Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 44, Number 95, 1 March 1919 — Page 13

THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM AND SUN-TELEGRAM SATURDAY, MARCH X 1919.

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OVER 300,000 TRUKGS TO BE MADE IN 1919

has suffered most, but England and ! can giro tttem necessary conditions of Italy as well, from the crushing bur-1 national life founded upon self deterden placed upon them by the neces- mlnation of race with due regard to slty of defending themselves against ! geographical and economic consideraGermany I tions, we shall be able to deprive the Above all. it Is essential that Amer-; German of his victory. He wilj nnd leans should recognize that It is not himself confronted not by the debris in a spirit of plunder, that it is not of half a dozen quarrelling races,but in a spirit of revenge, that the states- by four or five Wealthy, growing men of Paris are compiling a bill of states, available as allies of the Westdamages against Germany. It is pure-; eni powers in defence of their existly and simply a question of whether ence and in the preserving of the freeOermanv shall oav for what she did, om of Europe.

or succeed in ruining the nations who ' And In the presence of such obsta-

We have also and I think this is the greatest of all duties to fulfil our promise to liberate the small peoples of Europe, not merely as an act of Justice, not merely as a piece of charity, but as the sole permanent guarantee against the return of Germany to her old pathways. If we leave the doors to India and to Asia Minor open to the Germans, there is certainly nothing in human history to suggest that the Germans will not seek to tread those pathways. Jlf we leave

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LESSON IN SAVING.

The report of the joint congressional committee which " investigated highway economics in 1$18 shows. that saving of 8 cents per ton mile can be effected in transportation costs when a road is lifted from tho dirt to the

durable class. This does not take into nrrnnn t Increased real estate valua

tions or social advantages resulting from the improvement. In July, 1898, the news was given that a plant would be built to turn out "one motor carriage a week."

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, a i t1 ii vn or succeed in ruining me bsuuub ajuu m uio jhobcuvd w i . Chicago Authority Tells Why; were her commercial rivals, both byicle8, perhaps it is not too much ; to reaUze the dreuu """J & iv f'ii xi . o n i mt.m.Hin HoatmiHn? their indus-: ,. n.n nnio thomaobu I caped and realizing in. wis lasi ar,

UOVemment Will WOl OeUjVanYby loading them besitare per tte rers to; we shall fail at Paris and the Ger-

Lommercial cars.

Estimated truck production for 1918 will be a minimum f 328,000 trucks, according to George D. Wilcox, of Chicago. Wilcox has Just relinquished command, as a major, of the army's most important truck manufacturing district. according to his statistics in Octooer, 1914, three months after the allies went to war with Germany, the United States had in commercial use within its border only 38,500 motor trucks. By the end of 1917, America's first year of war, production for commercial purposes had increased to 109.865 motor trucks. At the end of 1918 it had reached a total of 164,264. And. ccording to Major Wilcox the 1919 production figures will be double those of 1918. MaJ. Wilcox speaks authoritatively when he says positively the government will not auction any of the passenger cars or motor trucks bought for war purposes. At the time the armistice was signed the government's war orders for automobile equipment totaled 104,700 cars. When hostilities ceased official leures showed there were no less than 65.000 American made mo

tor vehicles overseas In Gen. Pershing's command. American automobile and truck manufacturers at that time had delivered to ports of embarkation 88,000 commercial and passenger cars. "This," MaJ. Wilcox declares, "leaves a balance of about 48,000 trucks still in America. The 55,000 shipped across and In the service of the United States army will not be returned to the United States. Of the balance of 48,000 trucks remaining on this side of the water consisting of one-ton, two-ton and some three-ton Jobs the Postofflce Department Is already requisitioning on the War Department for a large number. They are going into the postal service. "As this movement gains headway from year to year our country will employ for postal service alone more than 100,000 trucks. This, in my opinion, is the first great step toward a. complete motorization of the United States.

Continued From Page One. portance. She will have added thousands of square miles of territory and six or seven millions of people to her population as a result of the unsuccessful war, since It Is clear now to everybody that a union of Austrian Germany with Northern Germany Is A no longer to be prevented. She has assured herself a population of nearly eighty millions, almost entirely German, enclosing most of the Bohemian state which, however, politically independent, must for all time be economically dependent up on Germany for access to the open markets of the world. France Must Be Proteoted.

Now the only absolute force left in the face of this aggrandized Germany

is France, with a population of thirty-

nine millions, with her industrial regions ruined, with her transportation

system over all the Northern regions abolished, with a colossal debt and

with a sacrltce in life alone as a consequence of the war which exceeds three million lives. Obviously, it is beyond the resources of France to hold Germany again as she did for the greater part of four years of war, if Germany shall have a new associate of militaristic and imperialistic ambition. The brutal truth is that if Germany has not undergone a change of spirit as a result of the war, or if Germany is not put out of the race for armaments for a considerable pe

riod of time, France cannot hold the pate as she did before, unless Great Britain and the United States are prepared to guarantee to France the presence on an open frontier of considerable armies, which will share with the French the cost in life and treasure of another German attack. We have to make peace, then, with two clear facts in mind: That France must be fortified against Germany until 6uch time as it has made cerv tain that Germany has changed her ideas and her purposes, and we have " no assurance that there has been any change, no sign of any change and further we cannot safely assume that since old men are still running new Germany, New Germany is anything but an enlarged and camouflaged edition of the old. It Is perfectly impossible In present circumstances, to put all our confidence in the League of Nations and retire, leaving Germany more powerful than she was before, the sole gainer in all respects as a result of this war, since she has devastated France, compelled Great Britain to mortgage her Snanclal future to America, and reduced the commercial fleets of the world. Payment for War. But how then are we at Paris to save the war? Obviously, in two ways.

The cost of the war must be borne either by the Allies who defended themselves or by Germany who attacked them. Germany In fighting the war drew upon her internal resources and can repudiate her debts; England and France and Italy were compelled to borrow of America and cannot repudiate their debts. Either the French and British and Italian will have to stagger, under the burden of this debt and, in the case of France, under the added burden incident to the destruction by the Germans of French Industrial regions or that burden must be lifted from allied shoulders to German. If the Germans escape, if they can resume the old game of arming, if French and British and Italian taxpayers have to Bhoulder it, they will be unable even to arm them-

M (Selves autriudicij iv ov... SI Ais essential for Americans to realize Y that the question of reparation and

restitution, even of indemnity, is not punitive, it is not a program of plunder of Germany. It Is merely an effort to save, primarily France, who

with colossal debts incurred in defend

ing themselves against German as-! sault There is a too ready tendency i in American quarters, here at least, to read into the purpose of our allies motives and reasons which are notj there. In a very large degree the Germans will win the war if they make the people they attacked bear the great burden of it, and once more we must remember that we are still at war with Germany. Must Restore Balance. In the second place, we have got to restore the balance of power in Europe, destroyed when Germany eliminated Russia as a nation and as a force in the world. Unless we can replace Russia by some other force of equal strength, there will be nothing left in Europe capable of opposing eighty millions of Germans occupying the center of the continent, united, capable of Indefinite effort, and having still open to them the temptation of world power, in fact having it open to them even more completely than it was In 1914, when they took their great gamble. And this can be done, this new force can be created, only In one

day. If we shall create real, strong, national states in Poland, In Bohemia, in Roumania, and out of the Southern Slavs, as well as by completing the unification of the Greeks, we shall have added to the balance against German aggression more than fifty millions of people, divided into four

nations, but capable of very urgent development, capable of becoming

real national entities, capable at no distant time of defending themselves

and barring the Germany pathway to

power. I

The German theory in this war

ought never to be forgotten. Ger

many undertook at one time to assail western power in order to hold France at ransom to pay for the war and to destroy Russia in the East, make herself master of the destinies of half a

score of minor races extending from the gulf of Finland to the Black Sea, by creating states which were incapable of self maintenance by Inciting these several races against each other the Germans sought to create a condition of chaos on their eastern and southern frontiers, to replace that great, solid barrier which, was Russia. Races Strive Together. Moreover, in a very large measure the Germans accomplished this. If you start at the Gulf of Finland today and go south, along the old frontier of Russia, you will travel through regions in which half a dozen races are striving with each other to take possession of some fragments of territory and creating permanent and bitter Jealosies. Incited by the Germans,

the Ukranlans, the Ldthunians, are contesting with Poland the possession j of the frontier regions between the j

two races, while Bolsheviks are in Vilna, Serbs and Roumanians are at odds in Banat, Poles and Bohemians in upper Silesia, Southern Slavs and Italians in Dalmatla, Greeks and Italians in Epirus. In a word the German war has destroyed order from the Baltic to the Black Sea, and from the

Volga to the Isonzo, and while he has

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piunge mem mwj a new wax. iuv i - hHefnnt n. core of imperialism, after all. Is thel "LS.-11 It cost of it. The cause of Imperialism riod J.f.'t is invariably the presence of opportu- for?; f.AJJXuMtlon nlty. If eighty millions of QtmMiiBiyl

nd their pathway to the East strewn

with the wreckage of quarrelling tribes, if the road to India has nothing across it save an incoherent Polish

state and a vast Russian chaos, if the pathway to the Goldan Horn Is barred

only by mutilated Southern Slavdom,

and having successfully abolished the

obstacles to his eastern expansion. It seems to me that these are circumstances which must be in the minds of Americans now in the difficult weeks which are before the Paris

Conference, and it seems to me that

the League of Nations will not serve i the key to tne whole thing must be

found In the fact, the mcontestaDie fact, that up to the present moment Germany has won the war and that the main purpose of the Paris Conference must be to deprive her of the fruits of that victory.

a barrier. The abstract principles

written there will no more appeal to Germans in the next decade than abstract doctrines formulated by the Hague Tribunal closed the pathway through Belgium. We have then at Parle two very clear duties still to perform. We have to make Germany bear the burden, the financial burden, of her last attack In order that she may not, escaping the cost of the war, be able to concentrate her remaining resources on preparation for a new attack upon those nations staggering under the burden of their debts and capable of paying those debts and matching division with division and gun with gun along the Rhine.

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