Show IMEN MEN AND AFf AT I I ByRTS I Copyright 1328 1823 19 28 WASHING ON Jan Jac Germany 13 does docs not tear fear French bullets In tho Ruler Ruhr but French francs This Is tho ord that comes conies to Washington through channels which reflect an on In- In Inner in inner ner ncr view slew lew at Berlin Germany fears that Franco France may alienate the Ruhr In ba-In ba ln with lIh all Its natural riches and ones from the fatherland l Germany Ia I ere crediting Franco France with stith Ith an Intention to LO play the sane same sort eort of ot game gamo that Ocr Oer- Ger Germany many would Mould play In similar circum circuits circumstances stances The German Germon minors In the tho Rub Rub- base o been paid heretofore with Pd- Pd paper por pd-por per por marks marka and as a n are arc arcIn arcIn In a halt half stan od condition France taking possession of o the mines may pay ply the German miners In francs She may establish commis commissaries caries saries arles In the Ruhr and bring Into that penetrated country a great plentitude of food tood-food food food such as the German common people hav have not seen in eight long vears ears cara bread and plenty of ot meats meals and tats fats and butter While Franco can It If she will 1 make plutocrats of the tho German Germon miners among their own people France Francu Wants Germany to maintain her r rule le leof of the tho basin for tor the th time being G et that the tho general population can so se hoW hoWell well nell the tho miners fare tare und r direction and French pay What the French franc will mean in inthe the tho Ruhr Is best Illustrated by the tho tact fact that at the tho pr present s nt rate rato of e c- e one now about 15 franca for tor a II dollar and for Cor or toe simo dollar mil may buy something like marks It If France carries out the policy the easto Germans credit her with it Is ease t to o see how the German masses that como c omo under French control In the tho Ruhr will still III regard the Gallic Callie t tion occupation ion a as something akin nUn to a 0 gift girt from ven he h enven Germany frankly fears the d the gnawing effect ot of good French food tood and good n money upon German nationalism and German patriotism The French francs franca and the ot o f French food tood are counted upon pon to break any strike Germans may or- or organize or organize Word Vord of ot the tho good good times Ire alling l in the Ruhr will quickly ly spread pread s through the rest of ot Europe I sith Ith i a consequent disquieting effect upon the entire nation Ro Re Is in I the t he spectre which stares the tho German government In tho the face an and l whit wh a aI I precipitation queer revolution resolution re If the lIce final I t tation cause causo should bo ho the better con con- con conI conditions prevailing pre In that pal pait t of the thc I country occupied by the enemy tottering 0 er those parts paris ruled by tho the tot tot- tot t oring republic A Washington government official l u just homo home from Mosco Moscow tells tBs some som I highly entertaining tas ta s of life IKe In ho th the theatres In the tho soviet SO let capital at the pres nt time It would appear that not all Moscow patronizes the tho Art theatre which has sent Its I remarkable company to this country to set Bet a new of brilliant dramatic pro pro pro- productions The ordinary lIe Bolshevik Id picking a 1 n pIa play It Lems eema likes ens em rough The Karl Marx Mars theatre is one would assume woul would l hive ve n rather expected o allu-o tor for the tho corn com communist com communist i Is In tn particular the home homo ot of farces that your Informant says say would put Pari Paris to shame On ono one occa- occa occasion occa occasion sion slon althe when ho he noticed a long line a at the Marx bo box office window ourS our bythe S not to bo he outdone by the got In Inthe inthe Inthe the procession and Coun found the bill to tobo tobe tobo bo be three three piquant farces tarces namelY Dont go 0 naked R Radium In bed and The Wedding Night I Whit ho lie saw nell saw well It exceeded exceed d hi his lid est expectations and be he has hog tray tray- trav traveled tl the wide world orld 0 over oser cr It must mut be admitted that nono none of the old Run Run- Rus Russian sian actors were performing but only onh artists of ot the new communist school Neither word nor was school spared said the government gO official official cial At time times one thought the tho sery cry walls would blush but the tho constituted for the most part of ot the tho now new proletarian aristocracy seemed to 10 like the tho pieces and encouraged ed the tho actors by shouts and coarse laughter 1 it sometimes reminded Me ne of ot tho thaI thoI neighing of horses I Proceeding from the thc theatre to thus tho Marc club th tho Washingtonian found a 0 wll wild l dancing competition In progress pr proe- proe ress reas The idles I-idles wese we 0 all fat and clumsy and so co cot covered ered with pow pow- pow der powder that they left a II perfect cloud of oit It In their stake something wake something like an automobile spee speeding along alone a dusty road rona Their partners partner nero ere soldiers sailors and sot so soviet let of officials tic 10 I There was stas a gambling too and millions million Of rubles were changing hinds h One ne was pointed out as ha basing haIng Ing non on forty millions In an evening But forty million rubles rubles-It rubles it didn't mean anything hOWl however er from the stories one hears life In tho the BO BOI sovia I let metropolis Is not dungeons an and l death I donot Heavy responsibilities d do donot not seem to weigh neigh elsh us Americans down Into the uttermost t depths of ot Vas graIt gray gras It itt V as they do the tho English It would b ba hi difficult anywhere to find a cheerier more optimistic more lo lovIng IKe-lovIng InS per per- son anywhere In the tho world orld than Colo- Colo Cob nel nd Dick Crissinger of ot Marion h nbc Is federal federa to be the se ne of the fed fed- fed era eral reserve board Marion Marlon may bo be proud of ot having given President Hard Hard- Ing Hard Ing to the sen service Ice of ot the country but bui It can be almost It If not equally It as I proud of ot Colonel Dick |