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Phdne 2056J. | | |sides I mig} ee A nt opps ARERR 1 bi a | | | | | | "a { It is now definitely { Conference that Ge 1y [to the Allies d 1 marks. I think that is t ure though, of cour cnly from memor jcorrect figure is w { billion marks of the abc The sum to be paid was not reach- ed without a good deal of discussion. Monsieur Briand, the French Minis- ter, is reported to have thrown out the figure 4,281,390,887,471. But | Mr. Lloyd George would not pick it { up. Nor do I blame him, u 88 he had a basket to pick it up into Lloyd George's point of view was | that while the Germans could very | properly pay a limited amount such as 3,912,486,782,421 marks, it was not feasible to put on them a burden of 4,281,390,687,471 marks, | By the way, if anybody at this point doubts the accuracy of the fig- | ures just given, all he has to do is to! take the amount of the indemnity as stated in gold miarks, and then mul- tiply it by the present value of the | {mark and He w.ll find, to his chagrin. | [that the figures are correct. If he is still not satisfied, I refer him to a | book of tables of Logarithms; if-he is vfiot satisfied with that I refer him to! any work on Conie Sections, and if not convinced even them, I refer | {him zo far that he will never dome back. | It was necessary to put in this cau- | {tion or otherwise the editor of this { paper would have received an angry {letter of correction from Constant | | Reader or Pater Familias, or The Mo- ther of a Returned Soldier. { | This indemnity shows the total that is to be paid to all the Allied na- tions put together. But what I have been more interested in working out onal share of it. and that the Allies num- ra billion people. But | I leave all the black allies, and the! yellow allies, and take qaly the rown and the white ones, as repre- ed in the Conference at°Spa will be, I think, about 250 mil- ilon of us. It follows that my own | hare of the indemnity is fifteen | sand, six hundred and forty nine is lo pay | 56,782,421 | orrect fig- n speaking ate the | hundred | IVE | £ my own p I unde ere ou marks. This is a large sum of money, and [ am glad to get it. I need it; and 1] think I may' say on behalf of my | 249,999,999 fellow allies that we all | need it. Speaking for myself, I don't | | mind saying that as soon as I re- | ettled by the | means that the worth of the Ge | hide from THE DAILY BRITISH ET ---------- EASY MARKS The Puzzle of the German Indemnity, By Stephen Leacock 3 two thousand billion marks accurate 2,160,000,000. The problem there®ore appears to be solved. As far as I am ¢ erned, ndem- it is. All I ask is to have mr nity paid in beer and | Kansas. The mere process down there I leave fof later down in Missouri and dam up the lower one. his would Supply the whole Middle West not only with beer but with | bower-and, perhaps, light. Bit meantime ence at Spa is working out tails of*the plan, I make this offer. If anybody will give me sixty-five icents in Canadian currency for my entire share in the indemnity he may have it. Stephen Leacock. Copyright, 1921, by The Dominion News Bureau, Ltd., Montreal. The Reason Timmy Mole Lives Un- | der the Ground, "You know," chirped Chatty Chip- munk, shifting the nut he was chew- | ing on from one cheek to another, | "I've often wondered why Timmy Mole likes to live under the groumd instead of out in the open like we do. of under the tree roots and under the ground, too but my goodness, he stays under there the bigge.t part of his time!" "Looks to me as if he was trying to some replied Red "I've often wondered one," Tail Squirrel about that very thing) but as vet I've f never been able to find out any rea- son. He seems to like us all." "Well, I dgn'tsknow about that," laughed Chatty Chipmunk, Only the | other day I awakened to find he had thrown dirt up in front ot my door- | way. Of course, he apologized, and he helped me take it away, but it surely does worry me, It keeps me wollering all the time." "Lets go and ask old Hooty Owl. - ET -- nan beer, if laid down in Kansas, is over | --to be aying it discus- | | sion at Spa. One simple way would i be to pour it inte the top end of the | while the Confer- the de- | it was | course, we build | | but 03 the easiest way cut Is to tell you what I heard old Jimmy Bluejay say. He knew, or rather his great-great-grandfather know, the -first mole family that came to these woods to live. That mols family was the meanest family that ever lived around here. Mr, Mole spent the greatest part of his time hunting out the storing places of all the meadow | folks, "In those days, moles lived out in the open fields, and travelled around in the broad daylight instead of after dark as they do now, Then, after the other folks had crawled {nto bed, Mr. | Mole would sneak around and help | himself to everything he wanted, He | was clever enough to ide in under ground, and so was never caught at his ugly tricks. |- 'One person, dear old Mother Na- {ture saw him, and for punishment | she dimmed his eyes so that when the daylight struck them, especially the bright sunlight, he had to shut them | tight. Finally, he gave up trying to run around in the daylight. and spent | the days under a log, only coming out at nightfall. | "Folks began to ask questions, ahd | Mr. Mole growing ashamed of the comment he was causing, built him- self a house under the grount. There | he has lived to this day, and will con- tinue to live unless he betters his way," and old Hooty Owl blinked his i eves aud yawned to show his guests | the interview was over as far as he was concerned. - i Chatty Chipmunk and Red Tail | | Squirrel slowly wen. home, but as| | they passed Timmy Mole's doorway | | they both peeked in, and, sure | enough, the could hear him snoring | loudly. | Copyright, 1921, by Feature Service, Inc. Newspaper | | THE MAN ON WATCH | It is denied that had Mr. Sprack- | 1 | lin lectured in Kingston, his local | worshippers would have invited him | : } | to exhibit the gun with which he | | broke the sixth commandment, y | -- The Kingston clergy are not ag- reed upon this liquor importation | question, so the less-informed public | may be excused if they do not see | eye to eye. That was a fine trail that Mr. | Spracklin blazed--the trail of death. | But like Cain, the cleric-inspector | | was granted protection. If the R M.C. cadets would stags lceive my 15,649 marks I intend to | H® knows almost everything a fel- | their boxing bouts in the armouries, retire from work and devote myself | td building up the League of Nations. | | But my only trouble at present is | | the question of how to collect my in- | demlity. . In the first' place 1 have no inten- tion of letting t Germans pay it to me in actual cash. I know that if they Ido this, they will merely inflate me | beyond what is bearable. I have been |inflated now fer six years paying an. linflated landlord, eating inflated | food, and attending inflated theatres, and I am dene with it. I want the German treasurer, whoever he hap- pens to be when this is printed, to understand that if he offers me cash, I will not take it. I am deflating [quietly and I want to be let alone. In the second place, I want to un- | derstand that I will not allow these | German pups to escape by offering Ime fifteen thousand marks worth of {coal. What could I do with 41 that | coal any way? Spring is coming, my {furnace is burning low and I really { couldn't use it. As for having coal { over for next winter, it is a thing that |1 have never done and which passes | all my earthly dreams of avarice, Be- die in October. | ore, if I want coal I will | buy it in ax ordinary decent wax-{rom | a decent co}l dealer in my own coun- | try. I don't Ose to ruin our own | coal industry for the sake of build- | ing up the prosperity of Germany, What I.say of coal I apply with equal force' to any offers of food, | grain, oil, petroleum, linoleum, gas, jor any other natural product, I will | not take payment in any of them. | Even now it is all that our farmers, | can do to live. Many of them are hav- | ing to sell off their motors and pia- | nos, and to send their sons to college {to work. At the same time the Ger- {man producer by depressing the mark {further gnd further is able to work | fourteen hours a day. This argument may not be quite correct but I take it as I find it in the press; what I Cuticura Will Help You Look Your Best Trio your every- hands improve, ie Soon ons, tans improve. Qintment to soothe and heal, and the Talcum to powder and perfume. 25 and She. Sold 3 in Canadian EER Some people keep | themselves poor spending mopey to keep others from * «finding out that they are poor, mean is that I can't allow our indus- try to be undermined. | What we have to find then is some- | thing that the Germans have got and | all want that the brutes would Late to part with. o This brings us obviously to the question of German beer. I had a no- tion that we were drifting towards it, { and sure enough we have come to it. Having coxae to it, let us linger on i: a moment. Can we take our indem- nity in German beer? We must first make a calculation as to how much beer the Germans | have. Every German, it is well | known, takes forty drink of beer a day. Each time he drinks, he takes a pint. There are sixty million Ger- mans; go they drink two billion, four Beer takes a month to manufacture and store and distribute; there is thus thirty days' supply always avail- able. In other words, there must be jat the presemt time 72,000,000,000 pints of beer in Germany. Under total prohibition (federal, state, municipal, as authorized hy the Nineteenth Amendment, by the Vol- stead Act, by State legislation and by municipal by-laws, as for example in Kansas) the price of beer (when sold by h + hundred million pints of beer a day. |* reputable, people with a| low wants to know," suggested Red Tail Squirrel. "And, besides, he travels around after dark, and if you remember rightly so does Timmy Mole - So off the two friends started for the old hollow oak tree, where they found Hooty Owl fast asleep. Red tail Squirrel apologized for their intrusion, and made their wants known to old Hooty Owl, He yawned and blinked his great, big eyes. The sudden light almost blinded him. 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