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Show ( What has become 0f th fashioned gentleman vb 0l1" convinced that the era 0f peace dawned with the KelT Briand peace treaties, which signed by all-important .ers - nH0Bsl t The trouble with many writers, is that they seek to be smart rather ra-ther than informative. o Sending a bill and collecting the money are seldom synchronized. him with liquidation or confisca-4 tion." He reports a sentiment that things will go from bad to worse until hostilities end and then America Am-erica "alone will be in a position to feed famished Europe." There is a feeling that it might be well not to antagonize the United States and some observers hold the progress of the war might be affected if peoples got the idea that the United States will differentiate between friends and foes. If you want to understand the weakness of human nature, look up a newspaper about ten years old and read what the so-called leaders of the people were saying. U. S. MUST SUPPLY ' EUROPE FOOD AFTER THE WAR The famished peoples of Europe are looking to the United States for food when the war ends, says E. H. Archambault, Swiss correspondent corres-pondent of the New York Times, who says that America's eventual feeding of the populations affected by war is taken for granted. The writer says that the plain people believe that the end of the war will come this year in Europe at least. "Their belief is based on intuition rather than any reasoning, reason-ing, on questions of food and drink rather than on strategy and tactics." tac-tics." Mr. Archambault points out that there is a greater realization that control and regulation of necessities necessi-ties has failed, even in totalitarian totalitar-ian states, where threats of capital capi-tal punishment do not increase production. He points out that "you cannot force a farmer to produce when you set an arbitrary return for his toil and threaten |