New-York tribune., 1918-06-24

theirs to spend, to invest or to give
away as they please, but belong rather
to the commonwealth.
Among those who have made lot
of money recently sporadic aristo-
cratic tendencies seem to have de-
veloped. Titles" and "honors," once
tonsidered rather undemocratic, are
mot always refused. Yet those who
have accepted titles are still quite
democratic in their actions. although
1t seems that they should be arsto-
cratic under the circumstances. The
people who have not received any titles
seem amused at tse tendency.
But the good soldier men, who have
gained sor;e conception of what Ger
man aristocracy and bureaucracy are
like, may be inclined summarily to
vote down any tendencies toward class
distinction which may have grown dur
ing their absence. These Antipodean
lands of plenty, which seem as big as
all nature, must surely be destined
for a future as bright as that of our
own beloved democratic republic. They
possess an overwhelming majority of
fine, stra ght-up manhood and woman
hood unfettered by traditions Of fan
cied superiority of birth, wealth or
privilege. Australasans and Ameri-
cansthe mass of both, I mean-are
brothers and sisters in aspirations for
broader humanitarian progress and
ideal democracy. They should know
each other better. Simple descriptive
articles might we'll be exchanged and
given wide publicity. Tho average
Australasian, though he knows almost
as much about Great Britain as he does
about home, has only vague concep-
tion of the United States Of America.
One said to me, ooh, you're from the
States. Oh, my, it must be gay
country. But I think perhaps the
cinema films are ovcrdrawn and people
there are moro serious than they arc
pictured, aren't thcy?" l said. Eyes
we are quite tame and sensible in
reality"
We Americans, in turn, now know
a great deal about European countries
but we know next to nothing about
Japan, or about the progressive de-
mocraccs in the South Pacific that are
destined to take their place among
the leading nations of the world. Often
| in speaking Of New Zealand to some
of my countrymen I have met blank
stare and final query, "Ncw Iceland!
i Is that on the map?" or Don't canni-
balls live there" Yet the civilized
world has besn putting New Zealand
remedial legislation on its tatute books
more than decade.
No Ally Is
An. 'lnsular
Would it not be best for all of US
to try to think every day in interna-
tional terms-now that most of the
world is banded together for the COM
mon welfare against the agressions of
the Antichrist that he's made its ava
tar in the person of Wilhelm Hohen-
zollern? We are now citizens of the
world-the civilized world as repre-
sented by our allies and ourselves.
Our horizon is no longer limited by the
Atlantic and the Pacific. No ally can
be called "insular."
Germany and her confederates are
so isolated, SO centralized, so massed
that they might be said to have CO.
hesiveness. The Allies are so widely
scattered and know so little Of each
other that we should all work con-
; stantly to spread better understand
, ing Of their characteristics, and we
should tell the truth, and not repeat
untruths that may have been circulated
! by the enemy or by commercial op-
ponents. There is not the slightest
vital difference to-day in the aspira-
tions of France, Japan, Great Britain.
Italy, Australia, Canada, New Zealand
and other Allies.
The first step, the primer lesson, is
ITO get big map and study it for
days. New Zealand and New England
will be seen to be about as far from
each other as they could be, but their
people are very much alike, and one
can discover that fact in less than two
hours Of careful library reading. 1t
is easy to understand the Japanese
after reading "Brinkley" After that
there is no excuse for the idle talk and
the wild assertions that some of us
have heard and read. Italy has always
been intensely ro-American, as those
who have taken time to study that
country know. England and France
have no difficulty in understanding US.
Poor Russia, torn and bleeding as a
result of the revolution against ages
Of aristocratic and bourgeois oppres-
sion, will, believe. emerge from the
control of the extremists exactly as
France emerged from the Reign of
Terror"