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Show THE CITIZEN f ite COMPARATIVE OPERATIVE COSTS OF COUNTY DEPARTMENTS IN 1920 AND 1921. irlc fall lac ;pH PROPAGANDA IN HIGH PLACES. Verily the people of these United States are a patient people, else they would not stand for the brand of foreign propaganda that is being continually flung in their faces by men of great power and influence in the nation. Stung with the Wilsonian ilealistic idea, they now find it hard to again conform to the traditional and fundamental ideals of the country, as handed down by the founders of the nation, and now being advocated and sustained by the present admin- istration. Professor Irving Fisher of Yale University, is a striking expropagandist, occupying a high place in ample of the educational institutions of the land. He has recently returned from a jaunt to Germany, where he went ostensibly to investigate the pro-Europe- an claim of a German scientist to having evolved synthetic gold, which is a good deal like saying he went to the moon to check up on its cheese content. Since his return The Newspaper Enterprise Association, one of the distributing agencies for foreign propaganda, is putting into circulation some articles on world economics, written by Professor Fisher, of which the following excerpt gives a fair idea of ther international drift: Sound economics demand that America should make further loans to Europe instead of haggling over war debts. If we nurse Europe along perhaps twenty years from now there, will be a prosperous Europe paying handsome dividends. War debts are practically hopeless anyway. No reasonable man in Europe expects any of the international war debts to be paid, excepting perhaps Great Britains debt to America and part of the German reparations. They laugh in their sleeves at the idea. They think we abandoned them, and they arc willing to let us whistle for our money. A great deal of these (Europes) dangers and their reaction on America and the depression of- our trade are due to the refusal of - America to join the League of Nations. Without thane The feeble power. Because the United States went to the rescue c:nto saved them from defeat at the hands of the Germans.lora quent terriorial loss and the imposition of huge inited s least an indecisive conclusion of the world war wetnati curred the penalty of financing the old world, he alt hi Professor Fisher and others of his ilk, allege, vi a c not the gratitude but the ill will of the allies becarhati this and then refused to use our national wealth toiile states, preferring, it would seem, toaun ropcan war-shhome bailiwick first. Having asked nothing but tbyorlc with nominal interest charges, of the money we so the ot to loan the allies so that they could .stay in the an divided millions of square miles of mandated lands iip b dollars in reparation money, materials, shipping and ton close, we now naturally appear charry about paying 'And demnity to boot. They want to saddle us with a kre m German goods taken in reparation payments, may fc It mo ket over here at profiteering prices. Apparently our late associates in the worlds e mc sleeves at the thought of paying back the wa ' foment consent to repay them if we will allow them to wares indiscriminately in the greatest home m irkdjdeci even though in so doing, we close down a few thoUNn(j a cause the home unemployment situation to becc'ine a 3ityc It is our bounded duty, according to Profc;sorf sbjpj internationalists occupying high places, to impvere hai order that the financial and industrial fabric o: faeries and to join the League of Nations, thus coi iplacricj would bind us to the everlasting support of cver) jzej in all the world, and also to nations we have only and ungrateful by the hundred, or more, billio1 |