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Country Tie of Thee, twmti Land
of Liberty.
The Treaty That Should Be
come a Scrap of Paper.
The World's Work for February
Comments on the activities of the Ital
ian burvnu of information in the Unit
od States in circulating litoruture re
garding IUily ii part in the war and
the part she Khould play at the peace
conference. This literature, says the
magazine, is evidently intended to en
lighten the people of America on
Ituly's claims und rights at the peace
conference, and then goes on to say:
''The idea which this publicity ma
terial emphasizes is that Italy, when
sho entered the wnr "in May, 11115, dii!
bo on the basis of a distinct bargain
with the allied countries, Great Brit
ain, France nnd Itussin, and that it
is ituly's intention to insist 'on the
complete fulfillment of this bargain. A
recent bulletin of this Italian bureau
, publishes In full this treaty of London,
thereby merely following the example
of the Bolshevist government at I'ot
rograd, which long since exposed it to
the world as nn example of the kind of
ficcret diplomacy which was largely
responsible for the world wnr, and ns
nn illustration of tho kind, of issues
, for which the civilized world( was
fighting.' Kven thoso who least sym
pathized with Bolshevist politics woro
forced to admit, at least to themselvos
that, in giving this documont to the
public, the Lcaihe nnd Trotsky gov
ernment had scored on their adversar
ies. "The treaty of London Is such a
modorn documentit wns concluded
on April 2S, 11115 that tho circum
stances which led up to it are fairly
fresh in tho public mind'. When the
European wur broke out, Italy had for,
thirty-two years been the ally of Ger
many and Austria, the treaty of alli
ance Having been renewed so recently
as 1JI12. Italy refused to join the cen
tral powers, hmvevor, on the entirely
justifiable ground that the terms of
the nllianro called for co-operation
only in the case of a defensive war,
and she refused to regard Germany's
attack nn" Helium and France as de
fensive operations. For the next nine
months both sides worked hard for
Italy's support; the precise details of
these negotiations hwvo not yet lieenl
published, vet the idea prevalent lit the
time, that tTiey assumed something the
form of cunipetitive bidding, probably
had a solid basis in fact. The diffi
culty of Germany's position was that
alio could satisfy Italy's demands onlv
at the territorial expense of her n!-staud; there was nothing a German
lies, Austria and Turkey. The world fellow could not do, provided he could
suspected at the time that holy was.snv to himself that it was for live
drivim? a hard hiirirnin the ne-,wii i...
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"- unuiL was tuts iieniy
of London.
'"There Ii not a line of tins tevaty
thitt d.Mn not-upiri't the outworn,
discredited, irrab-lwa? diplomm-y that
CHits.d this ar. There are rlpuca in
It whh'h
if carried out. will iiipvituhlv !
wean another war nx soon as the ponce ! likenes uf Ccrniany to rfally civilised
reference nt Yr,ille adjourn. It j nations during the past generation
em,, Utclv fli, , (h.. face of alt the jWMs oniy Huprrficml. Underneath lies
ZA hlZ 1 I? diro,'r:U:ithe i-haracWr-truining i which cWan
st have lu-i'mne the rulini? furees n "
the contest. Its main .
that it han.kou r t,. It.il- un,! that , "'''""' t"',n,"' l reckoned ilh
are not Italian, th.it have never .oen:"" "I1"'1 'rms with other popl., sfcf
ItnUnn anil tluit never will he Italian. "ufl hme developed, tltreuyh gfn.ra
nil i tloinir -thin it entirely tlirp- j turns,. "that subtle srnn whidt, ile
(ranls Uie wishes of theii people.,-!'!,, fine as honor."
treaty, iiaieen, nns no ntivr jtntifira
tilth tllftn miTitjiry iflnl nav:il strntee
nnilhc aatisfaetioif of that hut for
territory which is fthp esuenre :rf im
perialism. So fr 1 this treaty irivi
Italy land or peoplefcJhat are Italian
. and that O'nrn r imiotyv.ith tl
momenta, no one win o.ipote it
That the Trentlno, Goriiis. and 'Oi-!
cste should he joined to the KiUfril'n jlai'Kor ar.4 more enlightened control
of Ank Is entirely In koQiinir wilfei exBjfc.d hy he government.
the infills of this war. BuOHaly.jsow j )i,wtor tiene'ral Hint's comes pret
clamorsora consiOrahIo part of the ly ,,,. pr,,wiiinK w,tym , rp.
O'naternWidrintic eotland whtrh Lonf statement made ( , senate rom-
overwhclnQiKly Bin, anri wnirn, n
-there is any iM thine " the ri0ta
of people mustQWome part of the
new Jugo-Slav, nation. AccorQnir to
th Encyclopedia E0amdca, tlx pop-O
ulation of Dulmatia is 90 per cent.
Serbo-Croat and 3 per cent Italian;
yet Italy now claims a large area o
this province and practically all the
coital Dalmatian jslands. But Italy
claims far more than this; the lOeaty
of London gives her twelve islands in
the Ivgean sea, known as the Dode
canese islands hat are entirely
Gieek and that have been Greek since
the days of llcrodotua The same doc
ument gives Italy the right, under cer
tain contingencies, to large areas in
Asia Minor and in Africa.
"Probably tlie moat unpleasant part
of the present peace negotiations is
Italy's widely advertised determina
tion to insist on the literal enforce
ment of this treaty. Not only that,
but there ar signs that her represent
atives will push their claims even far
ther. News has been generally sup
pressed in England and America of
the fact that, on November 17th, Ital
ian military forces seized possession
if Fiume, agaiast the protest of the
entente. Yet even the treaty of Lon
don, on which the Italian imperialistic
factions rests to Justify its attitude of
"sacred egoism," especially provides
that this city shall be a part of the
new Serbo-Croatian state.
''The situation is particularly em
barrassing for France and England,
for, under duress and under great ne
cessity, ' these nations signed the
treaty that authorizes many of these
depredations. It is distressing that
Italy, or at least the particular cr.terie
that now controls her fore'pn icliey
and rejiieBcnts her at Versailles,
should refuse to acknowledge that a
new world has come into being since
May, 11)15. Hut there is at least ono
power that was not a party to this
discreditable compact, and which will
protest against its fulfillment. That
is tho United States. The expensive
propaganda with which the Sonnino
government is flooding the United
States at this time in this very act
utilizing one of the nv.jt discredited
instruments of junkir invierinlivn
will not blind American? to the fait
that tho treaty of London, in its his
tory nnd in its contents, representn all
that is worst in recent European di
plomacy its secrecy, its disregard for
raciul Tights, its tendency, as Presi
dent Wilson has said, "to hand peoples
from sovereignty to sovereipnty as
though they were so many chattels.''
America will do all it can to prevent
this wnr ending on IiismBrckian lines,
and one of the first essentials tn this
is Italy's voluntary consent to trans
forming the treaty of London into n
"scrap of paper."
An Authority on the Subtle
Sense.
No one, perhaps, had a better op
portunity to observe the workings of
the German mind than Brand Whit
lock, minister of Belgium, who wroi
t'od with it for two and a half ymrr,
through daily and hourly difficulties
and misunderstandings through that
irafty corruption which he snys again
and again "was deeper than the atroc
ities." Tho Germans, he says in his story
of Belgium,' could not believe thnt
Amorica would go to war. A', tho
very Inst moment they could not un
derstand in the least why wo .lid. Tho
president's enunciations of principles
wero to them .but Idle bombast, ns
treaties had been merely scraps uf
paper.
" 'Your democracy, your idea of
liberty, bah!' said a German officer o
me one day, and another remarked
with more mildness:
'"It doesn't suit us; we have an
other way of looking at things.'
'Precisely. And that way of louk-
ing ut things deprived them' of that
moral discipline, that inner subjective
restraint independent uf all external
sanctions, which deters men from do
ing certain evil things. ' That subtle
ense which we define' and recognize
as honor, however imperfectly we may
live up to it, seemed to be unknown
to them.
"'There are things a feilow can
not do,' says a character in one of
Kipling's stories; it is a sentiment
that Germans did not seem to untlcr-
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wiei mini, mm j.iuviueu, loo, inui lie
had the physical force to prevent oth-
t'i'a fruin interfering with his doiny
it."
As the Germans seem to be settliiiK
tht ir affairs in un orderly and more
or U'ak decent manner, it may be well
for Americana to remember that the
i"l'rit. ,pir Uhw.li have no plae.
Outline f Scrnit Railroad
Plans.,, ' 9
lUrlly nryiioiiy seems to want rov
nment ownership of the rtr.iioails.
'' '? everylioji-, hover,' wants a,
mittee. believe." he said. "tSfit i
m , . . , ,..0.
form of radically i-.4fHrui i pri
vale ownership with close Ornment
aujiervikii5 including govonment
0 oOo
representation ?n the board of dirtc
Itors, will give the public a'id labor all
the benefits of government ownership
land at the same time preserve the
j benefits of private ownership."
The railroad men themselves have
.been thinking and working along the
same line. Perhaps the best plan yet
put forward is that offered by the As
sociation of Railroad Executives, rep
resenting 92 per cent of American
railroads. The Literti'ry Digest sum
marizes this plan as follows:
. Private ownership and operation to
be maintained.
Regulative power invested solely in
the national government. .
Interstate commerce commission re
lieved of administrative duties to act
as a quasi-judicial body, passing on
rates and hearing complaints.
A secretary of transportation in the
cabinet to take over the commission's
executive functions, oversee the .coun
try's transportation facilities, look out
for maintenance of service and finan
cial credit, distribute traffic in emer
gencies, and allow building of new
lines and terminals.
Kates to be initiated by carriers in
accordance with rate-making rule em
bodied in statuti) and subject to ap
proval of secretary of transportation
and appeal to interstate commerce
commission.
Commission to establish regional
commissions.
Anti-trust laws to be modified to al
low pooling, rate agreements, joint
use of facilities and mergers, as ap
proved by secretary of transporta
tion. Labor questions to be handled by
wage board.
Federal government to regulate se
curity issues.
Railroads to be federally incorpor
ated. The plan is not perfect, but it is
something to work on. From present
indications, the ultimate solution lies
in this direction. '
Whcn the war 1b 'all over, and the
peace conference has finished and
gone home, and the league of nations
has settled down to work, and Ger
many has reformed, and the bills and
Indemnities nre all paid, and peace
broods over the world like a dove, we
Huppose congress will still be arguing
about how the wnr. ought to have been
fought nnd settled, instead of doing
its own work.
No nation is being coerced at the
peace conference. All agreements are
to be made not by majorities, but by
unanimous consent. At the snme time
any power or minority group of pow
ers that holds out for selfish ends
against the generous will of tho ma
jority is going to find itself mighty
uncomfortable.
The nllies have stopped talking of
collecting an indemnity t( $140,000,
000,000 from Germnny, whose entire
assets amount to probably $70,000,
000,000. Many another bunch of cred
itors has decided that yon can get
more out of a bankrupt concern by
going slow and nursing it along.
New York restaurant proprietors
say prohibition will make it ' neces
sary to raise the price of food, be
cause nil .their profit now is made on
booze. And seeing that they would
raise the price anyhow, that will do
just ns well as nny other renson.
Ensign Jay Gould, arriving home
from the war zone, won metropolitan
feme by sewing a button on his coat.
Glad to know that there's one son of
a famous father who has all his but
tons. From the New York World's frenzy
over prohibition, one gathers that the
World is equally concerned with the
right of nations to control their own
destiny nnd the right of individuals
to drink beer.
It may be deemed advisable soon to
censor all library books from the tee
total viewpoint. It's' dreadful to
think what will hnppen to Omar Khay
yam and Robert Burns.
Farming
Wlion you are plant itiji your tmrircrop do yon
plant wluilo oars? .Nol drain by yfrain, hill by
hill, it is dropped until tho eutito f it !il is planted. "
As you raise coin, raise your dollars, plant thein
as you t;vi them, one by .ne, iu an account with
us: Now is the plnutinft time for vtmr nionev t.
SOW N0W F0R THE DOLLAR HARVEST.
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ThoUPauJs regret not
ill IMUIl WllTI US.
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THE FORIINT
The Place Where Everyone Has His Say,
FltOM Mil. GAItHIC'K.
Editor of Observer:
Why! does God permit war? Be
cause sometimes it Is the most ef
fectual means to an end. Just the
same as when a lying spirit was tho
agent best adapted to bring King
Alcohol to execution.
When man, several thousand years
ago, was placed on this earth, he
was under contract Involving some
restrictions and limitations along
1 certain lines, but with freedom un-
limited along other lines.
To replenish and subdue this earth
became man's first and positive'
duty. He has In a limited way com
plied with the first clause of the
contract, but very soon he lost sight
of the other, and Instead of learning
hovr to subdue the earth, he has
squandered most of bis efforts striv
ing to subdue his brother." .
This' earth was on tho run when
the first man was landed on It and
It Is on the run still, and the speed
is enormous. Of course the Great
Creator placed a fence around It
called the law of gravitation, which
keops It within bounds. But so far
as man Is concerned the earth Is ut
terly subdued. Yet on more than one
occasion tho Lord has shown to man
the possibility of subduing and con
trolling tho motions of this earth.
But man failed to catch on to the
combination, consequently the earth
Is Htlll going at a brake neck pace,
like a broncho in n corral, and a
man is unaware of the fact that he
is marooned on a sra, either sur
rounded by innumerable worlds or
immeasurable dimensions and oc
cupying space without boundary
and hero he Is likely to stay until
ho awakes to tho fact that this
earth Is too small to fight about.
It Is after all only a means to an
end. and those men vho have In dif
ferent ages caused so much blood-!
shod, and brutality in their futile i
efforts to own the whole earth have !
thereby displayed their smallnesj oi j
some, nnd their contracted view of
man's possibilities. Especially the
nuthor of this present war for pos
sesion of the earth. He has un
doubtedly proved himself to he one
of the smallest of men, whoes tower-'
ing ambition culminated In his do-
alro to posscsa this little earth.
Without a Bcratch on his own neck. !
As n man shakes a banket of apples
to bring the lnrgest ones to the top. i
so haa tho Lord by this war shaken
the nations to bring to the top the
greatest of men. Men of broad
gauge, capable of reading the reva-
lations given during this war, which j
are recorded as scientific dlscov-'
erles. Men big enough to undertake
the subjugation of the earth and the
AMERICANS
MAKING GOOD
AT SIXTY-FIVE
Pon't worry about old age. A aonnd I
Juan in good at nr age. Keep your !
body in good fond it ion and you can.be f
nn naif aim nearly anq able to ' do your
bit" as when yon were a young fellow.
Affection of the kidaeyi and bladder
are among the leading raunea of early
r helplrsa age. Keep them clean and
the other orgitaa in working condition,
and you will hare nothing to fear.
Drive the polanntma flutes from the
tern and avoid iric aid ai'rumula
tions. Take l.OM MKDAL Haarlem
Oil Capmilfg period iNrily aud you will
find that you are as good as the next
fellow. Tour tpirita will be rejuve
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GOLD are DAT Haarlem Oil Capsules
trill do the work. Hut he mire to gt
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three site.
Dollars
teivingxuie? $1 opens an
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exaltation of man. Men who will
prize knowledge above gold and who
will seek for the knowledge of God
above all things. Men big enough
to Ignore all creeds, and sects, and
lsims and ordinances, -which have
In tho past proved such a fruitful
souce of hatred, malace and cruelty,
and encourage all men to meet on
the common ground of seeking to
know Cod which Is Ufa eternal. It
will be time enough to Bettle the
question how to worship God after
the nations l(now him.
Returning to the question, why!
does God permit war? Because
now as It was in the temple at i
Jerusalem it requires a scourge to
separate man from his merchandise, I
md If the nations, can from this i
war learn that this earth Is only a i
travelling machine, not a dwelling ;
machine, and learn te subdue ana
handle it as a means of conveyance
theyyill be ready to admit tho price
i too urgn.
L. GARRICK.
February! 10th last day to pay water
rent without a penalty. 2-7-2t
No matter how fast the s'ow falls,
people very generally like a hot drink,
a tamale, chili con carne, or a malted
milk and often an ice cream s-jndae.
If you will drop in at Silverthorn's
fountain you will see just why the
customers give them so much of their
patronage. They put out the very best
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