South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1919-12-21


of the question that Germany could
concentrate 10000 men or anything
approaching that number in any one
area and keep them supplied with
their needs.
Live Hand 60 Mouth.
Further, the food situation in Ger
many is such that she is living from
hand TO mouth and has no margin
for rationing large military forces.
Any consid cradle military concentra-
ton in Germany today would simply
mean that a great part Of the popu-
latiOn would either starve or perish
from cold during the coming win
ter.
There are today a number OF Brit
ish business men in Germany who
are seeking TO trade. They all tell
the same story; Germany has very
little to sell: she has practically no
raw materials with which to manu-
facture goods for export.
Germany knows perfectly well
that in these circumstances she is.
quite helpless. and that a renewal
of the blockade would spell for her
therefore nonsense to talk Of the
Germany of today as possessing any
real military power, and as consti-
tuting q menace to the security of
others
on the other hand, the internal
condition Of Germany is unouestion-
ably very serious. The junkers and
the underlings of the military caste
have found that their occupation and
their means of livelihood are gone.
They owed everything to the Hohen-
zollerns, and they see in a restOra-
ton the one means of getting back
something Of what they lost.
There is no question but that they
are very busy intriguing today. They
are intriguing in the Baltic PROVING
eS. whore bands Of Prussian officers
and soldiers, who disregard and treat
with contempt all orders sent TO
them from Berlin. have assembled.
They are intriguing in Berlin, and
the Hindenburg demonstration is an
outward and visible sign of these
intrigues.
Governments Loss of Power.
The existing government is daily
/ loosing power and influence, because
| the problem of reconstruction in
Germany is a hundredfold more diff
/ fcult than IL is with US, and large
numbers Of Germans are today dis
posed 70 make the government re
sponsible for their present discon-
/ tents. The militarists are obtaining
! recruits from the many who have
come TO think that any change must
be for the better. For exactly the
same reasons the spartacists, the ex-
/ treme socialist party are steadily
! gaining adherents particularly in
south Germany, in SaxOny, Bavaria
and Baden
/ There are many and increasing
| indications that revolution is in the
air. and the situation will almost
certainly get worse as the pinch Of
winter is felt
Those who know best what is go
ing on today are anticipating that a
reactionary rising in Prussia may
| break out at any time, and will be
the signal for a Red rising in south
! Germany.
Thus there is grave danger that
the large area Of Europe which is
| today in a state of chaos may be
greatly extended, a condition of af-
fairs which can only react unfavor-
ably upon ourselves and upon the
rest of the world.
The Common Sense Policy.
If revolution does break out in
! Germany our chances Of making
Germany pay, never very bright,
will almost disappear. The one
means which the allies have of OBJ
tanning from Germany their Just de-
mands is 20 assist by all means in
their power in the establishment OF
firm government in that country,
and in the restoration OF German
industries.
II is high time that the rubbish
which is talked about German
dumping and about the ~military
!. power of Germany ceased, and that
We exercised a little plain common
sense iu dealing with very anxious
, situation
The attitude OF mind Of the people
who are today trying 10 drive Ger
. many 10 extremes is that u The
/ man who, having killed a poisonous
Z snake. proceeds 10 pound IL into
b a jelly. A nervous reaction Of this
kind. after an escape from great
. danger. may be excusable but IL is
, neither sensible nor dignified
Fifty kinds Of bark are now used
: 20 manufacture paper, besides bana-
E ma skins. bean stalks pea vines. CO.