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Show EYES OF EUROPE : UPON TWO MEN They Are Mussolini In Italy and Thyssen In ! Bhineland. H MWIMILIAN HARD EX, Germany's Porornost Publicist. (Copyright, 1912, bv The standard-ISxh standard-ISxh miner.) SBVBY, Bwltierland, Nov 4 The n of the world has been dl- reffed I 111? weel.- In twei men. onn old. the other .ounr. both heretofore not I politicians, Albert Thyssen, the Rhlno-! Rhlno-! ind Industrial leader and Benito Mussolini, Mus-solini, the Fascist! leader. I Thyssen, unlike his younger com-I com-I pet iter and neighbor. Hugo Stlnncs, nercf busied hlmsHf with public affairs, af-fairs, but only us a pious Catholic sup-' sup-' ported the Center partv, meanwhile Quietly Increasing his industrial power .and fortune. Before the war he was I ailed the riohest Prussian and his in-' in-' forests extended from Lorraine to the Caucasus which he desired to annex an-nex to Germany after victory which he considered certain and his business busi-ness genius was undoubted. 1 m ss. TRANQUIE Stinnes always was the center of rumors. Thyssen. on the other hand, always has been surrounded by tranquility tran-quility An unimaginative, consequently consequent-ly a disp.issionate reckoner, he Is more 1 1 K h John D. Rockefeller than either the late Andrew Carnegie or E II Harriman. The public heard of him on I wh( n he went to law over his younger son' inheritance and when already old. he had his unshapely nose I straightened. He lived only for his I business, which bgan -with his coal mines, but spread until he has to use his tlmi so well th-it after an all-night , lourney be was ready for conferences nt .ev. :i in tho morning with great bankers who could not bo persuaded to arise so early except by Stlnnes's and Thssen's Imperial will. GERMANY SINKS DEEPER. Now this quiet man writes a letter to the chancellor, a Catholic like himself him-self saying that Germany is sinking deeper and deeper daily and Is facing annihilation. His first assertion undoubtedly un-doubtedly Is correct, but his second 1 which pre-supposos the annihilation of la great people today, cannot so easily 1 be Imagined as In the days of the I prophecies concerning Babylon, Nlne-vuh. Nlne-vuh. and .ludeah. The condition of a country whose money Is worth only a thousandth part of normal value and ; which declares It cannot pay Its debts I either by the usual means or In goods lis indeed terrible, but Is It not partly I the fault of the Center party which I has been practically all of the republic's repub-lic's government and produced t wo Chancollors and throe ministers of fl-1 fl-1 nance that this condition exists? WANTS Hl-Hoi R DAY. All these governments were more ; concern 'd With party politics th;m with republican liberty. Thyssen believes be-lieves the chief cause of distress is the eight-hour work law and begs the chant ellor to reintroduce tho ten-hour day which alone would insure, he savs. sufficient raw materials and foodstuffs. Is this a fact ? Of course It Is wrong 1 to conruse readiness to work with actual ac-tual work and the engine driver oft' n I quits and leaes his -nglnc at a way station, after hLrf eight hours are finished, fin-ished, although perhops he actually has worked only four. But there It has leen proven that workmen, willing will-ing and Well paid, and sharing In the ; profits of their labors, as well as be-jlng be-jlng pal dfor overtime. produce as much in eight hours as those who work ten and get tired, bored and discouraged dis-couraged before the day ends, besides not having the lnci ntlve of profit-sharing profit-sharing What Thyssen regards as the revolution's greatest calamity Is the only thing the worker got out of it, but the worker will work extra hours If he Is assured that his extra labor will more quickly free his homeland from occupation and acquit him of reparations burdens But he will fight bitterly against any attempt to relm-pose relm-pose the ten-hour yoke for the profit of others and any such demand would be dangerous In Germany today OANNOT SAVE SELF. Just as Kemal's success gae wings to the Fnsclstl movement so Oerman youth may be encouraged to attempt to weaken the peace-loving German working classes through suggestion of union with Russia and resistance to the consequences of the war. Kemal tore tho treaty of Sevres to pieces Mussolini has shattered the Jugo-Slav agreement and has refused to acknowledge ac-knowledge tho Washington naval pact. Oermany'a Faci3ti front would be directed di-rected ngruipst Versailles: and kindle new wars which, however, when they ended, would terminate Europe s leadership. lead-ership. But neither Rhlneland Industrials nor Italy's new premier who once. was arrested for begging seems to think of tho continent. Yet the belief be-lief that one European country can save Itself alono is ridiculous. Germany's Ger-many's chief resource today is th- fkill and Industry of her people. But where shall tho surplus products be sent when all fight against receiving thorn? Co-operation alono can save the continent con-tinent and this must begin with n , on -mon means of transport and a rom-mon rom-mon cause. Onl .in Europe 1: r. . -1 ln national enterprises could find credit cred-it and perhaps a hearing In Amerl 1 Either Europe will become united or ?h" will serve the other eontlner,-11 eontlner,-11 storehouse und repair she;, between battlefield, cemeteries and museums. 00 |