The Arvada enterprise., 1920-02-12
Shall Chaos or Reconstruction
In Europe Follow the Great
World War;
NEW, GREAT FORCES At WORK
Demand for New Order Of Things 10
Universal and Reactionaries Merely
Swell the Rising Tide Of
Discomfort
Article ".
By FRANK coMERFoRD.

The most obvious thing In Europe Is
the changed attitude Of the people.
and yet there are many, particularly
In the conservative. employing class.
who refuse to see. There are none so
blind as these. While they close their
eyes and minds to the obvious. the
change goes on. 1t Is not idle rhetor-
ic to say that new great forces are at
work. OF course you cannot see the
forces any more than you can see the
grass growing. but you can see the
effects. You can measure the charnc-
ter OF the forces.
Everywhere l found people talking
about new Order. Men separated
by hundreds of miles are thinking and
talking the same ideas. 1t startled
me to hear the same ideas up In the
Balkans that had heard In France
and England. did not meet any one
who was able to give me clear, com
plete meaning of the phrase, but 1t Is
on the lips of everyone. 1t has
meaning. and time will produce plan.
The people are forward looking-they
are thinking. waiting for something to
happen. They have faith that 1t will
happen and that II will bring great
good to the human race. Every one
seems confident that some great COM
pensntiOn must and will come out of
she siege Of suffering through which
they have passed. II they were not
SO earnest. SO sane. so determined
about II ! should have Interpreted
their enthusiasm as fantasy.
A meaningless minority Of reaction
aries scOrn and scOfr al all talk OF
new Order. These are the backward
looking men Of big business, the stand
patters In politics. They are out OF
touch with the times: they think the
renl world is the little circle in which
they live. They are the barnacles on
big business. They smugly set down
all talk Of change as bolshevism.
Fortunately the real leaders Of busi-
ness are breaking away from this
| point Of view. Progressive, human and
open minded. they see and know that
unrest is a problem and that 1t must
he solved. They are paying heed to
the complaints OF the workers. They
admit that there is Justice back OF the
complaints. Instead OF arguing coer-
cion. they are talking concession. They
know change has come. they want
to meet 1t.
New Order Must Come.
A new Order will come. The one
| question that Is bothering the minds
OF men who are awake to the change
Is. will 1t come through revolution or
| through evolution. The greatest friend
| of revolution Is the stubborn employ
er who refuses to see the change. nc
cepts things as they are. and insists
upon the use OF force rs the only cure
for unrest.
Money Is n gross thing when com
| pared with human life. To mention
Europes financial losses In the same
| breath with her dead and wounded.
seems sOrdid. but II is an everyday
world and In 1t money has its logical
place. Since the war some people are
| thinking that money has had too I'm.
pOrtant place In the world. 1t has
been charged with pushing man out of
| his place. but bills must he paid and
Europe needs money. The war cost
| billions and billions of dollars. Mil
| lions of men had to be clad nnd shod.
billions and billions OF cartridges and
shells. rifles. cannons. alrplnnes. ships.
were made. Europe owes the money.
| How will she pay II; where will she
| get Il? II Is n question that even the
wIsest and most optimistic OF men In
| Europe hesitate to answer. Some
| wonder. Is there an answer
Europe has borrowed until her In.
| terest charge today IL almost as large
| MS her whole cost OF governmental nd.
| mInistrntion was u few ycnrs hgo.
heard Lloyd George say that England
| faced II yearly interest chnrge Of three
| hundred million pounds. Another ofii-
| cIal told me that this interest chnrge
| that England must pny each yenr Is
| ncnrly one hundred million pounds
| year larger than the cost OF admins.
rra,iou was al the time OF til" !oer
| war, only the other day her interest
was due on some loans from the United
| Stn,cs and she WAS forced To default,
| and our government charged the In.
,ercst to III" principal ana passed the
day OF payment on. III the meantime
the pound II going down IN value.
| when | was on the Continent II had
reached Si.li. To-day II Is under S3.S7,
and stcndily going down.
Franc" Is IN even n wors" plight.
Tl. banks nre ,ondrd win government
MINER. She has mad" no provision
by taxation to pay her drh'. was
told on every hand that any effort TO
impose ~ tax would bring on n r"voln'
tion. II Is said that her debt has
reached the Startling hgur" Of SGlo
for every man. woman nnd 'hild ~
| fhc country when ! l"i' 'h"rhourH
| 20 sui for Am"ricn II r"eulntion hhd
| been pui into effect prohibiting hhy
| az. leaving France from tnkin: money