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Show I BRITON ADMITS GERMANY CAN'T I MEET DEMANDS ffH 1 No Use Trying- to Squeeze Last Penny Out. Says Sir Eric Geddes. WOULD SLASH AMOUNT Argentine Officer Impressed Impress-ed With Efficiency of German Industry. LONDON, Nov 11.- (By the Asso-elated Asso-elated Press.) Sir Eric Geddes aid some very plain talking about Cler-man Cler-man reparations as the guest of the Thirty club of London, recently. This B club is an association of advertising experts. When in parliament Sir Eric was noted ofr his straight forward style of speech, and since ho became a business man again he Is more out-fl out-fl spoken than ever. In 1918 1 was a politician." he, said, "and I said then that We. should not make a fetish of reparations; thai we might find reparations a hoom-i hoom-i eranrr. ami that the demanding of great sums from Germany might be ' had I nearly lost my Seal over that statement, and I had to hedge a bit " He was under no necessity of do-ing do-ing any hedging before the Thirty club, he continued. W hat 1 said in 1 J 1918 has come absolutely true now." he declared. "We were absolutely wrong, as allies, In trying to get the last penny out of Germany. We ca.i-not ca.i-not gel it because it Is not there, c il kSIKG MIRAGES. ' It is no use chasing a mirage. You (.in only get reparations oui oi Ger-many Ger-many by either money or goods Shu has no money, and if you take her BTOods It will mean unemployment here i: the leaders of thought could bring Inat home to our people, ll wouid be a good thing lor this coun- "I have just come from Germany. They are desperate there. There will never he a strong government until ihe people know that they can man-their man-their own affairs- I ntil we anil H our antes come down to bedrock, find ut What Germany can pay, and it ii them SO, there will be no improve-meat. improve-meat. lien WC do thai Germany win try to pay. if possible Hut you cannot enslave a nation of seventy millions for generations " I N I MM. TOR IMPRESS l) BBRLI.V, Nov. ll. (By the Aasu-I Aasu-I elated Tress.) Tne rigors of ihe j coming winter threaten to crack the morale bl Germany's working class b Hj unless the outside world alters IIS H1 political attitude and the mark im- troves, declared Dr Tonus Amadoo. J a prominent Argentine economist, on B lac eve 01 his ueparture from Berlin H. a ie, a nationwide study. Mr. Amadeo is Argentina's general ctor ol public instruction in agrl- professor of rural economy in lie Universities of Buenos Aires H id Hiatal and director of the aiuseju Social Argentine., under the i '' auspices ot n hie ii the late Theodore Hj Kousevelf visited Argentina lie re- H' I mimics his duties as Argentina delo- H' I gati to the International Agricultural Hf . institute at Rome next month, after Hj spending a short time In Franco. Hr i in spite of his fears for the eco- H nottilc position of Germany In the V r future, Dr Amadeo voiced the 1 utmost praise for the Industry now i prevailing. EFTTC1EN "V. II K.ll. "I have the impression," he said, having seen an enormous swarm ol diligent people led by Individuals H ol unsurpassable competence in all i asses and activities The German people have the spirit of work In their 1 mood and marrow and bone, and for that reason the German people will not go under as did the Austrian." lie called attention, however, to the increasing costs of living and to the H serious domestic results of deprecla- tion in the mark, warning that these i : ictors might prove a strain too severe B for the workers to stand. An economic collapse of German... Br Amadeo was convinced, would 1 mean heavy losses for all countries ol North and South America. On the other hand he believed all would 1 profit greatly if the position of Ger- BBBBBB ninny's industry' were improved an 1 I her trade were restored to its normal nor-mal channels. RAKE GOOD SETTL1 IIS Hegarding German-Argentina relations. rela-tions. Dr. Amadeo said he found many Germans wished to go to South Am-i Am-i rica, especially to Argentina, but Ummmmj were unable, to pay the costs of the 8 voyage because of the mark's low ex- 1 hange value. "They arc the sons of farmers, hand-workers, and persons of small independent means who seek better prospects," he explained. ' Th y would without doubt be very useful to the young lands of South Americ I because of their technical efficiency H ml their ambitions to progress Never B would there bo a better time than the present for the founding of a colonl-H colonl-H ration company organized on a large fl scalo and promoted by farm and em- h ployment circles." H Dr. Amadeo incidentally expressed H high confidence In the results to H achieved by an international congress H of social museums and similar instl- H, tullons which he proposes should be fl held at Beunos Aires under the 1 pices of the Museo Social Argentlno H lie voiced the opinion that these In- b stitutions should be more active in I International cooperation for the Im- H provemcnt of the conditions -of peo- ksBBBBBM ll |