South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1921-01-02

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/ III the case OF the United States. We
/ not only need not buy many OF the
things we used 60 get from Europe.
/ but we are prepared 20 go out into
The world and supply other peoples
who formerly bought from the old
world.
Great Shift of Man-Power.
Finally under such conditions. a
great shift OF man-pOwer has set In.
Fifteen millions Of people are anX-
} ious 70 come TO the United States
alone. Great Britain is figuring on
sending 20 her dOmiuions no less
than 1000. 900 OF the population
which cannot be properly cared for
at home. Latin America is holding
out Inducements for other millions
10 settle the great areas II has 20
offer for those who would seek new
! lives and fortunes and escape the
huge burdens Of taxation and other
handicaps in the old world. These
emigrants represent the best indus
trial elements. for we and the other
receptive nations are taking our
choice among those Offering them
selves. The effect is TO reduce the
efficiency Of the nations the emf
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iency OF those they join.
Within q decade, the United states
will have upward OF 100000 in
! habitants. no matter how rigid may
| be the restrictions on immigration.
Brazil easily may grow 20 3O,0O0.0O0
( or even 35,00O.000; Argentina 70 TO-
: 600 900; Canada 10 well over 1e,-
| 600 900; and the various other new
countries accordingly. In South
| America the A. r. G.. combination
I Argentina. Brazil and Chile-wOuld
/ have "a population OF more than 40
/ 600. 900 with tremendous resources.
Taking the long look ahead the ex-
pansiOn in two or three or five de-
cades will be stupendous
Must Have Raw Materials.
Under these circumstances. the
problem before the European states
men is: How shall we keep our
people home, restore our indurtries
and pay our debts? The one ele-
ment at the bottom OF this whole
problem is the question of raw ma
terials. They not only must be
made available. but they must be
cheap. or Europe Will not be able 10
hold its own.
So we find the old world. no long
or able 20 buy control. putting for
ward this doctrine that the riches
OF the world belong TO all the peO-
pie. Italy and Switzerland. forced
10 bring in almost all their raw ma
terial. and Belgium. rich only in iron
and coal, make a very good case for
| themselves in insisting that their
people should not be at the mercy
of the others. The same can be said
of Poland, Czecho-SlOvakia and 9TH
or handicapped nations; even OF
France.
But. as the proposal came before
the League Of Nations assembly.
Canada and Australia saw some
thing other than a desire for fair
distribution in the proposed eco
nomic commission. They saw an eff
fort OF European diplomacy 10 take
back the control over the worlds
riches which had been lost by nat
ur2l processes in the war. The va
rious commissions named by the as
sembly as planned were TO have
been responsible TO the council of
the League, on which Europe has a
secure majority.
we are not prepared 10 turn over
such affairs for settlement by a
general European committee" Mr..
Rowen, Of Canada, told this dis
mayed European leaders. His OPP
position. seconded by that Australia.
and backed by the warning that the
United States would never assent to
such a SCENE. nipped IL for the time
being.
Want New World To- Pay.
But we shall hear more of IL. The
idea that the new world should give
OF its abundance 10 help the old is
TOO deeply ingrained 10 be aban-
doned without a struggle. Europe
has Toasted for generations on the
good things of the earth, SEEING
them by force when il could not
get them otherwise. and IL cannot
understand that the process should
not go on indefinitely.
This idea has taken many forms
in the various conferences held
since the war VI. KlotZ. the French
finance minister with the quiet ap-
prevail of the British and other dele
cations. pressed before the peace
conference in Paris the idea that the
allies had saved civilization" and
that civilization should foot the bills.
His plan was that all the war debts
should be pooled and the burden as
sumed 10y all nations on the basis OF
population and resources. Under
this scheme the United States and
the rest of the new world would
have lifted more than half the bur
den OF debt off the shoulders of the
European yiCtOTS.
After that idea failed 10 take" a
series OF others was pressed by the
French, with the British always in
the background apparently helping
them along. one was that all the
indemnities should be pooled and
bonds issued against them to be
backed by the nations associated in
the war. This would have meant
that the United states and the few
other solvent nations concerned
would take on their credit the bur
den of paying the cost OF the war
and would have 20 do the collecting
from Germany and other nations In
the end IL meant the soaking" of
the indemnity on the new world as
though America and the others had
lost the war.
British Are in "A Dilemma
Such financial schemes have not
been abandoned. for the League
council has put out q new plan OF
international finance FOR Europe in
which il hopes we will take ptrt.