Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1917-12-01
Plea Is Made for Sympathetic
Understanding of Great Brit
ain by America; Heads
Rhodes Scholarship Trust,
UNITED STATES AND
ENGLAND BEAR BURDEN
Italy Has Only Man Power;
France Declining in Strength
and Russia Out Of It; PERISH
ing Has Half Million Men.

DIR. George R. Parkin, one of Great
Britain's most distinguished citizens,
organizing secretary of the Rhodes
Scholarship trust, as guest of the Ro-
tarians yesterday, delivered an ad-
dress interpretative or the British
government and intended to clear up
misunderstanding between the peo-
pie of the United States and the
mother country" DIR. Parkn was in
troduced by DR.. Boyd, president of
the university, who invited him to
the club luncheon.
Although born in Canada, DR..
Parkin is typicaliy English. He is tall
and angular and facially reminds one
of the picture of Arthur Balfour. He
is an able speaker, and knows his sub
ject with thoroughness that cam-
mands the attention of his hearers
from first to last Without the slight
est artificialty, he is eloquent.
The most impressive statement in
DR.. Parkin's address was that on the
shoulders of Great Britain and her
colonies and upon the shoulders of
the United States rests the security of
the world against autocracy. He said
Russia was out of the reckoning just
now, though he believed the time
would come when the great Slavic
people would find themselves and
that in the revolution that overthrow
the czar eventually democracy would
he found 10 have made probably its
greatest single stride.
France Has Passed Zenith.
To France DR.. Parkin paid a glow
ing tribute, but the gallant country,
he said had reached if not passed,
her zenith. Her man power and her
material resources had been drawn
upon terribly for more than three
years. 1t was she, with the assistance
of the little British army that stop
ped the Germans on the Marine and
saved freedom, even civilization, to
the world.
While the French forces were being
wasted by war Great Britain was
bringing into the field vast army.
All told that army now numbers mill
gagged solely in war work brings the
British forces up to seventeen mill
lions. When the United States had
subscribed her first two billions to
the war fund, Great Britain had al
ready raised and expended twenty-one
billions.
Italy, the speaker said, is without
coal or copper and has only man pow
er for the war, and the Belgians, Serb
ians and the Rurnanians have been
crushed ruthlessly and their resources
appropriated to the uses of the en-
emy.
Hence the burden of finishing the
war successfully now rests chiefly on
the United States and Great Britain,
and as Great Britain was bringing
her every resource into the struggle,
the United States must make an in
finity of preparation and throw her
full weight against the enemy.
100000 Americans in France.
This war, DR.. Parkin said, was un-
like any other war in the prepara-
ton and training required. There are
now about 100000 Americans in
France, and only a few of them have
gone on the firing line, because to
put men unframed in modern war
on the front would be murder. For
that reason the Americans, on the adj
vice of British and French officers,
are undergoing preparation back of
the fighting lines while the French
soldiers, who have been on the front
for more than three years are still
doing the fighting in the trenches.
But, said DR.. Parkin, the Americans
and the British must end the war.
Also they must largely shape the pol
icies of the world after the war, and
they must act in unison for the pres
ervation of that democracy for which
so much blood and treasure have
been spent.
After briefly explaining the pur-
pose of the Rhodes scholarship, by
which two American young men from
each state are all the time in oxford
university at the expense of the
Rhodes trust, DR.. Parkin launched
into a discussion of the misunder-
standing in this country of the Brit
ish people and the British govern
ment He said his mission in America
was to create sympathy, instead of
antipathy, between the two great
branches of the English speaking
people.
Prejudices Answered.
The first prejudice which DIR.
Parkin took occasion to correct was
the prejudice in the American mind
inherited from the revolutionary war.
He said the American people seemed
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