Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1915-09-22
Fighting With Factories;
Where Germany Leads

England had increased only about 60 per
cent. Again, since 1880. the total receipts
OF German railways have gone up near
ly four times. and the ton mileage more
than four times. of Britain has
only about doubled.
Germany is yet far from rivaling the
banking power of England. But in 1876
the banking resources OF Germany were
almost negligible. In the interval these
resources have multiplied nearly Is times.
l1ngland's have hardly tripled.
Leads In Education and Science.
The industrial advance of Germany is
paralleled in almost every field of human
activity. Take education. Germany has
% universities, with an enrolment of
nearly 10000, where E%ngland's Is univer-
sites have but 35. 900. The whole world
has f1ocked to Germany's seats of learn
ing.
Germany has IL technical schools. with
an enrolment of 10000; and 30 other
technical academies which increase this
to above -, 900. The technical schools
supported by public funds in England had
in 1913 an enrolment of 1.4S5 students.
So. too. in the production OF books:
in Germany this runs around 5 5000 an
nually. as compared with about IL. 900
In Great Britain.
In 1909 telephone calls In Germany were
&c per head, as compared with Is in Eng
land. and six in France. In Germany the
number of illiterates is seven-tenths of l
per cent. and in England it is five times
this. In Belgium the number is Is times
that of Germany.
In the field of applied science Ger
many has led the world. 1t is probably
fair to say that. the amount of indus
trial research in Germany and the inn
p%ortance of its results in the last 40
other nations. including the United
States. combined. In city planning and
providing for the public comfort she
has gone far toward wrestling from Eng
land the primary among the nations Of
Europe, as 100 years ago England tool
the palm from France.
Germany and Austria. taken together,
now form a self contained empire Of
12O. 900. 900 souls. They have the finest
industrial equipment in Europe and the
best organized and most efficient w.
eminent. Perhaps in two years they
could be blasted out of Belgium and
northern France. But the cost would be
terrific.
Certainly the belief In a German "col-
lapse or the notion that the hosts Of
the allies could ever. unaided. enter Ber-
lin and Vienna. belongs to the realm of
iridescent dreams.
1t 10 the belief Of the writer that the
allies unaIded could hardly wear down
Germany In a four years struggle. The
allies have but ono hope In a straight
out contest. That Is the powerful aid Of
the United States. We need not enter
the war. But our factories can outmatch
the factories Of Germany, and we can
provide the allies with munitions and
supplies, and If need be with money, un-
til Germany's insane dream Of conquest
is ieveled to the dust.
MOI can the writer see why we need
have the slightest %compunctlon about do
Ing IT,, for It Is merely a question Of
| whether we do It now or a little later.
The triumph Of German Imperialism now
would almost Inevitably eventuate in a
German-American conflict, In which the
natura tally Of Germany, In It's lust to
! become the world power, would be Japan.