South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1921-02-20
NOTED LECTURER
APPEARS BEFORE
MISHAWAKA CLUB
DR.. Frank Bohn of New York
Discusses New Jobs and
Old Ideas"

New Jobs and Old Ideas" was
the subject Of a lecture given before
the general meeting Of the Misha-
waka Woman's club. Saturday after
noon, by DR.. Frank Bohn OF New
York. DR.. Bohn Is one Of the great
est authorities on present day poll
teal and economic problems, and
Saturdays lecture was one of the
finest analysis involving present day
questions and labor conditions, ever
heard In the city.
Europe today resembles an ash
heap" said DR.. Bohn. land only
by a miracle may she 90 saved from
the deepest pit Of hell In studying
the conditions that exist on that con
tinent, we must first glance at the
map. Six thousand years of history
have taught us that the commercial,
industrial and social development Of
any nation rests upon the middle
classes and the existence of a great
middle class is dependent upon the
geographical nature of the country.
"A middle class is essential to the
development of democracy, and we
discover that no democracy exists
east Of the Rhine river in Europe
In 184S the people of Germany at
tempted TO establish a democracy
but failed, due TO the fact that the
geographical nature of the country
cid not tend to produce a large mid
die class.
Emigrate To America.
Those of the proletariat class,
who are the thinkers, then left the
country and settled in our own mid
die west. For this reason Germany
was left with nothing but the aris-
tocracy and the peasantry. At the
outbreak Of the war there were
something like 10000 families be-
longing to the aristocracy in Ger
many"
DR.. Bohn then showed that the
people east Of the Rhine have no de-
sire to form a democracy and ne
prophesied that Germany will doubt
less be under the domain Of a kaiser
within the next year. He declared
that the revolution which swept
Germany at the signing of the armis-
ticy was under the direction of
agen s Of the imperialisic govern
ment and that it was merely a SUI
perfcial political revolution rather
than an economic one.
Time Essential Factor.
1T must be remembered" said
| DR.. Bohn, that time is an essential
| factor in the curing of all ailments.
We can not expect to gain order out
of chaos in a few short months II
took England 80 years TO found
her present government and Ameri-
ca did not possess a democracy for
100 years after the war of the rev.
olution.
There are always positive and
negative forces at work. and it is
"a well esta bIished fact that the
negative forces are well in the ma
jority. It is easy to tear down an
old government but it is very difficult
to construct a new one"
In speaking of the peace treaty
signed at Paris, DR.. Bohn stated
that it was a failure, not because of
the inability of the men who drew
it, but rather because of the fact
/ that no group of men could have
met the existing conditions.
He declared that the farther one
travels east of the Rhine, the deep
Z er he becomes mired. "Thirty-five
million people have died in this ter
ritory i'm the past three years" said
the speaker, and those who yet
remain are diseased and unable 10
bring other than diseased offspring
into the world"
France Is Slipping.
DR.. Bohn stated that France is
/ slipping into the pit as surely as
any of the nations and he declared
that the jubilation which followed
the signing of the armistice was
merely on the surface. There are
millions of women in France without
husbands. and il will be impossible
for this great nation to repopulate
hersClf for several generations.
Italy is likewise failing. The
government in this country has fed
100000 people daily since the war
and there is no relief for the situa-
ton yet in sight. Hungary is also
on the verge of collapse, but there
Preceding the lecture a business
I mont rf IoV,O0~o,--