Arizona republican., 1920-02-08

New and startling facts regarding in : [ 1ustrlal conditions in Europe are con tained in letter just received from A
 l. Murray, president of the American
 6osch Magneto corporation of Spring field, Mass. In writing to Mir. Steven son Of the Motor Supply company, who represents the Bosch company in this rity, he describes the amazing indus tTlal conditions which exist in Europe tooay and which he went abroad three months ago to study. Mir. Murray, who 7 mas just returned. writes a follows:
 The American business man who has been permitted to spend any consid - srabie time in Europe during the past year. with facilities to deduce the facts as they actually exist, knows that very few of us are accurately informed as to the underlying causes of the war-the conditions obtaining during the process of war, or the state of affairs as they exist today. We have been permitted, only in very meagre way, to realize now much our future security and our future prosperity are dependent on the rapidity and the manner in which VIC assume our inevitable obligations as the first power in the the world. Amer leans generally have, I am sorry to say, no clear understanding Of what the iie~ order of things mean to us.
 Until 1914 Americans were probably the most insular people in the world DctduSt WE Dd0 DteH DttSSc0 with land which permitted us to live within ourselves, and, fortunately, a high tariff had made possible the de- Nelopment of labor saving devices in eur several processes of manufacturing tparticularly in the fabrication of metals) which safeguarded our position. With high priced labor and big home market we were able to produce fab fi6ated metal to an extent which has developed our methods and our manu- featuring abilities far beyond those of any other country. Excepting Ger many. there is no nation in allied Eu- rope which is not 50 years behind us A true realization of how insular we are is only evident after one has been in Europe. This realization induced me to study for three months, as have never studied anything before in my life, conditions that prevail abroad at she present time.
 One thing that becomes particularly apparent to an observing American the moment he begins to study conditions over there, is that our newspapers have not given us anything that even ap- breaches an accurate picture of what the war was-why it was fought-and what the outcome has been.
 Without question German propa- Ganda came into America in large quantities during the war. but British propaganda so far outstripped it that anything the Germans were able to ac- complish looks insignificant in com rarison- I am convinced that, from the time the first battle was fought in Aug ust 1914 up to the present day, Amer jeans have never known the real facts unless they have had actual access to Europe.
 As much as forty years ago, perhaps even earlier England found Germany very serious competition in the worlds markets It is hard to realize how serious Germany's competition was viewed by England, without un- that practically all raw materials used in the fabrication of products in her industries were bought in outside markets and then resold, after fabrication. in those countries that supplied the raw materials and the tcod on which England existed. When Germany started to become a factor in he worlds trade, it was striking at the ] very heart of the system which permits | England to exist.
 The war. however, has left England ]