Evening Star Newspaper, October 15, 1923, Page 4

LOUVAIN LIBRARY - | MORE DISMISSALS [ World Upheaval Peril Brings [¢5: e = et it s e o o | DONATION ASKED Women of America Appealed . To for Aid in Restoring fl Belgian Building. - An appeal to the women of Amer- fea to help rebuild the library at Louvain, Belgium, was issued today by Mrs. Percy V. Pennybacker, for- mer president of the Central Federa- tion of Women’s Clubs, and chairman of the national committee of the United States for the restoration of the University of Louvain. “Every woman who has a part in restoring this library, which has been for cenfuries one of the great re- search librarfes of the world, may feel that she is making a direct con- tribution to Belgian life, in the high- est sense of that word, and is help- ing to create that sympathotic under- standing among natlons, which will eventually lead to peace declared Mrs. Pennybacker. Mrs. Pennybacker is urging every woman's club throughout the count t0 dedicate one club meeting betwe October 1 and Armistic day, to known as “Louvain day. The sum required to rostors the library Is a $1,000,000, of which ap- proximately one-half has been given or pledged. 1t is hoped that the library may be_completed in time to celebrate the 500th anniversary of the founding of the University of Louvain, which takes place in 1925, DMAHA MAYOR INJURED. OMAHA eb., October 15, James C. Dahlman may be in a hos- pital for several days. his physiclans sald, as a resuit of injurles received when he caught his hecl and fell to alight from a MORE DISMISSALS AT BUREAU FEARED Going of 118 Plate Printers Tomorrow, and Secrecy, Cause of Anxiety. On the eve of the dismissal of 118 plate printers from the bureau of en- graving and printing tomorrow, other employes found themselves wondering today “who would be the next to go,” owing to strict secrecy which is being observed by officials of the Treasury of efliciency, upon which the dismis- sals were based, were lacking today, the 118 employes still being ignorant of the manner in which the ratings charged against them were reached. Efforts made today to learn from officlals the exact procedure failed. Knowledge of what weight depend- ability, non-spoilage of work and general efficiency at the trade e ried could not be learned, it w: stated at plate printer headquarters. To Ask Information. ruIl’!mn printers will ask officially for 3 and. complete information subjects as soon as the been completed. on dis- loyes were wondering today the attitude of Treasury Department officlals would establish a preeedent whercby in the future government worke vey by it may be dropped, after sur- he bureau of efficiency, with- nowing how such ratings as ey might receive were reached. Dismissal notices were being pre- pared today, it was learned, while notifications for plate printers on fur- lough who had higher ratings than those recommended to be dismissed THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, World Upheaval Peril Brings CryforU.S. Aid From Germany (Continued from First Page.) party, with few exceptions, were fol- qualities which must appeal to and be_understood by Americans. The stabilized gondition of Austria t the good will of today shows wh the world can accomplish for a coun- try seemingly doomed to dissolution. Of course, Germany's problem is of Germany has to Austria’s 6,000,000, and is an industrial country, whereas' Austria is chlefly agriculs far greater magnitude. 60,000,000 {nhabitants tural. Austria recefved a foreign loan, and s1x months of economical stabilization Vienna two years ago was a paradise of shady specula- it is a worked wonders. tors and profiteers. hard-working city. The allies’ policy is apparently to help Austria and to crush Germany. gone. helped, and conditions, to norm: Two Elements Predominate. There are two contradictory and predominant elements in the present fermentation of public opinion: There 1s a radical national clement, but the strongest and most vital movement ationallsti: d by Marx and bolshevists” and munists, is international and recog- today is assuredly Socialism as pre: practiced by nizes no frontier. Non-socfalist humanity is proud and jealous of its right national state surely divine, has main treaties. Today Help Germany as Austria was moral and economlic, will gradually work back com- to organize into This right, which is been denied the German peoples—Austria and many—by the Versailles and St. Ger- Ger- lowers of Marx, and opposed the Ger- man empire not only because it was a monarchy, but because it was a na- tional state, Forced to Change Stand. The revolution of 1918 forced the soclalists to abandon internationalism and to pledge themselves to the new re- public they themselves had erected in place of the old empire, Only the com- munists remained faithful to the doc- trines of Marxism: Trade unions, so- clalist as well as Christlan, carried on a passive resistance ehoulder to shoul- der in the Ruhr, in an effort to main- tain Germany's unity and to save the Rhineland. Surely this was a far cry from the soclalists who before the war had not recognized the fatherland. In spite of this striking proof patrioti ists declared war on socialism ot all soclalists of treachery and of being injurious to the common welfare. Cuno's, every cabinet since November 1918 contained socialist members who strongly influenced the government's policy, and it is no longer secret history that the last five years shows a steady | decline. It is very difficult to determine hether the deciine is due more to so- clalistic shortcomings or the hopeless- ness of the foreign situation for which, practically, Polncare and his followers bear the sole responsibility. Government means authority and power. The treaty left the German government of this perfod of deep un- t with only 100,000 men to main tain order in a eountry of 60,000,000, The allied control commissions Before the war the social democratic D. C, MONDAY. O(‘TO’BT‘R 1 sion since the revolution or with which they have been supplied since then by their Russian brethren. Since the nationalists regard the communists as the greatest danger and the greatest obetacle to the re- construction of a powerful state based on_national principles and able to defend itself against foreign aggres- aion and further dismemberment, they have formed various organizations Wwith the avowed justified object of defense against boishevistic uprising. Fundamental mistakes lle in the condemnation of socialism and com- munism for not limiting themselves Lo the maintenance of order, but pur- uing political aims not always in fccordance with ‘the constitution. No wonder they are regarded with little favor by the central government. Must Exist in Secret. Under the republic act for defense nationalist as well as communistic organizations In Prussia and most parts of Germany are forbidden. How far they continue to exist in_secret s very difiicult to judge. Saxony, Bayaria, are exceptions Saxony Thuringia is called, tween north and south “red repub- lics” In both states the government is composed of socialists and com- “black’ feeling, the extreme national- |munists who won the last elections as a' whole without discrimination, accusing Inent hy small majorities. Under govern- protection radical workmen have formed a proletarian militia It | With the declared intention of fight- is a fact that with the exceptlon of iNE the reactionary movement. In Bavaria, whose northern prov- !inces border Saxony Thuringia, things s | 1 ! authority means real—not fictitious— | w are going just the other way. the experiénce of the Munich soviet republic in April, 1919, an official militia in Wohnerwehr” " was formed to prevent a recurrence of such danger- ous experiments. It was a. great mis- take on the part of the allics to de- mand its dissolution. As an instru- ment of self protection 1y under the control of After overnment. s the o The immedial opping up of various na- tionalistic formations and the birth of a new party, Adolf Hitler's soclalists,” which i ble to the facisti party in Italy. Like the facistl it rests on ruthless nationi- ism, “Sacro egolsmo” and appeals with its spirit of trench comradeship to former soldlers and patriotic youth. Invasion Fans Discontent. France's invasion of the Ruhr is a | grave nationalistic movement of tre- | mendous impetus. Desperate hard- ships and suffering have driven great { numbers to what they consider the | only means of salvation agalnst in- placable foes within and without. When passive resistance had to be given up, a wave of Indignation against what nationalists considered “the weakness of the Berlin govern- ment” threatened overthrow of the constitution. Bavaria belng a storm center, the Bavarian _ government proclaimed martial law and made von Kahr gen- | eral commissioner, invested with e ceptional powers. 'The next day mar- | tlal law_was proclaimed in ail many. Kahr, former prime minister, |and \")I(nlly opposed to all forms cialism, stands for pronou rian governmental powers. brings Bhim into opposition w organi ions subject to the author- ity of th national socialist: nf which Hitler s the leader. The next few days will ghow whether Kahr, who s a constitu- | tionalist after all, is able to control th situation, or whether e ts will | march so rapidly that they will play into the hands of Hitler and the cxtreme nationalists, who arc be- lieved to plan a military dictatorship | for all Germany. Their slogan_is/ On to Berlin” 'That of many Ba- | arfan separatists is “Away from | Berlin,” yet Bavarian patriots seck not separation, but spiritual national, regeneration under Bavarian leader- ship. Monarchy Rumored. There have been rumors in recent | s that the final solution v 1 be establishment of a_monarchist federation of the Danube, consisting | paramount of Austria and Bavaria under some member of the house of Hapsburg or Whittelsbach. No plan is too fantastic for thess times of political chaos and unrest, but I am sure this particular project is without serious foundation. Ludendorft, allied to Hitler, pres ently plays a conspicuous part in the | national socialist movement. He is the object of profound admiration b one side and of profound hatred and | mistrust by the other. Like fascisti leaders throughout the world, his idea of salvation is based on force d power, in contrast to the idealism | of statesmen like Abraham Lincoln, who believed in the ultimate triumph, not of force, but of justice and Chris- v ideals. Ludendorff has a dominating will, | animated by ardent patriotism, but | his political judgment undoubtedly | has often been at fault. 1 Meanwhile the second Stresemann ! cabinet is fighting for its life, Ex- | traordinary circumstances demand extraordinary measures. A beginning | made by “the authorization law, which provides the executive with extraordinary DOWEr to pass excep- tional fin, 1 and economic meas- ur " the reichstag, however, n veto. The most important step toward the absolutely essential increased produc- tion is the prolongation of labor hours and the suspension of slght-hour day. A great mistak o the pressure of the socialist that the regulation of this important questfon was excluded from the thorization law” and made dependent upon the passingof the special labor law by the reichstag itsclf Tts result is not assured, 1s a possibility that th importance may so there decision of be pro- | crastinated, At last awakened parliame. d in v ition ¢ the German people have | to deficiencies of its| tary system of government | of tho many parties coa- binets are a necessity. This, however, Involves delays and dead locks. Stresemann’s cabinet -erish due to the so-called “great coall in which four of elght purties § relehstag are represented, ; ing example of cumbprsom" EEY chinery. But what shall replacé i¢ Dictatorship Impossible. Real dictatorship seems impossifl A dictator needs armed forces ! execute his commands. There man of overwhelming personali hand. iven Ludendorff would o command a small minority of nation. More praotical than the idoa nf tatorship is the plan discussed i the last crisis—to replace the eah inet by a directorate limited in merr bers, standing above political partie and empowered to carry out extren measures without the sanction of ti reichatag. 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