Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 220, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 September 1919 — Europe Is Not Wrecked and Ruined by the Greatest War of History [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Europe Is Not Wrecked and Ruined by the Greatest War of History

By OSCAR T. CROSBY,

Interallied Council

Europe has not been -crushed by the war and her outlook is not a desolate one. When a Continent or a country is ruined you do not-have to call witnesses to prove it. In the United States the war roused latent human forces which had been neglected and presented to uy at the-cnnclnsicm of=tbr wrar an 'mchi'trral and agricultural equipment far superior to the one we possggsed lief ore. . _ • - In Europe the war’s effect upon real wealth and oftheprincrpal has vastly increased

fig mecbaniftri napnciriuTor productimi. Fuglan-Ts greatest loss »« that of merchant ships,-while her power io replace those ships is so much increased that the loss will soon be more than made good. • f j n France there is an ugTy streak of devastation running from Flanders to Verdun. Thousands have lost thgrr-prkete-fortunes. desolation is not the ruin of France.; nor will it even beaT heavily upon the task of French reconstruction during the critical years, because full restitution will be made bv German money and German labor,. France exhibits the same attributes of increased producing efficiency that are shown in Great Britain and-the United States. is well off. except in the case of her merchant marine. Her industrial plants are intact, and the peace conference has conferred upon her a unique advantage in the power to man them by abolishing the military establishment in that country. What the world produces in food it consumes every year, no matter whether there is peace or war. There is a hard pinch in some places at preaent, but the crops now being harvested will take us over the peak of privation. The world will need five years to rest and recuperate and ten more before another great conflict -can be staged: Fndurrng peace will remain g phantom until the instruments for making war are taken away from separate governments and intrusted entirely to a society of nations.