The Greeneville daily sun. (Greeneville, Tenn.) 1918-1920, 1919-10-09
OUT OF THE FOG.

pheres plunge toward winter is sufficient to convince the
average man that humanity hasten regain its
and resume its labors quickly if appalling catas
trophies are to be averted There world shortage of
food and world shortage of fuel The nations that have
given most the of humanity the worst pros
pective sufferers France England, and Italy in dire
straits already and the pinch Of winter is not yet here
England longer produces coal eonugh for her own
needs France is obtaining from Germany the coal
that is necessary life. Italy has coal and no
means of obtaining coal.
Germany and Austria in equally bad shape, far
as food and fuel concerned. They in still worse
condition from credit viewpoint, nation will lend
them money and their securities scraps of paper such
as Turkish, Bulgarian and Hungarian bonds There is
no Turkey Bulgaria is liability and Hungary feeling
the just retrbuton Of the Roumanians, who had been
stripped and starved by the rapacious Magyars and Ger
Everything that sustain life has been extorted
fro mhe Magyars by the famished and desperate Rou
manians and is to the credit of France and Italy that
they have refused look upon this reprsa unjust
Some ideasts in the supreme council have affected to
look with horror upon Roumana recoupng her food sup
ply Hungary, but they have nothing to of the pitt
less devastation wrought by Fakenhayn and Mackensen
with their German Magyar hordes throughout Roumania
If there is other justice to be had in this world it is
well that etrbuon should be had with the sword against
those who draw the sword.
The world is going through twilight of fog and
error in which strange ideasc notions accepted by
deuded millions in mistake for truth In its shell shock
and present economic distress the world accepts
for reason and willing abandon tested truth in order
to follow glitterng experimental schemes which to
open good road out of the universal morass
! 1t is fondy supposed that nations can somehow join
together accomplish sudden wonders of force and
form without in the least compromising national integrity
The fact that the nations have joined in mutual
efforts for eleven months with absolute freedom of action
and have failed ascertain what a the world does not
to have any weight with the rainbow chasers There
in actual sitting supreme council of nations, and
yet instead of shifting down the plans of the worlds
enemies and lifting up the stricken among nations the
supreme council is fast becoming impotent debating
society, because it also is deuded and is following phan
TOMS 1t is cowardly when it the truth and absurdy
arrogant when pursuing wrong, 1t dares not tackle
Russia but it breathes slaughter against Roumania 1t
is persistent in the deluson that political nostrums can
cure economic ills and thus appears in the role of
quack who administers medicine without The least idea
of effect
Are the peoples to be blamed for when their gov
ermes bunder? 1t is not surprising that wage earners
infected with poisonous doctrines such as the belief
that restriction of output will increase wages or the notion
that political revolution in the United States will mean
an economic millennium Why do they mix politics with
economics? Because their leaders have taught them to
do If governments themselves are mudded it is too
much to expect Woodworking men, busy earning living
to avoid all pitfalls.
Since the world is short of food it must produce more
or die Since is short of COAL it must produce more or
freeze to death. Since it has an enemy who is arming
for another attack it must shacke him or have another
war Since it has issued lot of aper ana called it dol
lars pounds francs marks lire end rubcs it must either
put value into this paper or use it by the bushe to buy
dozen eggs Since it is formed by nature to live by
natonaites with distinct love and hates must either
strive to live at peace by natonaties or violate nature
by trying to become people Since man cannot add
to his stature by wishing the wheat crop by
voting or double the coal output by creating League
of Nations it behovoes him to recover his senses as
quickly as possible and go to work. There is no sub
stitute for Observation-Disclosures Post