Evening Star Newspaper, October 21, 1923, Page 17

HOLDS GOLD LOAN |Ruhr Production Apt to Hals For Years, Dueto French Delay HOPE OF GERMANY Harden Says Berlin "overn- ment Must Make More Honest Effort. BY MAXIMILIAN HARDEN. By Wireless to The Star. BERLIN, October 20.—A govern- ment which demands dictatorial pow- ers proves thereby that it is merely a megligible "ornament of democratic parliamentarism or else an ‘evil which is unavoidable in good weather, but Intolerable in a storm. A parliament which grants such a demand makes itself into a figleaf to cover its shame at such a shortsighted viola- tion of democracy's fundamental principle The German government and the reichstag have done_this and then boasted of victory. The Stresemann cabinet wanted to assure more stable tax payments, more stable currency and more stable food supply by a couple of emergency laws. The reich- stag would have adopted such meas- ures without delay. The cabinet, however, demanded an ‘“enabling act,” which gives it a completely free handsand gives the reichstag merely the right to reject of approve later meagures which are adopted without its pote. Necessary Majority. Since the dictates of a party caucus compelled thirty-one socialists and a | dozen Bavarian deputies to vote against | thelr expressed convictions, and since the chancellor threatened to dissolve the reichstag his enabling act secured the necessary majority. The threat of dissolution was a bluff. A new clection would have been impos- sible in the occupied districts, and would have caused uprisings in Bavaria | and the red states of Saxony, Thuringia and Brunswick., The campaign chests of the four coalltion parties are empty and each of those parties would have lost seats in a new election. Only the nationalists and communis.s would have ®ained. Therefore only those parties opposed the proposal to give the gov- ernment & blank signed check and thus brought about the humorous spectacle where only' anti-democrats stood for democratic principles. The coalition parties 'desired victory in order to strengthen the coalition’s prestige, but at a time when Horthy, Mustapha Kemal, Mussolini, the Bu garlan fascistl and the Spanish officers’ Junta have weakened faith in the value of democratic institutions, wise poli- ticlans may not loudly celebrate victory and prestige which are compelled by terrorism and purchased by the tacit confession that democracy and parlia- mentarianism are useless in em. gencles, Praise For Cabinet. The Stresemann cabinet deserve praise for its attempt to end the print- ing of money and to create a new cur- Tency. That this inflation madness must | must be ended was certain, but it is not so certain that the new currency can absorb the paper mark and protect itself against rapid devaluation. The workers cannot be adequately paid or protected ayainst cold, hun- ger and epidemics unless a stable currency is achieved. The number of unemployed is already nearly 50 per cent. Even in Berlin a laborer doesn't earn a dollar a week. He must work | two days in order to buy a pound of b;’uh:r and six weeks to buy a pair of ! shoes. | Solution of the currency problem | must not be delayed longer, but an | enduring solution is possible only if | Germany can secure a gold loan | abroad. "And she can secure this only if ehe regains the world’s confidence. | A country which swore in December | that it couldn't breathe without a | four-year moratorium, and in the next | nine ‘months spent $.000,000,000 gold | marks in a purposeless defensive etruggle, has not the right to de- mand confidence, and is suspected ! and not merely by its enemies—of | desiring to ruin its finances in order | {0 render itself unable to pay repara- ons. Holding of Confidence. Further distrust would be aroused 1 an attempt were made by the in- dustrialists in the Rhineland and the Ruhr to dump abroad at “cost of pro duction” the products which they have heaped up since January with the ald of government credits. The German government would act un- | isely if it rejected a demand for | tecnational control as a violation of tiermany's sovereignty Fair trade and the opening of all 0oks are financial conditions neces ary to prove trustworthiness. The political condition necessary to prove it is transition to & genuine democ- racy. Germany’'s ‘technical apparatus in land and municipal economy is intact. Germany's people can and will wark. | Germany can win confidence only | when she shows, without ambiguity her willingness to acknowledge her | war indemnity without any plans for | revenge, to suffer neither communis- tic mor’ monarchistic rebellions, to; ut her budget in order and abolish | erfluous officials. (Copyright, 1923.) I ROOSEVELT'S DUEL AGCEPTANCE FOUND Srecial Dispateh to The Star. NEW XORK, October 20.—Though the blographies of Theodore Roose velt mention the fact that as a young man in the west he had trouble with a French nobleman, it has just been | revealed that the issue with this oth- erwise uncelebrated gentleman act- sally developed a formal challenge to a duel. Characteris ally, Roosevelt accepted the challenge, but it devel- oped the Frenchman's threat was | merely a bluff. Proof of the romantic episode has been brought to light through the discovery of a letter, hitherto unpub- | lished, which Roosevelt wrote, say- ing he was “al on hand” if_the Frenchman desired satisfaction, The letter was found by Mrs. Roosevelt in her husband's papers at Sagamore Hill and was loaned by her to the Reosevelt Memorial Association. On Dakota Ranch. It all happened in 1885. Roosevelt, then twenty-six vears old, was be- ginning his career as a_“cow punch- er” on his ranch in Dakota, then known as “the bad lands” The Marquis de Mores had established an abattoir at Bismarck. The marquis was about Roosevelt's own age. His full name was Antoine de Vallem- brosa. He was a member of an Or- leans family, the son of a duke. had been an army officer, and was lately married to the daughter of Medora | von Hoffman, a wealthy New York banker of German descent. It seems that an enmity sprang up between the marquis and Roosevelt. 1t was intensified when Roosevelt de livered some cattle to the marquis ibattolr and was offered a price lower than the marquis previously | Lad agreed to pay ‘When the narquis, @ short time later, was in- cted on a charge of murdering Ril- ey Luffsey, he accused Roosevelt of urging the prosecution. Joseph A. Verris, a close cowboy friend . of | Roosevelt, was held by the marquis | as being the Instigator of popular | hatred against the Frenchman. He | then directed a letter to Roosevelt proposing a duel. Roosevelt replied and, as was his custom, wrote in his own hand a copy of it on the back] of ‘the marquis’ letter. It was this letter, together with Roosevelt's re- ply on the back of it, that was found at Sagamore Hill The letter by Roosevelt, now pub- lished for the first time, follows: “Most emphaticaily I am not your enemy. If I were you would know - | quarreiing: !Bad La | won't be French Leader Takes Pessirfiistic View of Situation, With Conditions Growing Worse Daily BY ANDRE TARDIEU. By Cable to The Star. PARIS, October 20.—Many factor- fes in occupled Germany are closing at ieast four days a week. Are we going to see forced unemployment succeed the voluntary unemployment of the last ten months? If famine sets in there will be street riots. Such conditions do not lend them- selves to resumption of operation of delicate, complex machinery such as Ruhr industry. Even supposing riots are averted by organization of food rations, ‘re- sumption of work still will be diffi- cult. Nothing seems simpler at first sight than to extract coal if the miners descend into the mines. But inactivi! seriously diminishes a worker's productivity. In the few mines. that still are operating only 400 kilograms per man per day are! extracted, compared withi 900 kijo- grams last January. ~Besides, what is the good-of extracting if it s impossible to sell? Transpbrt Dificult. The export situation has already been explained. To that must be added the fact that factories incum- bered with unsold stocks likely to be large consum Finally, the key to ev ransportation. The Franco-Bulgian ailroad administration in occupied Germany has only 23,000 workers, in- stead of the normal 175,000. Return of the stritsrs onens the complicated it, for 1 would be an open one. and would not bave asked you to my house nor gone to yours. As your final words) however, seem to imply a threat, it is due to myself to say that the statement is not made through any fear of possible con- sequence to me. I too, a you know, am always on hand, and ever ready to hold myself acrountable Ii any way for anything I haye said or done “Yours very trul “THEODORE ROOSEVELT." The marquis’ letter was dated Sep- tember 3, 1885, at Bigmarck, from the office of the Northern Pac'fic Re- frigerator Car Company. It said My Dear Roosevelt: “My principle by the horn: Joe Ferris is very active against me and has been In- strumental in getting me indicted by furnishing money to witnesses and hunting them up. The papers also publish very stupid accounts of our I sent you the paper to York. Is this done by your or- ders? 1 thought you my friend. If you are my enemy I want to know it. *I am always on hand, as you kuow, and, between gentlemen, it is easy to settle matters of that sort airectly . to_take the bull New Yours very truly, . MORES." “I hear the people want to organ- ize the country. I am opposed to it for one year more least.” News traveled fast through the west in those da Typical of the stories pubiished in cotemporary newspapers is an extract e Bisma Tribune, in August, 1885. The paper said: “Theodore Roose velt, the young reformer of New York, passed through the city ves terday en route to his ranch in He was as bright and talkative as ever and spoke great opportunities of the imperial northwest with more enthusiasm than has ever been exhibited by the most sanguine old-timer. Mr. Roose- velt recently had_a slight tilt with the Marquis de Mores on a cattie deal, and the story has been exag- gerated untll - readers of eastern papers are led to believe that these two cattle kings never speak as they pass by and are looking for each other with clubs. This is not true. Nevertheless, stories that a duél was imminent between the marquis and Roosevelt .were rampant. When Roosevelt reached horn he showed the marquis lctter to William Sewall, a friend. “That' threat,” exclaimed Roosevelt, ai cording to a record left by Sewall e is trying to bully me. 1 am go ing to write him a letter. I don’t like to disgra my family by fighting a duel. Idon’t believe in fizhting duels. My friends don’t believe in it. But I bullied by a Frenchman. Now, as I am the challenged party, 1 have the privilege of naming weapons. I am no_swordsman, and pistols are too uncertain and Frenchy for me, in_rifles’ 2 Roosevelt then, according to Sewall, said if a duel was fought it would be -“with rifiles at twelve paces, the adversaries to shoot and advance until one or the other dropped.” “Now,” said Roosevelt, according to Sewall, “I expect he will challenge me. 1f he does T want you for my second Sewall declares he predicted that the Frenchman wou'd not force the issue. It appears that Roosevelt's letter was “satisfaction” eneugh. from the | the | of the: his ranch at Elk- the | what do you say if I make | problems of reintegration of those Who have been expelled, control of i the occupied area and future organ- ization of exploitation. Consequent- i1y, the Ruhr at present resembles the . palace of the sleéping beauty.. The only difference is that the sleepers in the fairy tale were not hungry. Obviously, the German government ia responsible for the ruin. 1t pre- ferred suicide to paying, and deserves | the fate it has brought on itself. But moral judgment is not political solu- tion. "4 formidable emterprise is opening before the occupying pow- cre, They hesitated in Januarv to juse limited measures which would have insured continuation of work | Now they may be condemned to keep the Ruhr alive—not a Ruhr intact, as in 1922, but a Ruhr devastated by unemployment imposed by Berlin and not prevented by the allles. Cool Judgment Needed. It ‘s a future laden with responsi- i bilities. If Parls and Brussels are to have the last word and bring the debtors to life again, they must re- gard the problem codlly and prepare the financial and economic methods i which the situation requires. This is necessary if the'r purpose s to be attained. And it must be attained. Chancellor Stresemann has obtain- od full power in Germany. But there {5 something more powerful than full {vower. That is the force of events Forco of cvents now is punishing man's blunders. The mark. already depreciated to such an extent that | 2nother fall seemed impossible, con- It'nues to fall. Likewisg living costs ‘ontinue to increase wMh prodigious hounds. A friend, lunching recentlv in Berlin, was approached by the head waiter after the first course har been consumed and informed polite- 'y that the price of the Second course {Pad increased 25 25.000.000 marks since his order had been g'ven. Hizher Living Costs. This Increase in living costs has totally upset first calculutions. There was a time when Germany, with a very low mark, tried to develop her exports ‘and. for some months, suc- ceeded. Today as/a consequence of high salarles and mad pricew. every thing is dearer in Germany than else- where. Persons counting on German exports puying for reparations will be isappointed Millions of men do not know this morning how they wiil cat this even- ing. This is the result, alas! of the stastrophic policies of “Wirth and Cuno. favored by the attitude of countries encouraging Germany in this policy France, which in some quarters is blumed for the situation, ls the first victim. For the selzed pledges which she neglected to exploit when It was possible. now threaten to become un- productive for years. In January it would have been sufficient to deciare real authority in the Ruhr, introduce sane money and cut Berlin off from communication, and work would have continued. Now it Is proclatmed in vain that passive resistance has stopped. Work is not resumed be- cause ten months:of passive resistance {and an occupation, alas! no less pas- sive, have creatéd an inextricable situation - We have just noted that West- phallan coal is twice as_dear as Eng Tish coal. Therefore export is {mpo. sible. | Tow, then, to pay the workers A large part of the ‘Teserves have been used up since January, espectally those of the smaller businesses. 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Colds Toothache “Headache Rhe_umatism Neuritis Nemalgi Accept. only Handy *“‘Bayer”’ Also ){)ottlgsy of | LaSalle Problem Method—covering the Telephone THE SUNDAY STAR. WASHINGTON, D. C. OCTOBER 21, — o ROTHERMERE RULE | . OF PRESS ALARMS, | {Much Concern Aroused in | England by Tactics of Suec- cessor to Northcliffe. BY A. G. GARDINER. By Cable to The Star. - 'LONDON, October.20.—Lord Rother- mere's capture of the Hulton press is arousing extraordinary congern, and Attorney General Hogg made a | public attick Wednesday on the men- ace of a press monopoly. The Hulton press was the second most powerful newspaper trust in the country. Its absorption by Lord Rothermere | makes the power of that press mag- nate overshadoy the land more com- pletely than did the power even of his brother, the late Lord Northcliffe. It is now indisputable that he has access to more households than all the rest of the newspapers in the country. His papers are legion, of all kinds, and have vast circulations. Advertisers cannot dictate to him. He dictates to them. He practically con- trols the machinery of newspaper dis- tribution, and the profession of jour- nallsm is becoming enslaved to one st system of ownership., reat .Political Power. But the main difference is that the Rothermere press is a political power of the first order. Its influence on affairs is undeniable and Lord Roth- ermere clearly aims at making parlia- ment subordinate to mob opinion controlled by his press. It is notori- ous that his Poincare policy has been the ('hm‘l stumbling-biock” of three prime ministers in succession—Lloyd George, Bonar Law and Baldwin, 1 am informed on indisputable thority that at the recent inter vetween Prime Minister Baldwin a rremier Poincare’ Mr. Baldwin was largely occupied with an attempt to convince M. Poincare that the Rother- mere press did not represent British opinion.” It is certain that but for the support of that’powerful engine for manufacturing mob opinion M. Poin- care would not have darea flout the British government so openly. With the latest development, re- sponsible opinfon In all parties is seriously alarmed at the magnitude of the menace to constitutional gov- | ernment. It realized that parlfa- | ment capnot function in the presence | ¢ an uncontrolled dictatorship of one n who has access to mearly every household and giv or suppresses news according to thé motive he has | in_mind. | The speech of the attorney general indicates that the government is com- ing to the conclusion that this chal- lenge to democratic government mus be faced openly. Gevernment Is Hesitant, So far_Lord Rothermere,. like Lord Northelifte before him, has succeeded because of the unwillingness and timidity of successive governments to grapple boldy with him. This im- punity has encouraged the press dai tator to grow more insolent in his methods, until @ situation has been reached in which, if the government refuses to accept dictation, mob opin- {Ton is mobllized against it and action is paralyzed. I anticipate that the question of what is known a3 *“the mena of the Rothermere vress” will come be- Lfore parliament in some ferm when | it meets next month. My own opin ion i3 that Lord Rothermere will find the British publie not su table m | terlal for fascism and that sharp dis-i | titusion” awalts him. { | au- s t He i3 a man of negligible intellec- tual quality, much infer'or to Lord Northcliffe. Northcliffe had a touch of genlus mixed with his madness Rothermere i3 mere big business. sion University of University grade, by the famous or fields of business. e and remunerative positions with WASHINGTON ‘OFFICE Telephone: Main 8320 iness Consultation: To ‘help for- rd-looking men plan thelr busi- i85 progress. 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I expect to see a strong movement made to compel this shy bird to come out Into the open and explain per- sonally his grounds for playing the French game against every Br'tish minister. With publio opinion swing- Ing round steadily to the conclusion that the Poincare policy means 'in- dustrial ruin for th's country, as well as the destruction of Germany. Lord Rothermere is nearing the dis- covery that he has backed the wrong | horse and must run to cover. 1 Copyright, 1923. “CHCK” EVANS lei g §275100 BANKRUPT Liabilities Due to Speculation in Grain and Stock Markets. By the Associnted Press, CHICAGO, October 20.—The liabile 1 “Chick” Evans, jr., who sald he would file a voluntary petition in’ bankruptey in federal court here Monday, will total-$275 000. His ties ‘of Charles assets amount $50.000. The losses, E were due to specuation in and stock markets Evans' t by $262,671.33. There are $12,600 in numerous tions yet to be listed. 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