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Show CRANKS CAUSE " GERMAN GRIEF Stir Up Enough Dust to Blind Majority ot Nations Citkenry IJj PRANK 1 MASON, International News Sendee Staff or-respomh or-respomh ut. BERLIN, Cct. ao. Cranks and1 j crooKs ai-e keeping Germany In tur-I tur-I moll. The German cranks 'and crooks I are only a minutely small part of the German people, but they stir up enough dusit to blind a lare,e portion of the honest, everyday cltlsenp ;ind j keep their country tottering on the , brink of chaos. The psychology of the German e.rook 1 is simple; he wishes to gather In the I paper marks as fast as thery fall from j the overworked government printing presses. He Is usually u ''schloberj.' 'which IS the tJerniii" word for ; mongrel mon-grel cross between a grafter and a profiteer. There are BChelpers Of every ev-ery gTadSi from the utile schieber who conies to your door at night and; sells you one-half pound of butter or B schnitzel without he uecesn.iry food 1 .irii-. to the arlstoi r;iiie, high-callbred si heibers w ho will sell you nothing less thun .1 German air park or a mil"! ! lion German army blankets The most dangerous BChelbers for 1 the safety of i rrniny an.! :h- .vc-irl'v I of the indemnities she must pay th n -i lies are the food profiteers. When the I government announced thai the food I card system will be given up in October Octo-ber for all foodstuff except bread, fooii profiteers rubbed their hands and ' got busy. They began to buy up po-! po-! tatoes and cattle and are paying the ! farmers prices which will mean the doubling and tripling of the retail foo.l costs. I ! All Indications are thai the coming ! winter will be a niee profitable season i for profiteers and that the laboring man will have difficulty in buying enouch food to keep bod; and sou) to- j gethet Unless something unexpected i intervenes, food riots may be expected with Increasing freipn-ricy us the fall and winter come. It is impossible to prophesy what political and economical consequences may follow the profiteering profit-eering of the food crooKK. As to cranks. It's B common mistake 1 to regard lh conflict in (Jermany as a straight tUg-Of-War between tin- left I radicals, ami the rlht. monarchists. Germany's public life and Germany's tuture may better be described as u battle royal being fought out by dozens I Of large ;irid small groups, fjometlmes I one group merges with anothr only I later to turn anu" attack the grouji It j htxs been helping. |