Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1922-10-08
{ j ROPE HEADING
TOWARD ANOTHER
WAR, SAYS sOL0N
Senator CaraWay of Arkan-
Sas, on His Return From
a Two Months Visit
Abroad, Gives His Views.


pursuing her present course, is
heading steadily but surely to-
ward another great war and a
hnal smash" said Senator Il. Fl.
Caraway of Arkansas.
| Just returned from a. two
months visit of all the PRINCIPAL
powers OF Central Europe as a
delegate to the interparliament-
airy union congress at Vienna. the
Arkansas senator drew a gloomy
picture of steady decay in Eur
one. lie described continental
Europe as a seething mass OF
hatred, with only the restraining
memory and experience of the
last war holding many of the
powers from flying at each others
threats again.
Situation Is Growing Worse
1.-THE chief occupation Of
Europe right now is hating each
other" said Senator Caraway.
THE great war has infiamed ma
tional animosities so that there
are a hundred causes for war
greater and more dangerous than
the situation from which 1.-THE
last war sprang. Only the re-
straining experience and memory
of that war has prevented another
holocaust to date. and the situa-
ton is far worse than a year ago.
and growing continually worse.
Italy hates France a s she never
hated Austria; France hates Eng
land as she never did Germany.
The little entente" spends most
of it's time hating each other.
| The general impression l got is
that France has gone, mad on
militarism. They're talking now
! of their destiny-meaning keeping
an army big enough to overawe
any movement not dictated by
! France in Europe and Asia. she
is rafting the saber as continuous
tfy as the kaiser ever did.
sympathize with her demand that
Germany shall pay to the limit
of her ability, but France really
desires the destruction of Ger
many.
II came home convinced that
France doesn't intend to pay her
debt TO us; has no intention OF
paying The diplomats may talk
cvasively. but il you get down
and talk with the French people
you get national viewpoint
that they don't owe anything; that
they already have paid in blood
sufficiently and we still owe them
more, instead of France owing
us. They feel now they won the
war; they are not grateful for our
contribution to victory and don't
recognize it.
More Prosperity in France
"They have the devastated re-
glons about three -fourths restored.
The homes and the barns are be-
ing built, twice as good as they
were before the war and the bill
is charged up against Germany.
The average farmhouse being
built is much better than the
home the American farmer lives
in. In making his claim of losses,
no Frenchman has underestimated
it, but generally doubled the act
ual damage. The government mas
allowed them, has issued bonds
land is desperately in need of Ger
| man money to meet them. On
the, whole. though, France showed
more evidence of prosperity than
any country l visited"
Senator Caraway described the
situation of Austria as really des-
perate; o. patient dying, sur
| rounded on all sides by vultures
waiting to pick the body.
'Trhe day / left Vienna there
was less than three days food on
hhand," he said. "They live from
hand to mouth, not knowing the
day when the collapse will come.
Italy, Hungary, Czecho-SloVakla
and Jugo Slavia all keep armies
massed near the border. ready to
rush in and start grabbing the
minute the patient dies. Each
nation is so Jealous of the other
1t blocks any substantial effort to
relieve Austria for fear it may
give a rival better opportunity.
Engineers Get $8z A Year
| "Cut off from factories and
farms, there isn't enough left of
Austria to support the million
people. Printing press currency
has STAYED off the collapse. But
fiat money is now the curse of the
land. I bought 1,650,0O0 kronen
one day while there for $50. How
can Europe buy our cotton and
wheat with such deprecated cur
| rency?
'The people generally in Aus
tria are half starved all the time
and now are hopeless. The only
way for trade to revive is for
custom barriers to be le1eled. Yet
| you can't travel two hours in any
| direction without BURNING into n
tariff wall, Each nation is war
ring industrially on the other. And
incidentally, l might say 1 heard
everywhere in Europe that Amer
ica's example in setting up a sky
high protective tariff would only
make matters worse all around"
England Has Only Sane Policy
Senator Caraway believes that
the rival ambitions over Austria
is We apt to be the spark to
touch .4{ new conflict, provided
the Turkish affair can be bridged
over without kindling a new con-
flict. The opinion in Europe, the
senator said, was that France was
playing Turkey off against the
little entente for her own advan-
taee and the future in the near
EAST lay In what policy France
ultimately adopted. rather than
with England.
"Tm of Irish descent and fire.
auently have been accused OF be-
ing anti British, said Senator
Caraway, -" but England today has
the only policy in Europe"
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