Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1919-04-05
d.ondou Letter OF C. W. Barron

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greatest sufferer by the war; yet the
world does not know II. Economically,
she has been shot to pieces and she
does not yet know II.
Ninety three per cent OF the people
OF Russia never had anything, and all
the sufferers Of Russia by the war
may number less than the people who
have yet 10 suffer In England, The
stings Of pride, the hurt to the MIND.
the loss OF place, position and power,
may bring pains as sharp as those OF
physical suffering.
Bolshevikism rs dying in Russia OF
exhaustion and Russia has a great new
day still ahead in the dawning When
she energies, all the inventions or the
world for production. for communica-
ton, and for transportation will he AT
her service for fruition from the work
OF 10000 900 people on the greatest
undeveloped soil in the world.
France can live 20 per cent upon
her soil and 80 per cent by her posi-
ton in art and world entertainment,
She has suffered great scar In
Picardy. but will bound over IL and
pcSSeSs poNdsI. llvH ailN N'"A -
provinces on the Rhine beyond her
pre-war dreams.
France is self-containant.
Great Britain is an island with
exotic indust ries, dependent upon i'm
ports for raw material, with balancing
exports OF coal and manufactured
goods and Is buttressed by shipping,
colonies and coaling stations around
the world.
Economically. financially and indus
trially she has been sunk. As soon as
she finds II out the question VIII De
how long 1t will take her. with her
noblest sons returned from the wars,
To raise anew her industrial banners
and again ride the seas in farfluns
lines. returning world wealth 10 her
island shores.
When I arrived in England this year
on my third war trip. looked first for
the foundations and guarantees OF
peace. Parchments and preachings are
of no avail as compared with prac-
tees and practices are forced by con-
ditions-conditions OF food. conditions
OF shelter. and both are allied TO ell
mate and transportation.
Civilization is largely matter OF
climate and the close students OF the
march OF civilization will tell you that
England has been developed not from
her soil but from her atmosphere, per
hitting. and n part forcing. sll-the-
year round out-of- door work and eS-
erclse.
II is Just the climate for what the
Englishman is, the steady, Flooding
worker. without excitement noise
fuss. or nervous exhaustion, just the
pull! and get there" in climate anu
man. In many senses man becomes
the atmosphere in which he owens
As ne walks and works. so he looks
and so Is he. The Englishman Is "ai
anced by his climate. He r. not out =
classed in mental and physical tai
ance bv any nation on earth and To-
! dav that balance in climate. in mental
physjcal AMI !rcurnarnbient atmos-
nhere will be HE ultimate redemption
and salvation from the Ills tha' no"
threaten him on every hand ana seem
10 rise from both earth and ocean
Every foreign foot that mas lahoec
on England this winter has connected
with shivers and, shakes. Never III
twenty FIVE years has England knowr
such piercing cold. such ice and sno"
and frost-25 degrees Of frost the,
cali il. which means. in American
vernacular. above zero-ano never
was coal so carefully rauoned. 1ou
must get a physicians ceruncate ioi
! a Are in your hotel room and you mus
keen your own internal combustion D!
carving your own pocket sugar poA
American travellers borrowed, Deg
sed and bribed for hotwater oot'ies'
Lord Timothy Dexters bed-~arlnins
mans Which founded his fortune Woulo
| have been barred out by the coal ad-
n,nistrator who rations out 10 every
household its heat units and allows
little free choice and election in the
division as betwixt electricity, gas aho
| coal
The only comfortable people in Eng
land this winter were those VINO com
manded peat boys or woodpiles-he
blazing logs. just six-inch billets o.
hard wood, carefully piecing out YOU
fire. =,
| Put cattle throve in the open on or9
grass. hay and straw. feoisfeee
breeding bulls and registered COWS OF
test in milk production were aIio"e'
, two pounds of grain a day by govern
ment order. The cattle grew warn
coats Of fur and no native animal
man or brute-complained.
1t was just war conditions IN con
tinuance. deficient and necessarily
| controlled transportation and neees
sary rationing of food. fuel and snei
ter: with regulation OF all prices
whether butter or beer, rates or rents
The outsider shivered. He ais
shook. for the whole frosted islam
vibrated and shook under the on
word transport"
Transportation is the very founda
ton Of all material civilization. tn
path and expansion Of Roman law
order and organization are marked b!
the Roman highways.
When London was vibrating betweel
/ snow and rain. slush, sleet and ice
bla ok fog and black clouds. and sun
shine was rockbound only from date
of weeks before, the underground an
tubes closed down in heartless strike
How the working people got home
! came rark to work next morning. no
BODY seemed - know. The only com