Show CONDITIONS IN GERMANY Having traveled through Germany last summer cummer W A DuPuy an Sn Ameri merl American can economist made careful observations in a study of German resources resource and the recuperative powers power of ot that I country and he lie has baa published his bis Im- Im im impressions ja In In only one city did ho find evidence of ot distress In Berlin Derlin those who formerly lived on unearned in- in incomes In-i In comes were among the sufferers but I the tho working people were comfortable The Germans were the dressed best best best- dressed working people In all Europe d declares lares Mr Du Pu Puy The farms farm j were were wro universally cultivated and pro pro du UTe One One could not help feeling that It was only the fringes of the II German Gennan population that were raveling out Since that Ume time Industrial Ger- Ger Ge many has hal been meeting certain d such as aa the inability to get gt raw materials and certain of her In- In ii have been curtailed It Is un- un undoubtedly Ut true however that German Gernia Gen Industry today is productive to a greater per cent than Is Industry In i italy Italy taly France or England the other othe ot first cass caas aBs powers of ot Europe Even Eve E were were It nonexistent the Ule German stomach store st stach n ach would havo have havo been empty a bar b half halt year which from an Italian flaIls standpoint for tor example is Js but the Ui beginning of ot hunger Our one time one tl allies have been desperate so long Ion 1 ne l that we have bave become accustomed to t l their emaciated condition but the noW ne n supplicant supplicant though still stilt fat attract attra attention It Is Ia likewise obviously true that tha t at tb the burdens v which Germany is bearing bearIn t In the face ot of the fact tact that she Is III Dot no paying reparations are much lighter Ugh than the burdens that are being borne borni boi by liy other European countries France iCO otters offers a striking contrast In Ocr Gor G man many nany the whole population has the th t habit of ol work vork and the great guaranty which Germany has against disaster Is it ithe he tact fact ot of the great capacity of o her hez Ithe ThO T people for tor productive work French rench are likewise a 1 sturdy people much ouch much inclined to hard work end and flu tro allty and arid France Is Js likewise pro pro pro- producing o- o Every acre of ot farm land In n France rance Is crops but one Js is much such struck by the contrast between en the he tin tiny farms farnia ot of France and the tho larg lai er r holdings nod and more ambitious home home- hosi e- e leads of ot Germany which with herds of f dairy cattle and VI V well ell filled tilled barns reminds him bins much of ol those conditions which he Is accustomed to see Bee from a n car window while riding through our o own wu Ohio The feature of the situation In Franco i i Is the tho stupendous burden that th that 1st country Is bearing France has hasher haser her er war debt v which Is greater per p capita apita than that ot of o any other coun- coun country I try 7 She has more moro derelicts of ot war to 10 icare care are for tor than any other country But Dut B aside side from this she has huge hugo burdens burde 18 to to bear with are aro peculiar to her Dev Dev- Devastated DC regions for Instance There are re entire cities such as Verdun and i heims which are being rebuilt from It costs cost ta I the 10 government treasury cos money oney to rebuild cities of n Building Materials are expensive andis and ai this his is burden Is stupendous Germany has La no DO such euch burden I This handed first d story of conditions In Europe explains why the are o resolved to make the Germans pa L or at least force them to divide some me of the wealth which they con con- conserved served while their armies were do- do other parts of o Europe lOne One big problem Is to give France Frani some niS assurance that ten or twenty years years ars from now the Germans will not at attack ck tack them In the mean meantime tilDe the French ench are trying to protect them them- sel selves Ives ves nn |