Show EUROPE FORCED INTO COMBINATION The wedding of German coal to French Iron with the resultant child Steel parented by them both a joint possession Is one of the most significant events In European history for many a year When the th feeding of ot the th hun bun hungry STY gry mouths ot of on one nation depends as much upon the th welfare ot of a sister country as on the th home hon country the sister country Is not so ready to work harm upon the theother theother other Economic dependence of I course Is a far tar safer eater peace guar guar- guarantee guar ante ontee antee than all alt the leagues of na no nations lions In the universe More Mor significant still Is if the re- re recent re recent cent steel trust formed by Ger Germany man many France Belgium and Lux Lux- Luxemburg Luxemburg Luxemburg emburg The Industrial gIants who ho fathered the tb trust frankly say that it Is a direct step against American competition a competition competition tion ton found too gigantic for tor any anyone anyone anyone one nation to hit against any longer It may sound fetched far but many believe that tho the significance of the new-born new trust Is even greater They believe that Eur Eur- Eur Europe op Eur-op ope Is I gradually realizing Its Im irn- irn as 88 a composite composite mass of many little nations against one such nation as America while catchIng a 0 glimpse of ot Its Ita possible power It Sf the acreage of ot Europe were ere really the acreage of ot one na- na nation na nation tion even en as that of ot America No Io one can deny the tb power and strength of ot one ohe nation called Europe Instead of a Europe Europe made up of ot a dozen nations Industrial Industrially ly Iy such a union may come some someday someday day Politically hardly Europe Is too old Too muc blood has haa been spilled on those fragile boundary lines encasing puny na na- national national acreage And too much dif dif- difference dit ference of ot peoples lies within those boundaries boundaries ev even n it jf they have been beena as near neighbors tor for countless centuries as Ohio and Michigan Birds of a feather will flock together and the th children of a dead man man man never forget who who killed d their sire |