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America Should Not Interfere
in Purely European Disputes
R have frequently said, and we shall
W doubtless eontinue to say frequently,
that the United States onght to take
no mum in the rearrangement of
PBuropean térritorial houndaries.
Thore Amerieans who do not understand
international potities do not bother their
heads about the new map of Hurope, and
those who do know history and world poli
ties are quite ecertain that no rearrangement,
of boundaries made by the Peace Congress
will last for many vears, and that if Amer
jea takes a hand in rearranging and gmar
anteeing the new houndariek, theft the United
States must be constantly ready to take part
in every Furopean war that is hereafter
waged.
There are persons, of ecourse, who really
helteve that this js the last war that will be
fonght. 1t is a comforting behef, but not
one that finds much aceeptanee among men
who know the radical and national animosi
ties and ambitions of European eountries.
A striking illustration of these traits was
farnished, in a small way, in the eonvention
of delegates representing the different sub
jeet peoples of the .Austro-Hungarian Em
pire. .
The econvention had hardly got under way
when the representatives of [talia Irredenta
and the Jngo-Slav representatives started a
hot verbal fight over the disposition of Dal
matia.
"The Italian Irredentists insisted that Dal
matia should go to Italy and the Jugo-Slav:
spokesmen retorted shat their people would
resist to a finish any sueh attempt to make
the Adriatic an Italian lake. _(
The répresentative of the Lithnanians and
Letts, who desire to ereet a republic on the
Baltie, advocated plebiseites: by whieh each,
group of people eould self-determine their
own form of government, and the represen
tatives of the Czecho-Slovaks declared that
they wanted no such plan- and based their op
position npon the ground that in many dis,
triets a referendum would disclose a Teutonge
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 -these territories
a government pot of consent, but of compnl
sion. ? ' \
. We commend these proceedings at the Phil
adelphia_conference of Lithuanian, Lettish,
.Jugo-Slavie, (‘zecho-Slovak, Italian and other
raeial representatives to the prayerful atten
tion of Senator Lodge, Colonel Roosevelt and
all the other genflm‘h':'n who assert that the
United States ought to taka a hand in com~
posing the territorial disputes of Europe.
The difficulties of settling the boandaries
of the small States which are to become inde
pendent in castern Europe are discoutaging
to contemplate. \
The Italian Irredentists insist that Haly
shall absorb Dalmatia and demand Albania
as an Italian *‘sphere of influence’’—a polite
euphemism for colonial rule, -
The Serbs, ('roats and Slovenes—now
commoply known as the Jugo-Slavs—claim
Dalmatia as their own. They also intend to
make Montenégro and Albania “theirs, and
they insist that Bulgarian Macedonia must be
a part of the Jugo-Slav empire which is their
century.old ambition, .
These ambpitions of the Jugo-Slavs conflict
sharply with the ambitions of the Czecho-
Slovaks. Bohamia is, of course, the leader
in this union—and the Bohemian demand is
\hlt 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 German districts which adjoin Ger
man Austria and ynanimously desire to re.
main & part of Austria. |
In any direction in which we care to look
over eastern Kurope, we see nothing but ra.
eial animosities and national ambitions which
are as incompatible as fire and water and
whieh will almost eertainly break out in war.
fare from time to time, ‘
Thé Grecks talk of and plan for a revival
of their ancient empire in the east, of which
Comstantinople must be the capital.
~ The Bulgarians talk of and plan for a re.
vival of their ancient and powerful empire,
of which Constantinopte mustibe the capital,
Phe Jugo-Slavs talk of and plan for a re.
_wival of their ancient and powerful empire,
‘and they want their hegemony to rule from
Constantinople. -~
The Czecho-Slovaks talk of and plan for
the revival of their once powerful kingdom,
and they czmnm of exercising such rule and
dominion Prague as their warrior kings
nsed to exercise, .
We do not condemn any of these racial
and national aspirations. We simply state
the plain faets. |
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 Poftion ot the Foreign World” wasninatoN's PAREWELL ADDRESS.
TRUTH, JUSTICE
agine nothing so franght with mischief and
interminable future cost and trouble for us
as any interference oh the part of the
United Smgs with these implacable animosi
ties and irréconcilable ambitions of the races
“who ”'vll in eastern Kurope.
They have fought with one another for a
thousand years, and there is no reason so
doubt that they will fight each other for gen
cratibns to come. ¢
Fach 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 mutual reerimina
1, tion, warfare and atrociously ernel invasions
~ and counter-invasions.
Europe has never heen able to compose the
~ hatreds or to make stable the peace of the
Balkan States. And now to this problem are
to be added the new factors of the States
created by the dismemberment of the ancient
empire of the Hapsburgs. s
~ And there are men in high places here at
i home who want ,our nation to entangle it
- self in this endless snarl of conflicting and
‘ irreconcilable European racial, 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.
Liet us abide by the adviee and the injuner
tion and the praetice of all onr great states
‘men.
Liet us maintajn our splendid isolation from
the European quarrels that are purely Buro
paan. | , »
Liet us not forget for one moment that our
sole object in entering this European war
was a world objeet and not a local European
“ohject. A
Let Europe settle Europe's disputes.
We shall have destroyed the German mil
itary- autocracy and made Europe:safe for
democraey. \
; %‘&at was onr task. ;
Vhen we have done that, utterly and ab
solutely, our duty is performed.
Our self-interest in this ‘war ends there,
“ too. \
© And it 18 time that Ameriéan-common
sense began to think of American self-inter
est. We have given more and gone further
' for an iteal than any people ever did or than
~any people is ever likely to do againg
~ There is no possible obligation or vur part
‘ to act as wet nurse to these pewhorn infant
~ States or to play the'part of the tutor who
must compose” their petty quarrels and re
ward the good with a certifieate of merit and ,
the bad with a spanking.
Let Europe nurse and bring up her own
~ wavward children.
~ We have plenty ta do at heme for a long,
i long time to come—plenty to-do, believe it.
THE UTTER STUPIDITY OF
THOSE CLEVER JPRUSSIANS
~ For perfect ignorance, limitless egotism
and utter stupidity the palm ‘must be award.
~ed to the peculiar type of mentality which
the self-wrecked Prussfan aufderacy repre
sents, One wonders how it ever managed to
~ control a nation; how it ever econtrived to
’ make war at alb, .
Now we hear of the remnamts of Kultur
in its highest manifestation actually ‘‘blot
ting’’ to restore_ 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 representatives of the ruined old ma.
chine solemnly engage themselves in the
~ ahildish pastime of trying to rebuild 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 hloodthirsty
} idiots could not see doom ahead four years
ago; just as they could not see the United
States as worth worrying about one year
ago; just as they could not see retribution
ahead for their foul violations of the rules of
~ warfare ;80 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, oconomically flat an its back
and rocking with several kinds of rampant
radiealism, any. American schoolgirl could
understand the asininity of monkeying with
the Foch buzzsaw at this stage of the game.
At a matghing 6f jits 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, direet 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, academic and in
definite until the waitress slid the lid off and
said, indulgently : :
“Go as far as you like,”" |
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Run, Sheep,
Run
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| By Gene Fowler.
f, THE world is old—at lepst, we're
| A . told o
% it's been here sev'ral years—
And ever since,. ther2’s been a
| #Fince | , ~
! Who had to dry his tears.
| 2 FROM Cave Man down to Ger
] “. mageclown,
| There's always been some guy,
? Who met defeat and tho\ would
i bleat
A quitter’s alibi. )
}OLD RAMESES got heart disease
And lost a Red Sea bet:
I “I flunked because | didn't pause
| To see if waves were wet!"
iE'EN Jyfluc Caesar—shrewd old
geezer—
Couldn't lose at all,
He stopped to shiver, knife in liver:
“I had too much 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
fright
When cotd feet codldn't heat him.
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TWO frigid feet-—not lack of meat
Or shortage in the larder-
Made Wilhelm's son start on the
’ run,
And Bill himself ran harder!
AND how they ran-<this “noble”
span—- *
i And how they: znpcd for breath!
They 'hnd to quit, and that's just
Mty
“ Or olse be RUN TO DEATH!
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© SCIENCE NOTES.
An |r|’{whoum inventor's coupling
for pump rods makes it possible to
change a pump from hand to™sme
chanieal operation with the change
of a single bolt.
- . .
An oven hax been invented to
utiljge for baking the wmoke and
hot gases that ordiharily would
pass out of g chimney, from a resl.
dence heating plant.
Friday, December 13, 191 8
‘CAUSE. AND EFFECT
. '
By “MA'' SUNDAY.
WAS eating lunch at a hotel while
I waited for a train. 1 noticed
that a near-hy group of young
people, two girls and two young men,
were rather noisy.
They had a table »s\*'&\ T
S i
together; a n dfiy §
were, apparently, T p
drinking a_ good e
deal of tea, which fi\%&n&
the waiter brought o el ;“ X
1 L M i
them, refilling the |\ | ™ s 0
cup, out of sight, §;~ ‘f‘%‘u‘:_g;«”;s S
behind a screen. |% Wb @
“That tea is'l} e
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certainly making | “'_'% Fy ‘
these girls nerv- e o
ous.” 1 said to a ’ ]
¥
friend. A
2 ‘ }
Tou!" ha PR LS J
I b he grunt. b O
ed.« "Huh-—that's S{BN-—H*
Aot ten is e
booze.”
"szhm"w mere children!™ 1 satd.
“It's iMpossible.” \
The waiter had heard what we said,
“It's not at ull.pn;m.wihh- ma'm,”
he said. "Those young things can
gel away with more cocktafls thgn
you would think anvbody could, to
'Sy nothing of such children, as
you've rightly called them, ma'm.”
\ Then why do you serve them?" |
arked ’
He shrugged his shoulders
“A waliter that tried to refuse would
lose his job," he answered
I sat there, fascinated watching
those girle and boys. who ought to
have been under the eyves of their
mothers. Those mothers—-where were
they? What could they be thinking
about to let such a thing happen?
The girls laughed more and more
The big red spot on their eheeks grew
| and grew, THey made excited gestures,
One of them spilled some of her “hin"'
ard giggled senselessly over it,
Neither one rems mbered that seif.re.
spect should have kept thems from
exhibiting themeselves in such a'con
dition And then one, the youngesi
was sickencd, and had to leave the
table That, it s=eemed, was , the
crowning Joke of all They f’.“:'\
shouted over il .
The Devil’s Tea
hearted and royal good fellows, ‘hundreds of little children have
been made happy in other years: and more will be made happy
this year. The cartoox}_ist has caught the idea in his pieture
above. Through the goodness of this band the people of At
lanta are giving a real Christmas to the children of the poor.
“C'an it bé that this happens orten?"l
I asked our waiter. )
"Orten\? It happens all the time!
1t happens from 10 o'clock in the
morning until*we have to put ’en‘xl
cut at night.” > }
~ “Where do they get the money? 1
asKed. “Those bfiys must be making
very small salaries.” 4 |
He shrugged his snouldere 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, ) 4 .
Would the hoys have sat hours over
a table if the girls ha# insisted upon
some clean, healthy amusement’
Upaen walking in a park, enjoying
God's pure air? ! £
~ Upod reading_jogether? Or ‘upon
‘the ‘innocent, gay and delightful talk
that young people cap always have
together, when they possess mutual
tastes? Why, the boys can always be
‘corntrolled by the girls, for their moral
good. It is the div)lne power which
(iod has put inte the hands of woman
The girl who drinks me{tnlln. is
ruining her body debasing RAer soul,
soiling her sex nature, lowering her
self steadily.
The day of & national, rigid prohibi
tion “is coming-—hastened by Juat]
such spectacles,
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Shafts of Sunshine
Maybe some poets think that
their poetry. helped win the war,
but some editors know that con:
venient waste-baskets mitigated
many of these horrors of war,
- . -
Will someone write anolner verse
to “The Girl 1 Test Behind Me" to
explain that now she's got his
Joh?
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“Rubber xsaving campatgn opens,”
Ison't overbid wour, hand so. as to
he set buek for more than m(.
PUBLIC SERVICE
The Divine View
of Kings
By Chaplain P. T. Edrop, US.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
vising their estimates of themselves
as they remain in exile,
- The divine view of kings squares
~ more nearly with the popular judg
ment than, with the royal estimadte,
Says the eighth chapter of the
~ Fitst Book: of Samuel:
Then all the elders of Israel gnth\-‘-
~ ered themselves together, and came
to Samuel unto Ramah,
| And said unto him * * §
make us a king to judge us like all
nations, '
| But the thi'? displeased Samuel
. when they said, Give us a king to
judge us. And Samuel prayed unto
the Lord.
| emi t:u 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
| roign over them.
! nd Samuel told all the words of
the Lord unto the people that asked
of him a kin?. '
And he saild, This will be the
manner of the km? that shall reign
over '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, Yand 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 'your olive
| yards, even the best of them, and
give them to his servants.
And he will take your men serv
ants, 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 yo shall
have chosen you: and the Lord
will not hear you in that day, -
Remaking a
Life
' By Winifred Black.
tHE mafi’s a good man and his ~
T wife, was a good woman—
_until ~ the , mother-in-law
.Stepped into the picture.
And mow .the ° e
man's wife is f§ T }
never at home, | e il
the chiidren are b _é
neglected and t e #@m‘:"w
~the ™ hushand . b %
comes from his o s’;‘
*work to find no || : :
dinner and 'no'? B O J
wife, £ <¢ L
The baby sets | 0\ Nl
along as best it |iH figi
of the mother- |& & B &&y
in-law, wh oo [ i E e
‘ Hocantt Appear }U.,,'} ok "5,‘,
10 chre much ot oo
for it, and some N 7 &
li!}‘le along abeut midnight or 1 or
2 in the morning the man’'s wife
gets home. i
When he asks her where she has
been, she tells him to mind his own
affairs, v
‘(Thel/ is a sister, too, who is
happil marrigd, but now the moth
er-in-law has encouraged, her so
neglect her home, _and the two
poor; féolish, weak, vain wome
are throwing their lives away dfi
disgracing themselves -and thelr\
husbands, all on account of the evit
influence, of mothenin-!"aw. or
Husband has written and told me~
about it, and he wants 40 know
what he ought to do. N
+Poor husband! What do you
think you\can do with a woman
like that?
Or three women like that—to be
. quite exact?
If what you say is true, they are
entirely out of place in . any man’'s
decent home, If 1 were you, I
wouldnit 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 street myself and
ring up the patrol wagon to come
and take them away. , / .
SIX MONTHS WILL CURE.
Why don’t you take vour chhd
and go to some other town, Mr,
Man?" ;
Why don’t you just pack up your
things one of these fine, lonesome
evenings and disappear—with your
child? .
Go gomewhere and advertise fora
place to board where someone will
look after your child,
There are hundreds and thou
sands of good, respectable, sensi
ble women who would like to make
a homes for you and for your child.
They may be married and have
perfectly good husbands of their
own and take this 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 yon can put into
the family treasury in return for
what they can do for you.
It won't take you one week of
good, plain, commor sense to get
vourself and your child comforta
bly settled, and in six months of
sane, wholesome, sensible living you
will’ forget that you ever thought
you were going to break your heart
over a worthless woman like that,
or spend your energies hdting vour
mother-in-law becanse she came
into your khome and turned your
wife into something which’ no
right-minded man could tolerate for
one moment,
Don't worry any more, don't
grieve any more, don't sit alone
evenings and look at the photo
graph you had taken \imther when
you thought she was the only per
fect creature on earth’
’ Don't read over her old letters,
don’t sentimentalize, and wish, and
wonder, and eat your heart out—
~ over a worthless woman.
| The world is full of good people,
of sane people, of eclean-minded,
\ warm-hearted, right-living people.
You belong with them. Find some
~of them and be happy.
. This woman is only a little pass
ing episode in your life. Poor, fool
ish thing, she will sée the day when
~ she will regret what she has dbne,
| pot’y6u ean not wait sos that day
to come, r
Hate vonr mother-in-law?
‘DON'T HATE—FORGET,
Nonsense, man! I)nn't\hnte her
~forget her. \
An ounce of forgelting is 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 & human soul
alive worth breaking your heart
over. If they were wo*th it, they
wouldn't break your heart.) L
Don’t sit in a little tucked up box
of a worid you mpake for yourself,
and starve and suffocate and die for
want of a little frexh ale, and a lit.
tle common sense,
Sweep out your heart, open the
windows of your soul, get a new job
and a good n'r':';:_ Teach your little *
~ bov te read, ell nim stories, Take
him to walk on Sundayvs Make
- new friends. Read new hooks
Make vour life over again. hetter
thath vou ever dired (o dream of
- making it before s