Show Nobody i las Has Money In Germany I Prices Are High and Banks Ask Time to Cash Mark Checks T Br BY B M rU N n German Gennan a l 8 Special Radio Kadio to Tho Th Stand- Stand ard CON right 1924 by The Th Consolidated Con pre s Ann May 24 Could BERLIN lou au lend me mo 10 mark marks for tor asks aks an Import import- important Important three da das dav 8 ant state official Respectable commercial firms furnis beg postponement of ol small mall debts debit Small bink say ay please call colI tomorrow It if you seek to cash ca h a check ch ck as a large as marks mark Dozens ot of such uch examples could be b riven gisen gh en from fram dally daily ex- ex experience cx In n Germany After Atler years year o ot loud lament lament- Inc log Germany now Is I passing through the most acute ot of all her criso crises Finan Financial cial or economic 7 That I Is the tho Question It It I is being gradually ally lly realized that stabilization of the mal math Ie at one ane on thousand billion paper m has had the tho Internal economic effect of a state of o bank bank- bankrupt bankruptcy rupt Y Nobody his s money Pi ices are re higher in Germany than an nv where here In the tho world Good Gaad merchandise if Is t Ice as cheal cheap In London Where can Ger- Ger mans get money for tor food tood I clothes rent and education 7 Those who wha avd saed money and andI bought ga bonds are arenow arenow arenow I now beggars People sell stocks lo to bu bu bread Credits are unobtainable These conditions condition mOl I e than hatred tor for France Induced people to speculate peculate on an the fall fail of the franc Those who ho bor- bor borro bor borrowed ro rowed ed one on hundred mullion marks to ta build a factory and repaid the th loan when It v sas as asworth sonth orth only enough to bu bui a couple of ot car tickets natural natural- naturally naturally ly want II a repetition o of ot this excellent joke jake jok The greatest banke hankers bankers pro pre predicted pre predicted contrary to the th writer that the franc trane would tall fall as rapidly as j the he mark but theIr hopes wore were disappointed ted an and life lias baa become stagnant even In the busiest centers of at Berlin and Hamburg Vast V t sums hao o been wiped out and many more speculators are ore trembling for ter pay pay- payment pay payments ment menUs ments due In June de do the wobbly condition of ot Paris Pans exchange What has not been spoilt this way oy has been spoilt by senseless conflict with the The Tho writer anton calls call It senseless because no adequate reason irta hUI hi been adduced In Inthe inthe Inthe the official e pla- pla of the police raid on an anthe the Russian y Every Ivery- Ivery- Ivery Everybody body bady kne knew Idle the th em- em em embassy basy bassy encouraged the Ger- Ger Ger man communists by givIng tl them jobs jabs but this never pre pre- prevented prevented pre prevented vented the government and IU the police from asso- asso associatIng associating asso with aith Bolshevist chiefs here Clever Ambassador iky sky's parties partle alway ays o ho been n popular and not only for their lavish hospitality At Atthe the tho last anniversary of ot the soviet republic the tir writer saw In the tho th rooms room once Inhabited by the czar not only anly German ministers under secretaries bankers industrial magnates and capitalists capitalist In dinner coats with Iron crosses In friendly intercourse with the tho th ibis over caviar venison and other othor luxuries but hut he Also saw aw those very ery police lieutenants on hI I orders the th desks desk ot of the Ru Russians have ve huT been broken braken open apen with aith Ith bayonets The consequences ot at o this Incident are arc not negligible German German Russo-German trade has hIlS been be nat n nat at a for tor the tho last three weeks week In 19 1921 1 21 this trade amounted mounted to halt hair a bil- bil billion bil billion lion marks mark Russia Is not Germau ships and andIs andis andis Is not sending her wheat eggs and furs She Sh Is not tin tin- ImportIng portIng II a a pound of ot anything German and she has removed her deposits from Germany to foreign bank banks thus thua In- In Increasing In creasing the money maney shortage Germany i is thus suffering heavy losses while Russia's negotiations are facilitated Ith England and Fiance FLance where the sympathy of ot Ed- Ed Edouard Edouard Ed and Senator are arc being reckoned on Holland China and n Jap to ta which can be of- of offered of offered bred trade trad concessions as bait German Germanys Germany's s 's trade treaty with Russia aa was as made at the most arable time and it Is broken oft off at the most un- un unfavorable un unfavorable favorable time And why Simpi because certain cel Ger Ger- Ger- Ger German German man politicians politician want to shine as tu t two fisted o men who will hs base hse e nothing to do with Mos Mos- Moscow SIo cow cow v or Marxism Political combinations to tobar tobar bar bor Russia RusIa altogether from relations with Germany now naw are under wiy wy the national national- nationalIsts l l rt uniting with the chen cunning Von Van and clumsy Germanys Germany's economic and fi- fi financial fi fl financial situation hate haste and ind politicians can c think only of ot Intrigues ues For Otto Otta Kahns Kahn's lon loin plans the words of ot the Psalmist be appropriate Au All ee e C es look to thee Thou thy hands hand and WIest the whole earth with good goad When things When hen 7 |