Evening star., 1924-04-13
DAWES PILL BITTER,
"BUT OFFERS HELP"
Harden Says Germany Must Swal-
low It or Be intoxicated by
Cry for Revenge.
SHOWS MUCH TIME LOST
Writer Says Less Would Have Been
Acceptable Long Ago.
SHOWS MUCH TIME LOST
BY MAMMALIAN HARDEN.

Ry Radio to The Star.
BERLIN. April 12.-Many Germans
had hoped that the experts decision
would act like Portals decision in
granting Shylock his pound of flesh,
lut no blood. They forget that even
the most clever experts are not
IuaSicianS.
The writer's old wish-that the
whole reparationS problem be SUBJ
mitted to unprejudiced business men.
who should make a decision quite
Unhampered by the peace treaty-is
finally fulfilled. only partially. The
best practical men were chosen. but
were obligated to make economic
necessities to fit in with existing
treaties when making their solution
of the problem.
Choosing of this way, against
which commercial reason and COM
mon sense should have equally
warned. created the most difficult i'm
Uediment conceivable. That, follow
Jug publication of the report, its
shortcomings and hardShips are at
first emphasized everywhere proves
nothing; in every oriental bazaar the
huyer tries to depreciate the value OF
the merchandise he desires and the
INV anu StiuOIH PRAISES the TASTE VI the
medicine he must swallow.
World Gratitude Due.
Thr world owes thanks to the in
telligent. honest and financially eX-
perienced men who gave quarter of
q year of their valuable time to find
ing practicable solution.
The burdens placed on Germany.
which include surrender of SOW
ereignty Ia many respects, are fear
fully heavy. Perhaps they could have
heen less heavy if the Berlin gov
ernment, which in December, lS22.
declared itself unable to make any
payments of money or wares, had not
Immediately thereafter been able to
finance the Ruhr resistance and an
eight month general strike OF huge
proportions. to pay for great guam
titles of coal and metals with foreign
currency, and nevertheless to stabilize
German currency without difficulty.
Through all this the government
aroused suspicion that its woeful
cries We're not justified and that Ger
many could pay more than IT had de-
clared it was able to pay. While the
experts were studying the economic
state and statistics, they heard how
many thousand Germans were travel
ing in the Riviera, Italy, Greece and
Egypt; what sums We're paid out IN
this conquered. debt burdened land
for English fabrics, French costumes,
perfumes, hats, cavier. trufIies, pine
apples. bananas and oranges. for i'm
ported luXuries of all descriptions
that in one month southern fruits
worth 125, 100000 gold marks were
imported; that all places Of amuse-
ment were full and thai large and
small capitalists were losing gigantic
sums through their belief that the
French franc would continue to fall.
Germany's Setback.
Men around Gen. Dawes and owen
Young may have thought that money
spent for the Ruhr, for speculation
on the franc and lost through the
consequent drop in the stock market
would have been enough to pay repa-
the sturdy back of the nation which
presented such a spectacle in the
sixth postwar year would bear the
heaviest burdens. This SuppUsitior
can turn out to be ff,lse. but it is
certain that the repair ..tions question
would have been anSrFered long age
II Germany had volt ntarily offered
three quarters as much as the ex-
perts now propose.
The best thing about the experts
report is that it desires to restore
GermanyS 'ght to free disposal OF
the occupied districts The worst
thing is that it comes during an cleo
tion campaign in which victories won
in SaXony, Meek lenhurg and Ba-
varia by the widest natioRalists are
dangerous advance signs
The seriousness of the hour com
pels Germans TO make the fateful de
ciSion whether they will let therr-
selves be intoxicated by the nation
alists revenge speeches OF will try
TO bring health to their old continent
by swallowing the bitter dose.
The humor in the whole situation
comes in the experts decision: All or
nothing. This warning against ac-
cepting the pleasant and rejecting
the unpleasant. against plucking out
the raisins from the cake and leav-
ing the cake, is at base as witty as
Portals command to 'cut out the
flesh, but spill no blood"
The writer would like to wager that
this humor is made in America.
Copyright, 1924.)