The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1924-02-29
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RULE ABROAD.
DAK0TAN FINDS
Edward. Becker, Former Me-
Clusky Man Tells Expert
ence of German Trip
NOW TO AUSTRALIA
Retiring From Business He
Decides to See the World;
Has Made Good Start

Having travelled $4,000 miles in tn,
last 10 months, Edward Becker, for
mer McClusky business man, is of
on another little jaunt. This time
he is headed Tor Australia, and
probably will continue on around tho
globe. Becker stopped in Bismarcl
today to see friends on his way from,
st. Paul, his present home, to Sc
attle.
He adopted the slogan See Your
Own Country First when he decided
to embark upon his peregrinations.
So, starting out in May, 1923, he
went to the Gulf of Mexico, over
to California, up to Canada and back
to North Dakota and st. Paul.
Last fall Becker decided he wanted
to visit Germany. SO he went over,
remained about a month, passed
through England and Holland, and
arrived in the United States three
weeks ago.
Germany, he said, is not an in
viting country.
Everybody seems stunned" he
said. They don t>know what is GO
ing to happen. Most of them are
getting out as fast as they can-to
South America Jand the United
States.
Pay High Prices
I'm Berlin on Dec. 90 eggs we're
20 cents each, pork rs cents
pound, beef 85 cents pound, goose
81 90 a pound and butter SLIGO a
pound he said.
There is. lots of business and /
didn't see many beggars but there
are lots of people without enough
food. | was at Hamburg and no.
ticed bunch of boys on sleds. They
plainly were undernourished."
Nevertheless, he found much
and the music halls
crowded.
Becker went into the Ruhr, where
he found the English soldiers, who
were hated so badly by the Ger
mans during the war, receiving
friendly attentions.
Where the English are occupying
a town you'll see a German and an
English soldier walking down the
street chatting, but in the Ruhr if
a French officer comes the German
walks around to avoid him."
The Ruhr, he said, was not as busy
as in normal times, although the
people passively accept the French |
occupation. There is much unem-
ployment there, he said.
The Germans, he said are friendly |
70 Americans and American dollars. |
- You hand out an American bill
and they II be anxious to get it, he
said, but they don't want our silver
they're not used to that"
Becker saw no food riots or other
roublcs. The police, he said, carryl
'abres and are not adverse to using
hem, which discourages rioting.
The Kaiser, he said, never will get
Jack on the throne. The Germans
'ay little about the formet War
lord, but they are not very friend
Y toward him, he said. They are go
ng to try the President they have
! little while longer, he said.
Foreigners have no difficulty in
ravel. Becker said, but they have
o report at a police station every
a hours, and leave picture. |,
Finds Seas Rough
Becker ran into rough seas on his1
eturn trip on, the Holland
inc steamship Veedem, being 1914
avs on the ocean. On the trip he
assed Doom, where the former Kai-
er is held, closely guarded he said.
The ship had on board 80 German
immigrants. The storm delayed the
hip so that it appeared it could not
lake New York in time to land them .
efore the quota as immigrants was
Exhausted. So the captain of the {
hip turned to Halifax,N put the Ger
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