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America Should Not Interfere
in Purely European Disputes
E have frcqnonl,l_i' said, and we shall
W donbtless eontinue to say frequently,
that the Upited States ought to take
no detailed part in the rearrangement of
Buropean termtorial houndaries.
Those Amerieans who do not understand
mteynational politics do not bother fheir
heads aboni the new map of Huropé, and
those who do know History and world poli
‘ties are quite certdin that no rearrangément
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 boundaries, then the [nited
States must be constantly ready to take-part
in every European war that is hereafter
waged. v
There are persons, of course, who really
heheve that this is the. last war that will be
\Gonght It ils a ecomforting belief, but not
one that finds much aceeptance among men
who know the radieal and national animosi
ties and ambitions of European eountries.
A strking illustration of these fraits was
furmished, in a small way, in the convention
of delegates represenfing the different sub
ject peoples of the Austro.Hungarian KEm
pire. e
The convention had hardly gat under way
when the repr‘vsonmtiv?'s of Italia Trredenta
and the Jugo-Slav representatives started a
hot verbal fight aver the disposition of Dal-
The Italian Irredentists insisted that Dal
matia shounld go to Italy and the Jugo-Slav
spoliamen *retorted that their people would
regist to a finish any such attempt to make
the Adriatic an Italian lake ® ™
The representative of the lathuanians and
Lefts, who desire to erect a republic on the
Baltie, advocated plebiséites: by which each,
group of people conld self:determine their
own form of government, and the represen
tatives of the Czecho-Slovaks deeclared that
they wanted no such plan: and based their op
position npon the ground that in many dis
triets a referendum would disclose a Teutonie
majority. 1 \
. The only logical inference is that the so
cafled representatives of certain territories
represent 4 minority instead of a majority,
and desire to impose upon ‘those territories
a government not of consent, but of compul
sion.
We commend these proceedings at the Phil.
adelphia conference of Lithuanian, Lettish,
Jugo-Slavie, Czecho-Slovak, ltalian and other
racial representatives to the prayerful atten
tion of Senator Lodge, Colonel Roosevelt and
all the other gentlemen who assert that the
United States ought to take a hand in com.
posing the territorial disputes of Europe.
The difficulties of settling the boundaries
of the small Sgates which are to become inde
pendent in eastern Kurope are discauraging
to contemplate.
The Italian jrredentists insist that Italy
shall absorb’ Dahnatia and demafd Albania
as an Italian *“sphere of influence’’—a polite
euphemism for golonial rule,
The Serbs, Croats and Slovenes—now
eommonly known as the Jugo-Slavs—claim
Dalmatia gs their own. They also intend to
make Montenegro and Albania theirs, ‘and
they insist that Bulgarian Macedonia must be
a part of the Jugo-Slay empire which is their
century.old ambition.
These ambpitions of the Jugo-Slavsteonflict
sharply with thé ambitions of the Czecho.
Slovaks. Bohamia 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 (zecho-Slovak
leaders insist that Bohemia shall retain the
purely Germhn districts which adjoin Ger.
man Austria and unanimously desire to re.
main a part of Austria, - -
In any direction in which we ecare to look
‘over eastern Kurope, we see nothing but ra
cial animosities and national ambitions which
are as incompatible as fire ‘and water and
which will almost certainly break 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
Constantinople must be the capital,
The 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 of their ancieht and powerful empire.
and they want their hegemony to rule from
Constantinople. =3
The Czecho-Slovaks talk of and plan for
the revival of their once powerful kingdom,
and they 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 national aspirstions. We simply state
the plain facts. ! .
- “And in the light of those facts we can im.
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“ *Tis Our True Policy to Steer Clear of Permanent Alliances With Any Portion ot the Foreign World”—wasuiNGTox's FAREWELL ADDRESS
TRUTH, JUSTICE
agine “nothing s} fraught with mischief and
interminable future cost and trouble for us
as any interference on the part of she
United States with these implacable animosi
ties and irreconeilable ambitions of the races
who dwell in eastern Europe. .
They have fought with one another for a.
thousand ve@rs, and there 1s no reason to
doubt that they will fight cach other for gen
erations tp come. XN :
Fach race hates all the other \vimu hitter
ness that no American can wholly under
stand —the econcentrated and distilled ess
sence of ten ecenturies of mutual reerimina
tion, warfare and atrociously ernel invasions
and counterinvasions. ;
Europe has never been able to.compose the
hatreds or to make stable the peace of the
Balkan States. And now to this prohlem are
to be added the new factors of the States
created by the dis emberment of the ancient
empire of the l%;hurgs. :
And there are men in high places here at
home who want our nation fo_entangle if
self in this endless snarl of conflicting and
irfeconeilable Buropean racial, national and
religions quarrels and wars!
Giod forbid that we shounld ever be deluded
into sueh a path of folly and ruinous trou
bles to come. g
Liet us abide by the adviee and the jnjune
tion and the practice of all our great states.
men. 4
Let us maintain our splendid isolation from
the Enropean quarrels that are purely Buro
pean. :
Lt us nos forget for one moment thht our
sole object in entering this European war
was a world objeet and not a local European
object, ;
Let Buropesettle Europe's disputes.
We shall have destroyed the German mil
itary antocracy and made Europe safe for
democraey.
That was eur task. -
When we have done that, utterly and ab
solutely, our«duty is perfarmed.
Our self-interest in ‘this war ends there,
too. :
Antit is time that ‘American common
sense began to think of American self-inter
est. We,have given more and gone further
for an ideal than any ‘people vver did or than
any people is-bver likely to do again.
There is no possible obligation on our 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, helieve it.
THE UTTER STUPIDITY OF
THOSE CLEVER PRUSSIANS
For perfect ignorance, limitless egotism
and utter stupidity the palm must be award.
ed to the peculiar type of mentality which
the self-wrecked Prussian autocracy repre
sents, Omne wonders how it ever managed to
control § nation; how it ever contrived to
make way at all,
Now we hear of the remnanfs of Kultur
in it® highest, manifestation actually ‘‘plot
ting'."to vestere William Hohenzollern to the
throne and re-tstablish imperlaism. Macken
sen, supposedly a wise general; members of
the ex-kaiser's personal suite; and sundry
other representativgs of the ruined old ma
chine s(fivmnly engage themselves in the
childish pastime of trying ta_rebuild it and
re-enter it in the great international hand.
dieap. Krupp money «s ready to be burned
in the effort. ; \
Just as the same crowd of bloodthirsty
idiots could not see doom ahead four years
ago: jusl as they could not see the United
States as worth worrying about. one vear
ago; just as they could not see retribution
ahead for their foul violations of the rules of
warfare ;so now they can no#see the impossi
bilit¥ of getting anywhere with their wild en.
terprisy, X
Even if Germany were not split up and
disorganized, economically flat on its back
and rocking with several kinds of rampant
radicalism, any Amnterican schoolgirl could
understand the asininity of monkeying with
the Foch buzzsaw at this stage of the game,
At a matehing of wits: the Krupp-Hohen.
zollern school of thought would have no right
in the same ring with a sick mollusk
Armistice headlines and the succession of
proofs they uncorked told us that the war
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 llad seemed far away, academic and ing
definite until the waitress slid the lid off and
- said indnlgently: # ’
~ +*“Go as far as ypu'like.” -
. Gangway for reconstruction ! g
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2 .
1t was mighty gratifying to The Georgian to bg able to an
nounce, as it did vesterday, that f‘h(i Shrine Band would give
its coneert in hehalf of the Empty Stocking Fund this year as
it has in the past. Through the efforts of this band of tender-
Run, Sheep,
Run
; By Gene Fowler.
| THE world is old—at least, we're
i to‘ld
| It's been here sév'ral vears— .
And ever since, there's been a
] prince &
{ Who had to dry his tears.
i §
| FROM Cave Man down to Ger-
E man clown, i
| There's always been some guy,
| Who met defeat and then would
i bleat
i‘ A quitter's alibi. .
iOLn RAMESES got heart disease
| And lost a Red Sea bet: "
' “‘ flunkegd because | didn't pause
! To see if waves were wet!"
:E 'Eh' Julius Caesar—shrewd old
| geezer— ! !
| Couldn't lose at all.
| He stopped to shiver, knife inftiver:
“1 had toe muc‘h sheer Gaul!™ .
BUT ho! We've with us Wilhelm's
son, .
Whoh prates that “hunger” beat
im. )
But if we're' right, he lost through
h fright
When cold feet couldn't heat him.
TWO frigid feet—not Inck of meat
Or shortage in the larder—
Made Wilhelm's son start on the
runm,
And Bill himself ran harder!
AND how they ran-—this “noble”
span—
And how they gasped for breath!
They :\ad to quit, and N\ilQ'l just
it
Or else be RUN TO DEATH!
SCIENCE NOTES. .
An Igdiana invenfor's coupling
for pump rods makes it possible to
change a pump from hand to me
chanical operation with the change
of a single bolt. .
TeiN Y
An oven has been invented to
utilize for baking the smoke and
hot gases that ordinarily would
pass out of a chimney from a resi
. dence heating plant, i
Friday, December 13, 1918
CAUSE. AND EFFECT
. "
By ‘‘MA’’ SUNDAY.
WAS eating lunel at a hotel while
I waited for, a train. 1 noticed
that a negr-by group of younyg
people twn‘;:irls and two young men,
were rather neisy.
< e o Y
| They had a table ;“{:‘\ ::3; |
together™ a h d[L
were, apparently, R !
grigking a good . e
deal of tea, v\'}n. h 13 ‘W“-“k
the waiter brought |3 i e
them, refilling the |#lßß SRR g
cup, but of sight, | -t ;l',
AR e
behind a screen, eNG i
I' That ‘tea is] G Ry N
g
| certainly making “ "\‘
i these girls nerve- ot
: oud" 1 said to a ”
| friend Wi .
| N 4
Tea'!" he'grunt- g
€4, “Huhi-that's -
! ROl .te & It's
l Looze,
i “But they're mere children'” 1 said.
y 'lU's impossible”
| The waitet had. heard what we said
i “It's n)'l at all impossible, ma'm.”
lhv saids# "Those young things can
ket away with gore cocktails than
you would think® anvbody could, to
:u\‘vmt!mm ol such children, as
j vousg rightly called them, ma'm.'
! “Thén whiy do you serve them? |
{ arked
i He shrugged h shonlders
f A walter that trieg to pefuse would
{ lose hig job,” he answered
I sat minu fasciuated, watchjhg
those girl® and boys. who ought to
have been under the eves of their
mothers. Those mothers-— where were
§’f'r.\ ' What couid they be thinking
übout te let such a thing happen’
= The girls laughed more and more.
The big red spot on their cheeks grew
and grew. They made excited gestures,
| One of them'spilled some of her “tea ™
I‘.r«l wiggled enselegsly over it
| Neither one remsmbered that self-re.
specs ghould haves kept them from
exhibiting themseives in «uch a con
dition. And then one, the ):xunur«.»f.
was sickened, and had to lfAve the
table That, #' séwged, was the
crowning loke of all Thet fairhy
shouted over it
The Devil’s Tea
hearted and roydl good fellows, hundreds of little children have
heen made happy in other<years: and more will be made happy
this year. The cartoonist has eaught the idea in his pieture
above. Through the goodnéss eof this band the people -of -At
‘lanta are giving a real Christmas to the children of the poor.
“Can it be that this happens often?"
1 asked our waiter. .
‘:Often? It happens all the time!
It happens from W) o'clock in the
morning until we have to put ‘em
cut at night.” -
“Where do they get the money? 1
asked, “Those l;oyn must be making
very small salaries,”
+ He ahrugge\d, his shoulders again.
He didn't know. He didn't care much’
All he knew was that/he was ‘there to
serve them with what they could pay
for. e
Would the boys have sat hours over
a table if the girls had insisted upon
some 'clean, ‘Thealthy ” aimusement
Upon walking in a park, enjoying
God's’'pure air? 2
Mpon reading together? Or upon
the innocent, gay and deli;htful talk
that young people can alwayvs have
together/ whan they possess mutual
mu,uvs ? Why, the boys can always be
controlléd by the givls, for their moral
R‘U:ul‘ 1t is the divine power.whlch
Gou'Kas put into the bands of womdn
The girl wiko drinks cocktalls is
ruining her body debasing her spul
soiling her sex nature, lowering hers
self steadily. :
The ‘uy of a national, rigid prohibi
tlon is cominmc-hastened by just
such spectacles, \ ;
Shafts of Sunshine
" Maybe some poets think that
theit poetry helped win the war,
but some editorg know that cons
venlent waste-baskets mitigated
many as these hbrrors of war.
w s %
T Tl ot
Will someone write another verse
to~'The Girl 1’ Left Behind Me” to
explain that now she's got his
Job? ' {
N 'y 3
“Rubber uvyag campalign opens,”
Don’t overbid vour hand so as to
be set back for more than 100, - .
PUBLIGC 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 amointed, as
they styled themselves, are now re
viging their estimates of themselves
as they remain in exile,
"The divine view of kings squares
more neavly with the popular Jydg
ment than with the roval estimate,
Says the eighth chapter of the
irst Book of Samuel:
Then all the elders of/lrul gath
ered themselves together, ind came
,to Samuel unto Ramah.
" And said unto him * * @
" make us a king to judge us like all
nations. £
But the thing displeased Samuel
when they said, Give us a king to
judge us. And Samuel prayed unto
the Lord.
‘Am: tl:o Lord said unto Samuel
Now, theres hearken unto
their voice; how it ye protest
solemnly unto them aWg show them
the manner of the ki hat shall
roixn aover them, .
nd Samuel told all the words of
the Lord unto the people that asked
of him a king.
And he said, This will be the
manner of the kmf that snt‘ll reign
o6ver you. He 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 set them to ear his
ground, and to raap his harvest,
and tu make his instruments of
war, and instruments of his char.
iots. :
And he will take your fields, P\d
your vineyards, and 'your ofive
yards, even the best of them, and
~ give them to his servidnts.
And he will take your men serv.
ants, and (wr maid servants, and
your goodliest young men, and zour
asses, and put them to his werk,
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 cholln you: and the Lord
will not hear you in that day.
Remaking a
Life
By Winifred Black.
HE man's a good man and hig
T wife was a good woman—
until the mother-in-law
stepped imto the pictuge.
And now the i
man's ‘wife is (CEeuenems "3‘
never at home, ; oy ~'{lJ
the children are t i Ml ;fi
neglected ‘and §i %PM g
the hushand J gl %
comes from his ’ gy cgi
work to find no | ~‘ 7
dinner "and no Y X ‘i , %
o o O
The baby gety ~, “
~long as best it %:’4 M:,
oan in the care | TSN W }
inlaw, who r',,%»;;‘
doesn’t _appear |@ ~.'»,~.:a.._-,
to ‘rare much Ny RN
Sor it, and some OUBNEY &F
time along about midnight or 1 ar
2 in the morning the man's wife
gets home,
When he asks her where ghe has
been, she tells him to mind his own
affairs.
There is a sister, foe, who is
happily married, but now the moth
er-in-law haß encouraged her to
neglect her home; and the- two
poor, foolish, weak, vain' women
are throwing’ their lives away and
disgracing themselves and their
husbands, all on account of the evil
influence of mother-in-law,
Husband has written and teld me
about it, and he wants to know
what he ought to do.
Poor husband! What dos vou
. think you can do with a woman
like that? |
Or three” women like that—te be
quite exact?
If what you say is true, they are
entirely out of place in any man's
decent home. If I were you, I
wouldn't have one of them under
the same roof with my child for
one hour--not if I had to put them
all out into the streef myself and
ring up the patrol wagon to come
and take them away. j
SiX MONTHS WILL CURE.
Why don't you m\ke vour child
and go to some other town, Mr.
Man? ™ \
Why dont you just pack up your
things ope of these fine, lonesome
evenings ahd disappear—with your
chilg?
. 90 somewhere and advertise fora
place tp board where someone wijl
look after your child. -
There are hundreds and thou
y sands of -good\ mspévtable,; sensi
ble women who would like to make
a 4 home for you and for yoyr child.
They may be married and have
~ perfectly good husbands of their
own and take this means of hdging
a little to the family income, or
they may he widows who keep
“hoarders, or who have fimilies of
their own to bring up, -and will be
glad of the money vou can put into
the family treasury in retury for
what tHey can do for vou.
It won't take you one week of
good, plkain, common sense to get
yourself and your child comforta
bly settled, and in six months of
- sane, wholesome, sensible liging vou
will forget that yol ever thought
you wer€,going to break your heart
over a worthless woman like that,
or spend your energies hating veur
mether-in-law because she came
inta your, home and tugned your
wife into something which no
right-minded man could tolerate for
one moment, »
Don't V\'nrry any more, don't
grieve any more, don't sit alone
evenings and look at thes photo
graph you had taken together when
you thonght she was the only per
| fé&t creagure on earth,
~ Don’t read oyer her. old letters,
don’t 'somimonmlma, and wish, and
woadr( and "eat your heart out—
over a worthless woman 3
" The world is*full of good people;
of sane people, of clean-minded,
warm-hearted, right-living people.
You holr;ng with them., Find some
of them And be I\app,\"
‘ This woman is_only a little pass
ing episode in your life. Paor, fool
feh thing, she will seevthe day when
she will regret what she has done,
but Tou 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 ounee of forgetting is worth a
thousand pounds of hate any day
in the year. ‘
This is a great. hig. healthy,
good-humored, friendly, interesting
world, There isn't a~-human sofil
alivé worth breaking yoGr = heart
over. If they were worth it, they
wouldn't ‘bieak your heart.
Don't sit in a little tucked up box
of a worid you mtke for yourself,
and staswve and suffocate and dje for
want of a little fresh air, and a lit
tle common sense.
Sweep out your heart, open the
windows of your soyl, get a new job
and a good one. Teach vour little
bo¥ to read. Tell yium stories. Take
him to walk on Sundays Make
new friends. Read new booke
Make vour life aver anzgamn hettey
than you ever dured 1o dream of
takng it befor