The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-06-17

economic dependency. That man is the cause of most of our trouble to- day"
 What should America do?"
 T cannot say as to that. You are funny people. First you come to Europe and do some fighting. You lend money and men. Then you drop out and say you are done with Eu- rope but please pay me my dollars. You could do great deal if you would, for you are today the richest and most powerful nation of the world. As for England, she is done for, and the expense of keeping her empire together from now on will be so great that she cannot regain her supremacy. If America wants to help she should be interested in and take part in European affairs Germany Must Have Exports.
 I find the captains of industry all over Germany anxious for Uncle Sam's help. They long for the Ameri- can market, and say that their life blood lies in foreign trade. l have just had a talk with Dr. Butcher, the head of the Union of German Indus tries, along these lines.
 Said he: ''Germany has an entire ly different place from that of Ameri- ca in the world of manufactures. God has given you enormous resources. You have a large part of all kinds of raw material and your agricul tural wealth Is such that you can feed and clothe Your whole nation. Germany has but few raw materials and our food resources are such that one-third of the people must rely on their nourishment from the outside. We have twenty millions who have to be fed in that way. and the only means of feeding them is by eX- changing the goods we make for that food
 Moreover, we have to work for our living and the good Lord has given us but little outside our brains and muscles to work with. Before the war We succeeded, but only by working two hours more every day than you did. Now our socialistic government has cut down the 10- hour day to eight hours and it is difficult to see how we can hold our own. We certainly cannot do so if we are to be treated as slaves rather than men,"
 The Loss Of The Colonies.
 We were getting on tairly well be- fore the war came,' continued Dr. Bucher. "We had studied the wants or the nations, and were trying tp supply them. We had large colonial possessions which we had begun to develop. They gave us much of our raw materials, and were gradually furnishing markets. Now these col onies have been taken away. We have lost the greater part of our capital and an enormous number of our most valuable men. The loss of man DOW CT which occurred from the war 1. our greatest loss. Included in it were more than 2,0o0,000 of our best edu- cated laborers, and thousands of stu dents. doctors. chemists and other industrial scientists. We had one regiment of 5000 men which was made up of intellectuals, including experts of all kinds. Not one came back. We lost 1.5OO such men during the battle of Ypres, and we were losing specialists all the time. The building up of our factories and the resumption of our industries. when conditions become normal, can be ac complished; but it will be genera ton or more before we can get back the brain power, the experience and the skill embodied in the educated among our best soldiers.
 A New World 6f indSstry. n o
 As to America and its part in Europe" Dr. Butcher continued, T do not see how you can keep out. Mod ern wants and modern communica- tions have made the world one vast whole. Distance has been annihilated and blow struck in Paris or Berlin is felt the next moment in Picking or Bagdad. America is only six days from Europe. and the wireless and cable bring the whole world to ones ears. The diplomacy of today haA not recognized the change in condi- tions. It needs international organi- zation and international understand ing for the business of today and the future. Emperors, kings and diplo- mats have passed away. and we have in their place a business world taat must be managed along economic lines so as to supply the wants of all the people. We should all work to- gether, and this 1 believe will be the condition of the world of the future" Copyright. 1923. by Carpenters
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