San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-02-18
Harden Says Politics Is. Be
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SEES BUT ONE REMEDY
Combination Of Franco
German Resources Would
Restore Europe.
BY MAMMALIAN HARDEN.

Berlin, Feb. 17.-The giant Roent.
gen, great physicist, was borne to his
grave through Borrowing thousands,
ancient Of years and full of honors,
blessed both by Minerva and Fortuna
as great diScoverer. His home is
now occupied by foreign troops, but so
years ago, he it was who discovered
those rays which enable doctors to see
behind solid flesh the bones and the
condition of every organ of the body
Including the heart and the stomach.
Not only this. but his discovery re-
realed atoms of stone and metals in
the smallest detail.
The world knows what this meant
10 surgery. medicine. minerOlogy,
Science, theory of practical manufac-
fure technique and the like. Would
the world be equally ready to pay
tribute TO political RoentgCn." pay
ing him the same tribute as the dead
German scientists: Does the world
want to see conditions in the heart
and brain of nations and rulers; to
see the contents of a closed safe or
purse as one can observe the cOndi-
ton of the lungs or kidneys through
vacuum tubes with an electric cur
rent? Is the number of people large
who have the courage and nerve any
where TO examine the. own people,
Bet alone a foreign nation. with such
exact scientific apparatus?
Sees Greed in Politics.
We are still doubtful. Politics daily
becomes more materialistic. Many
thinkers today believe politics are de-
iermined by desires to grab Near East
oil wells, or timber or coal. or ore in
Europe; considerations of import and
export trade regulating the main line
switches Of the political railway. The
object of the above arguments, how
ever, is to show how nations, guided
BY a horrible greed of money, develop
RatiOnalistic feelings which are dis
Honorable. Everyone is anxious to be-
lcve the sweet hope that their own
country always is struggling for free
dom, humanity. culture, tn, sacred
laws of civilization and honor 1t was
promised that the Turks, who for CEN
turies had been blamed for atrocities
against Christians, were to be chased
back to their Asia Minor homes. Yet,
the powers are giving them More
rights than they have enjoyed for sew
eral hundred years.
They now are arbiters OF the BOs-
phOrus. The Kinks speech to the
British Parliament failed to mention
why no one found time to plead for
the safety of the hundreds of thou
sands of Armenians, Syrians and
EgyptiOns, or to guarantee the lives Of
Several hundred thousand Greeks in
habiting ConstantinopIe. No one asks
The reason for the sudden desire for
Turkish Friendship. But the rays of
a political ROentgen apparatus will
show British desire to exploit oil wells
and French appeal for other economic
advantage.
France believes Germany, has given
more money 10 restore her agricultur-
al. industrial and shipping life than
was justified under the peace treaty.
What Is Their Remedy?
Therefore France considers herself
insulted, insisting that her own tech
meal machinery was more injured
than that Of her enemy and she re-
fuses TO agree with the German argu-
ment that only the highest technical
efficiency will make it possible to
meet obligations.
Leaders of the British government
shake their heads in pity over poor
France. What remedy do they pro-
pose! What is their wisdom: They
have no remedy, know no remedy and
can only pipe sweetIy that perhaps
America later on can come in and
mediate. Yesterday an American
friend cabled me:
III your government will decide TO
confiscate 50 per cent of the excess
fortunes of the privileged few and ad-
minister just reparations. then the en-
Ightened thought of America will add
It's counsel"
Much might he said against such
summary proceeding. but anyhow its
better than the sad face of the Eng
lish politicians. But the real remedy
IS easily found. Between Pas de
Calais and the Westphalian town of
Hamm, in the valleys Of the Riviera.
Schedlt. Meuse, Rhine and Ruhr lie
Europ0s richest area for coal. coke,
IRON, productive mines. modern foun-
dries, and the most finely. organized
factories, railways and waterways.
If this area could be nationally com
hned into one unit undisturbed bv
dynastic ambitions and diplomatic
jealouSies fixing imaginary bound
aries, then it would be possible not
oply TO tide Belgium. France, Italy
and Germany over the aftermath of
4he war. but gradually to reconstruct
Die whole continent. But this would
take from England her balance of
power, therefore she is not anxious to
see any Franco-German understand
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