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Show uxMeurope world center i So Declares Editor Harden Who Hopes Hoover Will Be Arbitrator By MAXIMILIAN TrMTTFX Gcrnmny'M Foremost Pnhlfc'lsl Spec ial able Dispatch to The Standard -Examiner (Copyright. 1922 by The Standard-Examiner Standard-Examiner ) BERLIN, sept. 2. Europe no longer long-er Is the center of the world She has lost her economic supremacy and must yield her place to a younger and I richer power or else she cannot reck help from the American continent She may. how c .-r. be content to keep first place In the realm ot Intellect art anil sell Qi c There Is -i revolution now occurring Ing in coal mining greater than any political revolution and the result should be comparable to the Invention Inven-tion of machine weaving In 1816. Mines no longer arc profitable If the miners are given what is considered a humanly comfortable existence, because, be-cause, of th' competition with petroleum petrol-eum And If our conscience could Dear the knowledge, that whole families famil-ies were landgulshlng In dark underground under-ground life, we know that they would soon revolt unless given relief. OIL IS CHUX This Is seen everywhere. In the coal labor dldputoa. Everywhere tho effort ef-fort Is being made to replace coal with oil. Tne latter can be produced mm h cheaper because leas labor Is re-ouir. re-ouir. d Tills lact therefore. mu.-,t decide de-cide the relations between all of the states having petroleum resources No permanent peace therefore can be ox- pectod until there i.sun und-Tt unllm; between the L nit. il States. Great Britain, Brit-ain, Russia Francs Rumania, Gallcla, and the orient. Genoa was tin- beginning, be-ginning, but England's hopes of gaining gain-ing th oil preponderance 03 an agreement agree-ment with Russia was frustrated. Old-fashioned hypocrlcy makes government gov-ernment pretend to act tor humanity's sake when In tacl thoir aim is to obtain ob-tain the best possible economic conditions con-ditions for their people, but Is not he who lib rates millions of underground worker for a better and healthier life ; better ld illnt than the one who enrich, en-rich, s the world with speeches ii No Dew order can except success unless it reckons with the technical revolution. Europe has lost hor economic supremacy su-premacy In New " ork tate thy av-erage av-erage weekly wage is J-4, in Germany, for skilled workman married, with two children, It is about a dollar. How can we explain that with wages only one :4th ot what they are in the United States Germany cannot compete com-pete with America' .Simply because well nourished workers easily con-iu- r In the world markets thoc who arc under nourished. German workmen, weakened by malniltrltlon and excited by polltl. : agitation, accomplish much less than in pre-war days In the mining industry, in-dustry, for Instance, the number of workers has increased 40 per cent since 1913. but the output has decreased de-creased 20 per cent Our state administration ad-ministration is overstaffed and careless, care-less, our technical apparatus is worn out as well as our renowned organization organi-zation methods ALL LLKOI'E SIT'FKRS The same is true of practically all European .ste.-s, oeinseo.uently any attempt at-tempt against American nm hanlcal supremacy is impossible Whole Industries In-dustries have been built up there dur- I lng tin- war and now German goods made of that character are not nl-lowed nl-lowed to enter. Your chimneys are Smoking while ours are getting cold. , e never can regain our prewar supremacy, su-premacy, but we might regain prosperity pros-perity as the United states has done, jnot, however, through a fight for Industrial In-dustrial Imperialism, and not by producing pro-ducing so called "necessities" like firearms, fire-arms, alcohol, sweets and selling th m at low prices, for that Inwardly corrupt cor-rupt splendor and prosperity from which th war sprang will never return. re-turn. The solution must be, not. r -construction, but endeavor to secure an opportunity for a small country with poor soil and tew raw materials to live in ltbert WINNING BAD BUSIXES8 The importance of reparations in this scheme la much smaller than might be Inferred from the dally row about them. The visitors on our continent con-tinent have not yet realized that even jto have won the war Is bad business, and the vanquished have not yet understood un-derstood they must for generations live the lives of the poor The victors icount on receiving tremendous sums of money for getting that success that could only bo obtained by exports' whli h would wreck their industries, Just as France would and could entrust en-trust the rebuilding of the devastated regions to German Industry so would all nrts and trades oppose Invasion of foreign competitors coming to pay their reparations' debt But the vanquish, d have spent in : 18 months seventy million dollars for Imported luxuries which makes tho yarn about Versailles ruining Germany Ger-many as much a lie as tho famous J dagger in the back which supposedly felled the German army just before victory. Reparations are unimportant unimport-ant When the wise man whose name we hope will be Hoover arbitrates arbi-trates the reparations question, then exchange will be stabilized and Europe Eu-rope will have to realize that she no longer dominate? he world. |
