The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-10-28
PRESS oN cERMAN REVOLT

ments of which she was originally built up. It is hardly accurate to call the process a revolt against govern ment. It is rather falling away of parts because of dissolution of the bonds that held them together. The rebellious clements in Germany appear weak and impotent and are noticeable mainly because there appears to be no restraining influence. Just what will come of the whole tragic situa- tion is hard to calculate, but it is cer- tain that the German policy has not been 8 success and that the German government is not 8 government of the people. True, accurate observers have not at any time been deceived into thinking that 1t has been truly democratic government. The hope was that eventually strong infusion of popular rule would be injected into the inert corpus. Perhaps that is not yet too late, if there is a leader in Germany who is fit and able to lead.
 Writing at the time of the initial revolt of Aachen, the Columbia, s. C., State with some prescience re- marks: "This apparently petty re- volt of small people in 8 sidetracked little state, off the main-roads of traffic and power, may be as the French so we'll put it, the beginning of the enG.' It may be the beginning of the concluding chapter of the cove- nant of nations at Versailles-the dawn of new '1848'-a sundering of that gigantic and always inchoate mass that the world has long known and feared as the German empire.
 As to the French belief that the dissolution will help the cause of France, the Memphis Commercial-Ap- peal is pessimistic: "The Teutonic nation came back after the Napoleonic conquests from more abject state than it is now in. Napoleon's defeat in Russia, 1t is true, was a contribut- ing cause, but the truth still remains that Russia today stands as potential menace to France. Germans of the Rhineland will not be any more sat- isfied under a nominal French au- thorfty than the French of Alsace- Lorraine were under actual German authority. It is both possible and probable that the separated Rhineland will be set up by Germany as a new irredenta, just as Alsace and Lorraine were for over forty years. The cause of temporary peace may be served by German disintegration, but it seems assured that the cause of future war will be served in equal, if not greater, measure" It does not appear sound, however, to attribute the dissolution to the French policy rather than to the German policy. The people are demanding autonomy, not because of French conduct, but because of dis approval of the government at Berlin.
 That the former German empire is in process of dissolution is the opin- ion of the Atlanta Constitution, which declares that "it is not difficult to see disintegration of the once pow erful consolidated Prussian empire that Bismarck built" As to the French situation the Constitution says that 'France would undoubtedly be easier and would be more stragetically located if there were a bumper re- public resting between her border and the central government of Germany's border along the .sast side of the Rhine." As to the cause of the re- volts the New York Times believes that the "root of the trouble has been that Germany has so long had to go without a real medium of exchange. A certain amount of barter could be done by the farmers, but there is limit to this. .. The remedy required is plain, and fortunately the govern ment is working hard to furnish it," through a new and more stable cur rency. . It is 8 question, however, whether the remedy Is not coming too late to obviate the necessity of far stronger measures.
 The position of Saxony, nominally radical, in supporting Berlin against Bavaria, is thus noted by the New York Herald: Radical Saxony finds herself under dictatorial rule, both of the German republic and of the Saxon government. It has, in fact, two rival dictators, civilian and military. This double rule may embroil Saxony in a, civil war, but neither side will be fighting for communism. As an issue communism is dead in Saxony. When it comes to the scratch the Saxons are no more inclined to trust themselves to radicalism than are the Bavarians or Prussians. They want power strong enough to save their state when it is really in peril"
 In the view of the Nashville Ban ner, in discussing suggestions for the betterment of the situation: "The meat of the matter and the only sane solution is to set a definite sum Nf