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14 German Capital-Labor Fight " Danger Seen by Simonds (Continued from First Page) _ icy—that is, adjournment of the de- bate over the form of zovernment and concentration upon the economic situ ation of Germany, with the nece: establishment of foreign confidenc shaken by the recent election returns Or will the same spirit_which led the Natlonalists to force the issue with Hindenburg dominate their actions hereafter and introduce new compli fons which must destroy the whole program of the cabinet? Outcome Questionable. That is the political problem of rmany today. Moreover. the naiu al corollary is: What will the Peo- ple’s party, what will big business do if the extreme Nationalists, who are as chauvinistic as they are stup violent as they a shortsighted dertake new operations leading rectly to the restoration of the mon archy without regard (o forelgn political and domestic economic con sequences? Will the People’s party fight, and if it fights will support to the republic as com rties? coa submit or it give its the necessary basis for some new bination with the repu , after al with the Soci: what is to be attempted. resemann _cabinet is and stay and r program; it is going to try t v its efforts to obtain foreign confidence and to restrain domestic turbulence on the Nationalist side. But the diffi- es are plainly enormous, difficul- les coming from abroad and from the home front. proach France in the matter of evacuation of the Rhineland; at home it has to f: the growing violence of the Nationa now changed premiers and foreign ministers, turns a deaf ear to German proposa on the basis of its own interpretation of the Hindenburg election. In the Reichstag the Luther cabinet faces a majority which is at least nom inally Republican, and with the Com- munists votes definitely anti-monarc But ite own main block of sup s belong to the Nationalist which is now dominated by #sind in no mood to make conce: abroad or submit to moderate policies if the Luther government is to con- | tinue to survive it must live because there exist within the Reichstag enough moderates, men of all pa to furnish a majority without r to the issue of monarchy or republic enough conservatives in the mnon political sense to overbalance the radicals on economic is and the extremists on dynastic questions. But does such a majority exist effectively” Luther Powerful Figure. Luther is strong man, universally respected abroad. Stresemann is the cieverest German politician in many vears. Both have a hold on the essentials of the German situation. If they have their way the Hinden- burg election will be without obvious consequences. If they obtain the ear of the new President thev will have a chance. Then Germany will settle down again_under the republic, the debarte will be adjourned and foreign negotiations looking to the security pact for France and the evacuation of the Rhineland for Germany will he resumed, with the German pro- posal to enter the League of Nations also figuring. But in these negotiations Strese- mann will meet Briand, not Herriot, and Germany will confront a_France thoroughly alarmed over the Hinden- burg election. Moreover, the report of the arms control commission means new and perhapn drastic demands upon Germany for compliance with the arms provisions of the treaty, to- gether esiablished violations. In what mood will the dangerously inflated Nationalists face such de- mands? In what mood will the whole German people face a possible pro- longation of the occupation of the Cologne zone? Will the reaction be favorable—that is, will the German people perceive that the new and un- fortunate turn of affairs is due to the triumph of the Nationalists or will they take the Nationalist view that there is no possibility of real adjust- ment because France means to stay on the Rhine and prevent real Ger- man recovery? All the immediate tranquillity of Europe turns on the German answer to this interrogation, and no man can forecast it accurately. Monarchy Spells Ruin. A violent restoration of the mon- archy now—and restoration would in- evitably be accompanied by some vio- lence—would mean the ruin of Ger- nian prospects abroad, and end of for- eign loans, the loss of foreign ma kets; it would mean continuation if not extension of occupation by French armies. None sees this more clearly than the leaders of big busines would work more eagerly to v it than the leaders of the People’ party. But, on the other hand, it is clear that they may be helpless if the Nationalists are able to fire popu- lar feeling over an issue like that of the non-evacuation of the Rhine. The of co-operation between big business and the Monarchists that is, between the People's party and the Nationali too great to pre- vent any divergence over the issue of the form of government in the long run. But the present need of the big husiness elements for peace and for good foreign relations is such that a split is at least conceivable, if the Nationalists refuse to play a reason- able and waiting game and insist on forcing the pace, to the utter ruin of | the prospects of big business abroad. What we are now seeing and per- haps shall see for a long time is a battle, not between Republicans and | . for the present the Re- are relegated to the side Monarchist publicans lines, but between big business and | the Monarchists, and the issue is not the form of government, but the time when a restoration may be wisely and profitably undertaken. If the People’s party wins this fight, if Luther and Stresemann impose their procrast nating policy upon the Nationalist then in the end the republic may be lost, but this condition calls for pre- cisely the mental capacities which the junker leadership has never shown. Provided the Nationalists agree to hold their hands in any overt way. satisfy themselves with burrowing under and reorganizing all the civil service, putting only Monarchists on guard in all important places, they will have the consent of the People’s purty and the process of eliminating Republican influences will go forward to the ultimately inevitable conclusion. That is sufficiently obvious and can hardly be prevented although a ma- jority of Germans remain anti-mon- archistic, ationalists Impatient. Rut in nominating Hindenburs the Natfonalists showed that they could hot and would not wait. Perhaps they ware unwilling that a policy of mod eration and temporizing should suc- ceed, because they feared that as re- sult the republic might also’ survive, deriving credit from what was done in its name. Possibly they kept in mind the history of the third French republic, which lasted despite the existence for five vears of a mon- archist majority in the National As- sembly. In any event. the chances are that the Nationalists have wrecked the foreign policy of Luther and Strese- mann. Instead of achieving solid re sults abroad these statesmen are now faced with probable failure and pos- sible increase in humiliating demands. Tf this be the case, then we shall cer- tainly have a real crisis in Germany, Luther-Stresemann | Abroad it has to ap-| the | if France, which has | nd makes its foreign policy | with possible penalties for THE - SUNDAY nd that is the objective toward which the Nationalists are working. They want a policy of moderation to fail, just as they wanted the policies of the republican cabinets preceding the present_coalition ministry to fail. The Nationalist game is to insure the failure of republican and mod- | erate cabinets and leave the nation 1\“:!! no aiternative but to turn tc them—to turn to the old order, to | insure a restoration of the throne and | |a_restoration on the old basis. The Nationalists desire to come back as | they left. They would come back | as the Bourbons came back to France in 1815, having learned nothing and forgotten nothing. They feared that Luther and Strese- mann might succeed, that ‘here might be an understanding with I'rance, that | | osperity might return as well as stige while they were s the power and thus not able credit for the restora- tior hev knew that if Hindenburg ere elected the failure of Luther and iresemann, the aing of France, ¥ on of di: st abroad would | £ Chat was the gamble; they took it, and they won. | ay Defy Europe. | he next step is quite obvious. Hav created distrust aboard, they will seekk to capitalize at home the evil onsequences of that d | will proclaim that the po | failed because foreign ~countries, | M ULYSSES G. CUNNINGHAM, | | France and Poland in particular, de: | Who sailed on the French I sire the destruction of Germany. If |chambeau, in April, and is now visit | they are again ul the next |ing relatives in County Longford, Ire-| | step is open vower and | land, after being in Scotland and Eng- | | defiance of I Iand. | | iccess or failure now will depend, not, as 1 have d, upon the strength | many, and the question between re {of the purely republican elements, | public and empire has been hopeles jwhich are beaten and shaken, but|complicated by that between capi upon the influence of the big business |and labor, and because labor, the So. leaders in tne People’s party and the | cialist party, is the chiet adherent of | moderate elements in the Nationalist |the republic, capital, through the| camp itself. But even success for | People’s party, is quite naturally led | these elements is made terribly diff-|to an alliance with the monarchial | cult by the state of mind created in|group. This might be without menace France by the Hindenburg election. |to the world and without present peril | | Moreover, the Socialists and the Com-!to the republic if big business were | |munists at least will be at one with | strong enough to restrain the im-| the Nationalists—that is, the extreme | perialists, but in the Hindenburg ationalists—in hoping and working | case it failed and the failure may | for failure, for success would mean | prove an unlimited catastrophe for them and for the republic which | In any event. the two puzzles in the | the Socialists lovally support, even-|German situation now are, first, | tual ruin. whether the People’s party—that is, big business—can hereafter impose its | policy of intelligent moderation upon | the Nationalists, and secondly, what it will do if it fails. On the answer to these questions depends, not merely World Peace at Stake. | What makes the German sit auunl difficult for Americans to understant is that the issues between capital and '(1:.1\);;::n el i"‘i'“r“"’;:; i"leg:’;:” he | the fate of the German republic for : < some vears, but also the tranquillity, |issue has never been directly raised 4 e if not the peace, of Europe for an | equally long period (Copynght. 1925, by the McClure Newspaver Syndicate.) |and neither g | represent exclu | elements. 1t s at party undertakes to ively one of these two quite different in Ger 'Nation-Wide Quake Survey Being Made by U. S. Experts| __(Continued from First Page.) _ [usually along the edges of the deep g T |ocean troughs where the greatest lowing for exaggeration, it appears |known depths are found.” that in certain cities panics due to fear One Force Always Acting. But scientists concerned are still unable definitely to determine which forces are responsible for earthquakes. | One force is always acting, however, currence Is clearly indicated according to Col. Jones, and that is | The earthquake of February 28, “the transfer of material from place | this year, occurred within 200 miles of [ to” place on land and from land to the scene of a major earthquake alons |sca_by the process of erosion and the St. Lawrence Valley, not far north | position. While generally slow and of the Canadian border, in 1663. The |acting at variable rates, the total latter shock formed new lakes, caused | amounts involved are very great and the disappearance of forests and |the changes in loading of the earth's mountains and destroved water falls |crust are quite appreciable.” on the St. Maurice River, which flows | Col. Jones is not quite certain that in the St. Lawrence near Three Riv-|definite prediction as to when an ers, Quebec, which might today have | earthquake will take piace would be been comparable with Niagara advisable, even if possible. But a| : warning to the inhabitants of a | Sollrcs loffnterest region that an earthquake was likely | Both the 1663 and 1925 shocks some time would give them ample ‘“shook the northeastern part of the time, as a rule, or should do so, he United States sufficiently to make | believes, to provide for the proper | their occurrence of lively interest to | construction of buildings and to take | the people of that section,” says Col. |other special precautions. Jones. uch occurrences naturally | “Prediction in time, though useful, arouse conjecture as to whether the |is perhaps not even desirable in many | activity is likely to remain confined to | cases,” says Col. Jones, however. *It that region or exten’ ‘o other places |is likely that such prediction would nearer to the great ¢ fes of the At-|disorganize life to an unreas. iable lantic seaboard. extent and cause unnecessary panic | “Various parts of New England |when the predicted earthquake ar- have been disturb-1 from time to,rives. There is one case in which | time by moderate .rthquakes, some | prediction in time would perform the | of which have been of sufficient inten- | same valuable service that flood pre. sity to damage the chimneys of |diction now renders. This is the case of the earthquake were narrowly averted. The need for more and wide spread knowledge in regard to earth- quakes and the probability of their causing damage in regions of rare oc. houses. Earthquakes have occursed |of submarine earthquakes, which are in Maine (one in 1924), New Hamp-|likely to send tidal waves to the | shire and Vermont (probably In some | ghore. Vessels knowing that such | way related to the St. Lawrence Val- earthquakes); Massachusetts, espe- | cially at Newburyport, and Connecti- {cut. especially at Haddam, where | subterranean noises have been heard earthquakes were coming could go to sea and be perfectly iafe, and people and movable propert: could be moved back from the sea in time.” As a result of his investigation, Col. f“a:““e'fi» ‘*Qfl “‘\‘} i (9‘:“‘53’ of 1884 | Jones hopes to be able to tell whether was in New York City. RRoTEEeE 3 . et Tt was formerly thought that|eoiluaies are likely in your neigh borhood, and. if they are, to give you plenty of time to strengthen and anchor the foundation of the house. earthquakes were due to collapse of | Later volcanic activity was | blamed. but, according to Col. Jones, | most of the earthquakes, and some of | the worst, have occurred in regions free of volcanoes. | Due to Earth Slipping. | “It is now accepted that the earth- {quake is a general phenomenon and |the volcano is local” he says. “It |is also generally accepted that the . 3 { Fish for Variety. | There is a tendency on the part of | city dwellers to eat relatively more | meat and less fish. 1 ‘We really ought to overcome this| | prejudice, however, because fish is a very wholesome substitute for meat ast majority of earthquakes arve| |due to slipping along faults in the earth’s crust and are generally as- | sociated with the adjustment of long- |existing strains. For some reason and it is often cheaper. Another rea- son set forth recently to_explain our | decreasing interest in fish is that| while we Americans have improved | very much in most sorts of cookery, | we have made little progress in cook- | ing fish. i Smoked herring are so cheap that | a | most Americans pass them by, on the | a |assumption held by many Americans | 3 regarding various things, that any | he two parts may then slip|thing so very inexpensive cannot pos-| {along this surface, either horizontally (sibly be worth getting. Yet the or vertically, or both. Sometimes smoked herring is wonderfully nour-| the stress accumulates without any |ishing, and with a little effort you| motion at all until the breaking point [can make it into delectable dishes. is reached, then the slip comes sud- | Any standard recipe book gives all denly and an earthquake occurs,|the information in this regard that whose intensity varies with the|you will need, and you can soon |amount of the slip, the area affected |think of interesting variations for and probably the depth of the slip. |yourself. In such cases the slipping usually relieves the stress and there are no further dangerous quakes until the stresses have again approached the |ton of a seat invented in England that breaking point. Another type of ma-|can be folded like an umbrella and jor earthquake occurs under the sea, | carried in a case. forces exist within the earth’s crust which put a great Strain on certain times the strain be- comes so great there is actually | parts of it. 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