Evening star., 1924-05-18
BY MAxIMILIAN HARDEN.

By Radio to The Star.
BERLIN, May 17.-Premier Poin-
care almost reached his goal. His
productive pledges are proved by
the Dawes report to have been right
and British warnings against the
Ruhr undertaking are proved to have
been wrong, for the Franco-Belgian
occupation can harvest this year at
least a billion gold marks from the
Rhine and Ruhr.
But M. Poincare, whose success was
SO great. feels that he has lost his
country's confidence, so he will de-
scend from the premier's seat, while
Gen. Ludendorff. who never achieved
a lasting success and who was chief
ly guilty for prolonging the war and
the disaster of 1918, is so enthusi-
astically cheered that the German
Republican government, which by
procrastination has doubled the price
of peace, protects him from the
wrath of real republicans.
"Whnt Does This Meanf'
Does this mean that France is
| peaceably inclined and that Germany
is bellicose? No. Germany is an in
valid, sore from long lying on one
side, and has Topped to the other.
One cannot blame or praise him for
| it, but must help him get wei.
No mere swallowing of medicines,
even those excellent ones contained
in the Dawes report, can cure him
| entirely, for the roots of his illness
| are in his mind and spirit. which can
be reached only by kind. patient
| lighting of the way toward nobler
| thoughts.
The Ruhr occupation, so loudly
censured by the British, was called
| by the American experts a necessary
undertaking. Their thorough, intelli-
gent investigation proved most of NJ
| Poincare'S accusations. AS early as
| November, 1922. Germany declared
| she would be unable to pay repara-
| tionS for at least three years, but
| the Dawes report shows she possesses
| today over eight billion marks in
| foreign securities, despite the tre-
| purchases of raw stuffs and specula-
| tion in the franc. So much has been
| spent on improving German railways
| that their value now is estimated al
| twenty-six billion gold marks.
Modernizing Agriculture.
Similar improvements have been
made in telephones. telegraphs, ca
| 1diS anu T1dTDOISI willie Immense SufNS
| have been spent privately in modern
| iZing agriculture and industry.
a land whose domestic economy
| could produce such a surplus inpost-
| war years, and which is almost debt
| less, cannot call itself poor ano
could, after short pause, with just
taxation and a reasonable budget
easily pay two and half billion gold
| marks annually in reparations, anC
more as its wealth increased.
While the people of France were
! smashing President Millerand's bloc
national last Sunday, and were show
ing a desire for more peaceable inter
| national relations, the PruSsian in.
dustrial and university town of Halle
celebrated 'deutscher tag"
The ceremony took place with al
the pompous anti-Republican par
aphernalia of the old army. One OF
Wilhelm's sons-(his father is still
called his majesty, our most gracious
king and kaiser")-a whole troop il
with 5000 war flags flying and the
streets hung with imperial banners
made a picture which the most toi-
Grant republic with any self-respect
ought never to have allowed But
the German republic not only al
lowed this impudent provocation, but
favored it
Demand Monarchy Restoration.
| societies" in uniforms and helmets
with black death-head flags, and inn
perial officers, who have been paiC
handsomely by the republic for do
ing nothing, reviewed Republican
troops marching in goose step
Speeches were made demanding res
| toration of the monarchy. The only
demonstrations forbidden were So
| cialiSt and Communist gatherings, Or
ganized in protest against this i'm
pudence, which were dispersed with
bayonets and clubs by thousands OF
| policemen and were kept behind
gratings like animals for twelve
hours without food and drink.
Some who resisted were shot down by
the machine guns of the republic they
| created in 1918.
Ten dead and hundreds of wounded is
| the days material balance, and the
| spiritual balance is even worse.
Nowhere does a voice of protest arise
| from the German Democrats, some OF
whom are members of the government