Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-10-18
WE MUST HELP, NOT TALK
That Must Be Americas Part In Eu-
ropes RehabIlitation.-The Cover
nor and the Guns--cIlf ConneIley
and His Industrial Conference
by GEORGE NOX MCCAIN

Rockefeller Foundation and adviser to
number OF corporations, gave his intimate
views on the situation in Europe as II af.
fects business in America recently.
MIR. Lee has but lately returned from
abroad, where he made an intensive study
OF Europe's economic and financial condi-
ton.
He gave a talk tho other day before the
Trades Council Of the Manufacturers Club.
lt was n heart to heart talk and out of
the ordinary.
He spoke appeaingly to the business men
present to use their influence in aiding
Europe to rchabilitate itself.
II we do not do so this country will reach
ultimately as sad n plight as Europe, is his
conclusion.
MIR. LEES view is that everything in
4'l Europe is of concern to the United
States:
Every political problem there is an
economic problem: an issue of the moment
in which this country is deeply concerned"
he said
Upper SilPsin involves all Europe. Tn
less it is settled there will be no peace on
the Continent, or off it, for that matter.
Without peace there will be economic waste
The whole economic fabric of Europe is
broken down. Nothing has really, up until
now, been done TO correct it, was one of
his most positive statements
There is only one way in which the stu.
alton can be corrected. he snid. and that Is
for the United States to get into the game
Here are few of his striking points:
There is no peace between France and
Germany today.
prosperous Germany means n Germany
in aggression against France
There Is no, escape for the United States
from her responsibility to Europe.
We cannot take part If we merely give
advice.
The moral force Of the United States is
the one thing Europe cries for.
We have got to get into the situation in
Europe
II is n matter Of protection of the Amer.
ican pabi".
COVERNGR SFROI'L for part of a day
" last week slipped away from the en-.
vironmcnt of official life and motored down
into Lancaster County.
II was personal pleasure and not official
duty that led him 10 take the trip.
He was scheduled to make Il speech at
the old Union Church in Coleraine Town
snip. and the event was out of the ordinary.
He was going back hOmp-back among
the people. some Of whom had known him
for half a century.
He was born in that corner Of Pcnnsyl-
vania $ garden spot.
The reception he received was as much
= tribute to one of their own as it was
TO the Governor Of the Commonwealth.
Hundreds Of the descendants of the
Srntch- Irish and the peace loving Quakers.
who had known his forebparS were OUT
under the trees waiting to grasp his hand
and recall incidents of his childhood and his
parents.
II was homy. informal and 10 the
Governor, delightful occasion.
LIE HAD delivered his address and the
IL gathering had resolved il self into an old
fashioned hand shaking, reminiscitory,
neghhOrly affair. whero the participants
rattcd each other on the back and the elderly
fellows called each other by their first names
when there came a Sullen vibration in the
>nlit atmosphere and the far off subdued
sound Of cannon
Returning TO the speakers stand. the
Governor raised his hand, and calling the
hundreds To attention. he said:
Did you hear that. my friends? That was
the sound Of gun on the Government
proving grounds thirty FIVE miles away DO
You catch its full Significance?
LET me- illustrate" what is conveyed in
til" sound YOU hav" just heard in connection
with the universal demand for the di>arm-
ament Of the nations.
'Thc money spent for one of those pro-
iccties used in testing hat great engine Of
war yondcr would educate a boy and gir
from their first day in the primary school
through the succeeding wears to their grad.
UNting day in college or university.
"Asd" from the sIntuneSS of war. It's
waste and lis destruction Of human life"
there j. practical side ILLUSTRATED in This
homcly way. Work for universal dsarma-
mrnt.
Then the Governor stepped down.
"uELLO. Al, how are you? You re
IL looking tit q fiddle.
"FccNng just a> fine. Governor" was the
response. "Nuw and rh"u n little touch ~
stiffness in III" JOINTS We must expect thar
as we climb the ladder of years. "