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Show WIDTSOE TELLS . OF EUROPE IP ANDG0NDITIQN5 Church Official Declare Lack of Faith in Each Other Chief Difficulty of Nation on Continent y. By EDITH M. HINE8 f The lack of trust, faith and low aflii.ni form I n mvm ImnrHiM f itself Indelibly upon ona traveling aoroad, according to Dr. John -Jt XVidtsoe. who returned Saturday from a six Weeks trip to utopa In company with Senator Beed ii Bmoot. "Kach nation seems anx- lous to get the better of another." XJjt. Wldtsoa st a tea, and one li lm pressed with the fact that they 1 "" hav respect 'Ttut' no"wtov'"Ior America." With Senator Bmoot a a 'constant 'con-stant traveling companion, with the exception of a brief separation In Germany. Dr. Wldtso visited F,n-gland. F,n-gland. Franca, Germany. Holland, twit airland and the Scandinavian countries. They left New York July 4 on the maiden vnynre of the Leviathan, and Dr. Wldt-oe, In recounting hl experiences, commented com-mented on the great compliments i shown the ship by all boats In the harbor as sh glided out to sea, a r-pllra of th Clalrmont. th first American pnsaenger ship, hopp'ng e.ong beside giving her salut wUh tie rest, a remarkable comparison of the small and the mighty boat. AH Americans behaved creditably as to the eighteenth amendment on tvard the ship after passing the tH-f-e-mlU limit. Dr. Wldtaoo aald. AT PILGRIMS' CLUB. Landing In Southampton. Bena-- Bena-- tor Smoot and Dr. Wldtso were entertained at the British PMgHms' club, where Justice George Sutherland Suth-erland of the United States supreme su-preme cmjrt waa a1p a gueat the same night. IaWldtaoe com mented on the international reputation repu-tation Senator Smoot commands, recelvlnv more Invitations then he could fit! and being sought hy gov-1 ernmentat officii.. everywhere. The: filing sgstnet Mormonlsm Is sub- I jpfltng in European countries and j in Rnaland, where they were pai-t:cularly pai-t:cularly bitter. Dr. WMtao stntesl r the owner of the papers whtT fought them bitterly. Lord Renver-hrook. Renver-hrook. waa most courteous to Senator Sena-tor Smoot, having luncheon with him on several occasions. An extremely "hot wave was encountered en-countered In London, but during i . the trip th weather on the whole Nfc was most pleasant. From Lonoo. he party went to the Scandinavian Countries via -Holland and a part of Germany. Dr. Wldtso states trat the Scandinavian countries are trying to repress emigration to thla country In an endeavor to build tip their own countries. K. Gnthenhurg. Sweden, an expw-lt'on In celebration of the . hre-hundredth hre-hundredth anniversary of the founding of the village, waa hcInS held and the resource and msn-u msn-u fact u red goods being ahown compared com-pared favorably with thoe of th.'e cmintrv, accordfna to !. Wldtsoa. GERMAN CONDITIONS. Conditiona In Germany. Dr. Vldtaoe aaya. are deplorable and renorta here are 'not exaacerated. Milk cannot be had fr love nor money anil th Infant mortality r.ite la terrlic. Women are not only working In tha fields as rhey have always done, hut they are vorklna wlih pick and shoVel on . the, jull road) and In every other capacity. The professional claases In Germany are the greatest sufferers, suf-ferers, hut the laboring man. whose salary la eup nosed to be ad (tinted according to the rise and fall of t!.e mark, usually hss to exist a Aeck on nothing whil the new adjustment take place. Dr. Yt'lrit-says Yt'lrit-says from on end to the other the crop In Germany are fine and bountiful, every bit of ltnd being cultivated and everyone it busy. The red a are not meeting meet-ing with the accomplishment hoped fa-. in the day the revolution a called a placard signed by the women of Germany waa potted giving the total number killed In the World war and reading: "Wi do lH't want another war." Traveling from Germany Into France. Dr. Wtdteoe says one Is Impressed with tha desolation -wrouawt and on la moved to be on the French side In the Ruhr move- Nment. Tha Rhelm cathedral, no- . rhere near rehabilitation; the Ar-jnnne Ar-jnnne forest, a bleak memorial, and the shell pock-marked battlefields are sufficient reminder of the horrors of war. |