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DIXON OUTLOOK TRAVEL BUREAU 120 East 16th Street NEW YORK CITY Speaking of Books (Continued from Page 478) tial honesty, her strength of decision, The one disturbing feature of the E. M. BENSON. The Insider. By ALICE BEAL PARSONS: Dutton. Published March 18. IT IS A LONG JUMP from a remotely situ- Purdy, however, was an "insider." product, and for that reason he never This is a novel with a thesis, care- It isn't possible, some false leads. William K. Gregory's If you want to know how and from whom you inherited the features which you see each morning in the glass, you will be interested in this book. Each feature is treated separately, and it is a fascinating story that science tells. There are a great many pictures showing the evolution of the face through our remote ancestorswhom we cannot deny, no matter how much we may be ashamed of them After all, if we are a Son of the Ameri can Revolution, we are also a son of a Devonian lobe finned fish, and our features are his features, modified through the millenia. Certainly a mote profitable and interesting study in ancestry than genealogy, even though it gives us no coat of arms to emboss upon our note-paper. A day in the lives of EVA R. DIXON, Director Charles Wertenbaker's liquor in this book stewed ourself after Martin Armstrong's Rosamund and Christopher, who had been married seven years. Rosamund hadn't reading it and had to lie down for half Why Christopher had stuck it so long we even after he marries Pat. He isn't Outlook and Independent much interested in 120 East 16th Street, New York City. don't understand. Looking Forward TWO WEEKS AGO when we printed James T. Shotwell's article, "Does Business Mean Peace?" we called attention to the fact that there are already plenty of difficulties to be overcome before world peace is achieved, without making the mistake of adding international banking and trade to the list. T. R. YBARRA, our European correspondent, who for some years has been well acquainted with Continental affairs, describes one of these difficulties in his article which heads this issuethe rancor and hatred existing between France and Germany. CERTAINLY every one who has had anything to do with diplomacy in the years since the close of the War has run against this difficulty. Recent sobetween Great called "agreements" Britain and France-repudiated and otherwise are even unintelligible unless it is taken into consideration. Fear of Germany getting on her military feet continues to dominate French diplomacy, while resentment of French actions and hatred of French supremacy lie always just beneath the surface of German thought. It is a situation which existed long before modern. international banking and trade were thought of, and which bids fair to continue long after present-day economic civilization has altered its form. SUPERFICIALLY considered, such a situation might appear to be not unfortunate for America, in that it produces a state of affairs which renders unlikely any such combination as a United States of Europe as opposed to the United States of America. But the truth is just the opposite. The last war taught us that in any major conflict there is no longer any such thing as a "neutral." Anybody's war soon becomes everybody's war. And when it is everybody's war, everybody loses. IN FACT, the day has at last arrived when the possibility of armed conflict any place in the world is the immediate personal concern of every ordinary American who reads about it in his morning newspaper. Francis Prefers Bellamy FOR POWER LOST TO FRANCE Fifteen power generators at the Inn Werck plant at Toging, Bavaria, opened in 1925 as part of a plan to develop water-power as a substitute for the coal lost to France by the Versailles Treaty 0 Outlook and Independent March 27, 1929 The Malady of Europe PTIMISTS, their eyes beaming with love of mankind, their hearts overflowing with sweetness and light, proclaim from the housetops: "Europe has recovered from the War! Europe has been reborn! Europe is happy! All is well with the best of all possible Europes!" By T. R. YBARRA Al The incurable malady of Europe, the author diagnoses, Whereupon pessimists, poking sour faces out of dark lairs, croak: "What is Europe?" Filled with indignation, the optimists turn upon the croakers: "Why, Europe is-er-er-of course, it is-Europe is-" "What is it?" persist the pessimists. The optimists try to floor them with a crushing answer. No use! They can't do it. Blushing and stammering, they clamber down from the house-tops. With a nasty chuckle, the pessimists crawl back into their lairs. Yes, what is Europe? When you talk about the United States doing this or not doing that, your meaning is perfectly clear; but when there is talk of Europe being prosperous or Europe being happy, of Europe thinking this way or that, it becomes most pertinent to remark― just for the sake of clarity: "When you say Europe, you include, of course, France and Germany. When you call Europeans happy, you mean, of course, that the French are happy and the Germans. When you say, for instance, that Europe approves of the Treaty of Versailles and the Dawes Plan, you mean that France approves of them, and Germany. Or, if you don't, what do you mean?" There is no such thing as Europeexcept geographically. Simply because we were taught at school to think of it as a continent, we persist in thinking of it thus-politically, economically, every other way. We discuss European interests, in contradistinction to American; we credit Europeans with thinking continentally, whereas, as a matter of fact, they are the most local-minded people on earth. To readjust our mental attitude, we must realize two truths: IRST, it is we, of the United States, who think continentally, since, despite local prejudices, the thoughts of the man in the street in New York are basically what the man in the street thinks in San Francisco; and since, even if this were not so, official action in Washington would bind the man in the street on both our Atlantic and Pacific coasts, to say nothing of his counterpart in Duluth and San Antonio and Key West and Boston. Second, the European does not think continentally; and, even if an appreciable section of Europeans, realizing the advantages of so thinking, tried to reshape Europe in accordance with a continental point of view, their efforts would be doomed to failure because of what may well be termed Europe's incurable malady: Europe happens to include both France and Germany. That is the stumbling block. Since there is no way of removing either of those lands from its position in the very heart of the European continent, Europe seems precluded from being an entity, a whole, except in the geographical sense. Considered from other points of viewpolitical, economic, industrial, commercial-she seems doomed to remain a welter of national units, seeking to act centripetally yet forced to act centrifugally by the incurable hostility of the French for the Germans and of the Germans for the French. Too pessimistic? Why? Close observation of European events before the World War would certainly seem to prove this view correct. And, if the history of the first post-war decade in Europe is any criterion, the future of that harassed continent, from the standpoint of solidarity, is going to be no better and possibly much worse. Indeed, it seems well-nigh self-evident to state that France and Germany, wherever French and German interests are at stake, will invariably sacrifice the welfare of Europe as a whole to their own private interest. Individual Frenchmen and Germans may lament the decline of Europe, they may preach the need for concerted Franco-German action, if Europe is not to be left hopelessly behind by America in the race for world-leadership; but, when it comes to action, when practice must supersede theory, what reason is there for believing that Frenchmen and Germans will adopt a course in the future different from the one they have repeatedly elected in the past: to fly at each other's throats? For nearly sixty years, from 1871 to 1918, the dreams of France could be summed up in a sentence: "At any cost we must get Germany down!" Similarly, the dreams of Germany during the |