Red Lodge daily news combined with Carbon County news., 1932-05-05
TELEPHONE NUMBER NINE
MORE Is COMING TO US

We knew it~would come sooner or later. The only sur
prise is that someone hadn't thought OF 1t sooner uncle
Sam has gone wrong in Europe since the signing OF the
Asmistice. He is chastised verbally because he doesn't FUR
nish men and money to police the world, and because he
doesn't cancel the debt which the allied nations owe u.s.
But at last has come the browning mathematical achleV-
ment. Mr.. Cheradame French journalist, has figured that
the allies don't owe us anything at all, but that on the other
hand we owe them a lot of money. So 1t can be SEEM II thls
theory becomes popular, as it d doubtless will in Europe and
among American nternationalists,tha as soon as the debts
are cancelled, agitation will start for Uncle Sam to start
making payments to Europe on account OF the late lam
ented war.
NJ. Cheradame figures it out this way: it took Uncle Sam
465 DAVIS 10 oct ready to fight before American troops
actually began hopping up in France. During that time he
saws we saved 10000 American lives and eleven billions
in money and during that time of course the allies were
holding on for dear life on the western front and begging
Uncle Sam to hurry.
Therefore. according to NJ. Cheradame,we owe for this
saving of life and money something like sixteen billions
to the. allies vet. He has worked it all out and estimates
that after the debts are cancelled we will still owe $761,O0O
900 to France, $500, 100000 to Italy and something like
1927, 100000 to Belgium, to say nothing of what we would
owe Great Britain. Evidently we get no credit for having
finally saved the allies themselves.
M. Cheradame it is said, has presented a resolution to
the French parliament calling for the payment OF the net
amount by America to France.
Now in view of all Of the government activities IN this
country during that 465 days of preparation, with Its
wooden and concrete ships, its high-pressure motors that
had a hard time motoring, its great building program
on the cost plus plan, the average American will be in
cined to doubt whether we saved that eleven billions
that M. Cheradame talks so glbly about. But if the French
still think we owe them three quarters OF a billion on
account, in addition to debt cancellation, M. Cheradame
can no doubt get plenty of backing from certain distin-
guished American college professors and international
politicians and financiers.
But in view of all the internationalist propaganda for
cancellation, we are beginning to wonder just whose war
this was anyhow, and who started it. It's a good thing
for Uncle Sam that he wasn't in the war at the start or by
this time the internationalst would have been blaming
the inception of the conflict on to him instead Of the
Kaiser. In the meantime, as the Topeka Capital so aptly
puts it: 81
$50 there is no calculating the cost of war. After il
seems to have been paid for, there are a lot of tag ends to
liquidate. Mr.. Cheradame, anyhow has a sense of humor
even if he doesn't know it. He would probably agree that
there is no justice III the world. If there were, this country
would submit It's entire war costs to Europe for payment
1t was their war, got up by the armed powers, not ours. >