Show I T oda Germany Rolling tho the Stone Artificial Rubber I One Language Is It Plenty No o Socialism Needed I BY nl ARTHUR BRISBANE Copyright 1927 By The Star Co Ancients imagined unfortunate Sisyphus rolling roiling his ds I stone up hill bill only to have it roll back then push- push pushIng pushIng pushing Ing it up again Germany is the 1927 Sisyphus her heavy reparations bill blU is the stone stone- millions paid pId out and hundreds of millions to be paid 11 If the plan goes lOCI on Germany must pay In the year 28 1927 1750 gold marks or odd and each year thereafter In gold The world asks can the thing be bedone bedone bedone done and tad if It it can will Germany do doIt doit doit It or find a way out and what could the allies allIN especially this nation do about it if it Germany should refuse the be gigantic annual tribute Germany probably could pay She saves the cost of ot a 0 huge army and navy permitted no longer And hun hun- hundreds deeds of or thousands that would be beidle beidle beidle idle soldiers living on workers arc are arenow now at work helping Germany y to un un- undersell undersell undersell the rest of the world And Germany Is ruled now by bythe bythe bythe the brains of Germany no longer by bythe bythe bythe the decaying remainder of ot the an an- ancient m- m cleat clent money lending family Of OC one thing be bo sure Adversity is isa Isa Isa a good school Germany has haa been through it t and has hu graduated l. l Spec Spec- Speculators Speculators Speculators now selling German Industrial and bank stocks short will rue it Recently this column commenting on the alleged a plan of Firestone and Ford to grow their own rubber suggested suggested sug tug that artificial rubber might come before the Ford Firestone trees begin turning out tires Now Germany announces synthetic rubber alleged to be made for less leas leathan than natural rubber It If Germans work at that as thy they the did at aniline dyes rubber planta plants plantations plantations may go to join the extinct cochineal industry And synthetic rubber may pay third one-third of Ger Ocr Germanys Germany's Germanys Germany's many's reparations Professor S c h u I the t s s I teaches only y Latin Greek and re religion re- re religion ligion but knows 77 languages in if I addition to the Greek and Latin Some discouraged might ask What I Ithe the use of my trying when one man mar 1 L can know so much For P r your comfort remember that tha L LHomer Homer Dante and stead Shakespeare knew each only one living language and anc I they are the three greatest writers Its It's not how many languages you yot 1 I know moW but what you have to w say in Ir 1 some souse one language A learned teamed gentleman sa says s Socialism I Is back of Mexico's troubles the flit S same socialism SQ s that caused boUt both boUto I I the tho o French and the Russian rc nona nona- If 11 Rousseau Voltaire and the Ute were Socialists they did not know it The philosophical head of the for political education could find lInel po po- political politIcal Utica education in Tames Taine's of the Ancient Regime Real revolutions are arc caused by b facts fact not theories Socialist or other other- wise Misery plus guiding intelligence Solace gence cause revolutions French peasants so poor that they the had hed to w be forbidden by law to cat eat I human bodies dead deed of the plague did not need Socialism to move S them when they found leadership Some of our are being i trained as veterinarians A five five- months course with hours of ol r study teaches them the difference between glanders and a bog spavin How nice If Ir some of those soldiers soldiers sol aol diers dices could also be taught flying Teaching soldiers to be veterinary ry surgeons now Is like teaching civil civil- civilians tans ians to drive a hansom cab cab after after the arrival of the taxi Russia teaches aviation in public schools and has organized a body of 01 citizens directly Interested I in hi flying That should Interest big b money and big money should order ordet the government tp change Its veterinary nary school to a fly academy Will Rogers rare combination of 01 philosophy and wit said he rode all allday day through one Kansas com corn field and ind this country Is so busy gather gather- gatherIng gatherIng Ing com corn you cant can't get cm em to town to holler for relief Some Some farmers may holler when I they read of the tile relief scheme In in- In- In invented vented vented-by vented by big steel men Carnegie steel and other companies increase prices 1 I a ton The people will like It and pay it If it farmers could add 25 cents cent a a bushel offhand to the price of 01 wheat and com corn and make the tho people pay It and like liko It they wouldn't need to holler for help Bridge Badge Hi dge Me Another I By IV W W. 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