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Show ' CURRENT EVENTS FOR CHILDREN AND BUSY ADULTS GI3RMAX1 M REPARATIONS. ' (Jermany mum make another pay- I ment on th reparations bill M ay HI The reparations, as you have read b-Coree, b-Coree, are the mdtiey Germany Is ) obliged to pay the allies to make UP for the farm land, factories and homes Uormany destroyed in the war In the lust few works Germany j I ijv i.i lil lis i . pin alien llll promptly, prompt-ly, but it ipr-ins Improbable that Gei - many will be ablv tu raise the amount It will be obliged to pay the last day of this month. if Germany does not meet Its payment pay-ment on Frenchmen believe I l-'rance should march soldiers In the Ruhr dlstrli t and Bavaria, parts of Germany, and hold this land until I Gerniany don pay up. Mm probnbly Franca will not do 1 thla. Kor sober and well-balanced I'rcni'limcn believe Germany will not rafuac to pay If it Is able to pay and I that little COUld be gained by sending French soldiers into German territory. terri-tory. Meanwhile a? commission of bankers bank-ers is meeting at Paris to consider i granting nn International loan to Ger-I Ger-I many, thus enabling Germany to meet t its payments. Attending this meet-i meet-i Inp are hankers anil financiers from ' moat of the important European i countries, as well as J. J'. Morgan one of America's greatest hankers. Finance Minister Hermes, who is In charge of Germany 'a money affairs, af-fairs, also is at Paris. trying to arrange ar-range for the peaceful Settlement ( l the reparations question. M WORLD CONFERENCE. The world eonfei-fnce at Genoa. Italy, to settle the money troubles of Europe, failed utterly In accomplishing accomplish-ing Its purpose. The only result of this conference was that the natlona of Europe promised not lo start any j wars for several months and agreed j to hold a meeting at The Hague In ! June to settle their differences with liussfa. j Since the Genoa conference failed. I some are suggesting an International conference of bankers to be hold at Washington. This meeting would be like the con-Iterance con-Iterance on limitation of armament I last fall Kcapl that Its object would j be straightening out the money slt-! slt-! nation In Europe instead of cutting , down battleships and nrrules. In Washington. It was thought. Kti- ropcun politics Would not hinder tin-success tin-success of such a conference, as It did at Genoa. TO MPROl I lil MM sv President Harding now has turnej his attention to improving business. To accomplish this th- president has hern hohllnir meetings at the White House with the leading men in the most Important Industries. He already al-ready has met with the leaders of the steel business and of the railway! At the steel meeting It was agied the steel plants should attempt to do .nvnv with the practice f making men work 1- hours dally and adopt the eight-hour day. This If done. (would mean that more men would be 1 employed and that the workers would l.hava more time for rest. t At the raliway meeting, the president presi-dent asked the railway presidents to reduce freight rates. This would mean that almost everything you buy would he cheaper, because part of the price you pay represents the freight OOSl from the place where the article was manufactured to Ogden. |