The Chattanooga news. [volume] (Chattanooga, Tenn.) 1891-1939, 1919-01-25
POLISH NATION
WILL MAKE GOOD
American Methods Being En-
pIoyed by Premier Pad
ereWSki.
UNCLE SAM PRO U D
Helped Save Great People
From Economic Slavery to
Grmany.

Grmany.
(By John F. Smulski. Commissioner
in the United States for the Polish
People.)
Washington, Jan. 25.-W'AA. the
first general election under ;sy i'll
Poland tomorrow. and wit Sc day
being celebrated in many yes and
in the District of Columb' IS POL
ish day." the news from : sreat re-
stored nation--the fourt "a Europe
in population--is SO ! ling that
Americans cannot hss ! but take
pride in the fact that q PREMIER, Ig-
mace Paderewski, hi ledged that
"it shall be land of the great
spirit of this great. country."
This great musician. whose success
as a statesman has thrilled the
world, already has employed Ameri-
can methods. When his first inter-
view at Warsaw failed to bring about
the desired coalition with Gen. Pill
sudski, he went to the peasants and
workmen, and it was through their
support that the harmonious ar
rangement was reached which the
world has hailed and by which Pad
erewski became premier.
American ideals will prevail in Po-
land, and one of the greatest stabil-
izing forces that will stand like a
wall between the bolshevism of Rus
sia and western civilization will be
that great army Of 100000 men. leav-
ened with the 10000 boys who left
schools and desks to carry American
ideals into the Polish army, because.
as technical alien enemies, they were
barred from the armies of Uncle
Sam. Because of lack of military
supplies which we had hoped the al
lies would furnish and which it now
seems are Forthcoming, they have
gone forth with their feet on the ice
and snow to fight the forces which
threaten the disorganization of the
world.
Poland Not to Be an Orphan.
Among Americans there is a feel
ing that some of the revived nations
in Europe will be a liability upon the
credit of the world. Lettme say that
Poland will not be an orphan child.
It will be a nation competent to make
good it's covenants in a league Of ma
tions 1t stretches from the Baltic
to- the .Carpathian mountains. With
a population of 35.000.000 1t will have
a population In excess OF the COM
bined populations of Norway, Dem
mark, Sweden, Belgium and Serbia
1t will include Prussian, Austrian
and Russian Poland, after lapse of
1875 years. 1t will have its own port
at Gdansk (Dantzig). Warsaw is the
second largest railway terminal in
the world. Coal, iron and zinc are
found within it's borders, and its oil
wells are among the greatest in Eu-
rope. Its people are trained not only
in the arts and sciences, but in
industrious toll. Seventy per cent. of
the land is held in small parcels by
the tillers. The only land problem
will be the partitioning of the land
which, under the German expropria-
ton act, the imperial German gov
ernment acquired when it was trying
to drive Poles from the face Of the
earth. 1t has a wonderful public
school Tystem. Through the gate
way of Warsaw traverses traffic into
Siberia and the far east. This is one
reason the Germans are seeking it.
A Bridge, a Traffic Way.
Real Poland's plains furnish a fer
tile traffic way from Russia into Ger
many and western Europe. Thus
Poland has served as a bridge be-
tween the Russian forces of disorder
and western civilization end the bat
tie for possession of the bridges
which has been going on for some
time.
Had Poland weakened, had Pad
erewski failed, the bolsheviks would
have conquered, the country would
have been overrun and the signing
of the peace pact at Versailles, no
matter how honestly drawn, would
have been a mere gesture, nothing
more. Germany would have been the
first to prosper.
German commercial warfare is still
being waged, and Germany has
planned to reap trade, even out of
the storm. A weakened Poland
would of necessity have become eco
nomically subservient to the pam
Germanists. That thank God, has
been avoided.
Expect DirefuI Stories.
German bolshevik forces directed
the bullet of the man who attempted
to assassinate Paderewski in War
saw. 1t will be. we'll for the Anieri-
can public to be prepared for all sorts
of direful stories Of Polish happen
ings with Berlin date lines, Of al
legged riots and disturbances, calcu-
lated to create a feeling that things
are going to pieces.
No Fear of Foster .Parentship.
But as for the new Poland which
will be erected under Mr. Paderew-
ski, American people need have no
fear of their foster parentship. It
will be liberal Poland without cas-
ties or titles. true to the traditions
of its history; open to the suffering
and oppressed even as in the old days
the peoples opened their arms to the
survivors of the massacre of st.
Bartholomew and to the Jewish peo-
pie tortured by the brutality of the
Russians and the more refined but
none the less sacrificing exclusion
of the old imperial German govern
ment. And in this the American peo-
pie have returned. in part, the sacri-
fees of Kusciuszko and Pulaski. 1t
was from the lips of President Will
son the first declaration in favor of
Poland came.
Needs Moral Support.
Poland needs money and materials,
but more desired than all. it needs
strong moral support: the prayers
of the people Of this country.
The creation of a strong, inde-
nendent Polish state means that the