The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-02-16
Member Of the Associated Press
TUESDAY. FEBRUARY 10, 1915.
KIRKLAND THERE.

AMI 11lJlNLis
The United States is the one big
country of the world that is not in
VOWED in war. 1t is the only big
country in the world whose producing
power has not been decimated by the
awful ravages of herculean conflict. 1t
ought to be literally throbhing with
industry because of these conditions,
and vet exactly the reverse is the case.
While the demand for American prod
ucts exceeds the supply manufacturers
are curtailine their operations, and
cities throughout the country are try
ing TO find ways of employment for
armies of idle workers.
Herbert \. Casson, an American
financial expert who has been living
in London since the outbreak Of the
war. does not understand WIZ the eit-
uatiou is as It is. On all sides he hears
requests for an explanation of it. In q
letter to an American friend he voices
this inquiry and comments upon ii
thus:
Why are the American factories not
running night and day Why are the
railroads not opening up new terri
tories and getting ready for the mil
lions of immigrants who have already
made up their minds to leave Europe
as soon as the war is over!
Why are there not 80 American
drummers in London right now trying
to sell $200,000,000 worth of American
goods in place of the goods that were
bought last year from Germany and
! Austria?
Why have advertisers become quit
ters, Just at the time when their adver-
tisements were most needed and most
effective in cheering on the business
forces Of the United States
From the European point OF view
| the United States is haven of peace
and security and prosperity. 1t has ne
troubles that it dares to mention t.
Belgium or Austria or France or Ger
many or Servia or Great Britain on
Russia.
Every tenth Briton has enlisted. Ev
cry tenth Frenchman is at the front
Every tenth Belgian is dead. What
does the United States know about
trouble!
If ! could afford it, would chartei
the Nauretania and Lusltania and con
Vev a party of 5000 American adver
tisers to Europe for a trip of cduca
ton. / would give them week in Lon
don, a week in Paris and a week il
Antwerp.
| would let them look at the Unite,
States from the scene of war. ] woule
give them a look at real trouble.
would let them see trains, ten at
time, five minutes apart, packed wit
the manned and dying
would let them hear, from fray
mentary survivors, the incredible stor.
of battlefelds $50 miles wide an
armies that are greater than the en-
tire population of Texas.
. would let them see graves 100 yard
long and full, and Belgium, the coun
try that was, nothing now but 1900
I squa1e miles of wreckage.
!; Then, when they began to under
= stand, to some slight extent. the mag
l. nitude and awfulness of this war,
3 would say to them:
60 Now 60 back and appreciate tn
United States; realize Your opportun
ties Don t start digging trenche
when nobody IS firing at YOU. Don
fall down when you have not been hi
! Don t be blind to the most glorlou
chance YOU have ever had in your If
eco back and advertise. Get read
for the most tremendous boom that All
- nation ever had. Build your factoriC
y bigger Train more statesmen. Borro
more money. Go ahead and thank Go
YOU are alive and that your family
alive, and that you are living in a Ian
that is at peace, at time when nearI
\ the whole world is at war.