The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-04-23
Eustace Describes
 Germany s Human Side
Gives Picture of Nation, Thirteen Years After War


 Now let us 10 to southern Ger many, to the imperial city of Frank. furt on the Main river. Here fs a city of over half million people. as yet untouched by the commerciaIien that exists IT cities being visited by
 HOT Hof hose as s1s Ssu sst sn Of the old imperial school and mix in an atmosphere that clfngs to you as q lasting memory.
 You visit the birthplace of Goethe land you call at the banking house | of the Rothschflds, bankers whose forefathers helped finance our War of Independence.
 Frankfurt has remarkably fine inc dustria1 co1onies--where thousands | live happily. The famous Adler Mo- tor Works are fin this city.
 Chatting with Baron von de Wall. famous political writer of the Frank. furter Zeitung, and Q speaker in our country few years ago for the League of Nations, got some ifn- pressive statements.
 When your people of the United States pause and. realize that eighty per cent of the people in Germany cary $50 your money, or less, per month, you can see how the war wiped out the middle class" said Baron von de Wali--continuing he stated. ''and there are not over 150.. 900 people in Germany to-day worth over $10O,000. We are nation of workers, forgetting the heavy pen- atty we are paying, but we must see q brighter future, and need coopera- ton from the rest of the world in order to see the sunshine in the dis
 Now let us journey north and east frs ott n T.nf with a population of over 8O0,000, the largest depot on the continent. and home of the internationally fa- nous Leipzig Trade Fair, which was the main objective of my trip.
 Here were over 10000 exhibits from as many industries from every country in the world. An awe.in- spiring sight. The fair Is housed in 59 fine buildings, ranging from sev- eral that are twice as large as Madi- son Square Garden, to many six to ten story modern affairs, interspersed throughout the city with the reg ular business structures.l The fair by over 160, 900 buyers from all over the world, many from our country.
 Visiting with American Ambas- sador Frederic Sackett one of the big machinery halls, where over 800 ma- chimes were in actual operation, MT. Sackett said, what a marvellous place for American machine manu- agers-why. the industrial brains and products of the world are here. T,
 Quite true. no signs of trade re- lations being affected by the late war--for English, French. Germans, American, Italians--all. were side by side. competing for business.
 President Kohiey of the Leipzig fAfr----a onIfA lfft1a rna n rvffta ,xrr<vfA : wide industrial vision, remarked to me as we saw thousands of men seriously studying the exhibits. ''you are looking at the pulse of Europe would that more Americans would come here annually and profit by this event."
 The Leipzig fair does not have any in the big city of Leipzig are some of the finest concerts. vaudeville shows. and night clubs to be found on the continent. An evening at the Central Theater Night club, seating over one thousand people, is su- perior to any similar place we have in New York or Chicago.
 But speaking of music--it was my pleasure to hear one of the regular weekly concerts at the famous Leip- gig Gwandhaus. and to meet Bruno Walter, conductor of those siytya five musicians, the same Walter who was with the Metropolitan Opera house last season. and is coming over again. And during intermission, the audience discussed intelligently the merits Of the symphony played.
 Germany Is the classic land of music. The names of her great com posers-Bach, Beethoven. Grahms. Flotow. Gluck, MendeIssohn, Meyer beer. Mozart, Offenbach, Schumann,