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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (April 2, 1919)
w April 2. 1»1». THE RUMORS OF FINANCIAL RUIN IN EUROPE ARE UNJUSTIFIED l; Persistent rumors that all Europe ia on the verge of a financial eol- laphe are not justified by the fart*, a p- nunent American financial ex pert said in a statement recently* Conditions were serious, he added. 3 act panicky, and would doubt- be relieved greatly when pea< t - siirned and the embargoes hfteo. - He predicted that England would be stranger within a year than oeelfc Great Britain, with a wer debt] of $40,000,000,000, the financier added was nt a situation Comparing favor ably wit her debt and per capita esMMii at the conclusion of the Napoleonic wars, j The allies ow, Knowledge. The son .o fthe family wms>home on him fist vacation since he had at tained to the dignity of college pre fect. He and his father were dis cussing affair* of the day, and finally ! the boy remarked: j. “Say Gov, I hope when I am as old as you are I’ll know more than you do.” “ini go you one better, my boy.” the father replied. “I hope that when you are that old you will kno *• as much as you think you do now.” ;! II < I r* ill *ll p ;* ’ | [/" wTTj i AS Jr. Public Ownership. Visitor (in public gardens, inter ested in botany!—Do you happen to know to what family that plant be- | j. Great Britain between $9,000,000,- longs? 00l> aad $10,000,000,000. The futhn- old Gardener I happens to know estimated that only about |4,- it don . t belong to no family. That ooo.000,000 of the $20,000.0ou.000 p i an t belongs to the park.—Florida { invested abroad by Englishmen be Times Union. ■* for* the war had been disposed of. , Imbyiasiag France, he said that the i m * mtawtion was unsatisfactory, becau-c vv<>uld I)o TKr,, the government does not le*jr al Uncle Sam Hodge came dowh from heavy enough taxation, and canse- the Kentucky, mountain *'th hi* quently the moneyed clasaes have produce to market. H* teaM more money than ever before, vtbil* ; °^ oxen was somewhat weary With a I the government is nearly bankihipi. | two-days’ pull. But when Sam reach. , If the taxation problem ia fkced ! ^ th * cit V htB '* ** w * 9 confronted fearlessly, he added, France’s haniest with the ^“Speed limit, fifteen , tiaaS will be over within six months m ‘J** ftn , a T\ J • i) 4' . ... He pulled his whisker* a moment . ^ COuraK * ofjtaly in -levymg j . n g jj ent mediation, and then drawled heavier tave* than France, he crjiWn-| oat to hi8 ox#n .. W€n< j kno% darn • ued. had helped her. but tne expan- ^ W(>11 neveli make jt but weM1 aims of her present foreign erMIt*. do our domgonv best.-—Even body’* within six months the situation muy jhagome serious. The financier denlared that condition of Belgium was not .as 1 the" Belgians imagined, because she has the industries and population whsch douoilesa will restore faathriaif ipipMly. cl |i Wouldn’t Ruia Himsv’f. Our guess is that the man who wears a No-Beer-No-Work badge isn’t going to ruin himself at work- | ing anyway. The Wallace Printing Co. § \}% r \- PRINTING - STATIONER' PROGRAMS, INVITATIONS, EV I* - ! HjUil AJline of Gentlemen's Stationery, all somethmf nice. 1 'A !/• hi Phone 340 tv __ , - 1 IA 1 i- r4 I I ft j: ^ ( Master achievement of William Fox. SLX MONTHS IN THE MAKING! MOR] THAN A MILLION SPENT ON IT! 500 Performers. An Arkful of Animali Science Outwits Nature with Marvelous Mechanical Effects. A THEDA BARA SUPER-PRODUCTIO 4 ■. i FRIDAY AND SATURDAY, APRIL 4 i y' II HI : M 14 ' i t-1