The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1923-06-01

charge was Undertaken ny Inc allie
and associated powers themselve
Thus the Treaty of Versailles doe
not provide for Identification I
Germany for the cost of the war b.
deals exclusively with PREPARATION
and restitution. For this German
was ordered to pay and she agree
to pay.
Payment of Preparations.
Nov roughly speaking there ar
four ways in which nation defeat
ed in war may pay idemnity and req
aration to the victors: first, by ces
sion Of territory; second, by the pay
ment OF any accumulated stock q
| gold or gold values, including fore
II ign securities or currencies it ma.
have stored up or may be able tt
secure; third, by transfer of Sc
curities representing corporate own
ership of industrial or other enter
prises such as public utilities, fac
tories, etc.; and fourth, the export O
natural or industrial products.
| Germany was required to comply
with the first of these methods very
| fully-Alsaca, Lorraine, Belgium, Po-
/, land, Colonies.
Germany has paid some gold. The
total amount was not fixed in the
Treaty of Versailles, but on May II,
1921 Germany agreed to pay 1872 bill
ion gold marks
"The present occupation Of the
Ruhr, then, was move the posi-
bility of which the German govern
ment has had chance to consider
for well night two years.
Germany Evades her Obligation.
Germany has not only endeavored
to evade her obligations under the
treaty, her representatives had sign
ed at Paris, she has repudiated even
the offer that she made at Paris.
Some time ago she agreed to pay so
billion gold marks and last January
when she thought she was safe she
wanted to submit an offer of 80 bill
ion which the allied powers very ma
turally and properly refused Germ
any has paid some gold but not any
more than she has had to, possibly
a billion and quarter gold marks
But she has not complied with the
terms of the treaty nor has she Civ
en- the slightest evidence that she in
tends to do So
"And yet there are those in this
country who are shouting at the top
Of their lungs to France "Give up part
Of your claims against Germany" and
with the same breath, "Pay us every
cent that you owe us and with in
crest To France whose house was
)urned whose fair fields were laid
waste under the scathing blight of
var, to France whose sons bled and
lied for you and for me we say, Give
lp your claims, scale them down,
orget the war, reduce the payment
rom 1872 billions to 10 or Is billions
tut to that same France, to whom
re stand in the position Of creditor,
re say, Pay to the last SOU
Not Rocking the Boat.
"Is France rocking the boat? OF
purse she isn't. Preparations she
lust have or she dies. And that the
ord cannot see no matter what
appens AS a means of forcing rep
'ations the only method apparently
hich Germans can understand, force
lie has adopted and by the same tok-
she has made assurance doubly
cure against renewed attack.
If the ship Of civilization is to
1e the waves on an even keel, It
n only be through the balancing I
budgets, the making of both ends
get. And both ends can only meet
the fear of aggression and military
ploits is eliminated. And the only
pc Of doing this is to make sure
1T the Prussian spirit, the spirit
the unspeakable Hohenzollerns is
ever crushed.
AN insecure France means an I'M
,ure world. An insecure France
ans the possibility of another Lus-
mia, another Edith Cavell, another
lion of poppie covered graves IN
fair lands of France and Fland-
another American Legion going
tn, mighty army, to make the
rid safe, safe for America, safe
France, the glorious torchbearer
continental civilization, safe for a
rid Of civilized men and women"