Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1923-11-25 | Page 22 | Millions of Germans Live in Luxury While Professors Carry Coal for Mere Living

1 Millions of Germans Live 1 in Luxury While Professors Carry Coal for Mere Living t BT BY fA II Germanys Germany's t edal Radio to The Standard Examiner COP rights 1 1923 1923 23 BERLIN nERLIN Nov A 24 24 A A b oung scholar who lectures at Berlin university it has bas just been xen dis- dis disclosed disclosed dis disclosed closed works three days dais do s a week carr carrying In coil coal co from wagons Into houses In a II basket He Is not a professor but what who we call a 0 privat has bas no salary but receives onlY the tuition fees tees ot of students who attend his lectures He cannot exist on this mone money It If Ithe Ithe he had not a 0 sturdy body be would be compelled to go hungry hun hun- gry The fact that the case ot of this scholar Is not an isolated one makes It worth mention mention- mentionIng mentioning mentioning ing The Tho number of ot teachers t Is being steadily red reduced to SM sass 0 expenses and even eyen in the cap p capital Ital cip-Ital Itol ital one ono teacher leicher has to teach a 0 hundred to a 0 hundred and fifty students In ono over over- 0 overcrowded overcrowded er- er crowded classroom This Is the result of ot amateur amateur- amateurish amateurish ish government and failure to recognize collective and Indi Individual vidual duties Except for tor rep rep- reparations rep reparations v are aro to be paid In Installments tor for some de- de decades decades de decades cades Germany Germany- Gorman has no foreign debts Her domestic debts hale ha been extinguished by cur cur- currency currency cur currency rency depreciation Her farm fann farmers ers and Ih livestock estock breeders me 00 tree free of ot all debts and mort mort- mortgages mort- mort mortgages mortgages gages The whole apparatus of rural and urban profit making malting Institutions Is technically atthe at atthe atthe the highest point The people are clever and willing to work and the number of ot Id I'd only now has begun to climb dangerously Hence there Is no reason renson to despair But Instead of accustoming themselves to methods ot of existence common states municipalities and mil mil- millions mil millions lions of ot Individuals arc Iving more luxuriously I than ever Or continued to be created to the very end by the government which has s ha just fallen fallN In the last week alone a minister for tor the occupied territories for tor forthe the tho treasury were ere named The number of ot teachers Is being dangerously reduced but the tho gigantic war 01 Is maintained for tor a 0 me mc army of ot men The rho whole gang of ot Imperial of- of officers of-ficera of I receive high pensions Billions of ot gold are spent for JOr illegal l fighting bands secret JOrI I military formations of ot every sort and their highly paid In- In InI Instructors In Instructors I W the tho German mines lie Idle English coal Is being ought t with Ith pound sterling While pal pait patt t of ot tho 1922 19 2 bars eSt eStand and nearly all nil of ot the 1 23 harvest hanest still stilt are arc un unsold ohl and the products are aro piling up in barns and storehouses the urban population go 0 hungry The peasant pea demands dollars for hIs butter and the tho government cries for tor sympathy Instead ot of compelling the rich stocks ot of food In Germany to bo be placed upon the market Luxury vaunts itself shame shamo- shamelessly shamelessly lessly In sight of ot tho suffer suffer- suffering In tag ing Hundreds ot of o new automo automo- automobiles biles bytes carr carrying Ing 0 overdressed oc- oc occupants oc occupants to the theatres II end nd restaurants past while the tho professor protessor Is to carry coal The much touted German has hos failed utter utter- utterly utterly utterly ly No awakening could base e been expected e from the piti pitifully fully powerless po crl ss nu cabinet which trembled before sought support among the imperialists tor for miraculous salvation from Its patron saint Lord Cur on Chancellor who ho sent scat telegrams of ot 10 loyalty alty to tho elder eJder Wilhelm treated the younger Wilhelm at and permitted him to return to I German Germany was no better than an mi any other nationalist to become chancellor chancel for