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Show i Dialogue Between Mrs. Europe and Uncle Sam Emphasizes Justice of American Position BY MAXIMlblW HARDEN Germany's Poremoet Publicist. (Copyright. by The Stand ard-Examiner. ) BERLIN, Dec. SO. Mrs. Europe today Is making Uncle Sam a New Year's visit. It is both material and social In char-.irtpr char-.irtpr and tho dialogue between them Is well worth the attention of the whole world. "What a terrible year 1922 was." she groans. "At tho beginning be-ginning It seemed that the sky over my house was brighter. Threads of hope were 6pun at "Washington, at Cannes and at fjenoa, but they sonn broke Uko cobwebs. Only from Washington wa there something remaining, and while It seems about to be ratified after long hesitation, It does me no good. From all other summer and winter resorts no useful plan has emerged despite noisy enthusiasm. "I had thought tho worst WM over and I Imagined that the world, which mu3t re.illzo our worth, would help us back to our old position nnd wealth. But today to-day Is almost darker than a year ago. John Bull complains of unemployment un-employment and Increased taxation taxa-tion Marianne Paris bemoans her money scarcity nnd the possibility pos-sibility of rebuilding her devastated devas-tated region. Where the Roman Caesars fed the people with bread and entertained th-rn with circuses cir-cuses stands a civilian Caesar who suddenly has .hanged his red shirt for a black one and IS endcaorlnr to force the Imagination Imag-ination of the masses back Into a clean but narrow bed of patriotic patri-otic anti-foreign emotion. "People aro trying to convince me that things are getting better to the oast where the bolshevik (error has reigned for four years. Property rights now are recognized recog-nized and trade Is permitted". This sounds scarcely credible only a few months after the reportH of a famine und cannibalism, but even If this Is true what is th good to me0 My old carcass, covered with tho scars of the surgeon's knife won't hold together to-gether until order Is restored between be-tween the black and white seas. "New states are busy arranging arrang-ing themselves while the old people cannot buy or sell. Germany, Ger-many, with a groat Industrial organization, or-ganization, could 6ell for a long time because she offers goods cheaper than her competitors and can buy because she produces a means of payment on a printing press and pays her working men one-fourth of what they would get In America for the same work But even this b.gar prosperity pros-perity 1b fading fast and thero la a decline in all industries and where formerly Germany had much to export now .she is compelled com-pelled to Import How much longer will this be possible? "The German harvest Is below the average. Tattle cannot exist throughout tho winter without foreign fodder. The dollar a year ago bought 200 marks. Bast July it bought :00. now it Is 7.000. Honest trade Is Impossllo With such fluctuations, wnicn within a year have varied from ( 168 to 9,174 Tho soundest and most respectable business men are forced to speculate. "Now Uriels 8am. this is n picture pic-ture of our conditions You aro t ie only one who can help us. lias your tender heart turned into hard metal amidst your heaps of goldl Nobody here understands how you have stood the sight of this misery so long." A short mocking laugh comes from the mouth which releases the pipe and then comes tho answer: "Bravo You have learned your lesson very well, The only wonder Is tlvat you can expect It Is going to have any effect. You know the story of Rothschild who when the poor Russian told his sorrow to him for a long time rang for his servant and said: 'Throw this man out, he is breaking my heart.' "That's how wc feel about you. I have given more charity to your children than ever before was given on earth. I never ask thanks but I don't want to hear any more about your debts, reparations, low standards of living and de- i v ..---.. If I 1 mm 1 1 CeiiuilK'". loui luiiiRam beplng Is almost worse than your old military trumpets and Midler play. You Imagine you arc ln-dcspensable ln-dcspensable and believe Almighty God Insured you first place In the universe until the end of time and reckon we nre polng to help you with our money every time you do something stupid which Is very, often. You want us to throw our peoples' wealth into the bottomless pit "We have claims for gold which are being paid not In gold hut In goods which we don't want because be-cause we ate exporters ourselves and must protect our Industries with a tariff. For this reason wc are most interested In the younger industrial countrl n. ronseruently what Interests us In RUSSla is not the supposed change of front hut the fact that under communist rule many millions mil-lions of new farms and small holdings have sprung up. "I will help ou as soon as I have a guarantee that you won't begin new wars which as experience experi-ence shown ruins both victors and vanquished ; thnt you will not regard re-gard now paper money us lncomo Wl alth and that your business will bo guided by economic reasoning Instead of national Jealousy That is all we ask In exchange for out; help. Don't pout. Do you think we have been spending weeks on councils of bankers and diplomats for nothing' Franco and England agreed under Christmas mistletoe to accept any reasonable reparations repara-tions proposal from Germany and they knew about what to expect. That was our doing. Now see What yr.u can do alone. ILappy New Year'" Mrs. Europe, slightly disappointed disap-pointed but full of hope, turns slowly and leaves. |