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America Should Not Interfere
in Purely European Disputes
R have {requently said, and we shall
\X/ donbtless eontinue to say frequently,
that the United States onght to take
no detailed part in the rearrangement of
~Buaropean territorial boundaries.
Those Amerieans who do not understand
international potitics do not bother iheir
heads about the new map of Europe, and
those who do know history and world poli
ties are quite certain that no rearrangement
of boundaries made by the Peace Congress
will last for many vears, and that if Amer
iea takes a hand in rearranging and guar
anteeing the new houndaries, then the United
States must be econstantly ready to take part
in every FEuropean wnnlh'nt iis y hereafier
waged. - g
There are persons, of course, who really
heheve that this is the last war that will be
fonght. It is a comforting behef, but not
one that finds much aeeeptance among men
who know the fadical and national animosi
ties and amhitions of European eountries.
A striking illustration of these traits was
furnished, in a small way, in the_convention
of delegates reptesenting the different sub
jeet peoples of the Austro.Hungarian Em
pire. )
The eonvention had hardly got under way
when the representatives of Italia Trredenta
and the Jugo-Slav representatives started a
hot verbal fiuh} over the disposition of Dal
matia. 1
The Ttalian Irredentists insisted that Dal
matia should go to Italy and the Jugoe-Slav
spokesmen rhtorted that their people would
regist to a finish any sueh attempt to make
the Adriatic an Italian lake.
The representative of the Lithnanians and
Letts, who desire to erect a republic on the
Baltic, advocated plebiscites: by which each,
group of people could. self-determine their
own form of government, and the represen
tatives of the Czecho-Slovaks declared tWat
they wanted no such plan- and based their op
position upon the ground that in many dis
triets a referendnm would disclose a Teutonie
“The only logical inference is that the so
called representatives of certain territories
represent a minority instead of a majority,
and desire to impose upon those territories
a government not of consent, but of compul
ston. s
We commend these proceedings at the Phil
adelphia conference of Lithuanian, Lettish,
Jugo-Slavie, (zecho-Slovak, Italian and other
racial representatives to the prayerful atten
tion of Senator Logge, Colonel Roosevelt and
all the other gentlemen who assert that the
United States ought to take a hand in eom
posing /the territarial disputes of Europe.
The difficulties of settling the boundaries
of the small States which are to become inde
pendent in eastern Europe are discouraging
to eontemplate,
The [alian Irredentists insist that Italy
shall absorb Dalmatia and demand Albania
as an Italian **sphere of influence’’—a polite
euphemism for colonial rule,
T™he Serbs, Croats and x\'lm«-m-.‘n ~now
commonly known as the Jugo-Slavs—claim
Dalmatia as their own. They also intend to
make Montenegro and Albania theirs, and
they insist that Bulgarian Macedonia must be
a part of the Jugo-Slav empire which is their
eentury.old ambition. ‘
These ambitions of the Jugo-Slavs conflict
sharply with the ambitions of the Czecho-
Slovaks, Bohemia is, of course, the leader
in this union—and the Bohemian demand is
that the Czecho-Slovak nation shall have a
corridor a hundred kilometers wide through,
Jugo-Slav territory to the Adriatic. To add
to the eomplications, the Czecho-Slovak
leaders insist that Bohemia shall retain the
purely German districts which adjoin Ger.
man Austria and unanimously desire to re
main a_part of Austria’
In any direetion in which we care so look
over eastern Europe, we see nothing but ra
cial animosities and national ambitions which
are as incompatible as fire gnd water and
which will almost certainlybreak out in war.
fare from time to time, |
The Greeks talk of and plan for a revival
of their ancient empire in the east, of which
tinople must be the capital.
w Bulgarians talk of and plan for a re.
vival of their ancient and powerful empire,
of whieh Constantinople must be the capital.
The Jugo-Slavs talk of and plan for a re
vival J’their aneient and powerful empire,
and t wul)t their hegemony to rule from
Constantinople. o
The Cl‘ol‘l)o-Slovnkn talk of and plan for
the revival of their once powerful kingdom,
and tl;!’ dream of exercising such rule and
dominion from Prague as their warrior kings
used to exercise.
We do not condemn any of these raeial
and nflou&:qnuuom We gmply state
the plain f i
And in the light of those facts we can im.
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TRUTH, JUSTICE
agine nothing so franght with mischief and
interminable future cost and. trouble for us
as any interference on the part of the
United States with these implacable animosi
ties and irreconeilable ambitions of the races
who dwettin eastern Europe. ;
They ‘have fought with one another for a
thousand years, and there is no reason-to
doubt that they will fight each other for gen
crations to come.
~ Eath race hates all the other with a bitter
. ness that no American can wholly under
stand-—the concentrated and distilled es
sence of ten centuries of mutnal reegimina
tion, warfare and atrocionsly eruel invasions
and eounter-invasions.
Kurope has never bean able o compose the
hatreds or to make stable the peace of the
Balkan States. And now to this prnimlvm are
to be added the new factors of the States
created by the dismemberment of the ancient
empire of the llapsbnrzs. >
And there are men in high places here al
home who want our nation to entangle it
* self in this endless snarl of eonflicting and
irreconeilable European raeial, national and
religions quarrels and wars! ¢
God forbid that we should ever be deluded
into such a path of folly and ruinous trou
bles to come.
Let us abide by the adviee and the injune
tion and the practice of all ont great states:
men. .
Let us maintain our splendid isolation from
te Buropean quarrels that are purely Buro
pean. \
Liet us not forget for one moment that our
sole object in entering this Kuropean war
was a world ol{jm't‘and not a locabhßuropean
object, / X!
Let Europe settle Europe’s disputes.
We shall have destroyed the German mil
itary autoeracy gnd made Europe safe for
demoeraey. '
That was onr task. ¢ :
When we have done tHat, utterly and ab
_solutely, our duty«is performed. - \
+»Onp. self~intorent/in this war ends there,
too. .
And it is time that American common
sense began to think of American self-intef.
est. We have given more and gone further
for an ideal than any people ever did or than
_any people is ever‘likely to do again.
Thee is no possible obligation on vur part
to act as wet nurse to these newborn infant
States or to play the part ‘of the tutor who
must compose their petty quarrels and re
ward the good with a certificate of merit and
the bad with a spanking.
Let Europe nurse and bring up her own
wayward children,
We have plenty to do at home for a long,
long time to come—plenty to do, believe it.
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THE UTTER STUPQ.)IITY OF
THOSE CLEVER PRUSSIANS
For perfect ignorance, limitless c-gofism
and utter stupidity the palm must be award.
ed to the peculiar type of mentality which
the selfiwrecked -Prussian autoeraey repre
sents. One wonders how it ever managed to
control a nation; how it ever contrived to
make war at all. \
Now we hear of thie remnants of }ultur
in its highest manifestation actually ‘p"-
ting’’ to restore William Hohenzollern to she
throne and re-tstablish imperlaism. Macken
sen, supposedly a wise general; members of
the ex-kaiser's personad suite; and sundry,
other n-preaont.at{\'es of the ruined old ma
chine solemnly engage themselves in the
childish pastime of trying Lo rvebuild it and
re-enter it in the great international hand
dicap. Krupp money is ready to be burned
in the effort.
Just as the same crowd of bloodthirsty
idiots could nbt see doom ahead four vears
ago; just as they could not see the United
States as worth worrying about one veay
ago; just as they counld not see retribution
,head for their foul violations of the rules of
warfare ; so now they can not see the impossi
bility of getting anywhere with their wild en.
. terprise. . )
Even if Germany were not split up and
. disorganized, economically flat Rm its back
and rocking with several kinds of rampant
radicalism, any American schoolgirl could
understand the asininity of monkeying with
the Foch buzzsaw at this stage of the game.
5 A mafching of wits: the Krupp-Hohen.
zollern school of thought would have no righ*
in the same ring with a sick mollusk.
T ey :
" Armistice headlines and the succession of
proofs they uncorked told us that the awar
was over, but the real, close-up, direct per.
sonal smash that convinced us was the re.
appearance on the restaurant table of the
unguarded sugar bowl. Cessation of hostil.
ities had seemed far away, ahdegic and in
definite until the waitress slid the lid off and
said indulgently : ;s
‘“Go as far us you'like.”
Gangway far reconstroction! . :
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It was mighty gratifying to The Georgian to be able to an
nounce, ok it did yesterday, that the Shrine Band would give
its coneert in behalf of the Empty Stocking Fund this year as
it has in the past. 7Throngh the efforts of this band of tender-
Run, Sheep,
Run
; By Gene Fowler.
| THE world is old—at least! we're
| totd
{ It's béen here sev'ral vears—.
And ‘ever since, there's been a
i prince
i Who had to dry his tears.
| FROM Cave Man down to Ger
i man clown,
! There's always been some guy,
| Who met defeat and then would
‘} bleat
i A quitter's alibi.
‘OLD RAMESES got heart disease
I And lost a Red Sea bet:
l “I flunked because | didn't pause
To see if waves were wet!”
'E 'EN Julius Caesar—shrewd old
} - geezer— e
| .Couldn't lose at all.
| He stopped to shiver, knife in livgr:‘
“I had too much sheer Gaul!™
BUT ho! We've with us Wilhelm's
+ son,
- Who prates that “hunger” beat
him,
But if swe're right, he lost through
fright /
When cold feet couldn't heat him,
"l"wo frigid feet—not lack of meat
Or shortage in the larder—~ .
Made Wilhelm's son start on the
rm'\i
And Bill himself ran harder!
AND how they ran—this “noble”
‘span—
And how they gnpcd for breath!
They 'had to quit, and that's just
e
Or else be RUN TO DEATH! :
SCIENCE “OTEC.
An Indiana laventor's uo\;Svung
for pump rods makes it possible to
change a pump from hand to me
chanical operation with the change
of a single bolt.
’ \ B N 8 i
An oven has heen invented to
utilize for baking the smoke and
hat gases that ordinarily would
pass out of a chimney, from 4 resi.
dence heating plant. s
Friday, December 13, 1918
CAUSE AND EFFECT
‘ '
By ‘MA’’ SUNDAY.
WAS eating lunch at @ hotel while
1 waited for a train. I noticed
\ that a near-by group of young
people, two girls and two young men,
weére rather noisy.
” AT R
They had a table ;{2&, R
together, an d |3
were, apparently, |3 ' b
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drinking a good Rt
g ‘hiet g B
deal of tea, which A,
the waiter brought | S { 3 5
them, refilling the |4 S% iwr g
TR e F
cup, out of sight, “\{.@"Q L%
SRR W T
behind a screen., fi\: NGy
“That tea is|h LR
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certainly making b A
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these girls nerv- Y !
ous,"” 1 said to a * " 1
friend. ’ - N
# oy R }
Tea!” he grunts b o ~‘, o b/
ed Huh-—that's Ay
not.tea lUs -
booze,"”
“But they're mere children'” I said.
It's impossible.” 0
The waiter had heard what we said,
“It's not ut all impossible, ma'm,”
he said “Those young things cag
get away with morg, cocktails than
vou would think body ecould, to
say nothing of ®uch children, as
you've rightly called them, ma'm.”
_"l'lu\n/‘v\m do you serve them? |
arked
He shrugged hig shoulders
‘A waliter that tried to refase would
lose his job."” he answered
INwgt there, fascinated, watching
thoso girls and bays. who ought to
have been '‘under the cyes of their
mothers. Those mothers-—where were
ghey” " What could they be thinking
about to let sueh a thing happen”
The girls la_ ghed more and more.
| The big red spot on their cheeks grew
and xrew, They made excited gestures.
| One of thgm spilled some of her “tea"
ard rgiggled enselessly aver it
’ Neither one ramembered that seif-re
| spect should haves kept them from
exhibiting themselves in such a con
ditio: And then one, the younsest
was sickened, and had to leave the
table, That, it seemed, was the
crowning joke of il Thes fairly
shouted over M
The Devil’s Tea
hearted dnd royal good fellows, hundreds of little children have
been made happy in other years: and more will be made happy
this year.” The ecartoonist has caught the ideéa in his picture
above. Through the goodness of this band the people of At
lanta are giving a real Christmas to the children of the poor,
~ “Can it be tMat thig happens often?"”
1 asked our waiter. . y
“Often? It happens all the time!
It happens from 10 o'clock in the
morning wntil we have to put ‘em
cut at night.” ‘
~ “Where do they get the money?” I
agked. “Those boys must be mnklng‘
Lver,v small salariey.” ‘
| tfi shrugged ri‘s shoulders again.
IHe dldn’¢ know. He didn't care much.
All he knew was that he was there to
serve them wish what they could pay
T . / ;
" Would the boys have sat hours over
a fable if the girls had insisted upon
some clean, healthy amusement?
_Upon walking in a park, enjoying
God’s pure air? ; 1
Upon reading together?, Or upon
the innocent, gay and delightful talk
mat young peqple can always have
together, when they possess mutual
tastes” Why, the boys can always be
cor.trolled by the girls, for their moral
#ood. It is the 'divine power which
(lod has put inte the hands of woman
The girl who drinks cocktails ls‘
ruiging her body debasing her soul, |
suol]fng her sex nature, lowering her-‘
self steadily. \ rdl
| The day of a national, r‘gld prohibi
tion is coming—hastene by ju,l
‘uuch spm-tuvles. .
Shafts of Sunshine
Maybe some poets think that
their poetry helped win the war,
but some editors know that con-
Fenient waste-baskets mitigated
many ‘of these horrors of war,
. . . -
Will someone write anotner verse
to “The Girl 1 Left Befind Me” to
explain that now she's ’flt his
Job? -
» . . ~
“Rubber saving campaign opens.”
Don't overbid your hand so as tp
Yo set back for more than 100
PUBLIC SERVICE
The Divine View
of Kings
By Chaplain P. T. Edrop, U.S.A.
UCH has been written on the
M divine right of kings. Many
of the Lord’s anointed, as
they styled themselves, are now re
viging their estimates of themselves
as they remain in exile. ~
. The divine view of kings sauares
more nearly with the popular judg
ment than: with the royal estimate.
Says the eighth chapter of the
First Book of Samuel: piop
Then all the elders of Israel gath
ered themselves together, and came
to Samuel unto Ramah.
And etid unto him'® * ¢
make ys a king to judge us like all
hations. :
But the thing displeased Samuel
when they said, Give us a' king to
judge us. And Samuel prayed ungo
the Lord.
:mi tro Lord said unto Samuel
Now, therefore, hearken unto
their voice; how be it ye protest
solemnly unto them and show them
the manner of the king that shall
rlen over them.
nd Samuel told all the words of
thq“l,ord unto the people that asked
of him a king.
And he said, This will be the
manner of ‘_'hc kins that shall reign
over you. ¢ will take your sons,
and appoint them for himself; for |
his chariots, and to be his horse
men; and some shall run before his
chariots,
And he will appoint him captains
over thousands, and captains over
fifties; and will get them to ear his
ground, and to reap his harvest,
and to make his instruments of
war, and instruments of his char.
iots.
And he will take your fields, and
your vineyards, and °f)vcmr- olive
yards, even the best them, and
give them to his servants.
And he will take zour men serv
#nts, and your maid servants, and
your goodliest young men, and your
asses, and put them to his worl.
He will take the tenth of your
sheep; and ye shall be his servants.
And ye shall cry out in that day
because of your king which ye shall
have choser™ you; and the Lord
will not hear you in that day.
Rer;iaking a
Life °
By Winifred Blacie
HI man's a good man and his
T wife was a good woman—
- _until the mother-in-law
Stepped into the picture. -~ i
And now the o 5
man's wife {s (G "}
never at home, JEEEESES ”J
the children dre t - , "“;‘3
neglected and § }gmfi e
the huébana ‘ oSS
@@mes from his B 3
work to find no | % |
dinner and no f 4 ._ :
wife, . hl« G||
+ The baby gets '|SERS R SNEH
along as best it ;Law’g
can in the care | CCENNEN.
of the mother- jfis*'
in-law, who }j’"
doesn’t appear e
to care mich SertßE R
for it, and some NUBNEZ &PT
time along about midnight or i ar
*2 in the merning the man’s wife
zets home. .
When he asks her where ghe his
been, she tells‘him.to mind his own
n{Tnirs.“ S
: 'Thf’rP'ig a sister, too. who is
happily married, but now the moth
er-in-law has jencouraged her to
neglect her ho’ww, and the two s
poor, foolish, 'weak, vain women
are throwing their lives away and
disgracing themselvéds and their
husbands, all on account of the evi]
“influence of mother-in-law.
Husband has written and_told me
about it, and he wants to know
what he ought to do.
Poor husband! What do you
think you can «Kfi wWith a 2 woman
like that? /
Or three women like that—te be
quite exact?
If what you say is true, they are
entirely out of piace in any man’s
decent home. If 1 were you, I
wouldn’'t have one of them under
the same roof with my child for
one hour—not if T had to put them
all out into the street myself and
ring up the patrol wagon to cor!{e
and take them away.
SIX MONTHS WILL CURE,
Why don’t you take vour child
and go to some other town, Mr.
Man?
Why don’'t you just p'avk up your
things one of these fine, lonesome
evenings and disappear—with ‘your
child? o ?
Go somewhere and advertise fora
place to board where someone will -
look ‘attqr your child.
There are hundreds and thou- 8
sands of good, rebpeutablg sensi
ble women who would like to. make !
a home for you and for your child.
They may be' married and have
perfectly good husbands of their
own.and take fhis means of adding
‘a little to the family income, or
they may be widows who keep
boarders, or who have families of
their own to bring up, and will be
glad of the money you can put inte
the family treasury in return for
what they can do for you,
It won't take wou one week of
good, plain, common sense to get
vourself and you# child comforta
bly settled, and in six months of
sane, wholesomae, sensible living you
will forget that you ever thought
you were going to break your heart
over a worthless woman like that,
or spend yonr energies hating vour
mpther-imiaw h’cause she came
into your home and turned your
wife /into someffing which _no
right-minded man could tolerate for
one moment,
Don’t worry any more, don't
grieve any more, don't sit alone
eyenings and look at the photo
graph you had taken together when
vou thought she was the only per
fett ereature on earth.
Don’'t read over her old letters,
don’t sentimentalize, and wish, and
wonder, and &t your heart out—
over g worthless woman
The world is full of good people,
of sane pkople, of cléan-minded,
warm-hearted, right-living people,
You belong with tham. Find some
of them and be happy. g
This womgn i only a little pass
ing episode in yéur life, Poor, Pool
ish thing, she will see the day when
she will regret what she has done,
but vou can not wait for that day
to come, \
Hate your mother-in-law?
DON'T HATE—FORGET.
Nonsense, man! Don't hate her
-forget her,
An ounce of forgetting 18 worth a
thousand pounds of hate any day
in the year.
This is a great, big./ healthy,
good -humored, friendly, interesting
world, There isn't 4 human soul
alive worth hre:l‘klng your heart
over., If they were worth it, they
wouldn't break your heart,
Don't sit in a little tucked up box
of a -world you make for yourself,
and starve and suffocate and die for
want of a little fresh air, and a lit
tle ‘common senet, .
Sweep out your heart, open the
win®ows of your soul, getua new job
and a good one. ‘Teaeh your little
boy to read. Tell nim storigs. Take
him Mo walk Q'n Sundays, Make
new friends. tead new books.
Make vour life over again, better
than vou ever dared to dream of
making 1 before