The Washington herald., 1917-01-24
Interesting Chats
From Hotel Lobbies


rs 1t possible that any sane person
can really believe that a league Of ma
tons. large and small, can possibly keep
! any other nations in a state of order 20
asked A. h. Lustig. of Cincinnati, at the
shorenam yesterday. "Once I though,
SO, ana great many others did. But
now every one knows that to keep peace
nation must be able to decide for itself
whetner or not 1t will fight or submit
70 lnolsnities. This idea of q world
court TO try nations accused Of a breach
brain.
To avoid war We must get rid of the
cause, and after an exhaustive study OF
various wars, while 1 was a pacifst, ]
nave come to the conclusion that wars
are for profit and nothing else While ]
am OF German extraction, / do not up
mold the German method of terrorism.
The Socialists, the pacifists, and the
Anarchists all have some good ideas but
IN the main we had better not try the
severe medicine that these people advo-
| cate. Scraps Of paper, treaties, agree
ments are nothing where profit is con-
cerned. Germany announced to the world
that treaties are not worth the paper
that they are written on.
What nation will live I'D to an agree
| ment made In a moment of anguish, when
1t comes to test, and there is to be a
decision as to whether 1t will take a bac ok
| seat and be Inundated and bled financial
| ly? VIII mere sentiment rule over the
greed for money? If you think so, you
belong in the middle ages. I do not be-
lieve that treaties are ever going to be
what some of them have been. The world
Is going to witness too close a competi-
tion for existence to allow a scrap OF
paper to stand in the way. We have
just begun to witness wars. The men in
public life who are shouting the idea oi
universal peace and court of nations
| ought to have something to keep them
busy all day SO that they cannot get into
mischief
Il believe that Japan's attempts tc
swallow the Chinese republic have
removed menace to this country
| said Alvin T. Cary. of Vancouver. b
c., who is stopping at the Raleigh
| AT least, IT puts further away the
chances Of a conflict between the
| brown men and the Americans. 1 have
travelled all over China and / hav,
acquired a few dialects. 1t is a cas-,
of gnat trying to swallow an ele
phant, and when you come to con-
slider the Oriental way of reasoning
things out you cease to wonder why
the Japs themselves cannot see JUS
exactly what they are doing. WheI
the Japs have finished with China, they
will have taught the Chinese a grea
deal about efficiency and strength.
China, under Jap tutelage, is going
to become a very powerful country
from a military standpoint. The sv'
erage Chinaman has as much use fol
a Jap as a German has for an English.
man. Given the right start, the Chi
nese will outstrip the Jsps in everJ
branch of science
| "It will be veritable renaissanc,
for the Chinese. No one can tell JUS
how soon the Chinese Giant will roll
over and crush the diminutive Jap.
do not believe that Japan will attemp
to attack the United States while ther,
is such good picking as China. The
Japs are going to make money Will,
! they can. because II is only a matte
of a few years before the Chinese will
be fully awake, and begin to do theil
own thinking and their own bossing
As 1t is now, China cannot help her
: self. In the meantime. let US witness
the education of the Chinese and Sc.
what happens when they get theil
diplomas and start out in the world.