The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-10-10
Europe To Be On It's Feet
 Within Next FiUe Years,
 U. s. Senator Harris Says

sands of lives and millions in money to the United States had this coun- try entered in the beginning, po- litical agitation should be suffered to subside before seriously attempting again to make this country mem- Der. The league will live.
 6. Discussion of cancellation by this country of the European debt IS infinite folly.
 Condition Serious
 While Europe is not as soresy stricken as was the south following the Civil war" continued Senator Harris, Tit is, nevertheless, in seri- ous conditions England has ap propriated money by means of which to feed it's nom employed. England insists that Germany pay reparations, but Is anxious that Germany be re- lieved to the extent that 1t may So to work and pay.
 France has lent its people billions with which to rebuild. It was the idea Of France that this money would be refunded by Germany. That IS one reason that France is keeping Germany at the end of the bayonet. "Germany is very busy. There Is apparently no danger of another revolution. It has it's unemployed problem, and soup houses are main | tained in some districts for school children. German teachers instill hatred of France into the hearts of , the children, which Is a sad sign for the future.
 Prussia is hardest hit. A kronsn which before the war was worth 20 cents in our money, is practically worthless. Eighty-three thousand equal an American dollar. I paid daH r1oV at the hotel. But Prussia, unlike Germany, is not surly Germans never smile. Prussians do.
 Hungary is trying hard to get it's bearing. Roumania assisted in driving out a bSlshevistic government and as if to repay herself, cut off a considerable slice of Hungarian ter ritory. The Hungarians who lived in that territory, unwilling to be Rou- manians, have piled into Budapest. This has accentuated the list of the unemployed. They are living in box cars.
 "Czecho-Slovakia is all right, ap- parently Its money is increasing in | value.
 1 No Widespread Hatred
 q found no widespread hatred of ] the United States Some people n Europe think that we are richer than we are-that we advanced a loan Uf S1 0, 1000, 100000 not by borrowing from our people. but simply by running our hand into our overflowing treas l ury When the facts are related, they seem to see the justice in our i insstenee that the loan be repaid.
 "As a whole, Europe is busy re- building. And Europe will forget revolution, work out its destiny, and eventually pay the United States all that it owes.
 "The League of Nations Is doing a l fine work When I was in Europe immediately after the armistice, no one thought highly of the league. Everybody apparently wanted the all ! lies to stand together for war rather than to unite in a permanent organ ization for peace. Now all European statesmen realize that the league will do much in saving the world, and that 1t will live.
 Had the United States entered the league at the proper time, tens ef thousands of lives would have been saved, and our commerce would have been saved the loss of millions of dollars. However, do not think that the league should be made po- litical football. Let it drop entirely out of partisan politics. And at the proper time, the United States will be able in wisdom to solve the problem"