The Washington times., 1922-09-19

as they usually have done be-
fore England wrath?
Will 1t be England, France,
and Italy against Turkey and
Russia7
Or will France stay out, and
will England and Italy make
some arrangement with Ger
many to utilize her manufac-
turing facilities, fighting energy,
and some other qualities
Those that guess and bet are
guessing very hard just now,
and, will be betting soon.
These are questions they ask
and answer:
Will steel 90 up?
Will Europe soon be buying
our raw materials at any price
We choose to ask?
Will wheat Jump from 81 to
So again?
Will packers that have been
making no money lately sud-
denly roll In gold?
Will our railroads be clogged
with stuff for shipment to the
seaports?
Will the United States play
The part of angel again and lend
q few thousand millions?
Won't there be a great de-
mand for copper?
And the oil stocks? Oil has
been a drug in the market. 1t
took the perfect control Of mar
keting to keep up the price of
gasoline under excessive oil pro-
ductiOn.
Won't there be a demand for
all the oil and gasoline now?
1t may be a real war, for no.
body knows what power Russia
has stored up and is ready to
release from the Black Sea
THROUGH the Dardanelles into
the Mediterranean.
Revolution is a wonderful
power. European nations learned
that lately when they tried to
collect their debts from Russia,
Just as they learned it at the
end of the eighteenth century,
when the enthusiasm Of the
French revolution stood them all
on their heads. and then pro-
duced Napoleon as it died out.
The safest. most unwelcome
advice is. "Sit and watch and
DON'T gamble"
Europe MAY want all our
raw materials. In the mean
while, last week we imported
100000 tons of coal from Eng
land. The week before we i'm
ported $4,000 tons. Our Sep
tember importations will amount
to 100000 tons.
While spectators, gamblers,
and profiteers discuss their pros
poets, the average American
citizen, who loses in war and
pays the bill afterward, will
think seriously about this new
threatened outburst Of flame in
Europe.
Contributing men and money
TO those European jealousies,
wars, and trade competitions
Is like contributing money to a
relative that Is a gambler.
He will gamble as long as
you lend him money. If you
let him, he will RUIN YOU
while he is running himself.
The best plan and best kind
ness is to say: "Go ahead and
gamble. You will get no gam
bling money from me. While
you are running yourself I will
save and build up all I can.
And when you are thoroughly
ruined, come around and I will
feed you, buy you a suit Of
clothes, and when KNOW
YOU ARE CURED I will help
you to start out again"
That's what the United States
ought to say to our dear
friends, cousins, brothers, and
other relations in Europe.
They had one war, but that
didn't satisfy them. Under the
terms of their armistice they
planted the seeds Of many more
wars, and the crop is begin
ming to grow. They seem bent
on running themselves. It
wouldn't help them any if we
went in and insisted on being
ruined with them.
Better build up and keep
one large slice Of this earth,
the States of North America,
in good and safe condition.
Then we'll be ready to help
save a reformed European civ
ilization later, whenever it is
REALLY REFORMED.
There are black clouds in
Europe jet black cloud of
hatred over Germany and Aus
tria, bled to financial white
ness.
There is a cloud of rage and
revolutionary hate in Russia,
attacked on all sides by the
allies because she presumed to