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The Japanese are Fastening
Their Grip on China
When Japanese intrigue procured the assassination of
Yuan Shi-kai and his son, The Georgian predicted that within a
short time Japan would stir up a local disturbance somewhere in
China and seize the made-to-order excuse to send the troops she
had in readiness for that purpose to take virtual possession
of China. :
It has all happened according to program.
Japanese soldiers have been ‘‘attacked’’ by Chinese at Cheng
Chiatun.
As an indemnity for this outrage, Japan demands that China
hand over the government of Inner Mongolia, a territory about
& third as extensive as the United States. AsJ apan reports that
ten of her soldiers were killed in the ‘‘attack,’’ the indemnity
she demands for each one is 64,000,000 acres. Evidently the Jap
anese Government is not hampered by undue modesty in es
timating the value of a dead Japanese soldier.
We suppose it is waste of time to talk common sense about
this Japanese invasion and seizure of China.
Most of our newspapers are too busily engaged in Europe’s
warfare to have time to pay attention to America’s welfare or
America’s danger in the Far East; and some of them are even
fools enough to think they can end the danger by denying its
existence,
Nothing but an immediate display of firmness by our govern
ment, coupled with a plain intimation that we will use force, if
necessary, to make good our obligation to maintain China’s in
tegrity and the existence of the open door, can possibly stop
Japan’'s mediated seizure of China.
The Japanese statesmen make no secret of their conviction
that we will not make any such foolish protest,
The Japanese press repeatedly and sneeringly asserts that
Americans will never fight under any provocation, and point to
Mexico as the proof. They are not at all backward in adding
that it would not be a bad thing for Japan to whip the United
States, without waiting too long to do it.
The worst of it is that this Japanese insolence and these Jap
anese sneers ARE FOLLOWED UP BY ACTIONS.
The Japanese are deliberately proceeding to shut the United
States out of the Orient. They make no secret of an alliance with
Russia for the conquest and division of Asia. And they make lit
tle pretense of concealing the fact that Russia and J apan have
agreed to drive our trade from China, to make the Pacific Ocean
a closed sea to us, and to go to war together against us if we ever
try to assert our rights.
And in the midst of all this intrigue and hostile prepara
tions, in the very shadow of these thick clouds of menace and
danger, our Government contents itself with doing nothing to
meet the crisis growing more and more menacing every day.
God help us—together with the rugged courage of our fath
ers we seem also to have lost much of our national common
R o
Arthur Ponsonby Deplores
Possible Land-Grabbing
.
We commend the following extract to those ridiculous per
sons who get frantic with rage every time an American news.
peper ventures to discuss the war situation with reasonable
fairness.
The article from which this is taken was written by Arthur
Ponsonby, Member of Parliament and a Briton whose loyalty is
without blemish, and was in answer to the nation’s request for a
general expression of British views of rightful peace terms:
““Let us remember that our unpopularity as a na
tion is due to our incorrigible habit of giving utterance
to high-sounding phrases as to our motives and follow
ing them up by deeds which are in no way in acecord
ance with our declarations. We entered the war with
the sole object of standing up for small nationalities
and defending our ally and neighbors against attack.
We declared we had no aggressive intentions, nor de
sired. further extension of our vast empire. We entered
the war as a disinterested champion of international
; Justice.
‘“Are we going to ¢ome out with West Africa, the
Cameroons, Bast Africa, and the Pacifie Islands and
Mesopotamia, not to mention Egypt and Cyprus, paint
ed red on the map? Are we to declare that, while we
do not really want all this territory, we can not control
the ‘new nations’ who are fighting with us?
“I hope every right-minded British citizen will
blush with shame at the very idea of our adding eight
hundred thousand to a million square miles of the
world to our empire under the cloak of disinterested
championship of international justice.”
We have no doubt at all that the mass of Britons firmly be
lieved two years ago that they were embarking upon a purely un
selfish war for the rights of weak neutral States. There are still
& number of Americans who have never got beyond believing the
same fable.
The aristocratic and military castes in Germany and Austria
wanted war for war's sake; the aristocratic, bureaucratic, hierar.
chic and military castes in Russia wanted war for their own pro
tection against domestic revolution, as well as for conquest and
loot; the military caste in France wanted war because Jean
Juarez and the French Socialists behind him were about to over.
throw French militarism; and the political, financial and naval
‘castes in England wanted war, as they always have wanted war,
1o exercise the navy, to grab more territory for English traders
to exploit, and to furnish London financiers with more opportu
mities for money-making.
There is a heavy load of blood-guiltiness on every man—
belligerent or neutral—who either by word or deed strives to add
1o the bittermess or to prolong the duration of this dreadful and
~wicked and selfish war
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THE HOME PAPFPER
The “Fussy” Woman and
oo AME TN I
HE Fussy Woman came into
T the room when my friend
and I were having tea yes
terday.
She's a sweet thing, and clever,
too. We all love her, but, oh, the
way she fusses. No wonder her
husband belonged to three clubs
and her daughter decided to leave
home and live in a studio, so as to
be what she calls “free” and live
“her own life.”
I don’t know whose life she's
been leading up to this time, but I
suppose it's the Fussy Woman’s—
at least, I've thought so ever since
yesterday.
“Have a cup of tea,” said my
friend to the Fussy Woman.
+Do,” gala 1.
“T will,” said the Fussy Woman,
for she's a good soul and obliging,
and, besides, she's especially fond
of tea. And little cakes—very
fond, indeed, of little cakes, but
they must be her kind exactly—
heart-shaped with caraway seeds
in them or round with frosting—
not too deep, the frosting. She’s
very particular about that. For
tea she pref'ers the black and
green mixed—something with a
special name. She told us all
about it while my friend was
pouring the first cup.
|THE BUSY WOMAN.
And she didn’t like the way we
had the tea table arranged—at
least, she didn’ts seem to like it.
She picked up two of the cups
and set them down again and she
reached over and rearranged the
roses in the rose bowl. Then she
stirred her tea five or six times,
put in another lump of sugar, add
ed another bit of cream, stirred,
tasted, reached over and got a
cake, folded her napkin and un
folded it again and went right on
talking all the time.
We'd been talking about some
thing rather interesting, my friend
and I, when the Fussy Woman
came in, but she didn't wa’nt to
talk about it; she said she found
it depressing.
“I never like to hear about things
I can’t help,” said the Fussy Wom
an. “Do you?”
“Perhaps if you heard them oft
en enough you'd think out some
way that you could help them,”
said my friend.
I fairly expected to hear her
meow when she said it, for the
Fussy Woman's daughter picks
out really the strangest people for
friends, and when anyone speaks
to the Fussy Woman about it she
Jjust says: '
“Oh, don’t mention it,” and lets
it go at that.
I had just been to an efficiency
lecture and 1 wanted to talk
" about it. I wanted to talk about
it awfully, for my friend is really
efficient in practice, and 1 wanted
to see what she thought about the
theories of the lecturer.
But the Fussy Woman wasn’t
interested in the efficiency lecture,
KAVALA, GREECE
AVALA, the walled Aegean
K seaport for Seres, the com
mercial center of north
east Macedonia, now conspicuous
in the war news, is the subject of
today’'s war geography bulletin
prepared by the National Geo
graphic Soclety at its Washing
ton headquarters.
Concerning this historically in
teresting town of 5,000 people,
which Is situated on the main
land across the Bay of Kavala
from the island of Thasos, and
which is connected by rail with
Saloniki, the bulletin says:
‘The , ships which frequent
Kavala for cargoes of the finest
Turkish tobacco in the world ap
proach the docks from both the
east and west, for the town is
built on a promontory which juts
southward into the bay. The port
is 80 miles in an air line north
east of Saloniki and is about 250
miles west of Constantinople.
“Whatever may be its roie in
the present encroachment of the
Bulgarians on Grecian territory,
Kavala's place in modern history
is secure as the birthplace of Me
hemet Ali, the remarkable son of
an Albanian farmer whose career
as viceroy of Egypt during the
first half of the nineteenth cen
tury almost precipitated Europe
into a war of nations such as is
now being fought on battlefields
throughout the world. The house
in which this witty, wily pasha
By ANNIE LAURIE.
or efficiency talk, or efficiency it.
self in any form, shape or manner,
I don’t blame her.
UNNECESSARY MOVEMENTS,
For want of something better to
do while she was talking I counted
24 absolutely unnecessary move
ments that the Fussy Woman
made in the ten minutes that we
sat at the table together.
Some time she’'s going to have
a nervous breakdown, and all her
friends will wonder what on earth
is at the bottom of it.
How can she live and fuss so
about such a lot of little noth
ings? How does she get time or
strength /or patience to meet the
real things of life—really?
I should think she'd be so worn
out after she had fussed through
two or three hours of the day that
she’d want to go to bed and stay
there the rest of her life.
She says her daughter is leaving
home because- “daughter is tem
peramental.” llf I were daughter,
T'd be temper without the mental
part at all.
Who was it who said once that
the man who stopped to look after
little things when big things were
going on made him think of the
engineer who stopped the limited
train because he saw somebody's
new hat blow on to the track ?
Probably a good, honest, conscien
tious man, too, was that engi
neer. I wonder what business he
went into when he stopped run
ning the limited? I haven’'t a
doubt he thinks to this day that
somebody “had it in for him and
queered him with the division su
perintendent.”
JUST FUSSING.
Little things, little spites, little
jealousies, little meannesses, lit
tle likes and dislikes—how we do
fuss over them—from the cra
dle to the grave.
Some day-—somewhere—a long
ways away from here—will we
think it all over and wonder what
we did with the great, gorgeous,
splendid, beautifuf life that we
had in this great, gorgeous, splen
did, beautiful world—and, if we
* do, will we wish"we hadn’t taken
quite so much time “fussing” over
nothing? ”
Are we sitting on the right side
of the car? Is the blind up just
right or down just wrong? Shall
we wear the old gloves or the new
ones—the tight shoes or the com
fortable ones—the blue dress or
the white &ne trimmed with blue?
When we get to the party we find
someone there who has never had
a minute to think 'about any of
these things, and everybody is so
busy listening to her and looking
at her and talking with her that
they never see us at all.
“Fussbudget”—what an old
fashioned word it is. It seems to
mean a good deal, though,
doesn’t it?
It did to me yesterday when the
fussbudget came and drank tea
with my friend and me.
was born in 1769 is in a narrow,
crooked streat not far from the
Turkish school which he founded,
although he himself never learned
to read or write,
“In Roman days Kavala was
known as Neapolls, and it was
here that St. Paul landed on his
way from Samothrace to Philippi,
where there was a thriving col
ony of Christians to whom the
Epistle to the Philipplans was ad
dressed. Prior to the beginning
of the Christlan era Neapolis was
the seaport of Philippl, whose
ruins are to be found some ten
miles from shore, on the highway
from Kavala to Thessaly, Here
the fleet of Brutus and Casslus
was at anchor during the famous
conflict on the flelds of Philipp!
in 42 B. C,, when the assassins
of Julius Caesar met defeat
at the hands of the legions com
manded by Antony and Octavius.
“Philippi was named for Philip
II of Macedonia, father of Alex
ander the Great, and was origi
nally known as Crenides (Foun
tains). It owed its importance to
the proximity of the hill of
Dionysius, where Philip had made
himself master, of valuable gold
mines.
“Practically all that remains to
connect anclent Neapolis with
modern Kavala is a Roman aque
duct whose two-tier arches still
convey water from Mount Pan~
gues to the twn and citadal”