Show PROBLEMS M FACING STRICKEN WORLD shall chaos or reconstruction in europe follow the great world war ISSUE BEFORE ALL NATIONS NATION S four Year hell have left the peo pie pl in a nightmare from which only new morale can arouse ahouee therit them article 1 I by PRANK FRANK COMERFORD four years of pagan hell left eu rope stunned and staggering the world tins come through the red dest deal and blackest night in nil all tho biography of the planet with the signing of the armistice the lie people tried to shake oft off tile the nightmare and grope hack back to light 11 glit today a year utter after it 1 Is 14 trudging and stumbling para lyzen and benumbed th 0 present problem of making the world sate safe for civilization is more serious than was the question of making it safe ate for democracy tour four yeara ago it f I 1 there I 1 bere iere was reason for sacrifice then there Is s reason for it now I 1 it f there was cause for a military morale then there la Is need of an industrial morale today called men to fight and dle die that flint au all loerey might not lot rule and ruin tile the world tile the issue now Is not only free freedom domIt it Is life tile the chance t to vilt tilt to be warm to sleep arid and a tired wounded worn and weary people face the tomorrows with little fabilli and much fear I 1 went to europe to sw ee vir tor my self bolt I 1 was unattached a free agent I 1 was not a member of 0 mission I 1 had tio no preconceived opinions I 1 sought facts the human I 1 looked into the eyes of the people walked the streets talked with oien men wo women t nen and th children ildren rich arnd poor humble and power fril journalists bankers ba lawyers actors government officials roal coal int miners ners W team nin aters factory ianda labor lenders radicals conservatives children of the streit street and women nt at liehr tubs fa banners and peasants tenants ind landi landlords I 1 cross examined official records ilna oili cial figures I 1 listened to opinions heard speeches interviewed ifie hie streets listened to the conversations of st the cadee and lie talk 0 ot f the cheap ti 1 know that few Atner americana leang would havet lin hp chance to go to to see flee and hear for biletn themselves that the of america would be compelled to depend upon the eyes find and ears of others for information concerning a problem of world importance a problem liutas hound bound to involve us we are part 0 of f it no country oti Is I 1 independent dependent ri nations are interdependent to lie extent and for the sinne reasons a are re i only ho hope hopa pa Is in america europe looke to 16 america for salva alon as n et dying mini looks to god for mercy we are her ber only hope it the he united flaat states cil olits the polley policy of leaving europe filone alone on the die theory flint eliat wo we have drine done enough for lier ber europe will be plunged into the sav egery or of revolution it t in a faith falth a america belief that A america will wll sustain tier her help tier her carry the naf til load that to Is bend bending ing and almont the back of weak anti and crippled europe that flint Is keeping tier from cuccu mb frig this faith Is about tile the only thing BU u rope tins lias left what Is america 7 it fan sn file buildings anil and banks tile the railroads rall rondi tile the houses and the lie lanil land it Is tile the one hundred and ten million people of whom you are one so Eu Hu ropes plen plea la Is addressed to you yon the prayers of h her et hungry children are petitions to you rou Am americas ericon policy the he answer of tile the united state will come from tile judgment of the people no man inan or woman can escape the responsibility each of us will contribute to tn tile the decision it a hypothetical case cafe we are called upon to decide it la in a 11 question involving tho life of human beings men women and children wilo are blood of our blood part of he great world family the ho human race shall we close down our shops fie fac mills millis and mines bolt tile the doors stop production nt at a 0 time millions of human auman ewings are crying to ug for help can we listen to the lie thin thill bony hands of chil children drea knocking at our doors doon and sit in our comfortable homes lp leaving them to lie die on our threshold no call ta arms ever had so much right buck of it so much till inanity ns its the alie call to work line has today the hoube of europe hal been on fire it lina bas been wrecked it Is scarred and charred it ruin the are empty the people demoralized and alck winter la Is attacking them hunger has a hold they are in rags they must rebuild rebuff end tiley they avent li lie material I 1 for or tile they turn to us ns their condition is their plea pica our condition our oar obligation if vic the golden rule vcr ever bad any claim on our hearts and heads ehg th urn time to provo prove it Is now our comparative plenty in our ur house things are well WB have been tile tho devastation ot of war our acres are aul ample pie our yield has been plentiful we have nn an abundance dance of material our man power has hag only been lightly touched by if tha war it Is true flint wo we gave nearly seventy thousand lives flint the plans might not pass pans that flint autocracy night inight not the wor d it was our best blood europe gave for four years and slie site rave gave of tier her youth ur up tit ill her man power was almost ex cx wo we cannot sacrifice europe with fill out being it europe falls america will totter the storm of unrest hat flint rocks europe to ruin will shako america we must work and give loan if you the heart of labor Is warn warm its sympathy Is born of suffering the gospel of tho lio brotherhood of man Is s the message labor tins has always tau taught 9 lit I 1 nil am sure t tant tin t I 1 if f I 1 could plo PIC tur diiro 0 the lie poverty of the children and women and men of europe Euro lf I 1 could only anke people see what I 1 have sein seen in Hai europe rope our differences would seem trivial by comparison with their sufferings fe rings men alen would will to wa work rk and ond find joy in ill the working what greater compensation can come coine to conscience than working to feed the hungry to clothe the naked to comfort the lowly if tile the heart of capital Is stone and ami connot frd feel the message which comes over over the lie sens seas let labor show that its ita heart Is immune curnane and lint flint it will suffer injustice if need he IL a little longer to save flesh and blood brother and sister alster workers on lie other side of the lie ocean its a crime against god and roan ninn to stop product production ibn nt at tills this moment bild extravagance n this hour Is n greater immorality than prostitution I 1 did not stop with the gathering ot of figures because I 1 knew that flint while figures oro are important they frequently fall to tell tile tho full truth official reports and statistics granting that they are accurate tire ore at best only photographic aboto the photograph records with mathematical exactness the exterior of things lings ti it gats to the heart the photograph la Is the still picture the picture ot of tile the motionless impressions pres press lons are more giue ills oil paintings they possess the human touch arry T ay reach the henrt heart within anek ot of tile the daubs of point on the canvas are the throbs of n lit heart art the Thel win film Is only sen mans arnin Is sensitive tho the photograph reproduces tho outline the painting the substance plain record of facts facia in reporting to you the things I 1 saw and heard I 1 want to give you photographs the figures und facts as I 1 learned them and the impressions I 1 gathered go from tile tie speech and lit life 0 of europe I 1 have tried to keep my illy eyes free front from prejudice so that he lenses would be unbiased in III the lie june of 1914 europe had n place in it the sunlight of pence peace the fields were filled with peasants bending toll villagers were happy in the he common routine of their simple lives factories mills mines and shops were filled with men smoke streamed from chimneys r industry was singing in fhe ho cities traffic roared tr trains A in 5 r A t 1 I e I 1 it was the lie story of in a busy working world problems there here were of co course tile the problems normal to the lie growth and progress of tile tho world there was some mottie unrest too but children childre A scampered to patient women pang crooning songs to thel bables babies iten hen carrying dinner buckets whistled on their wily way to work there were shad aws the side of the worlds street the slums and the tenements hut but imen and women were planning and fighting tile the black ugliness an anc ever yone had fal faith th in tho the tomorrow the world was milking making headway it was growl er its ito conscience was awakened we were becoming our brothers keeper it was a normal ran anne e good old world it was wag good to be alive then came the day the ithe day tha w will III never lio be forgot teai the tiny day that changed tile lie world the lie day of four years ut at theand the end of which civilization was almost hunchbacked eked newspaper anion union |