Show rn N i F rn I Germanys Germany s Helplessness I G GER ER ERMANY rA Y stands before the tho world to today ay as roc a n de- de VJ nation cr crying ing for mercy for the lime fallen foe We Te look upon Germany as incapable of spreading nb further alarm or destruction in in tho world There fliers is e cn even some talk of including including- her in a league of nations designed to improve conditions in m the world The seeming helplessness of Germany is one of the greatest s sI I dati dangers an ers before the allies t t When Then the west was young ng and train train- robber robbery was was one of the exciting a adventures of the day by express con com companies panics suffered considerable loss One man mall eluded JO- JO posses ses CS and special agents so long long- that an nn express company com corn pau pany as ns a measure of or self-protection self put him hint on the tho pay roll Tho The high hi highwayman wayman ha hall had i but o one duty to per cr- cr form and that was to collect coIled his wages daily The The ex- ex ex express press company compau reasoned that this was tl the c cheapest way ray lY lYof of keeping in ni touch with its mo moat t su sn successful enemy The he policy might leave have been heen successful in the early days clays of the west hest but huL it is frau fraught ht with new and added dangers clangers in the tho day We Vc present cannot aff afford orl to assume as ns- fume sume this policy in our OUI future relations with Germany We c arc are not to tl try to keep German Germany harmless b by hy in it- it in ing her to 1 oars board with us G Germanys Germany aspirations in inI I the world did not the lie with the s signing of the armistice She i- i is still hopeful of ofa a place of power in the world and amid if rf we c are arc not careful she will again rise to haunt us I When Then we wc consider th the c victory of the lime great g we c must probe deeper than the surrender er We arc nrc deal I ing ang with a n problem of the tho future futuro as ns well as of ill I he t past last and the present A few mistakes I in the 1 peace conference ml ma may rem remove ome the time sting g of defeat from front German Ger Ger- ci- ci man luau shoulders The world war probably would not not have 11 yet et been fought if Germany had not errs erred in her I j judgment of the ability o of or France to pa pay a Teat great indemnity in in- in h in n an earlier war We V c have hac heard much much about the thc ba bankruptcy facing g Germany if the full penalty Y is Im imposed J While much of this may IDay be true truc we arc not tf farget for far forget forget get that the future ers covers a vast period Germany It at least should be he populated by hy a new g generation before h c fore the thc burden of war is lifted from her m mikes kes this clearer than time the description I of conditions condition cond tion s fa faI onan I in m northern prance ranco and Belgium by hy Herbert Hoover German soldiers are returning t to Untouched bv by tools the the fools ool of war They expect to take talc up 1 heir work cork where thc they left off fr ill iu in i industries which have ha I not been I crippled by hy conflict 1 Trench rench and ana Belgian Delian soldiers face a dif different fu I fu-I I ture The homes they loved are hone gone and md the indus indus- tries which pro provided them a livelihood have been dc- dc I tro cd Many lan years cars will pass before t these homes Domes I and and industries rise ris to peace pence time lime efficiency envy So it I is that France an and Bel Belgium ium labor under tinder a n 1 n in to their relations with wilh n despite espite the ho f fact act that thit G Germany has b h been defeated The Tue J material loss e 1 rest cst with these stricken ll po lo Better that wo over O t r estimate tho too ability o of or Germany n to io pay than that lint wo tiro frh 1 of or destruction to let her turn her frightful program rag gainful ends at nt some route some distant time lime in the tho future Titus lime must not erase the defeat of oC Germany ra t n n tos Sa r-c |