The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1920-03-25
AS SOME SEE US.

II Oy ana Dy is tue Wise cHdp.
This is the time to SELL not buy; t.
cash in, not speculate.
asked one of the biggest fnancier
in New York this week what invest
ment he considered to be perfectl!
SAFE His answer was: There ain
no such animal
Every once in a while someone il
high financial circles issues a state
ment that great era of prosperity is
st hand Don't you believe it. That
kind of talk is hoax-and cruel
hoax when it leads people to specu
late who can't afford to lose.
There isn't a well-informed man in
financial circles who does not know
that a period of hard times is ahead
IF us all-and that the world is trem-
bling On the brink of a tremendous
financial smashup every minute.
If you have any money, save it.
Don't spend it. Don't speculate. DOM
buy stocks Don't buy anything you
don't need. If you believe me and
heed this advice you will be glad Of
it before you are year older.
Back to Old Order of Things.
This fear of worldwide panic is at
the bottom of action of the supreme
council of the allied powers, which has
been tearing the treaty of versailles
to pieces with all the haste official
dignity would permit. .
The net results OF the secret con-
situations at London are these, some
of which you will learn later when the
correspondents Of the big newspapers
and news agencies are permitted to
speak:
/. The reparations and indemnities
imposed upon Germany by the treaty
are to be abandoned.
2. The Turks are to remain rulers
of Constantinople.
8. The soviet republic is to be rec
ognized.
A. The league of nations is to be
relegated to the historic junk-pile.
S. The United States is to be asked
to cancel the debt of ten thousand mil
lion dollars Europe owes us.
s. The Hapsburg monarchy will be
restored in Hungary, and Austria will
be encouraged to unite again with
Hungary instead of with Germany.
z. England, France and Italy will
divide Persia, Mesopotamia, Arabia,
Syria and Palestine among them
selves.
g. The Balkan states will be con-
trclled, if it can be done, by pressure
from the four powers-England,
France, Italy and Germany.
trust you will remember these pre-
dictions. because they will all be full
filed before the year is over.
For the Mastery of Europe.
Possibly you may ask, in view OF
what is being done by secret diplo-
macy in Europe. what has become of
the ideals of democracy for which !
America fought. -"
The answer is that America only
supposed that it's ideals were also the
ideals of foreign governments. AS a
matter of fact, the war N Europe was
not fought for ideals of any kind. II !!
vas simply war Of two strong groups !
of governments for the mastery of /
F1t~cr?e and Africe and Asia and the |
seas; the same old contest for the |
same Oh prize that has been fought |
out in Europe at intervals for two |
thousand years.
When the European powers have f. |
nalIy divided the spoils. Europe will |
settle down to the old attitude of dip |
1CTnatic plots and wars in breeding,
and the net result, so far as we are I
concerned, will be that we have chang I
ed nothing in the Old World and have, |
accomplished nothing for ourselves !!
but an enormous debt, enormous taxes !
and burdensome high prices Of every !
thing necessary to living
1t is not pleasant to contemplate |
such an outcome of high ideals and |
unselfish patriotism, but the facts are |
exactly as / state them-pleasant or |
unpleasant
The truth is that the diplomats Of |
Furope-on both sides-played upon !
our emotional American nature and !
our unsophisticated honesty and made !
us the unconscious instruments of |
their designs.
In hcme1v. everyday language, we
were PLAYED for suckeres and are just
beginning to find it out. But 1 am
pretty sure that 1t will never happen
again.
Old George Washington's advice to
mind our own business and let Eu-
rope fight it's own quarrels sounds bet
ters and better to most Of us as the |,
days go by.
President Cheated at Paris.
mean no reflection upon President
Wilson when say that he was cheat
ed at Parisg He was an honest man
with honest purposes and honest
ideals. and he was dealing with sharp i
ers, who tricked him. just as sharpers
can always trick an honest man.