she had lost 1.400,-
900 of her children, 100000 were
MANNED, 100000 wounded. She
had made these terrible sacrifices
with unanimous courage because
she had known that defeat meant
extinction.
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GER MA " 7
81 KARL Won WIEGAND
Industrial Monarch of Germany and Chief Power
Government Is Perhaps the Outstanding
Figure Today. just What Manner of Man He
Wiegand Tells i'm This Comprehensive Estimate
Universal Service Staff Writer

"The giant now began to take
on more concrete form. He be-
gan to grow, and he has con-
tinued to grow through all the
economic crises which have shak-
en- Europe to the very core DUR
ing the last four years, and to
raise hirnself-with an unprece-
denied display of will power-out
Of the industrial chaos, and drag
with him war-weary and dis
integrated Germany and put her
on her feet again.
'eHe has introduced the. princi-
pie of vertical factory production,
whereby the raw material goes in
at one door of the factory and
comes out finished article at
the other door. To give only one
example OF this: Railroad ma
terial is manufactured in the
Dortmund- Bochum works. The
ore comes from the SHINES mines
in the Ruhr, in Nassau, in the
Harz mountains and elsewhere,
as does also the necessary tim
Der. Today Dortmund-Bochum
has its own blast furnaces
foundries, steel works and !, roll
ing mills; the supplementary
SHINES works at Horst are pro-
vided with a screw factory, car
spring factory, glass works. car
penter's and varnish shops, so
that entire railroad trains down
to the ninutest equipment, come
from this complex.
ECONOMY rs WATCHWORD.
"Stinnes was the first indus
trial in Germany to, adopt the
new economic tempo. Totally is
the keynote OF all his activity,
and all effort is directed toward
economy OF material and trans
Dortation. SHINES. himself, is
modern working organism, that
is to say, one that performs its
functions without dissipating a
single ounce Of energy: he repre-
sents the vertical type of big
business man from the inception
of the idea to the ultimate rean-
zation.
He is an 'untiring promoter,
observer, corrector, and moreover,
he never stands still but is ever
on the alert to catch and hold
fate's fluttering mantle.".... 4a..
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Prohibition Wins
Great Victory inn
One German City
nv KARI, Won wTEGAND
RERITN Ian 81.

BERLIN, Jan. 81.
nSNABRUECK in Hanover is
" the first city in Germany to
take practical stand on the pro-
hibition question.
A test vote was taken recently
to sound the sentiment of the
population as to the enactment of
a law prohibiting the manufacture
and use OF alcoholic drinks, and
to the evident establishment of
all concerned an overwhelming
majority expressed itself in favor
of such legislation.
Another sign of the times is the
falling off of the beer consump-
ton in northern Germany, which
amounts to Is per cent, as against
year ago.
A number of the large brewerles
in Bremen and Hamburg are con-
verting their plants into the man.
ufacture of margarine, malt beer
aM6 ether sorts of foodstuffss