Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1921-02-19 | Page 2 | French Finance in Weak Shape

Public Due for Shock When State of Aifairs is Revealed PHILADELPHIA. Feb. 19 There j j has been measurable economic prog-I prog-I resn In France since the war. but any substantial recovery probably must ; wait until the French people rerM the whole truth concerning thr nation's na-tion's finances, Prof. A. A. Young of Harvard dsclarsd Friday bsfore the Public Ledger forum on the peace conference. ProfssSOr Vming. who was economic adviser to the American Ameri-can coenmlsslon to negotiate peace, ' was unable to attend the meeting and I his a'idres.-. was n-ud by Roland C. ' .Mori-Is. 1'nlted States ambosaidor to' Japan. The French must be fold of the dro-stlco measures that will he noc- . ejwarv to balance the budget and re-! sfore the curreney to a position- where Industry and foreign trade would be on a dependable basis, he said, adding that they must also be informed "of the disappointingly small sum that 1 can bo obtained from Germany by I way of reparation." "It Is hard t0 see anything but a 1 political motive u regard for the expectations ex-pectations of the French people," hoi said. "In tho French delegates' advo- ! cacy of the inclusion of tho war costs j In the reparations Mil."