Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1917-04-24
ENTRY Of j. S. INTO
GREAT CONFLICT ENDS
JAP AMERICAN PERIL
Expert Says Entire Attitude
Between This Nation and
Orient Will Be Changed as
Direct Result
By G.. CHARLES HODGES
Assistant in History at Stanford Uni
cersity and Expert on Oriental Affairs.

Assistant in History at Stanford Uni
cerstty and Expert on Oriental Affairs.
SAN FRANCISCO, Cal, April 81
| Americas entrance into the war against
Germany and, as an ally of the allies,
eliminates the possibility of belligerent
action on the part of Japan against the
United States within the next decade.
1t further means the death knelI Of
anti-Japanese legislation in the United
States, at least for the time being.
For the duration of the war. be IL
months or years, America and japan are
side by side united against the world
menace of Germany victorious
But this will not end with the laying
down of arms. The effects of our ac
lions being taken today will last through
the next generation. The future Of
America on the Pacific Is hanging in the
balance.
TWO COURSES OPEN.
The United States has to choose be-
tween two courses.
First, while aiding the allies to The
height OF our national power. we still
can hold aloof from them and refuse to
bind ourselves to their aims and pur-
poses
Secondly. on the other hand we can
go into the struggle as much bound to-
the allies in Japau.
the whole future of American-Japanese
relations changes.
No longer can Idaho raise UP the alien
land question. Anti-Japanese agita-|
ton i'm Oregon cannot be reopened The
Pacific frontier will have to curb it's dis
likes The nation will have to look upon
the Nipponese in new light-for Japan
can no longer be danger to America on
the Pacific.
CHINA-THE MEETING GROUND.
VIII China, looking to the United
States ever for guidance, follow our
footsteps and come into the allies too?
For should China, like America, join
the world powers now arrayed against
Germany and her allies, Japan could not
but be profoundly affected. Japan would
have to play fair with her neighbour.
There could be no longer any grounds
for Japan repeating her attempts to eX-
and China's resources.
tend her suzerainty over the Chinese
If both China and the United States
work with the allies, Japan will be on
new footing.
America and Japan would cooperate
in bringing China's huge riches to bear
upon the fight against the Teutons.
American money and enterprise would
have to work in cooperation with
Japanese. Instead of the United States
and the Nipponese looking al each 9TH
err with suspicion across helpless China,
we would be shoulder to shoulder. with
the Nipponese in helping China do her
part i'm the world struggle.
COOPERATION WOULD OUTLAST
WAR
This would be an economic alliance
which would outlast the war.
American millions. American steel.
American leaders of industry, would
continue to flow to China-land of UNI
measured future-but they would be
side by side with Japan. Thus China
would bind Japan to us in bonds of a
common stake.
But Japan must keep her hands off
China. The United States, entering on
this war for the cause Of humanity,
will not become a fellow-plunderer of
China. American cooperation means
the end of demands like those forced
on China in l915-the abandonment or
the vision of shin Nippon" spreading
along the east.
If we do not join the allies, the United
States will stand helpless.
Though the friend of Japan because
Of a common enemy in Germany, the
United States would be atone on the
Pacific. Japan will be paid for her aid
TO the allies on the Pacific Unless we
have a seat in the peace conference,
hand in settling up these accounts. we
will have nothing to say about this.
We have a vital concern in the fate
of the erstwhile German islands of the
Pacific These cut across our highway
of empire into the east. leaving the
PHILIPPINES at the mercy of the nation
owning these Micronesian islands. They
have great value in the economic future
of this part of the Pacific.
Momentous as are the reasons for go
inc TO war in the Atlantic. the greater
significance for the future of America
lies on the Pacific.
We have the opportunity which comes
once to every nation.
Safeguarding our interests by joining
the allies, we can give friendly aid TO
China, cooperate with Japan-the hand
of amity which will steady Japan in
her work OF helping her Chinese neigh
Dor
The United States must take steps
to insure us a place in the peace con-
ference-not because OF any interest in
the changing the map OF Europe or
moving pawns in Africa, save the con-
Germ of peace; but because this action
forced upon America by events in the
western half OF the world is most vital
to our posterity looking across the Pa
cihc
We must see to 1t that the Pacific
comes under the protection of the Unit |
ed States and those neighbors whose |
way is that OF peace-not the stakes |
Of empire