Evening star., 1923-05-13
PUBLIC|ST D|SSECTS
EUR0PE'S MALADY
Harden BIames Diseases I'm.
covered by War, Rather
Than War Itself.
BY MACMILLAN HARDEN,
Germany's Foremost Publicist.

BY Cable to The Star.
BERLIN. May 12.-Should Europe
die tomorrow would not the anatom-
lists who held the post-mortem hold
she had been killed by war and Its
consequences unfulhllable repara-
tions obligations?
The Frenchman would ascribe the
blame to Germany's mendacity and
her failure to pay. The Italian would
hold it was too tardy a conversion
to fascism. The Russian would hold
capitalism was to blame. The Ger
man would sing a. song OF Frances
rapacity and her will to destroy. The
Englishman would declare the cause
of death was the fact that not all
of the people were so evangelically
free from egoism and lustful domina-
ton and so enthusiastically noble as ne.
But each of these verdicts would be
based on events Of wartime and post
war periods-that is to say. on symp-
toms-and would, therefore, be erro-
neous. Even the prohibitionist from
America wouldn't assert that a forser
who gave himself away while drunk
had been driven to crime by alcohol.
Just as fever is the result, not the
create the chief evils from which
Europe today Is suffering. 1t merely
unveiled them and cried across the
ocean of blood: Thou art the man.
Behold thyself in the bloody mirror
Of this sea OF plaques"
Illusions of People.
Still people don't want TO hear un-
pleasant truths of swallow pltter
medicine of self-knowledge. SO far
as they are concerned, their interest
is in other things-shimmy dancing.
movies and typewriter girls. Their
needs are satisfied with small
talk about conferences. ministerial
speeches and diplomatic notes. and
they find slumber in the illusion that
If Germany is willing to pay adequate
sums and France recovers from Poin-
careism all will be we'll and then the
order and prosperity OF 1913 quickly
will return.
reproaCh and aSsail ones beloved land
before the ears Of another nation, and
this becomes unbearably burdensome
at last; hence ! refrain today from
pointing out in detail how incredibly
clumsy the note OF the nom
politician Chancellor Cuno was IN
tone, psychology, demands and offers.
There is no room for differing judG-
ments concerning that or the politi-
cal intelligence of the German
| reichstag, which, from the wild ma
tionalists to the counterfeit socialists,
unanimously approved this note.
Hope of L. $. Loan.
That America will lend our lament
ably bad state administration 10000
600 900 gold marks, and then at least
[, 900, 10000 more, Is taken as mat
ter of course. Nobody asks what
could induce American citizens. with
their hundreds of opportunities for
safe investment at high interest to
invest in loan at mediocer interest
and which could not be repaid until
the most radical change had been
made in the German economic sys-
TEN.
Americans apparently are cast in
the role of bacteriophagi. such as was
discovered by the French Canadian
physician, Prof. d'Herelle. which
counteract the working of deadly bac-
teria in the human system and per-
haps would immunize the body in ad-
vance. 1t is suggested they are in
duty bound to devour the bacteria
which is destroying the old continent
| But if Europe doesn't finally learn to
| distinguish between consequence and
| cause, waste and use of man power
| and capital. to know her own powers
| and weaknesses and TO come together
! for cooperative organized effort. she
| will die, no matter how the Curzon-
| Poincare match terminates Bacteria
| phagi cannot be imported from
abroad: they must be developed by
the energy of the body.