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Show WMNR SEE BLACK FUTURE Bj FRITZ EBERT, Jit. Son of the President or die German Republic. Written for In 'national News er- vice. (Copyright. 1922, by International News Service.) BliKLIX, Dec. 9. Hopeless' That one word best describes the situation In Germany on tho eve of winter The German people have borne indescribable in-describable burdens during tho past eight years. They have suffered ter-jilbly. ter-jilbly. but they nave never quite broken brok-en down. The military collapse of ' 1 9 1 S was not a collapse of tho pcoph-i pcoph-i NEMPLOYM1 N r t OMING In the very moment In which the old order crashed to ruins the people ; proved an able bearer of the new or-I or-I der. Even In the face of the cruel terms of the peace" treaty, and whi n j civil war stallyed through the cities, the German people bore heroically under un-der the strain Individually and with 'few exceptions, the nation collectively braved the menace Sometimes, wheu tho blows from the outride were too ! heavy, a terrible trembling went through the national body, but never yel have the German people yielded 'with utter abandon to their pain, never did they break down under the 'lash of the entente. With grave anxiety. Jeepenod by ln- tornal discord, the responsible leaders Jof Germany are looking toward the ensuing winter. The spectre of unemployment un-employment lias returned, for it will soon be Impossible for the great Industries In-dustries to buy raw materials, j The dollar has roached a stage whh h puUs a thousand marks about .equal to one pre-war mark. In their I circumstances, our industries will soon I be unable to buy raw matorlals. SIXm Mild ion WEAKEN Sixty millions of buyers are disappearing disap-pearing from the world's market, a vast number of them are already living In misery. If things go on cm they 'are the rest will follow the same tragU-: tragU-: road In tho wake of unemployment 1 follows hunger and hunger brings civil war. th- most terrible of all ter-I ter-I rors Even the most sanguine optl-I optl-I mists doubt if it can be averted. I The answer to all this Is lhat the I Gorman people have begun to despair Ol the common sense of tho world. And i what is still worse, the German people's peo-ple's faith in their own strength Is vanishing. They have seen all th ir 'efforts to avert the catastrophe frus-' frus-' trated. They are beginning to believe there "is no use." Everywhere oil'1 hears tho remark "Lot fate take its course we can Ino longer stop It." |