Evening star., 1938-09-04
WHY SHOULD CHINA BE UNIFIED?
Pacdy Dsorganzed Celestas Have Survived for Centuries
Without Threatening Their Neehbors Reviewer Points Out
After Reading Current Harper's Article.

Of sources Of supply by military means3
And the answer Is that she might,
but that If she did she would have
an appallingly long battle line to de-
fend, and that her necessities Cike
Japans) would grow as her conquest
grew, only (again like Japan's) more
| rapidly.
But to the final question-will these
considerations assure the world that
Germany will keep the peace?-the
answer does not follow the same logic.
I'VE can show" says Mr.. Woodside,
that she lacks supplies for big war.
We can display her difficulty in seiz-
ing adequate resources without pro-
voking overwhelming opposition against
her. We can demonstrate that saner
heads in Germany understand all this
perfectly well and have tried their
utmost to temper German policy ac-
cordingly. But" he concludes, I'VE
can't prove that Germany will not
drive on to war nevertheless. Because
those saner heads-who doubtless
would pursue the same expansionist
SAANo, Sat Al q 4ulCUSI Wdy-dIS uOL III
control Of Germany today"
So there 1t is. What an enlightened
world We live into be sure.
Yes, and two queerly poignant minor
evidences Of that enlightenment are
TO be found in Mr.. Woodside's piece
small testimony in themselves, but
Immensely significant. One is the
fact that the German government is
constantly Withdrawing arabic land
from cultivation, even though the ma
ton does not produce its necessary
supply OF food. and the other Is that
women are being put back into Ger
man industry.
WHY is the land Withdrawn from
cultivation? Says Mr.. Woodside,
For what other purpose, indeed, than
the provision of land for new air
fields, maneuver grounds, the great,
broad, strategical highways, and for
hidden zones around Notifications and
along the frontiers? Cannon before
! butter with a vengeance!"
And why are women being put back
into German industry, after being
| showed out OF it with the advice that
child-bearing was their only iustifable
occupation in the world of which they
constitute slightly more than half the
population? Well, to quote again:
! The government marriage loan to
! young couples was made conditional
on the woman leaving her Job and
/ promising not to 60 back to work as
long as her husband was able to sup
port her. But by last summer one
/ could read (Berliner Borsen Zeitung,
August 6, 1880 the cool pronounce
ment Of the Herr Direktor Of the Reich
Bureau for Labor Supply and Unem-
ployment Insurance that a supply OF
some 100000 idle women existed which
could be drawn on by industry Neither
/ did too much concern need to be
shown in the choice of jobs for them,
as 1t has been proven that the mod
ern, sport-hardened woman is fitted
for incomparably more and harder
work than was formerly assumed
/ Shortly afterward followed the SIM
pie announcement of the marriage
bureau that in the future loans would
not be made conditional on the woman
leaving her job or promising not to
take one. Der Deutsche Volkswirt
stated august 49, 1887 that 200 900
more women were already employed
in insured occupations than in the
first Hitler year, 1888, and the Volki-
scher Beobachter completed the pic
ture with the information that the
number of women working in German
! trade and industry in 1887 was $685.
600. compared to over six million in
1929"
| The reason for this right-about-
face as to "woman's sacred duty" is,
Of course, that the conscription of the
men for military purposes has left in
dustry short-handed. Without going
into the social justice of the treat
ment of women, one can again COM
ment on the extraordinary aptitude
OF the human species for dreaming
childish dreams, and its equally ex-
traordinary brutishness and stupidity
in endeavoring to make these dreams
come true. The whole history of con-
quest can be your source material, II
you choose to write slender volume
on the subject.