The Columbia evening Missourian., 1922-06-15
NOPEACE YET.
SAYS MARQUIS
OF ABERDEEN
Whole Foundation of CONNER
cial Aspect of Civilization
Is Shaken, He
States.
UNITED EFFORT NEEDED
World Cannot Afford to Let
Russia Starve or Germany
Go Bankrupt, Is Mar
quis Opinion.
By The MARoUrs OF ABERDEEN AND
TEMAIR.

TEMAR.
Former gorerHor general OF Canada ana
former lord lieutenant OF Ireidnd.)
lErinen for The United PIessJ
LoNDoN by MaiD.-What constitu-
les peace? In what circumstances may
the doors Of the Temple Of Janus be
regarded as closed?
The question is of immense significance
for all Europe, because if we are wrong
in believing that we are now at peace,
it is quite clear that We are not going
the right way to improve the conditions
that are troubling the world today.
Before the war, il was estimated that
in normal circumstances Europe held
three and a half million men under
arms, this figure representing the total
peace establishment Of the Powers, great
and small.
Al present there are four and half
million men under arms in Europe. and
the withdrawal Of SO many able bodied
people from production must constitute
a very serious loss to the race at large
while certainly inconsistent with the po-
pular belief that peace reigns.
In 1913 the whole world was engaged
actively in commerce; fortunes were be-
ing made. large reserves Of capital and
material were in course Of accumulation.
EUROPE STILL ASLEEP
To that question, the suggested an
swer is. that Europe has failed TO real !
ize her own essential unity. People |
still act and talk as though each great
power, TO say nothing Of those that are
not great, were sclf-contained, complete,
each a law to itself Here We find a
remnant of medieval thinking.
In the days before steam and eleciri-
city and interchange between all parts
OF the earth. a nation was compelled TO
be sclf-sufficing, not only in its external
but lis internal aspects.
II was left TO the well made roads, the
wheclcd-vehicles. tie sailing ships, and
the steam engine to bring about new
conditions, and this equipment gave its i
stimulus TO travel and the opening up a
of foreign markets. A vast but delicate '
fabric Of commerce was built up. and ,
served TO unite nations that still had le
widely divergent interests, aims and i
ideals. Ia
With the coming Of these new condi- IL
tions, the world approached the first be- a
ginning Of brotherhood. brotherhood i
association naturally enough whit peal C
ousies, suspicious, ill-will and even quar-.
rcls. because the world brotherhood was I
at the nursery stage. But, whatever the r
causes Of the quarrel, the value of the &
commercial fabric was recognized by one $
and all because as it grew, the require il
menis and the re6nements of life in "
creased, until even the very poor of any h
European country depended for part of a
their daily fare upon the produce of far. i
off lands, while the merchant in the a
European capital began to control inter- I
csts many thousands of miles beyond the o
seas. SO accustomed had we grown TO S
these conditions that we learned to look T.
upon them as something as certain as
seedtime and harvest. Just as man
created he may destroy. The compare.
live failure of four years of war to put
an end TO the previous status has en-
Scndered over-confidence, and today. al.
though the whole foundation of civil. e
,aiion in its commercial aspect is shak- :,
N, people still fail to realize that the
LANCER can be averted only by the unit "
ID efforts OF every nation that has contri- .
'uted TO the building up Of the common 4
,oOd
To-day very large proportion Of the
'coplc Of Europe are out Of business: HI
n this country alone some two millions
re unemployed; To add to the troubles
4 Europe taxation has reached heights
hat would have been deemed fantastic HI
PISS than ten years ago, and every coun. III
ry has to make large provision for those HI
'ho. as result of the war, are no longer HI
n the physical condition to support NJ
hemselyrs
Today We find that the produce Of =