| Show t A Carthaginian Peace BOOK BOOK called II Economic Consequences of the A- A A P Peace is causing something of a n. sensation both bothi i and America It lt was written by John May- May liard rd rde Keynes e nes an Englishman a Cambridge man an imp im- im p official of or the Paris Pans conference and n. n writer o of such scholarly eminence as to enable him it is said to 16 record his cen censure ure in words l' l as s as scathing as us were c ever er applied to the governing go class of Europe since Lord Id I rd B Byron ron castigated The authors author's ill-concealed ill admiration for tile the German Ger Ger- man character and his cocksure assumption that Germany Ger- Ger many was too severely se dealt with in the tha treaty of VerI Vcr Vcr- I sailles sames will find many disputants on both sides of bf the Atlantic and in many other respects exceptions will betaken bo be taken to his general praise of German Germun achievement achie and ands s sympathy for the despicable e Hun whose responsibility for the great world war is not noL sufficiently exploited and whose atrocities are minimized j but the tho book is inter inter- esting He says that Germany German was the best customer of Russia Norway r Holland Belgium Switzerland Italy and hd Hungary Austria she was the second best customer of Great Britain Sweden and Denmark and the tile third best Lest customer of Prance France On this premise Mr lr Keynes leynes builds the argument that as German Germany was the economic keystone k of Europe before the war the way to restore Europe is to make here t the he economic keystone again To this end her payments of reparation Mr Keynes thinks should be reduced and the tile coal and iron on ozi which her prosperity was based should be left in her hands He designates it a II Carthaginian peace and blames the ruination of it to three men men Lloyd Lloyd George Georges and Woodrow Wilson Wilson though though admitting their points of view Jew were ere totally dissimilar and he lie draws the specious conclusion that in ruining Germany they ruined Europe He lie credits Mr Wilson Vilson with conc con- con c s pf of abstract morality and an original nal fixed purpose par pur pose through l his s famous fourteen points paints to do justice to Germany but surrounded by subtle and dangerous he was clay in the tho hands of tha T notter r. r What chance says chance Mr r. r Ke Keynes es could such a man manhave manhave have against Mr Lloyd Georges George's unerring almost medium medium- like sensibility to every ever everon on one Immediately around him To Tos Tose s see se c the thc prime primo minister with six or seven senses not available available avail avail- able to ordinary men judging judging- character motive and conscious self impulse perceiving what each cach was thinking thinking think think- in ing and what each was going to say sai next and compounding compound compound- ing ing- with telepathic instinct the arguments or appeal best st suited to the tho vanity meanness or s interest self of ot his immediate auditor was to realize that the poor President President Pres Pres- id ident nt would be playing blind mans man's buff butr with the tho party Never c could ld or never have stepped into the thc position a amore amore amore more perfect and predestined victim to the tho finished accomplishment accomplishment accomplishment ac ac- ac- ac of the prime minister r. r The American viewpoint as to injustice done Germany Germany Germany Ger Ger- many is widely a at variance with the thc authors author's peculiar logic loic The inherent w weakness of the tile monarchical system system tem tern with its iI impossible J system of blind absolutism is responsible for the pitiable plight in which German Germany finds s herself today rather than the terms of the treat treaty which she has not complied with ith anyway anway and probably does not intend to except as they may suit her hypocritical ical ial purposes It is reasonable to suppose that most Americans would prefer to see sec France rance and It Italy ly given gi e c eVery ry ery possible encouragement rather than Germany whose bose heinous wartime offenses against civilization Mr Ir Ke Keynes seems to have ha lost s sight of His whole argument men ment Seems seems based on a maudlin sympathy for the tile Holien- Holien oHern dynasty and his hook book is no particular contribution contribution tion lo to the pro problems lems of the day except as a masterful satire i and a most diverting pastime for a rainy day Mr Hoovers Hoover's Perspicacity H HERBERT ERBERT HOOVER is bein being criticized for a a. certain certain tam tain and vagueness o uncertainty of utterance on public questions Though uni universally conceded t to be an unusually headed hard man of business his critics say that the moment he gets away from business and executive thc live management and into principles he seems to avoid explicit and direct statement As an ran example his idea ideo expressed d in his letter to Ralph h Arnold is cited that to to want the presidency and md try to get it as Abraham Lincoln did is in itself the then n negation gation of the right American instinct T What at he probably intended to sa say was not to want th the presidency and not to try to get it it as Abraham Linc Lincoln Lin Lin- c cOIn coln ln did i is to negative e the tile American instinct But the Mr Hoover as wrote it jt seems to 10 imply a criticism of the American instincts of Abraham Lincoln Again in his letter which was doubtless intended to favor or ratification of the constitutional amendment conferring con eon ferring woman suffrage having been given out a few d days y previous to the great fight for the state of Delaware Delaware Dela Dela- ware waI he be says X bave c always been in favor of woman woman's womans suffrage Womans 5 suffrage and have always alays believed that the full entrance of wo women into Apolitical political life would materially ra raise se the whole p political ideals of the United States ie flie he women were ere much obliged for the thc information but it was not what they wanted to know and it did not answer the que non a representative c of th the National Vp ans an's party propounded to him Thc They asked him Mm Ji if he lie was was in favor of the ratification by y tho the states stales of J the ir Su Susan ati B B. Anthony kony amendment The Thc criticism of Mr Mr in this instance is that while he be evidently lb thinks ks he has fully answered their question the women I do do donot not know v yet where he stands The query therefore is B as to whether Mr Hoo Hoover Hoor r is I incapable lq of or saying what ho he means Incans or whether he is so adept in the use ue of language that like the masterful he lie believes belie the true use o of words is only to toI I conceal al th thoughts q Erring ry g husbands w will n fin find l the confusion attending tue b time changes in v Nc York n a welcome relief for fort t o overworked d' d excuses sc es I II T I City Must Not Fail rn HE Salt Lake public should take heed of the tho warning warning warn- warn T THE J- J ing in of Lester D. D Freed pre president of ot the tho Commercial Commer ommer- ommer cial club Mr rr Freed declares in In no uncertain terms terras that the tho convention of the National Educational association association asso asso- elation will bo be lost unless s the tho funds necessary to bring the meeting hero here arc are forthcoming The laxity of ot in- in in the movement is difficult to account for values of national Everyone E knows the advertising ad conventions not to tc mention the pecuniary benefits acCruing accruing accruing ac ac- ac- ac I to the tile cities selected No city in in the United States Stat has bas been more misrepresented abroad than Salt bait und and for that reason if no iio other we should pro provide proe e the outside world with every avery opportunity to come and see for itself It is to be hoped that the warning sounded b by Mr r recd freed will stir the necessary action We Ve cannot afford to lose this convention now that it is within our grasp If we fail now now every future futuro bid for national meetings will be discounted by the delegates entrusted with the decision Civic leaders lenders as well as eit city officials should display a greater interest in that which contributes to the a advancement of the whole s Campaign Funds liE attack of Senator Borah on General Wood and andI T I his ers manag-ers alleging th the use uso of a a. largo large sum of monc money to advance the of his JIS l y ff tl the e presidential nomination is Op open n to the tho suspicion that Itis itis it itis is made more in the interests of or Senator Borah's friend Hiram W. W Johnson than because of any thought that improper improper improper im im- im- im proper use will be made of any funds that may b be bc sub sub- scribed Replying to lo the charge of excessive e excessive use uso of mone money Representative Norman 7 J. Gould eastern manager of the tho thoY Y Wood campaign declares that he lie sees no reason why patriotic Jat citizens should not spend their money trying to elect General Wood Tood President when the countr country country coun coun- tr try facin facing probably the greatest crisis in its history needs just such a man We t Ye have ha not collected said Manager Gould but like to have that sum sum to to spend bc bG- befittingly fittingly in bringing General Y Wood before the tho American Ameri Amen can people Ho is being opposed by reactionaries who feel that he will rill not be subservient to their dictation when ho he gets to the tho White House and he is being opposed opposed op Ope op- op posed by radical elements clements who have been dismayed and andare andare are arc afraid of his Jis open frank denunciation of their attacks attacks attacks at at- tacks upon this country's st stability Improper use of money in election campaigns c is reprehensible reprehensible reprehensible rep rep- as Senator Borah says yet he knows as well wellI as anyone that it costs money when only proper use is mcdo of it to nominate and elect a n. man to the tho dency Proper publicity the tile music for the tho campaign the the- traveling c expenses es of workers the hiring of halls wages of stenographers and other workers who cannot afford to devote their time for nothing nothing all all this in every cry state of the union especially where here there are the tile preferential preferential primaries runs into money without a suggestion of illegitimate disbursement However the tile campaigners for General Wood are axe no doubt perfectly capable of defending their own methods and since since their int integrity fity has hus been challenged a statement statement statement state state- ment of amounts subscribed and for what purpose expected expected ex ex- to be expended ought to be forthcoming and all the other candidates ought to follow suit Foreign Brides C CONSIDERING that more than two million American vJ soldiers made up of men of of marriageable a ago ac c an and for the most p part art single the tho figures of the war department department depart depart- ment meat embarkation records show a n. surprisingly low ratio of marriages to European Wom women n. n Only foreign brides of bf f m members of the tile American expeditionary forces were received in Red Cross hostess houses and Md the tho total number of American soldier marriages is computed at Of or the brides whose nationality was recorded 2205 were French 1101 British 7 70 Belgian and only 31 German Only one out of every of the tho American boys succumbed succumbed suc sue to the wiles of f the tho European girls which is a really remarkable showing and ana one ono which those American American Amer Amer- ican jean girls t to whom perhaps the doughboys doughboys' troths were plighted can take little exception to unless it may be 00 bea a subject of more more or less comment among the American girls whose soldier beaux were unfaithful A really greater percentage than that might be he expected ex cx- to int intermarry with foreign born women in the large cities of our own countr country We Ve have seen no official official of of- opinion expressed as to the probable cause cluse of the thc limited number of matrimonial un unions unions ons abroad but Lut we imagine loyalty to the home sweetheart was the primary primary primary mary reason and inability to make proper provision for fora a wife while in the service ser was as another |
