Wichita Daily Times (Wichita Falls, Tex.), Vol. 16, No. 272, Ed. 1 Sunday, March 11, 1923 Page: 26 of 48
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IN GERMANY TC
LANK G CARPENTER WRITES
OF FINANCIAL RUIN OF NATION
WITH SIXTY MILLION PEOPLE
low the Savings of Every Individual Were Lost in a Night
‘ —Millionaires Have, Become Beggars and Would-be
Brides Are Eating Their Dowries—Can the Country
; Come Back?—The Best Plant on the Continent Fully
i Equipped—Modern Germany as a Financial Asset-
Great Cities Growing at Dynamic Speed—Frank G. Car-
penter Begins the Greatest News Story Since the World
CARPENTER’S WORLD TRAVELS.
1 . Copyright, 1933, Frank a. Carpenter. t
BERLIN, GERMANY.—I kava come to Germany to describe the
ctual conditions which have swept over the land beginning with the
,==----- tall of the mark and increased by the taking over of
foour" the Ruhr by the French, engulfing the people in a
foist i maelstrom of destruction. I have crossed the country
from the North Sea to Poland, have gone down into
< a 1 the Ruhr valley and inspected the great manufactur-
Ser ing plants and the mines, and spent some tine in the
MCI cities talking with au sorts and conditions of men
Med from laborers in the factories to bankers end the high
5 Cone est officials, I am now In Berlin but I expect to move
M back and forth and write just what I see. So far, I
U have no. fixed conclusions. My head is buzzing with
BitTd the complications and contradictions I find every-
Eng where, and I get a new view every hour. One day I
“-. am. convinced that the captains of industry, bankers,
F. G. Carpenter soc ialists, - and others who are running the republic,
re the shrewdest rascals who have ever trodden the pike of the nations
nd that they are fooling the world. The next day I feel they are -
aratively honest and want to do an they-------, ----- -
er feet. And then something new turns these premises up side down,
nd as the backwoods congressman said, “I do not know where I am at.”
All I shall do in these letters to •--
.2‘2wnetmee neowin savor
t Germany or not, and let the man
a the street draw his conclusions,
am not a (prophet nor the eon of
prophet and I shall not predict.
xpressions of opinion I shall leave
s the editorial columns, making
ascriptions without fear or favor
sly of those things which come
ader my eyes. 1
There to one truth, however, that
ands out like a boll on one’s nose.
H this to that these Germans are
terrible condition. A very few
: the people may be making mon-
but tens of millions have lost
rery went of their savings, millions
com
can to get Germany back on
which has. more aban three hundred
thousand inhabitants, it has eight
ranging between two and three
hundred thousand and fifteen more
of one: hundred thousand apiece.
Some of these cities are unknown to
• man on the street, i Bow many of
you could locate Gelsenkirchen and
Duisburg before the French took
charge of the Ruhr? The first to
bigger than Memphis and the second
surpasses Omaha, Atlanta, or Toledo.
Every one of these towns is a live,
industrial entity: where every
, works eight hours every day.
none of them to the properties sr
unemployed as great as in places st
similar she la the United States,
England or-France. In all, the pop-
ulation le growing, although that is
largely das. to the coming la of the
Germans who have been crowded
out of Polish Upper Silesia and Al-
sace-Lorraine. The whole country
may: be on the way to destruction
but as far ‘as I can see It is, still
alive and kicking and everywhere
outside the Ruhr is working hard
as at 1005.1-
What Germany Hen-nett-
The Germans complain as to ths
less of their territory, aad one might
think they were crippled for all time
“agriculturally and minerally. The
fast to they still have one off the
vert beat national properties in Eu-
rope. The greater part of their soul
is equal to that of France, and
they’have vast mines of potash by
which they fertilise It at a compara-
lively low cost. They are now tab-
lag nitrates from the air in such
quantities that they promise to sup-
plant the nitrates, of Chile, and their
production per sore of grain, pota-
ties and sugar beets is far higher
than euro and equal to that of al-
most any other land of the world.
Before the war Germany had an av-
erage production of 153 million
bushels of wheat, 445 million bushels
of rye. and 592 million bushels of
cats every year. She was then im-
porting is million bushels of wheat
and it ip said she needs 125 million
bushels of wheat to-day. Her .peo-
ple claim they have no money to
buy it and Hit to only by some hind
of a decision as to their trouble
with France that this market will be
open to the American farmer.
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a month. I hear of baronesses and
countesses who are feeding upon
their jewels which have come down
up heirlooms, and of girls who to
buy food are selling the clothes and
linen they have saved for their
dowries. I have gone through face
. tories where tens of thousands ut
expert workmen are laboring at
twenty-five cents a day, and have
talked with all classes who are
earning barely enough for their food
and cannot purchase new olothes.
% Real estate here la Berkin is being
sold for a song, and valuable Indus-
‘ trial, properties are being peddled
- out to the capitalists of other coun
‘ tries. The intellectuals, by which I
■ mean students, professors, and scl-
entists, are as reduced that the fu-
- ture of Germany, as one of the great
’ forces in advanced thought, to in
danger, and the moral condition of
all seems to be on the down grade,
will Affect the American Pocket-
Book
All this has taken place within
4 less than a year and the situation
, promises to grow worse and worse
g unless something can be done to
give a haste upon which sound buol-
Ma m"M a""-"""
may come upon France, and it W
sure that ir the trano once starts on
the toboggan-slide of the mark that
country will so the same way If I
does, the savings of the thrifty
French peasants will disappear in =
night, and no one can foretell the
results. They will affect the whole
world, and the pocketbook and wet-
fare ot every man, woman and child
in our country. ,
it to to describe this situation that ..
I have come into Germany. The res
suits of my investigations will be
told in plain language in my letters
to follow. 143 ,
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Mr. Carpenter’s second totter on
Germany will be “Deutschland’s
Dance of Death." In it he gives
many concrete illustrations of the
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Cleaners, Dyers and Hatters .
not enough to buy a scrap of
clothing, and hundreds of thou-
■ in every district are practical-
1 the edge of starvation. :
in It Retributive Justice, 4
Germany is, as most of us be-
, guilty of having originated
greatest war of all time, and of
turning the financial and econ-
world, she IS paying the price
he uttermost. Her condition,
and present, as I see It now.
where betterdescribed than In
Nth. 27th and 28th chapters of
rophet Ezekiel, where he shows
glory of the ancient Tyre and
fate the fate which came upon
that prophecy describes the
i and predominance of the Ger-
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int. "I commend it to all Bible
Y verty veare view
t let us get down to brass tacks
see if we can figure out just
Germany is in these days after
var. I have known her off and
ir the past forty years 1-come
first upon leaving college when
er Wilhelm was aim en. the
re. 1 saw that famous monarch
ms and shouted with the rest
s honor. I was here again in
when I made a honeymoon trip
ad the world and crossed Ger-
t from one end to the other. I
1 Berlin again la 1893 when
ung Kaiser, the man who now
years later In the seclusion
era la "SUE, the are a
received the World
had just dismissed Bismark
as running Che show for hime
tee Bismark had retired to his
M estate at Friedrichsruth.
Hamburg. I had the honor of
kg with him there and talking
him on his seventy seventh
ay, and a few days later saw
by Kaiser review the great
in Army at Tempelhofer Field,
Berlin. He may have had vis-
g world conquest at that time,
a in 1902 that I came back
to find the country in the
of a military aristocracy built
the Emperor In which every
sa to step aside for the soldier
Megr. and it was not safe to
aloud at the Kaiser for fear
the edge et 1911 I found myself with
my wife and daughter st a great
musical festival: in Munich from
where we went up the Rhine and
traveled about here and there. At
that time the military forces were
even more in evidence, and had 1
been a modern Daniel X might have
been able to read the hand writing
which was then on the wall. Now in
1923, two-score years after my first
visit, I am again on the ground. The
sun of the Kaiser has risen and set,
and the empire which had its pos-
sessions la more than three conti-
fents has become a republic, with
the French tied to its heels. It is of
this now republic that we wish to
is Germany a Live Annett.
The Germans claim that they are
now down on their uppers. This
seems to me true, but if so their
bare feet are planted upon one of
the very beet pieces of property on
the European continent. Take your ger
m"P and see where they are. They machinist gets in one day.
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WOE ALineatIon L MAN there have pleated hundreds of mil-
sanie Itey move" M l^er^^nto^
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of the Russia of the future. Acro mL
! Ninth See No Great Britain with As to matters of transportation,
M cutomere and_oyeGermany has the advantage over
12. A MAT most other countries of Europe. Its
1- aarous northern part is a level plain and
MAS They complain ottheir ter; practically the whole of it to a wen-
- 2***5,," Lie fe
tor oFa million mnarsof* quer” cheaply run. The country now has
more aa the 4* ! Jenouse roads to make thirteen solid
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and Wisconsin combined. Cut it to- feeaeee .ret *
tout eherianduserry. nc over the don oreen cones more than a trip et
oa Rs Co two hundreds miles on the railroad.
Texas and It The slopes are such that the coun-
TEASs and K would aide ine whole i tri has a vast net oF interior wa.
of that great state, excepting a * MLS
retes.ccreutateccuine or Deinware Avers -neh ar* connected b’s
TA Men Pdeman, many canals that if you could make
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* E A other it would not be as long as
1 MTuT sent TARA MAnts these waterways upon which freight
sums TAPY . PTs carried. I have no figures for
mir live. M RANHSYEE ME the present, but to 1913 more than
A Rete SOUl St three 100 million tone of goods were oar-
bas IMP PI Etoe riea on the rivers and inland canals
**5=A A of Germany. More than one-half of
wan. New Jersey, and mnot .haler.amowm mes.mnge wpot comet
25 soue boir the an wages paid on the interior we-
ERE MsSNARE 252.5
wire Pindato i low that in making a trip from
The nF SNF 2 or ate Hamburg to Calcutta, the sailors
cies and its cues are growing at: tourd.eeirt.mrt: re NOT:
ter than any In the United States. AAMPo e „
I 22sreeter/eertin had 2,020.000-/2007 and * ms peotage %. :
Munos eme.eke o, nd SYe/letter to his people in Germany. 1
en and more teen PIJeree as have this on the authority of the
freest rin-acipniee ah increase oFassistant secretary, of our depart;
perhaps three quarters of n million ----- h. As :
within the space of three yearn, peased trone, PeriA on *
Hamburg had over a million and to 11
trampe on the heels of Detroit. Co- A captain of industry whose com-
until devarsean Germany ...
producing enough grain to laet her
ten months of thesear. Me now
claims she can raise grain for only
eight months and -* food for only
two-thirds of her people. It this to
so, she hae twenty million stomachs
which will have to he fed from the
outside. But she was spoon-feeding
half this number before the war so
that the number to not so great as
it seems, Germany has long since
changed from ha agricultural to an
industrial nation, and, as in Great
Britain, the profits of her factories,
shipping, and foreign investments
must pay the bill. She to now pep-
pered with up-to-date factories in
which millions are working at a less
wage per month than an American
in one day. Her
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world Trave
SAY “BAYER” when you buy. Insist!
Unless you see the “Bayer Cross" on tablets, you are
not getting the genuine Bayer product prescribed by
physicians over 23 years and proved safe by millions for
Headache
Rheumatism
Lumbago
Paip, Pain
Golds
Toothache
Neuritis
Neuralgia
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— — ----■ This bank he drithe balance let the
the tenants by the socialistic gov.
ernment. C.l) 1 ' T .
Oirto Eating Thele Dowries
This means that men who, before
the var. were worth millions now
of business managers, who a short
time ago had salaries from five to
ten thousand dollars a year, and
who are now getting twelve dollars
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get net- fast enouga to meet the demand. .
" purr emnawel, r
dred and twenty dollars is less than
two and one halt cents. It the sov.
ernmenthis paying you a pension of
five hundred dollars per year, you
will get that amount in paper but
when you turn. It into goods it will
be worth only ten cents. If you are
a widow and your husband has left
• ten thousand dollar life insurance,______________,
policy which you can cash la today have been practically given over to ’
HMmaSiirMisBiiiii^--^^^
mucsaIgeia rate Wto
.SPY
cents. It the soy.
the insurance company wan give
you the money but its gold purchase
Ing value will be no more than two
dollars. It is the same with every
kind of investment. All the solid
accumulations of the past which
have not been but into machinery
or material ‘properties have gone up
in smoke, and all rented buildings
Accept only “‘Bayer” package which contains proper directions.
Handy “Bayer boxes of 18 tablete—Also bottles of M and 100—Druggisti.
Amoiria to that trade mark et Barer Manufacture « Meccucelleneleter it Balleriicads
p.
/ to prison. I then had my
| me and wrote up the Amer-
immercial I invasion, going
the factories and studying __________________
istrien of the people from logne to bigger then Boston, Munich HAARS -
of the country to the other, than Pittsburg and Dresden than PenXhat COT A Tor then Set
other establishments I visi- Buffalo, Leipzig to crowding Los thousand men The Te of the
of the Krupps, which was Angeles, Dusseldort outranks cin-Ruhn tells,” that more t an forty
cannon of the Kruppsaga cinnati, and Essen, the home otPASnt ISJT-A SH N NS
cannon and munitions, pre- Krupps, which before the war had W Met PT. TWAINS AY
2# uer for the war of ‘ four humdre thousand people, besinoh VmeontW Mme •
Hpe*A**-£±±L^ 4JJ!!*J!!±"!«2L±*L** ^
2 9 coal while the fields she has loot
A D had only about thirty per cent. The
r A Ruhr is just about as big as Rhode
. T7u Island and it has over fifty billion
• Cue pent let child stay, tons of cost still to be mined. Today
15 61 Dinouse constipated Germany has more coal than any
A—* 2 4- country in Europe except Great
Britain, but by the treaty of Ver-
nailles she has to give so much to
France that she is now Importing
coal, buying buck through Holland,
at times, the very coal she shipped
to France. It returns labeled "Eng-
Itoh coal” but I am told it is often
Tin the same cars le which It was
I shipped away. .
1 As to Iron, in 1*11 Germay was
producing only three-fourths of
’ • what she consumed. She has lost
a great deal, and will now have to
buy to much larger quantities. She
is getting her iron from Sweden and
Spain, but the market to competitive
and it merely puts her on the same
plane as those of many other manu-
facturing countries of Europe. ,
wins. Th ITant ink
this. It seems impossible that the
owners could be financially ruined.
but that le the actual condition of
the Germane of today. They number
more than sixty millions and I ven-
ture over fifty-nine millions have
lost practically every cent of their
savings. This includes investments
in all sorts of gilt-edged securities
and all municipal and government
bonds It includes stocks of all kinds
and pensions and life insurance pol-’
icles.J to order to wet the actual .
value of any such investment you. .
must divide it by five thousand and
the result will give you what it is
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CHILD’S BOWELS
IORNIA FIG SYRUP
Cross, Feverish, Sick Children Love its Taste
nd it Never Falls to Empty Little Bowels
poontul or “California Fig right out of the stomach and bow
MT will thorough’s clean els Without Eripins or upsetting the
four druggist you want only
uine “California Fig Syrup"
man" ah
FAdy
or
wil
give you what to le
5 own a aix per
a thousand del-
can satisfy it
orty cents gold
runs the inter- -
from one hub."
Heading Field Operations
Field operations of a producing gas company require a
wide range of talent. Three of the men upon whom devolve
large responsibilities are shown in this illustration.
At the top is E. F. Schmidt, superintendent of the gas department. Mr.
Schmidt’s activities in the field have given him a large acquaintance, for he
has direct supervision over a vast network of gas lines, compressor sta-
tions, gate stations and employees. Mr. Schmidt lives in Dallas:
Miles of Holes
T. W. Sutherland, superintendent of the producing department (at the
, left) began in the oil and gas industry in 1889 in Butler county, Pennsyl-
vania. He has superintended the drilling of over 500 miles of holes in the
earth—and has drilled a large number of wells for the Lone Star.
3" J. C. Brokaw, chief engineer, is shown at the right. He has charge of the prelimi-
nary work on lines, surveys of right of way, and damage claims. Many claims are made €
on account of damage of crops and fields through the repair and patrolling of lines.
Experienced specialists in their lin
% good service which distinguishes the
training anticipates and prevents dir
of their work, so essential to the com )
dif
ON ES
- DALL
es, these men are alert to maintain that
Lone Star system. Their technical
st ficulties ao that customers never know
e fort of many thousands.es
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The Specialist
For scientific treatment of chronic, nervous and special
diseases of both sexes, catarrh of all mucus membrane,
stomach, liver, kidney complaints.
If you are sick of experimenting, sick of failures, sick
of being sick, come to me. I invite sick people who
contemplate taking treatment to come. Special atten-
tion given in the combination of curative powers with
the scientific administration of selected specific
Medicines, I endeavor to do everything to promote the
welfare of my patients.
A’ DOCTOR’S APPEAL TO PARENTS
If the mothers and fathers of our children would see the awful
wrecks of, men and women I see almost daily and could hear the
story most of them tell, namely: “Our parents never warned us,”
they would no longer hesitate to teach the children SEX HYGIENE
The relation of the sexes to God-given, a to a sacred duty and 1
warn you parents of the present generation-do not conceal the
-eye ‘ Fine E t
E 9001 their religion. Our
Ruhr Ex #5 22
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WHY NOT THE BEST? 1
Are you a nervous wreck? Are you worn out and brok-
en down. Are you suffering from vicious blood and
skin diseases, that destroy bone tissue, and disfigure
for life? Backaches, and kidneys give you all gone
feeling? Whether these conditions were caused by
early excesses, or contracted by inocculation, it does
not matter, for they will all respond to my treatment
Consult Dr. Schultz, the Specialist, who is well equipped
by long experience, that enables him to offer his serve
"ices on a basis that no other can; his charges are lower
for cures than the average physician generally charges
for failures. i 7
Those who have .wasted time and money, and fanea to
get rid of their ailments, are especially invited to eone
suit FREE, I am giving the benefit of over 36 years
honorable experience; some of my cures are truly won-
derful, yet I do not work magic; I do not make the old
younger, nor the blind see; I simply apply the knowl-
edge my years of honorable experience have given me
and Ido this honestly and intelligently. *3 •"
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Diseases of Women
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e Phone 6990 A
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