The weekly Alaska citizen., 1919-09-29
MUST MOBILIZE RESOURCES

idly increased, there can be nothing but pol itical, moral and economic chaos finally inter preting itself in loss of life on a scale hither- to undreamed of, says Herbert Hoover, head of the inter-allied relief commission in an ans just published in the British National Food Journal
 '"The entire surplus productivity of the Western hemisphere is totally incapable of meeting the present deficiency in European production if it is long continued" the analyst asserts. "Nor could credits be mobilized for this purpose for more than short period be- cause all credits must necessarily be simply an advance against the return of commodities in exchange and credits will break down the in stant that the return of commodities becomes improbable. Further, if such credits be ob- tained for more than temporary purposes, it would result in economic slavery of Europe to the Western hemisphere and the ultimate end would be war again.
 Mir. Hoover points out this solution of the European economic problem: "A vigorous realization of the actual situation in each country of Europe and a resolute statesman ship based on such a realization-the popula- tions of Europe must be brot to realization that productively must be instantly increased
 In the present-day European ferment, MT. Hoover says, "every economic patent me- dicine" has flocked under the banner of so- |cialism or communionism which has claimed to speak for all the down-trodden-to alone bespeak human sympathy"
 Experimentation in varying forms of these political Jennings and com munism-has so far, in every case, resulted in reduced production, the food controller |says.
 Europe's threatened coal famine, the an |alysis says is due in the largest degree to the human factor of the limitation of effort"
 Western assistance in the form of its devotion of surplus productivity to Europe needs, lis service that the Western hemis- phere must approach with high sense of human duty and sympathy" concludes Mir. Hoover. ''The economic burden on the west should not last more than year and can be carried and will be repaid. To effect these re- suits, the resources of the Western hemis- phere and of Europe must be mobilized."
 As an exemplary character, Andrew Car negie ranked high. His keen intellect made him master of opportunity. To him is attri- buted the use of the telegraph on the railway, whereby the single rail and siding could be used for trains coming in opposite directions. He introduced the Bessemer process in the making of steel rails in the United States, an idea which he got during visit to England. His achievements alone have formed the basis for several books. For the methods he em- ployed in amassing his great fortune, he has been criticized time and again, but much of this criticism has been founded on wrong premises. All his wealth was not of his own seeking. The bulk of it came to him as the result of a system that is gradually disappear ing under the leveling process now going on between capital and labor. His vision of a better day is coming, and with it the unity of capital, labor, and business ability, which he was fond of likening to three-legged stool.
 It has just about gotten so in this country that when a rich bachelor has nephews they will come miles to crank his automobile for him.
 Of course it is none of our business, but sometimes it looks like the camisole is being reduced to string!
 And about the best thing we can thing of in favor of the hobby-horse is that it doesn't eat gasoline.