Evening star., 1922-01-01
by MAMMALIAN HARDEN.
Germany's Foremost I'ublicist.

By Cable to The Star.
BERLIN, December 31.-Let's give
the old year an appropriate farewell.
remembering that if 1t failed to bring
the longed-for earthly paradise, 1t at
least was not as ugly as 1t was ex-
pected to be. Despite gloomy prophe-
cies. the world has not come to an end,
and we poor descendants Of Cain and
of the ape should not ask more than
that when we are living only three
years after the craziest and most de-
structive of all wars.
What will the new year bring? It
probably will not bring wine and
whisky back to America. nor make
Lenin a junior partner in the Standard
Oil Company. nor TrotsAy commander
of the Salvation army, nor Foch
propagandist for the Einstein theory.
nor Will 1t make Charlie Chaplin
great Hamlet. These are certainties.
more than that. 1t Is easier to outline
what 1922 ought to accomplish If It
Is to go down in history as a year of
prosperity.
Pivot Moves Eastward.
The political and economic pivot OF
the world is moving eastward. The
vast territories of Russia and China
hold the attention Of those who are
seeking international economic recon-
national frontier Of the future is that
separating the Asia OF the Russian,
Mongol. Chinaman and Mussulman
Turk from Germanic central Europe.
We must not close the door OF the
worlds greatest markets-east Europe
an ASi.I ta-hn In la lIS
have never been properly cultivated.
Nor must we close the doors of the
German machine shop, which after
America is the most efficient in the
world.
The United states needs a conva-
held sterile by foreign guardianship.
The British empire needs a friendly
Islam in Mesopotamia, Arabia and
India. France needs physically
capable and willing Germany for
reparations. All three, therefore. have
a direct interest in keeping Russia's
three doors open.
Powers should Make Pledge.
AS there is no present hope of a
speedy fusion between Woodrow Will
sons league of nations and the onet
planned by. President Harding. a
treaty patterned after the Washing
ton four-power agreement, guaran-
of the possessions of the United
States, the British empire. France,
Germany and Russia would be useful.
Each power should pledge itself to
consult the other signatories when
it's vital interests were threatened,
and in any dispute between two of
them the other three should be con-
suited.
Such pact would not burden the
United States with European entan-
eptea Iry
vik agitation and obviate the increas-
ing danger of revival. of the old
Anglo French enmity. 1t would
make world disarmament possible. 1t
might civilize and modernize Russia,
a huge Undertaking which ought to
begin this spring with a system of
worldwide volunteer labor service in
Russia, using those in every land
who learned SO we'll how to command
during the war.
Millions Want Goods.
With Russia once more at work,
equipped with railroads and machines,
the bulging warehouses of the export
ing nations can be emptied of their
goods With far-sighted credit sys-
tenn. the factory fires throughout the
world could be relighted. the unem-
ployed put back to work and Rus
sia. 8 neighbors would be strengthened
and enabled once more to purchase
goods abroad.
A quarter of billion white peoples
who want goods from overseas now
can't buy them. An export Industry
in metals, chemicals. textiles, etc.
one-third as large as Germany's has
been built UP in the western countries
as a result of the war, and SO the
potential supply of such goods is al
most unlimited, but the demand hs>
fallen off to one-fourth of the nos.
NAL.
This situation is not helped by So
called conferences" which really
are nothing but junkets arranged BY
versatile ministers who enjoy a game
of golf on the azure coast Of the
Mediterranean during the foggy
months of winter. Nor is it improved
by the childish belief of the French
chamber that the Germans pay only
half as much In taxes as the French
if they paid double what they now