Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1919-03-20
ONLY EARLY PEACE
WILL SAVE WORLD
New York Banker Asserts All Eu-
rope Is Facing Chaos.
SAYS SITUATION IS APPALLING
r. A. Vanderbilt Declares Great Pro-
ductive Machine of Europe Must
Be Started TO Prevent Reign
of Terror.

! of Terror.
Paris. March Al doubt Il Amer
lea has begun to comprehend the seri-
BUSINESS of the appalling situation
which confronts Europe and the wreck
which the whole fabric of civilization
is now facing" Frank 4. Vanderlip
said to correspondent here. He has
been investigating conditions In Eng
land and France and will continue his
/ inquiry in Switzerland AMI Italy.
America was once told there might
be peace without victory" he said.
'What we have is victory without
peace. Production has ceased and I'M
| less production can be speedily re-
sumed ones Imagination cannot com
prehend the chaos which may ensue.
"There is nothing 10 be gained by
stopping to question who is to blame
or by finding fault with the way events
have been guided, The great pro-
ductlve machine Of Europe must be
started or the world will be confront
ed with a disaster such as no expert
ence has recorded Here in France
everything waits on the settlement of
the question of indemnity and the
progress Of events in Germany. Each
day makes the prospect Of indemnity
less possible.
War Zone an Utter Wreck
81 have seen something of the utter
wreck which the central empires in
ficted throughout the war zone. 1t is
complete-no words can picture truly
how complete It is. That wreck, how
ever. covers only a strip from the
channel to the German border. There
is possible a wreck that viii cover
all Europe If production Is not re-
sumed. the horrors of war may be ex-
ceeded by the horrors of this after
period which Is neither war nor peace,
but a breakdown of the machinery of
civilization In the face of such np-
paling disaster. every partisan consd
Grafton, every unessential difference of
opinion, and every personal ambition
should be instantly forgotten.
UNLESS terms Of peace can he speed
fly agreed upon and unless these terms
are such as will permit the resunp-
ton OF something approaching normal
! Industrial life, there is not merely
chance, there IS a strong probability
| of Russian boshevism overrunnlng
Germany. What holsheviSm is can
| never be really pictured by normal
mind, No description of 1t has been
overdrawn. One may say that the
temperament and psychology of Ger
many is not such as to lead that coun-
try 10 bolshevlsm. Hunger can lead
any country to holshevism ana hunger
Is what central Europe Is facing
Food Control Breaks Down.
THE stories which our soldiers ten
Of apparent ample food supplies on the
Rhine should be taken only as ind-
| cnting how completely governmental
power over food control has broken
down and how food stocks that are
essential are being rec,Iessly con-
sumed. Pictures that I have received
from highest quarters relative to food
| conditions in central Europe. both in
and out of Germany, are sensational.
l'They are sensational because The facts
are sensational.
whatever is being dore in The way
OF nllevluting conditions of starvation
Is necessary, but that is merely ALE
Walton. II does not get at the root
Of the thing. That root runs down
into the ground OF production If the
situation Is TO he saved every effort
must be bent toward solving the prob
lem and again starting production.
Must Look Facts in Face.
"What can America DO? There is
certainly one thing that It cannot do
and that is 10 withdraw itself 10 rest
IN the belief that this chaos is remote
and that America can avoid taking he.
part IN international responsibility. We
must think in international terms as
we never thought before This is no
time for narrow or provincial views.
The first essential is 10 look faets
in the face, and they cannot be- looked
In the face until the terms Of peace
are known and the available indem-
nifty measured"