Evening Star Newspaper, June 4, 1922, Page 18

Seventh Street e T "N Seventh Street Sends Him Away With a Frown o ice today”’—is a statement that the ice man hears often at the backdoors of homes where a Leonard Clean- able Refrigerator protects the food and health of the family. ; Leonards are stingy with ice—jealous of the purity of the food and accommodatingly easy to clean. Ice bills melt, grocery bills shrink when a Leonard goes on the job. When you figure length of service, a Leonard will cost you about one-half what an ordi- nary one would. Price? Why worry about it, when a Seamless Porcelain Leonard, white inside and outside, is only $49.75! Furniture Is More Than & Name MAYER & CO. Lifetime A, S T Outdoors Is Now the Living Room June is the month that we move the living room to the great outdoors. Most every one nowadays is making the porch just as comfortable a place as the living room. Here at the Lifetime Furniture Store is the place to look first for anything that you want for outdoors— for instance: Gray Duck Hammock Couches..$15.00 Old Hickory Rocker.... . 4.50 Summer Rocker.......c.eooov. 395 Steel Lawn Swings.........eea 19.75 Reed Rockers with Cushions. . ... 24.75 There’s lots more, but who in the world would want to spend a whole day Sunday reading them when you can see them all in a few minutes on Monday. Come in and look us over—please. More Than a Name MAYER & CO. Lifetime Furniture Is TR Between D & E TR 'Between D & E TRADE PRACTICE INIURE GERMANY Harden Raps Gouging of Foreigners as Having Boomerang Effect. PASSPORT HOLDERS HIT Extortion From Visitors Has Be- come Systematic, He Declares. BY MAXIMILIAN HARDEN, Germany’s Leading Publicist. By Cable Dispatch to The Star. BERLIN, June 3.—Discrimination against foreigners is creating In- creased bitter feeling against Ger- many. The present situation is like that in which a celebrated doctor sent a woman patient to take the baths at a mineral spa. He gave her a sealed letter to a doctor there, tell- ing her that it described her symp- toms. The lady, inclined to hypo- | chrondria, could not resist the oppor- | fighting similar germs in France. The | ing feature of Irish life. The fighting tunity to learn her true condition. She opened it to read: “Dear Col- league: I am sending you a golden goose which I have plucked. Do you likewise.” In many countries today a foreign passport Is regarded as such a letter describing the bearer as a golden bird which the natives should and must pluck. Formerly the treatment of foreigners was a reliable criterion of & nation's culture and patriotism. Extortion of money from visitors was not required at every turn. Such abuses were Teported in France even during and after the war, but a regu- lar system now has developed throughout Europe which may _be summarized as “when we catch peo- ple from high-exchange countries they must pay for our low exchange.” In law and morals a person must pay only for damage of which they are personally responsible, and certalnly it is not the fault of the American tourist if the dollar buys seventy times more marks than eight years ago, nor is it the Swedish globe- trotter's fault {f with four crowns in his pocket he becomes a millionaire on crossing the Russian frontfer. The reich mark and the soviet Tuble —although a new issue of the latter on May 1 is worth 10,000 of the old— have inherited only the name and not the value of their deceased predeces- so0rs. A Exchange Affects Relations. Making 20 per cent of Europeans, whose exchange is high, pay for the sufferings of 80 per cent whose ex- change is low, is not only unjust, and often injurious to their own com- merce, but degrading to the nations that permit such unworthy practices. Every week brings me heaps of com- plaints from plucked birds of passage, mostly half-amused, but many furi- ous. Hotel keepers raise prices to Americans when the dollar rises, but do not lower them when it falls. An American lands at Bremen and, suf- fering from seasickness, calls & doc- tor, who prescribes an aspirin tablet and charges 2,000 marks for a ten- minute visit. An Englishman orders tickets for a ball, and the messenger Teports that only boxes are left at 800 marks. When the Englishman telephones to reserve one the cashier, hearing the accent, says, “Oh, an Eng- lishman!” Then the price ,400 marks a plac In some towns theater tickets four or five times dearer gners than to Germans. The cheaper tickets for the Germans give admission only when papers are pro- duced proving nationality; thus the foreigner cannot avoid the tax by sending a German to buy the tickets. Of course, nobody thinks of refund- ing the tax when the foreigner, prevent- ed from going, gives his tickets to a German friend. Worse yet, this thing is approved by most people ang praised as a proper economic defense. Women, unable to afford butter and sugar for their husbands and chil- dren, become enraged when they learn forelgners can afford these luxuries, as the price Is negligible to them when reckoned in their own money, and_aek why shouldn't they pay more? Because it i8 wrong: it is dishonest to sell the same goods or the same work at different prices, ac- cording to the purchaser's national- ity, and also because the state treas- ury does not profit from such fleec- ng. Pays as Foreignmer. ‘Who knows, for instance, that the envied dollar man did not buy marks when they were much dearer than now? I recently met one here who 18 very poor but came to claim a small legacy. Because of his passport he was obliged to pay foreign prices everywhere. The same thing hap- pened to a German woman who dur- ing the war married an English pris- oner and now is suing for her moth- er's estate. Such things occur every day. Who can assert these extra prices always go down in the books of the tax ‘collector? Who can say that the taflor who charges a foreign. ,000 marks for a suit of clothing does not enter it at the German price of 8,000? The door is opened wide to fraud and helps the demoralization of all business, which is often shady enough already. This can be effectively fought only through diplomatic channels. No- body would object to a high passport vise fee nor a reasonable tax on for- eigners, but everybody complains against paying four to six times more for the same article because their name is Smith instead of Mul- ler. We must not slip back into the days when a foreigner was regarded as an enemy and fair game for profi- teering. Only geese submit quietly to plucking . ‘The belief that the distress of 300,000,000 people can be alleviated by charging & few thousand travelers enormous prices is just as childish as the communist muddlehead's demand that Amschel 'Rothschild o& Frank- fort should divide his fortdne with all. This wise banker, when the de- mand was made, turned to his cashier | and sald: “Give this man three marks. 18 his exact share.” (Copyright, 1922.) HOUSES UNRODFED BY BLAST N PLANT. 1 | BY A. R. DECKER. | i ! That By Cable to Th'csl;;:l;;lz f’h?i‘illo Daily News. VIENNA, June 3.—Blumau, the vil- lage in which an explosion in an ecrasite plant occurred recently, has the appearance of a town in the war aone. The concussion shook the tiles oft roofs, while a rain of debries tore fmmense holes in buildings and killed many persons outright. Steel girders, twisted as by giant hands, were than 1,000 feet in the till smoldering in the search for the vio- It is belleved that plant, tims thirty were killed and 800 wounded. making difficult. ‘The fire started from an unknown cause mployes appear to have become panicstricken d to have ed without trying to extinguish the flames which communicated to the explosives. Since the armistice Au- strin has sold large quantities of explosives for mining purposes to Jugoslavia presumbly Fight on Discase Germs GEORGE E. VINCENT, President of the Rockefeller Founda- tion, whose recent report, now public, declares that the foundation is ready to eradicate hookworm and yellow fever germs. Almost $2,000,000 has been spent im international board of the Rockefeller Foundation has made thoro set. entific investigation: «earch in this direction fn China, Japan, the Philippines, Siam and India. GERVAN PROVIES HELD MEANINGLESS Tardieu Says “‘Hypothesis” Is Loophole for Future Evasion. BY ANDRE TARDIEU, Former French High Commissloner to America. By Cable Dispatch to The Star. PARIS, June 3.—Germany's reply on the reparations question means noth- ing. Like all German answers since Germany began replying, it remirds one of the ambigulty of the notes that Wilson recelved from Berlin prior to America’s declaration of war. True, it contains certaln promises, but they are based upon a hypothesis which may not be realized, and thus, when the day of fulfilment arrives, Germany can say, “I am not commit- ted to anything. As I sald last week. May 31, although called the final limit, was not the day of payment, but only the day whereon Germany must accept or reject the reparations commis- sion's conditions for continuing the moratorfum. These conditions were chiefly the cessation of fiduclary in- flation and the exportation of capital. Promises in Principle. On these essential points—and the stabilization uf the mark is as essen- tial to Germany as to her creditors— Wirth's note formulates promises in principle, but leaves the realization to turther conversations. The creditors seem to have forgotten that Germany couldn’t refuse whatever conditions they judged indispensable to_putting Germany’s finances In order, for arti- cle 241 of the Versailles treaty stipu- lates clearly that Germany must modify her laws, decrees and ordi- nances 80 as to assure complete execution of the reparations clauses. Wirth merely declares he will discuss with the reparations commission what must be done. Thus we find ourselves on the terrain of conversations and hypotheses, abandoning the firm ground of law as defined by the treaty. Furthermore, Wirth's note assumes an international loan, which the bankers have not got through discuss- ing. Nothing {8 less sure than that it will be granted. The mandate of the bankers' committee Is very lim- ited, and the loan is a future place- ment extremely difficult to consum- mate within such limits. The over- whelming probability is the bankers will report the loan impossible on such conditions, and in that event it is undoubtable that Wirth, who ac- cepted the Hermes proposals only after a long resistance, will take ad- vantage of the situation to withdraw his promises. Peril of Inflation. That, in my opinion, is the great drawback to these successive im- provisations which for two years and a half have been substituted for the pure, simple execution of the writ- ten contract between the parties. In June, 1922, it is realized that fiduclary inflation and exportation of capital are a deadly peril to Germany and the allles alike. Why wasn't this real- ized In 19207 Why wasn't Germany then, by virtue of article 241, required- to take proper legislative and execu- tive measures to stop inflation and exportation of capital, which meas- ures Wirth today only promises to examine? Don't be astonished that a Frenchman asks these questions, for at the moment of writing France has advanced eighty-five billion francs for Germany's account. The interest on the loans whereby this money was raised takes four and a half billion francs annually from the pockets of French taxpayers. and before we fin- ish with pensions and reconstruction we will have ninety billions more to spend. (Coprright, 1922.) Bride or Graduate 14-kt. White Gold WRIST WATCH 16-jewel movement; ad- justed in three positions; sapphire crown. Choice of four shapes. $21.50 D. ALPHER 907 G St. N. W. Many Other Styles and De- signs Up to $60. Conducting a Winning - - - | e | velopments, the dixease of | BITTERNESS BARS * PEAGE N RELAND Little Headwayb So F’ér Made Toward Settled Conditions. |CHALLENGE TO ULSTER Collini-De Valera Agreement, at Variance With London Pact, Called Defiance. AY GEORGE N. BARNES, Hritish parliament leader. By Wireless Dispatch to The Star, LONDON, June 3.—Ireland remains jour main preoccupation at the mo- ment. 1 am eorry to say that this unfortunate country is making little headway toward' settled conditions. One must hope and work for the best, but there Is no disguising ugly de- and it is a melancholy fact that there is as yet no peace, and lit also is to be admitted that un- | punished crimes still are an outstand- in Dublin and in Ulster continues un- checked. The agreement between Collins and De Valera was aimed at peace, and in the first exuberance of feeling the claim was made that hostilities would end in & week. But we have not had even a temporary cessation of the state of war. There has been no im- provement in the south, and there has been further embittered feeling between the north and the south. Violates London Agreement. ‘The agreement provided for elec- tions in Ulster asg well as in the south of Ireland. That provision is sharply at variance with the London agree- ment, and is, in my opinion, a chal- lenge to Ulster as well as a deflance to Great Britain. Moreover it predi- cates a reproduction of the Sinn Fein assembly instead of an Irish parlia- ment freely elected. Even if the vote were confined to the south it would be contrary to the London treaty, be- cause the new government would consist nearly half of republicans | who openly have declared that they will not subscribe to any oath of al- legiance such a# is provided for in that document. These things have formed the sub- ject of long and anxious consultations between the British ministers and those from Dublin during the week. The results were communicated to parliament by Mr. Churchill on Wednesday. He made an ominous ref- erence to the analogous situation in the United Statea just before the civil war there. The ‘plea, he said, had been put forward by Messrs. Collins and Griffith that free elections in Ire- land were impossible under existing circumstances; that the ballot boxes would be burned and the papers de- stroyed. ‘This he characterized as a reflection | on the Irish people, but he reminded | all concerned that final ratification of | the treaty still is to be given in Great Britain when a constitution is sub- mitted by the provisional government. e and Mr. Asquith glemofl for pa- tience and forbearante for Ireland and for faith in the Irish’ paople, and there the matter rests for \the mo- ment. The gain 8o fay from the generous action of the king a year ago is that the treaty has been dr::n up and duly signed by Irishmen and that that! treaty has been recognized through. out the world as so fair and far reaching that it has aligned blic opinfon_of the world on the side of Great Britain. This nation loyally and promptly honored its bond in every particular and even went be- f’nnd it to meet the difficulties of the (Irist signatories. The next word if with the Irfkh people. T E @W L Well Laid Linoleum Gives Longer Service There are two important things to consider about linoelum if you want it to last a long time. First, you must select a good quality, and, secondly, you must see that it is carefully laid. Armstrong’s Linoleum is good linoleum and our experienced Linoleum Department knows how to get exact measures and exercise extreme care in laying. We will be very glad to measure for your needs and give you an estimate. There no charge for this service and we will be glad to assist you. i is MAYER & CO. Seventh Street Between D & E pro X .@"fl(l >/ A Hoosier Makes Work Easy The minute a Hoosier Kitchen Cabinet enters your kitchen your work commences to get easy. You can sit be- fore Hoosier’s big uncluttered work-table and reach everything you need. To your left is the most practical flour bin ever invented. To the right is a big, sanitary sugar bin. In the center is a revolving spice caster. Built into the extending work-table are special cutlery draw- ers, outfitted with a ten-piece set of special quality kitchen tools. Come down to Mayer’s Lifetime F' urniture Store this week and see these and the many other conveniences of a Hoesier. " Prices are as low as $39.75. Lifetime F urniture Is More Than e Name " Seventh Street et 2 g Mayei‘ & Co. Between D & E Ll i Joul R T