South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1922-06-12
The People Approve.

, and, make open community OF cause
as soon as possible.
The People Approve.
Fathers and mothers who lost sons
in the war have remarked 10 me
gravely the last few weeks:
An alliance with Germany is an
/ economic and political necessity FOR
/ Russia. We DO not admire Prus-
sianism any more than In 1914 bua
I We cannot deny that the TWO coun-
T tries are natural allies. both on &C
I count OF their geographical positions
and their industrial and agricultural
( interests We might better recog-
I nize this reality sooner than later
and take what profit We can"
I have found this view in all
classes. rich, poor ignorant. edu-
Gated.
Drotshky drivers have allowed
their horse To j0h from one deep
| hole TO another in seeming noncor-
Germ 20 explain how they had chang
ed their feelings since 1917.
The German wasn't such a bad
fellow. We fought him and cursed
! him because we were told 10. We
! didn't know why we were lighting OF
/ for what Perhaps the German
1 peasants call drotshky drivers are
/ peasants. and their chief interest
/ in other countries Centers according
I lyD shot at US for the same reason.
MANY said they were not treated
! too badly in German prison camps
i 4 i'm, - h. ff.ar L.. M inc
of hundreds OF thousands from Rus
STA to German prison camps during
/ the war had almost as great an effect
upon the ignorant masses. COMPARE
! lively speaking as the presence OF
| several million dOughboyS had upon
popular ideas Of the world i'm Amer
/ lea. The contrast was even great
/ er. coming as SO many did from tiny
] villages on the Steppes which had
| bounded their world from them all
their lives and had likewise repre-
( scented the center of creation for
/ their fathers and grandfatherS.
Educated i'm Prison.
BY strange irony. Germsnys
prison camps proved a great educa-
/ tional factor i'm the life OF its enemy
/ country. for the peasants in the leu
/ ton contonment camps went back
/ TO villages from one end of Russia
/ 10 another with a new and larger
/ idea Of the world hansen COM
mented upon this upon his return
/ from several tours of the entire
famine regions and I personally
noted ii during my $50 versj sleigh
ride through the Tartar Republic
/ last December.
/ Even prisoners who were NAL
J treated do not seem to have retained
much hard feeling III treatment
was not new to them. even at the
hands of their own, and with that
old Gentle philosophy of the peasant
/ child-mind. they see little cause for
surprise or resentment that an
enemy should not handle them
softly
And the idea that neighbors ought
to be friends is Sot too complex for
their simple intellects. From this is
but a step to friendship in interna-
tional politics.
Should BE Friends.
A Russo German alliance strikes
] them as one of the most natural Of
| arrangements. The thing that sur
| prises them is that it wasn't done
/ long ago.
Russia's and Germany's mutually
| depressed Valuta, as we'll as geo
! graphical propinquity, have brOught
them rapidly together commercially
during the last eight months
The low evcbapup of tho ,,,arL hoe
enabled Russia 10 purchase many
commodities i'm Germany which she
could not possibly have bought-at
least in such quantities-in other
/ countries.
German Goods i'm Russia.
German goods already outnumber
all other importers products on the
| Russian market. German business
firms are energetically prospecting