The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-04-23


 commissioner of the Toledo, ohio, Chamber of Commerce: When you feel the pulse of Germany, you feel the pulse of Europe, for Germany is the heart of Europe. Here live nearly sixty-five million people with deep-rooted love for their country for they trace their ancestors back through the ages and right within the German boundaries.
 Having returned recently from . trip through Germany, during which I met people of all classes in va. rious sections of that republic, and had interviews with seventy-eight leading bankers, manufacturers, statesmen, and writers. it will be . pleasure during the next few min- utes to give you . cross section of the human side of Germany.
 Incidentally, going to, Germany is no more a user of your time than going to California, for when you can cross the Atlantic ocean on the steamship Europa of the North Ger man Lloyd in little over four days, you combine speed with rest. And of the same line, you marvel at the effortless speed. By going and re- turning on German ships you also learn to understand the German mind, and find yourself quickly uns derstanding these wonderful people.
 In making this trip disembarked at Southampton, visited the big Brit ish Industries Fair and London. where saw the queen and also Charlie Chaplin in attendance, then across the North Sea into Holland, entering Germany on the finest train in the world, the Rhinegold Express xa..- v.n Aa tvSsp 1t was pleasure to cross Belgium, the battlefield section of France, through Paris, and on out through Normandy, boarding the Bremen tt Cherbourg.
 so--just relax your minds and viewpoints---rememb these 66,- 100000 German people are solving their problems as they feel they should be sOived--and remember that you are hearing about a coun. try that has the man-sixed job or holding back the, wave of commun- ism that threatens, not only German culture, but ours as well. should 1t get a foothold in Germany.
 Every citizen of Germany, every school child knows that Germany adjoins eleven other countries eleven other worries. At home each, night the German workman. filled with the viewpoints of over 25 poll. tical parties, looks at the map and realizes that the Versailles treaty took 6,476.000 Germans and allotted them to Liti1uania. Poland, Danzig, Czecho- -Siovakia. Denmark. Belgium ana France. He realizes that tnis many people. if within German boundaries right now. would ada that big market, and no doubt re- lieve considerably the serious Ger man depression.
 And the Saar Basin with 774,00O people, 30 per cent German. waiting for 1895 to vote whether they will foia France or Germany. Another mental strain to the hard-workins German.
 Although it is over twelve years since the World War. and the marx is stabilized and the Rhine evacu- ated, the radicals in Germany ars more powerful than ever.
 Tho younesters graduating from schools now, or about to graduate, are the children who suffered In the war. Tn Germany you vote when twenty years old, so the radicale pc. gin their propaganda on youtniui minds. A big portion of the Hitler followers are boys and girls similar to our own high school and college youths. And Hitler gets recruits also because of the fact that empty stom- achs make empty heads.
 Germany, situated in the very cen ter of the old world, so rich With the priceless inheritance or traai- scenic charms, Is the very hub of European civilization. Here masnin- cent architecture bears witness to fine splendor of past centuries. Here Novva the worlds most famous r1vers the incomparably beautiful Rhine with itg hills and castles and ruins. haiiowed in legend and lore.
 Germany ia studded with cities. proud in the glory of great history and modern achievement. Lovey valleys dream in enchanted slumDeI: Upon the wide. stoneless snores oI the North Sea and the BaIuc tne ocean roars its majestic sympnony. while towering Alpine crags gieam Min eternal snows. Natures most narfect creations, side by side witn ma rnifcent monuments of great culture. are crowded into this 'heart oS Fcurone' as into a great museum. yet this beautiful land is not m oid -fashioned idyl. Germany Is one ~ the most progressive countries of Furope, throbbing with the pow erfui rhythm of the twentieth cen- ! tury. Her means of transportation. ] ranking among the worlds best. are modern. comfortable and inexpen- 5 sive. Over ancient castles crownms wooded hills and over popuious o,tses airplanes soar in victorious ! 1iUht. So numerous are they over cities that the drone of motors IS ! continuous, and You cease 10 LOOK W up 4 the old town gates massive .rch the modern traiiic 0nicer dt- racts swarrns of automobiles over roads where once rode the armorea knights' mighty hosts.
 Now for a few visits In some typi- cal German cities and towns. hoIn -or Cologne as we know M-nas nearly three quarter million people. anA is on the Rhine in north Ger- raanv. only d short distance from Rsirium. and during the war. when Yoin was in the midst of big do- ings one of the biggest bridges Tn ths country was built right here cver fine Rhine---and the inhabitants v,Snaiized German confidence as the workers riveted, with enemy planes living overhead.
 Taiking to Director Herbst or tne Deutsche bank here, and asking him if they had many bank failures. ne renIie6. 'sWe cannot afford them like vol, can: also in Germany a banker ;s trained like . doctor or lawyer ana knows his profession, in your country 50 many bankers are merely relafives of large depositors."
 sneaLing of the war, Herr Herbst
 a falI stately high typed German. said--"it was simply impossible to arouse any animosity In our troops