Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-03-22
GERMANS COMPARE.
YOUNG TO MORGAN.
"SiIent Man" and "ReaI
Heavyweight" Sharply Con-
trasted in Berlin.

By the Associated Press.
BERLIN, March 22-Seen through
German eyes, Owen d. Young, pictured
as THE Silent Man" of the present
reparations conference, and j. Pierpont
Morgan. its "real heavyweight" present
a marked contrast of personality.
The two men who are playing so i'm
portant a role in German economic his
tory, are the subject of considerable
study and comment among German OBJ
servers and newspaper correspondents,
who draw vivid comparisons between
the tall, pale, almost haggard figure OF
Young, in his plain blue business suit,
and the more robust and "jovial' Nor
gan, wearing in his buttonhole the tiny
red bibbon of the French Legion of
Honor.
When the IA experts are seated for
the secret sessions at the table in the
hall of the Hotel George v, writes the
Paris correspondent of Germania, the
official organ of the German centrist
party, the contrast between these two
leaps to every ones eyes.
The calmeSt and most silent member
of the conference Is its president, owen
D. Young. Any one who did not know
him would take him for a technical
assistant, he holds himself at such a
distance from the discussions. This
American, who ranks among the most
successful business men of his country,
has such reserve and such control. not
only of affairs but of himself, that
there is about him almost suggestion
of unreality. His silence is so marked,
it might almost seem uncertainty If it
were not for the steady. direct look of
his eyes.
Seems to Like Work.
"He appears to work for the love of
1t, and any distraction is for him only
an interruption. His secretary has
room next to the one he chose for
himself at the Ritz, overlooking the
silent, snow-shrouded garden of the
Palace of Justice, and it is said that he
often dictates even during the night.
He takes very little part in the activ-
tiles of the other experts outside the
meetings. At most, one only sees his
tall figure silently moving through the
curtains of the blue tea room, his left
hand sunk deep in his pocket. his right
holding a cigar or stubby little pipe.
He works tremendously, but he
works without haste. He has not a
single hasty gesture. Yet he is every
where first. Morning after morning.
he is the first of the members of the
conference 10 appear III tlie AaA VA eAAc
Hotel George ""
In general, the conclusion has been
reached by German writers that only
the most detached weighing of their
country's case may be expected OF
without any special sympathy,
yet without antogonism."
Appraisal of Morgan.
Mr.. Morgan, on the other hand, ap-
pears to them q much more colorful
figure.
Morgan is as full of movement as
Young is still and SILENT" comments
Germania.
Possibly, this paper suggests, the
great financier deliberately tries to
spread this feeling of good fellowship"
about himself, so that the other ex-
perts may forget that while they are
at the conference only as representa-
tives of their nations and governments,
he is there in his own right, as Wall
Street, king" Possibly, IL asks, even
Morgan feels forced to be little con-
clliatory when the figures go up so
high in the billions?"