Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1919-01-03

Polish Reconstructed.


change very quickly. In the throes of
her defeat Germany may seem-will
undoubtedly deem Observation-Disclosures
ed with the fruits of her national
ambition. But what man experienced
in the workings of the human mind
would venture TO risk the possibilities
of another war like this one on the
chance that Germany's disenchant-
ment will be permanent, that the final
outcome of the defeat. in German
minds, will not be discomfort. humilin-
ton. angry or sullen. and persistent
determination to recover mt least part
of what has been lost; or. falling that.
TO seek recoupment and expansion and
domination in fresh directions7 No
man of prohity and experience will
risk SO fateful gamble. 1t must he
made impossible for Germany TO be
unsafe to the democracies of the
>.orld. TO do that 1t Is vitality nee
essary to have strong. Trustworthy
non German state on Germany's east
ern marches And the one region Gu
pahle OF becoming such state Is
Poland.
For 1t is idle. worse than Idle, TO
dream OF constructing such new
state In Europe for these specific pur-
poses unless the work is done alorg
surely effective lines. The require
ments are extremely definite. A small
t,af. nil tnf Il
pygmy Waterman TO guard n full
grown desperado? A state incapable
of full! economic development will not
do. The chance of entanglements are
too great. 1t must be self-contatned
as regards natural resources. A stare
artificial racially will not do. 1t must
be one. as far as possible. racially CO
hesiyc. A state wherein Irresponsible
Missionaries play the demagogue over
an unleavened lump of peasantry vii.
not do 1t must he state capable of
having a real citizenry. as the United
States has-composed of a people of
established and developed civilization,
racial culture and traditions, PRACTICAL
Abilities proved liberalism.
Poles Best Fitted.
II believe you will find nowh, ra I'm
central and eastern Europe race
more fitted than the Polish people to
be the citizenry of such a state. And
| can state without fearing contradic-
ton that nowhere else in that region
will you find another race with 50 I'M
clouded moral ana historical title
to the territory which viii be needed.
"Just what is Poland. aside from ne
ing the region from which many imIni-
grants came TO the United States?
Where Is IL?
'''ro see real Poland you will have to
make map of Europe in your mind.
ON that map note how Germany lies
in Il great alluvial drainage basin.
with the central mountain masses of
the continent walling Il to the south
and with five rivers running down
from them TO the North sea and the
Baltic. Westernmost is the Rhine.
| Next comes the WeSer, With It's port
AZ Bremen, and the Elbe. with Ham
burg. Fourth is the Oder, with Frank
| fort and Stettin. Last and eastern
most the Vistula. which rises In the
Carpathian ridges. flows down by War
saw and empties into the North sea
at Damzlg in West Prussia.
"In tne Vistuia valley aud its drain
age areas live the thirty-iive million
people of the submerged Polish ma
tIon. That region is Poland. Part of
II is still masked Poland on the maps,
bur most OF 1t needs Identification
since the Partitions when the auto
Gratis who theh ruled Germany, Russia
and Austria each took his helping,
"Germanys slice you will find on
the west, extending all the way from
the mountains TO the Baltic. Silesia