Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1922-11-06
BY MAMMALIAN HARDEN
. Special Dispatch to The Tribune. :

Special Dispatch to The Tribune.
Copyright, 1922. by rhe Great Falls Tribune
Vevey, Switzerland, Nov. 1.-The at
~tention of the world has been dl-
rected this week TO two men, one OLD
the other young. both heretofore not
politicians-Albert Thyssen. the Rhine
land industrial leader. and Benlte
Mussolini. the fascist leader.
Thyssen, unlike his younger com
petitor and %neighbor. Hugo SHINES,
never busted himself with public af-
fairs. but only as Il pious Cathollc
| supported the center party meanwhile
quietly increasing his industrial power
and fortune. Before the war he was
called the richest Prussian and his
interests extended from Loreraid to
Caucasus-which he desired TO an
mex to Germany after victory which
he considered certain-and his business
genius was undOubted?
SHINES Reserved
SHINES always was the center Of
rumors. Thyssen, of course, always
has been surrounded by tranquility.
An unimaginatiye. a dlsp~asslonate
reckoner, he is more like John ID.
Rockefeller than either the late An
drew Carnegie or E. Fl. Hartman.
The public heard of him only when he
went to law over his younger sons
inheritance and when, already old, he
had his unshapely nos Strengthened
He lived only for his business, which
began with his coal mines, but spread
until he has to use his time so well
that after an ali-night journey, he was
ready for conference at seven in the
morning with great bankers who could
not be persuaded to arise SO early ex-
cept by SHINES and Thyssen's i'm
perial will.
Now this quiet man writes a letter
to the chancellor. a Catholic like him
self, saving that Germany is sinking
deeper and deeper daily and is facing
| humiliation. His first assertion IN
doubtedly is correct. but his second
which pre-supposes the humiliation Of
a great people today cannot sc easll!
be imagined as in the days of the
| prophecies concerning Babylon, Nine
yah and Judgae.
Leaders Blamed
The condition of q country whose
money is worth only a thousandth part
| Of normal value and which declares II
| cannot pay its debts either by the
usual means or in goods is indeed ter.
| rible but is it not partly the fault Of
| the center party which has been III
practically all of the republics govern
ment and produced two chancellors and
| three ministers Of finance that this
condition exists?
All these governments were more
| concerned with party politics thar with
republican liberty. Thyssen believes
1 the chief cause of distress is the eight
hour work law and begs the chancellor
to ~reintroduce the ten hour day which
alone would ensure, be says, sufficient
raw materials and foodstuffs. Is this q
fact? OF course it is wrong to confuse
readiness TO work with actual work
and the engine driver often quits ano
! leaves his engine at a way station
after his eight hours are finished. al
though perhaps he actually has worked
only four. But there it has been proven
that workmen willing and well paid
and sharing in the profits Of theil
labors. as well as being paid for over
time. produce as much in eight hours
as those who work ten and get tired
bored and discouraged before the da!
ends. besides not having the incentive
of profit-sharing.
Short Days Wanted
What Thyssen regards as the revo
lution's greatest calamity: the onl.
thing the worker got out of it. blu
the worker will, work extra hours j
he is assured that his extra labor vii
more quickly free his homeland from
occupation and acquit him of repara
tons burdens. But he will fight bitterl.
against any attempt to reimpose thu
ten hour yoke for the profit of other!
and any such demand would be dan
gerous in Germany today.
Just as Kemafs success gave wing
to the fascist movement so Germany
youth may be encouraged to attemp
to weaken the peace loving German
working classes through suggestion o
union with Russia and resistance t.
the consequences of the war. kema
tore the treaty Of Seyres to pieces
Mussolini has shattered the Jugo-Sla'
agreement and has refused TO acknoWl
edge the Washington naval pact. Ger
many's fascist front would be directed
against Versailles and kindle new war
which, however, when they ended
would terminate Europe's leadership.
But neither Rhineland industries no
Italy's new premier-who once wa
arrested for begging to thinl
of the continent. Yet his belief tina
one European country can save itsel
alone is ridiculous. Germanys chic
resource today is the skill and industr.
Of her people. But where shall TIL
surplus products be sent when all figh
against receiving them? Co-operatiol
alone can save the continent and thi
must begin with a common means o
transportation and a common cause
Only a Europe united i'll national en-
terprises could find credit and perhap
ia hearing in America. Either Europ'
will become united or she will servl
| the other continents as a stOrehous'
and repair shop between battlefield
cemeteries and museums.