The Washington times., 1919-01-26
Today
"SH" John pershne.
No More Submarines7
No More Stealing land7
Well, We Have Ours.
By ARTHUR BRISBANE.
CCOpyriGht. lSisD

peace conference statement
framed by President Wilson warns
nations that it will spoil their
chances if they take territory by
iorce instead of waiting for the
council to hand it out. This means
a violent change in human meth
DDS, for hitherto nations have got
whatever they possessed by force,
and by force only.
The Romans seized control of
the whole world by force. The
Saxons in England took land by
force from the earlier Basques.
Danes and others took it from
them. William the Conqueror took
the whole thing, laying the foun-
cations Of modern England.
Then England took Canada, In
dia, Egypt, Australia, New Zea-
land, South Africa, and other bits
Of territory here and there.
Our distinguished ancestors took
this continent from the Indians
and exterminated them in the
process. Caesar took France from
the heroic, fair-haired Gauls.
Japan took Korea from her
peaceful little people.
So it has always been, the pow
erful have seized territory, when
Alexander marched into Asia, as
when Columbus sailed for Amer
ica- And these seizures, brutal and
murderous in the beginning, have
made the world better. For in the
end intelligence won, conquered,
and possessed, and that was what
the world needed.
Is there 10 be, by nat of the
peace council, an eternal benen-
cent change in human methods?
Can that be brought about without
the submissive stagnation that
killed India and Egypt and made
them ready for British control?
Let rs hope 30. The world has
had enough of murder.
That violent changes in national
ways Of thinking are possible, over
night, you realize when you read
that thirty-four women have been
elected 10 sit in the national as
sembly and help make laws in Ger
many. Quite q change from the
Kaiser's motto "Krehe, Kueke,
Kinder" church, kitchen, children,
the only business of women.
There is nothing like q good
beating 30 make . man or nation
p thoughtful and ready to receive
new ideas England, victorious,
mas only one woman elected to
Parliament And she is in Jail.
We had one woman in Congress,
Miss Rankin, but high-spirited
American voters put her out at
he last election.
Who's Who" as published in
England, tells you about General
SIR ]. ]. Pershing." Perhaps
General Pershing didn't know that
when the King gave him the grand
cross of the Order of the Bath, he
gave him also the name Sir John
Pershing instead of plain General
or Mister. That "Sir" is a small
word, only three letters. But it
might make considerable differ
ence if General Sir John" should
run for President in the United
States.
The statement is made by Mr.
Swope in the New York World that
President Wilson recommends
destruction of all submarines now
aXisting and would forbid any
building Of submarines hereafter.
u is to be hoped that this report
nnisrepresents the President.
II any nation ever thought of at
tacking this country-and the
thing is not impossible-that ma
ton would have to come to us in
hips, and the attacking nation
would pray for one thing, that the
United States might have no SUBJ
marines to meet the attacking bat
tleships and troop ships. This
country had recently one expe-
rience in lack Of preparation for
war, and paid the profteers many
billions OF good dollars in conse-
1uence.
1t Is inconceiyable that the ma
uon should deliberately plan lack
Of preparation, that it should even
tolerate the suggestion to abandon
the submarine, the one weapon.
hacked and directed by the flying
machine, that would make il i'm
possible hereafter to attack this
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