Show l I II I I Dr Frank Cranes Crane's Daily Editorial II III j I Ten Years After I By DR FRANK CRANE Field Marshal Haig Halg appealed not long ago to the British people 1 I of the tenth anniI anni anniversary anni- anni to raise a a. distress s fund of ot to commemorate vers ry of ot the war which fell on August 4 I Commenting upon this the Daily Mail sa says that the claims claim on the fund are simply heart rending lending There are re to toy today ten years after the I Iwar I war a million service ex-service men men unemployed v wh Kg have a e marched marcher through I 1 agony agony to triumph that th their thIr lr country might i 1 lite saved and that now I I can nowhere find means of or earning their dalt dait daify br bread ad I Two hundred and fIt fifty thousand disabled men have been turned i adrift after a small final payment Thirty thousand disabled men are receiving out patient treatment fOl injuries received in the war and andi r t f of ot these only are in receipt of ot allowances s. s I l I In addition to this conditions everywhere e are are distressing Russia faces famine and Germany bankruptcy The franc has deteriorated and also the currency o of many other oPher countries France deeply wounded in her pride as well as in her resources Is occupying a part of ot the German territory with her troops i While England wants Ge Germany erm nany to get upon upon her feet so as to supply her with a market France is determined that she shall shaU not notI I j become strong enough again to attack her I j The United States occupies a peculiar situation of ot i It has representatives upon the various bo boards of ot reparation but they j I are merely onlookers onlooker and do not carry the authority of ot their I I government go with them If It America had be become ome a a. party part to the tho treaty j i of Versailles and that no matter with what reservations had ratified j Ithe the league of or rations nations much of the existing trouble would have been j ji I S j i I spared The efforts of many interests in the United States State to keep that j 1 country out of oC the of ot Europe have aided tided to complicate th that t situation We e have no means means of ot voting directly upon the question Whether the election of ot Mr H Harding w was s a disapproval al of ot having an anything thing to do with ah the league is a n question as many I Republicans doubtless voted for fr him because under him they hoped sooner r or later more practically to enter Into relations with other 1 countries The claim that that- the seven-million seven majority for Mr 11 Harding was wasa a a vote ote against t the e league was entirely unwarranted The question of oC who is to blame is aside from th the issue Perhaps it was vas the obstinacy of ot Mr Ir Wilson perhaps that of his opponents But there is no doubt that if it the determination to enter into the league eague as it was passed four times by the senate of ot the United States' States with reservations I had been adopted we we s should have ha been saved sa much of ot the existing distress The trouble is that after the great war there came a great I moral slump and It is going to take us quite awhile to get over oer It and to realize reaUze where our best befit interests lIe He I I Copyright 19 1924 4 b by The Newspaper Syndicate I |