South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1919-04-11
other Editors Than ours
\ BAD CASE OF NERVES.
HnniSNiIIe Conrier-IouInaI

Garrison Willard reporting the distressing
conditions which ne found In Germany and predict
ing the spread Of boshevism unless hunger be APP
peased and moderate peace terms he conceded,
cabled The Nation from Paris few days
IF the senate is terror stricken we may inn
agne their alarm finding that the majority So
cialists. who the extreme radicals wher the
war began, now the conservatives. The senate
mas no time TO lose in building Chinese wall
around the coming of all news from Europe. be-
ginning 10 days henee-by which time hope to
be at sea-"
II that astonishing suggestion had been adopted
and all news from Europe had been shut out we
might not have taken what Mr.. Willard to
least should have barred from our shores
flood of fatuous hysteria that has poured upon
daily from Europe, and particularly from Paris;
what TennysOn called
The schoolbOy heat,
The blind Mysteries of the Celt
but the disordered vagaries and emotional excuses
of sober, sane men whose have been tried
by long unsatisfactory waiting on peace
conference, and whose poise and judgment have
been impaired because of he imperfect abortive
perspective with which they view what is
taking place under their noses
Hence the rapidly radically varying reports
that come TO us daily from Paris; today complain
ing of disagreement and deadlock while prognOstic
of ultimate failure and consequent world chaos;
tomorrow morning recording good progress made'
and confidently forecasting better yet ahead;
morrow night relapsing into the pessimism of
out patience and the gloom of the shadows cast be
fore by Oncomng universal cataclysm.
1t is perhaps in human that these men,
gathered at Paris to inform the outside world what
become aueCted
the procession of weeks of ncOnclusive conference;
that they should fail in their light and in
their relations the whole objective whatever
details of the consultations that may be revealed
them; that they should irritable. skeptical
and even morbid from what they have come TO
slider unnecessary and unpromising delay. But
il yielding more 10 reason and less to mood, they
would take their bearings more calmly and reflect
that there has been more delay in the peace
ference Of history. while there a peace
conference before with many, great and
complicated problems TO solve it would be better
for their and for the of the mil
lions OF newspaper readers who look TO them for In
formation
Even simple matter making peace after
our little with Spain required months IL was in
July 1895, that Spain asked France authorize the
French ambassador at Washington TO arrange with
the president of the United States the preliminary
terms OF peace. This request promptly granted.
the protocol agreed 10 Aug. -, and the peace
commission Paris oct I. Although about
everything except the disposition Of the Philippines
had been settled in the preliminary agreement the
treaty of peace not drafted and signed by the
commissioners in Paris until Dec. y, and il not
transmitted the United States until Jan. 4.
Those who watching with impotence ana
peSsmism the proceedings at Paris should bear in
mind the unprecedented scope and difficulties Of the
work 10 be done. And they should bear i'm mind.
further that whatever the peace conference may or
may do a world cannot be formed, a new
order Europe cannot be established after the up
heavals OF the titanic CONFUSION with which Europe
has been torn. without many and disturbing dis
orders of readjustment