The Winslow mail., 1926-01-01

! neutral naLlOn.
France. who lost about II per
cent of it's industrial plants in the
northern provinces, will hardly
welcome Germany with open arms.
Frances aim is to keep Germany
down. and she had betted do good
Job of attending to it, as she,
France. seems to be decadent
notion, while in Germany recovery
will be rapid, her rate of propa-
{ cation will be increased. How can
France hope to keep Germany
down when it is a fact, that while
Germany, being Is per cent below
normal in an inventive way, went
to the top of the heap in Europe
in a commercial way and in my
humble opinion, brought on the war
by her successes. Some reason
must be assigned for this. Ger
many before the war was under a
| handicap. She was not entirely
| lf-sustaining. She imported much
raw material, she exported much
of the finished product She had
to do a tremendous business to
keep her subject busy. She needed
more harbors badly, money could
not buy them. Conquest alone
might acquire them. She had the
worlds finest army, best equipped,
socialism was gaining ground. What
better unifies nation than war,
was this not logical question for
them to ask. They had much to
gain, conquest of needed ports try
ing out her splendid army which
Theoretically was unbeatable, soci-
alism knocked in the head, all in
one lick besides she smacked her
ward to follow the successful ter
mination of a great war; namely,
| indemnity. How badly she was
fooled is now known. but who paid
the bill. "The common people,, If
it is to be paid. Now for a word
of the final settlement of Germanys
problems, which have not been
mentioned by any of their repre-
sentatives or those of other nations
why do they keep silent on this
subject.
If Germany in 1870 at the time
of the Franco-Prussian war, had
4O,000,000 people, and in 1914, 6S,-
! 000, 900 people, what will happen in
her land in the next so years at
that rate of birth propagation;
what is to be done about it, where
will they go, where can they go,
where will they work and what at,
with her foreign trade wrecked, her
credit ruined, other nations reach
ing out for all the trade they can
! get, and it is we'll to remember that
Germany is not any bigger than
Texas, if it is as big.
There is a problem that will keep
others busy besides Germany. Will
Germanys new government try to
| function in a non-frictiOnal way
and try to secure the much needed
friendship of her neighbors, and
more needed capital to carry on
with. l do not believe Germany
! will go into bankruptcy, she is too
hard headed, too thorough, too me-
thodical to permit this. Her pol
| icy in an industrial way was re-
! sponsible for her commercial sue
cess, for instance she did not have
the first aeroplane or submarine,
but when the war broke out she
| had the finest, her policy of keep
ing scientists in every plant work
| ing upon every conceivable subject,
was the cause of that She would
buy outright, she would acquire on
royalty, every modern invention
and improve upon it, give her
| something to work upon and she
would develop it. Germanys great
est claim for distinction lies in her
medical and surgical success, but
this is principally because she is
so confounded thorough and un-
sentimental When they wanted to
find out about a particular ailment
! they went about it in their own
way. For example, if they were
to try out a machine gun, they
would turn it upon sheep about to
be slaughtered and see the effect
upon something living, instead of
a target. But they had this to go
on, they were not very sympathetic
and they went at the crux of the
the problem without much ado.
have spoken of these things, as
they will have bearing on future
peace in Europe and what l have
said, are only opinions, based upon
contact, experience and observation,
while among them. To better un-
derstand European races, one
should read memoirs of Baron
Rosen." Plempotentiary Extraordi-
nary from Russia, who helped set
tie the Jap-Russian war in the
treaty signed at Portsmouth, N. H,
which the late Col. Roosevelt was
so instrumental in bringing about.
One should also read the Welly
and Nicky letters between the form
er Emperor of Germany and the
Car of Russia. Car Nick was a
weakling, Wilhelm. heartless au-
tocrat, with Napoleon's dream OF
| conquest. but with less principle
than any monarch who helped make
Germany great l am hopeful that
a solution will be found. l pray
for lasting world peace and good
will to men. In honor of those of
our own boys who served and seen
the horrors of war. we should ded-
icate ourselves to do out utmost in
accicfino those who are fiUbtjO ~