Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1922-09-03

Europe no longer Is the center
of the world and her economic SUI
premacy has passed to America,
says Mr.. Harden, who believes that
after oil-producing nations adjust
their relations and the reparation
has been arbitrated so that ex-
change can be stabilized, a measure
of prosperity will return to all Eu-
rope. Germany included Harden
hopes that Hoover will act as arbl-
traitor of reparation.)
Berlin. Sept. Berlin is no longer
the center of the world. She has lost
her economic supremacy and must yield
her place to younger and richer
power or else she cannot seek help
from the American continent. She
may, however, be content to keep first
place in the realm of intellect, art and
science.
There is a revolution now occurring
In coal mining greater than any political
revolution and the result should be
comparable to the invention of machine
weaving in 1915. Mines are no longer
profitable if the miners are given what
is considered humanity comfortable
existence, because of the competition
with petroleum And even if our con-
science could bear the knowledge that
whole families were languishing in
dark, underground life we know that
they would soon revolt unless given
relief.
This is seen everywhere in the coal
labor disputes. Everywhere the effort
is being made to replace coal with oil.
The latter can be procured much
cheaper because less labor is required.
This fact, therefore, must decide the
relations between all of the states hav-
ing petroleum resources. No perma-
nent peace therefore can be expected
until there is an understanding between
the United States, Great Britain. Rus
sia, France, Rumania, Galicia and the
orient Genoa was the beginning, but
England's hopes of gaining the oil pre-
ponderance by agreement with Russia
were frustrated
shioned hyprocisy makes gov
ernments pretend TO act for humanity 8
sake when in fact their aim is to obtain
the best possible economic conditions
for their people but not the millions of
underground workers for a better and
healthier life, a better idealist than
the one who enriches the world with
speech. No new order can except sue
cess unless it reckons with the technical
revolution.
premacy.. In New York state the aver
age weekly wage is S24, in Germany
for the skilled worker, married, with
two children. it is about q dollar. How
can we explain that with wages only
netwenty-fourth of what they are in
the United States Germany cannot
compete with America 8. simply be-
cause well nourished workers conquer
in the world markets those who are
undernourished.
German wOrkmen. weakened by NAL
nutrition and excited by political agita-
ton, accomplished much less than in
pre-war days. In the mining industry,
for instance, the number of workers
has increased 40 per cent since 1913
but the out put has decreased 20 per
rent. Our state administration is over
stated and careless, our technical ap
paratus is worn out as we'll as our re-
nowned organization methods.
The same is true of practically all
European states, consequently any
alarm against American mechanical su
premacy is impossible Whole indus
tries have been built up there during
the war and now German made goods
of that character are not allowed TO
enter. Your chimneys are smoking
while ours are getting cold. We never
ran regain our prewar supremacy but
we might regain prosperity as the
United States has done. Not. how
ever, through a fight for industrial i'm
peralism and not by producing So
called necessities" like firearms, al
cohol, sweets, and selling them at low
prices. for that inwardly corrupt splen-
dor and prosperity from which the
war sprang will never return. The So
luton must be not reconstruction but
endeavor to secure an opportunity for
small country with her soil and few
raw materials to live in liberty.
The Importance of reparations in
this scheme is much smaller than
might be inferred from the daily row
about them. The victors on our con-
tinent have not yet realized that Euro
pean desire to have won the war is
bad business, and the vanquished have