Show COIN COMES EASY A SO BLOW IT t IS SLOGAN OGAN t. t i By BJ James H Henle enl 1 N N N. N E E. E A A. A Staff Correspondent E ORI April 16 This na nation l n Is richer than It has ever been before Before Defore peace Is even adding faster to Its wealth than war did It at a faster fasler pace now pow than It was one two or three years ag ago It Is demanding and obtaining more more luxuries more more and more In 1914 hundreds of worth of American securities were held abroad sow Now this situation is exactly reserves yot ot ot ohly has this government lent the allies huge sums of money but the private vate vale citizens of the United States own literally rally billions of dollars' dollars worth of foreIgn foreign foreign for for- eign bonds EVERY NATION OWES U U. U S. S We Ve are the greatest creditor nation toda to to- Aa day da fe in III all history Every country owes us money And we are only beginning to spend it Customs collections' collections In New York fork forth for forthe th the month of March beat all l p previous I records by n nearly rl 3 O A And only part of the truth The best beet previous month was wae In 1910 when there was still stilla a high tariff The duty on many articles has been lessened since then and many manyon manyO O on which an impost was wall th then n levied to toa toda today to- to I da day a comes In free tree So last months month's rec- rec o n ord beat the previous mark by much more low than g these figures show The latter fol- fol March March 1920 58 Bet Best previous month 73 Customs house officials here declare thAt this country now owns owns' two-thirds two of all all the precious stones In the world There apparent slackening in the demand despite the fact that prices are now BOO to per cent higher than the they were before 1914 AMERICANS TAKE SHARE but cut stones come chiefly from Holland I In February of last year Imports from that country were February of this year they were almost almost ten times as much Uncut stones atones come for the most part from froin n South Africa Imports from British South Africa were In February J Pt f last year In 1920 they went up to i I her commodities that ar are being ime lm pored pol d In large quantities are laces silks Jewelry chinaware and antiques Weve got the money seems to be bethe bethe bethe the cry Lets Let's spend it 1 |