The Washington times., 1932-03-21
Pm Insulted"

clear after he had failed to defeat Hndenburg and was
compelled to appear before tribunal investigating his
citizenship Like many American politicians Hitler con-
siders any inquiry insult he said He said it was
onstrous that he, who had fought for four years at
the 'front.' should not be naturaized while thousands OF
East Gaicans had been admitted to citizenship He
considered it of Importance that he had fought as
Austrian, not German He was willing to ap-
pear almost-martyred, almost-presdent OF Ger
many because small boy threw stone at the window
of his railway carriage And, to the commissioner in
vestigating his citizenship, he cried OUT "TPke your
hands ont of pockets 'Ohen go" are talking to MET
Herr Hitler somehow fails to be impressive. Maybe
he needs press agent, and maybe he needs new
character.
The Presidents sefcongratuations the success Of
the anti-hoarding campaign struck me as being both
premature and pathetic; it sounded like Channei
swimmer who had in last in the race and boasted
paign was, as George Santayana said of many such
schemes, curing the symptom and driving IN the as
And the proof of it comes from the strangest
quarter; even the counterfeters are boarding. few
days ago two hundred 10dollar bogus bills were found
under the mattress in New York hotel If the hoard
ng-psychology of fase-coiners hasn't been affected
we're still in bad way
disbelieve the story that Park Avenue mourned the
death of Ivar Kreuger chiefly because the first lines OF
the report said that hardly anyone knew Kreuger Wells
mystery are not mourned, not even by SO mourn
fully dull street Park Avenue above Fifty-ninth.
think the real mourners should have been the dis
possessed because with Kreugers suicide of the
most attractive myths of time came closer to COM
pete vanshment. the myth of available wealth
in fabulous terms the myth of inOrnate riches gold
plated men-servants silk-and-velvet yachts and un
limited power. mean the characters and doings of
an E. Phillips Oppenhem romance, the Graustarkan
American millionares the strangely quiet Brtons who
control world politics. the odd Belgian and Greek
figures who rich that they cannot breathe with
out exhaling slight, and desirable taint of gold.
The Million Man
do not know how long the idea of countless wealth
has been wedged into the mind of human beings When
Marco Polo and his brothers home to Venice after
their travels and at banquet stripped off their rags
and began to throw gold and jewels upon the table, the
whole city marveled, envied and called Marco I'll
Mione." From the wealth of India to the far-flung
riches of the from Death Valley, the thought
of riches has had ncalcuabe effect what people
think and do In his moments of aspiration every
wants ten or a hundred or thousand times much
as he has, but in his important daydreams he wants
more money than he count.
For ten years we have all believed that this mmeasur
able sum could be found somewhere and, equally i'm
portant to us, that found it would last forever
The series of shocks which began in 1929 have first
persuaded that have to deate the figures of our
day-dreas the sharper shock of death like Kreugers
errfes because have suddenly to revise our whole
idea of the permanence of money.