Show humor even iven IR iii ht if humor can creep into furnal investigations there would certolic cem eem to be no good goa dreason reason why it should not also tincture at al negotiations As a matter of fact many funny thing i 3 occur in ill matters of oc bul your average diplomat is so bis bin y v maintaining g his dignity that hr he would dio th than irl admit lie ever appeared ill in a cumi cuini cal light take we potash po tali dispute with etli germany for instance in it its answer to this count rys contention that an injustice was being 1 lone done through tile efforts on oil the part of the german Givern government ment to compel ambric to surrender adv advantageous altage antage contracts contract acta 8 or lor potash d to a ac c capt contracts which would result in their paying very much more hermany ien nany lias has set up tile plen that tilot its action in penalizing the americans bv imposing impo sini a heavy export tax which would fall on them alone was justified from tile the standpoint of conservation naturally the german people have a notion that eliat this thia country haj ha gone one dalt daft over conservation a n justified in doing doin when it hw iffus cogaer co bating the coal in alaska for the millions ot of inhabitants of tivit territory win who jay day will need it perhaps however the attitude of T Gerna grimany any iq i about as ridiculous as is the attitude of tile the united states regarding tim C alaska germany is the only cobi country which has developed potash deposits but if every farmer in im the world had to depend wholly on potash fertilizers to grow his cros and if germany supplied the farmers of tho world with potash the supply su aply in tight sight would still endure for in it il lions of years and there are doubt I 1 esa ess great stores of potash iu in germany which it have ave not nob yet been fully defined wherefore it must be seen that germany has ha shown a keen sense of enmor liin mor in li anding its is this conservation argument talking about tile the potash fight it seems that flis tl is country lias has not in it a long iong ame mme had such a serious difficulty with anny other country a as has ark arken arisen en with germany over vike potash contracts this is ig I 1 aident by the lad fact the ali e S secretary cro jary of state i is taking personal charge k of the negotiations anti and there ura um likely akely to be protests pro teats on the floor of ong 8 aan time |