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South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1919-02-09
INDIAN EMPIRE is
BRITAIN'S CHIEF CONCERN.

Now the chief of Great Britain empire
is India India begins at Gibraltar and at least extends
Hong To protect India, that Turkey is
eliminated it will be necessary deal with MesopOta
mia and Palestine and Syria just it generation
deal With Egypt Unless there be
system devised which divides responsibility for the main
tenance of states like syria and Mesopotamia and Ar
menia and strategic points like Constantnope England
will have to take most of them protect India, else
surrender of them states who develop colo
MES of their the vital pathway 10 the Near
East The Englishman nearer TO such adjust
ment before the world war than any other European
He hopes that the of Nations will place
the United states the mandatory of the great powers
in COnstantnOple in Asia Minor and in Central Africa
HIS ambition is not TO take German territory but to
German territory from returning Germany.
becoming for him burden beyond his resources.
Very frankly, therefore Great Britain at Paris is
using the League CT Nations and the association Of
America supply guarantees and buttresses for the
immediate and not too encouraging future She feels
herself not strong enough add to her burdens.
colossal the imperial side before the which in
itself exhausted such alarming fraction of her
sources in men and money she feels that alone
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1919-02-09
SOMEONE MUST
TAKE UP AIANDATORIES.

Now must take az, these manufactures The,
United States through Mr. Wilson has steadily opposei
the whole OF bargain secret treaties special ar
engagements. etc, made before entered the war
which would assign of these regions to several
great powers: IL 90 by the board then
by virtue of wilson's formula applied by the Paris
conference. France is have syria neither Eng
land France is TO have Armenia, neither Englan,s
France italy have the German colonies i'm
Africa; then the whole question thrown open again
and nothing is more certain than that Europe viii cali
to accept the responsibility for these
foundlings
Now British policy all this worked with great
astuteness. 1t has analysed what Mr.. Wilson really
wanted as contrasted with what people thought h.
wanted; it has brought its ables its
noblest and its wickedest men 10 Paris II has ac-
cepted Mr. Wilson'S League Of Nations it has pacii-
cally penetrated il and has degree persuaded
Wilson that what he really wanted the thing that
going emerge. this is of the real triumphs
Of the peace conference.
it plain that there are many difficulties in the
way The first peril, that the president might make
demands which the British government could
sent to- has disappeared. The president has shown
himself reasonable, conciatory, lacking even in
plan or has own clearly thought out thrown back
the defensive for certain ideas thus brousht
cept system which the follows British ideas
but will this idea and this plan be accepted by the
United VIII the adopl
Armenia Cameroun Liberia? VIII the
agree United states become mandatory for
League OF Nations anywhere thus breaking up
cient policy and abandoning its time-honored trad
tons?
II the senate does not then all arrangements up
at the Paris peace conference go by the board
unquestionaby be guarantee against in the future
within limits It will have beneficial effect upon the
world the principles expressed will much
do with the facts that developed in making
tons which the English and Americans agreed
upon amounts to Anglo-American alliance. And its
British empire existed and been the contrbu-
ton of Englishmen.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1919-02-09
THE THANKSGIVING LOAN. "

GARTER GLASS, secretary of the treasury, says
- the forthcoming Victory loan might we'll be
ed the Thanksgiving Loan" because IL people
had for thanksgiving, the people
1t is a happy thought. And while it would hardly
profit change it's official designation, may
well be undertaken in a genuine spirit of national
thanksgiving.
The is over, far than any reasonable
American expected. The n and
money far smaller than could have been expected
Congress is now, the secretary says. writing off
fifteen billions os dollars expenditure
which had been authorized, and which would had
spent. with billions more if the had gone
another year. In the the government will
only ask for about one-thrd of that saved fifteen
billions
capital available now, whether for
public private purposes, than before. In
way in far better shape than of allies,
Of in UNNECESSARILY better shape than the
enemies whose criminal aims foiled
The has ended in complete victory, and the VIC
tory is now being Paris a constitu-
ton of peace and league of nations that be
expected prevent any recurrence of the tragedy.
ought easy raise the next loan. II will be.
people not hopelessly ungrateful for their
blessings and blind to their opportunities.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1919-02-09
DIFFERENCES HAVE
NOT REALLY EXISTED.

It is not accurate to think Of the British as opposing
Americans in the matter Of the League o. Nations
any point. Difference OF opinion between Americans
and British the League Of Nations does exist.
and has not actually existed BY contrast IL has been
the British who have the Nations after
the project had been brought Europe BY Wilson.
and when Il seemed less doomed. British pol
frankly seeks American cooperation, British
frankly recognizes that IL Will never again be
within the power OF Great Britain, II there
desire. 10 challenge America in in Theirs
are thousands Englishmen TO whom this thing Is
of calculation but matter OF instinct, these
in Ango-Amercan friendship the realization OF life
long But il is essential realize that along
side OF this IS the working Of intelligent clarvoyanr
policy. The English unlike the French chained
fixed problems, and some fixed solution Of
many problems. They do not like the French have
TO insist any neutral along the Rhine the
destruction Of German strategic railroads the lower
MoseIle. They able and sield where they
choose they have with great Welded
great skill and adroitness got around any
difficulty hitherto 4 quarrel between the British and
the Americans is impossible. the British arc
concerned. The League Nations Is inevitable Tor.
while il IS experiment in idealism for America.
a fixed doctrine OF foreign policy hereafter with Great
Britain, the possible from the
den, great and bound become greater in tfA
without increasing pontical complications
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1919-02-09
NAVAL ARMAMENT.

There is more frendness in congress toward the big
navy plan than might have been expected. The house
committee has reported with its unanimous
prevail threeyear construction plan providing for
the spending of $75OOOO,OOO a year warships
The measure likely TO pass the house.
winning public approval too. its purpose be-
comes better understood. II is a contradic
ton American peace policy. but a measure
meant TO strengthen world peace; not threat
against Britain, but program of selfrespect
ing preparation for bearing equal part with Great
Britain guaranteeing the freedom of the and
making effective the mandates OF the world peace
league.
It costs money. but additional year OF
everybody expected would have cost far Any
war hereafter would far We AFFORD
the money And in the end may billions by IT,
The measure is not committing the country
permanent policy OF big
pected that when the league of nations has begun
to function smoothly. II may within a few years.
such big ornaments will longer pc needed even
for policing purposes
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1919-02-09
NO PROHIBITION FOR TOBACCO.

II HE world probably be entirely free
L fanatics. All right in their sphere frequently the
beginning OF great movements and valuable agita-
tors Neither are they always the church.
As instance. a professor of Syracuse
university proposing TO organize a Tobacco league
neither the might suggest. to make everybody
smoke but rather follow after national prohibition
Of the the liquor traffic national prohibition o.
smoking also. In like the president of the
w. c. r. L. of Cleveland is quoted saying that
organization planning conduct active anti
narcotic canp aign in the county this year"
such acts end utterances naturally tend
Indignation the hearts smokers. Possibly
much is being made Of them Some temperance work
charge this anti-tobacco publicity
deliberate attempt the part OF the liquor
e.scredit prohbition,-and inclined
The liquor men have found number dupes in very
respectable society
DR.. Clarence T. Wilson. general secretary of the
board Of temperance, prohibition and public morale
Of the Methodist Episcopal church. takes this
sic condemns:
The desperate effort the outawed liquor
trafhc make credulous people believe that
victorious prohibitionists will demand
constitutional amendment against tobacco. not
TO mention dancing and failure attend We'd
nesday evening prayer meeting"
While insisting that the tobacco habit is a bad one
particularly Tor young people that effects
should De brought nome 10 the youth OF the nauon
he desire prohibit it. because tobacco
is not so bad in its effects as alcohol. and
The tobacco business has corrupted
politics bought Journalism. tried remake
the country in the image OF Germany allied
itself with prostitution and gambling as the
beer business did"
Get that II marks the distinction between sense and
insanity
1t is well that this assurance is given time may
come. may ardently desired when tobacco
go way OF but mankind is not yet evolved
10 the requisite enlightenment self-sac-
llhce
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1919-02-09
PLAN CAMPAIGN FOR SOCIAL
DEMOCRACY BY NEGOTIATING
YOUNGSTERS AT THE Y. M. c. A.

-CHE South Bend Y. NJ. c. A. IS pursuing a
policy this year that decided step the
right direction. Beginning with the father and
son" banquet Thursday night open to every
father and SON in the city regardless Of memberships
the plan make the boys department especially
club house speak for all the boys Of city.
The boys department be decidedly democratized.
Now wait a minute mama, Do think that it will
hurt your nicely dressed, China doed Johnny, to rub
elbows with occasional plain Bill who knows he
significance Of work or the feeling Of dirt 1t will do
him good. besides. the day is coming when
'ninnies." neither young old. will much Of any
place in society--and particularly any society
bears the label Christian
And il isn't any bolshevik movement either 1t is the
beginning Of the popularization Of who works:
he psychologizng society with recognition Of
fact that work honorable in than words,
hat the worth. even among boys isn't in
The fullness Of somebody's pocketbook.
iastness OF the boys character.
We right ready TO congratulate the Y NJ c.
the reformation that it has in mind It is positively
the right direction particularly an Industrial
such south Bend is. especially antici-
patton Of the growth that confront
We more expansions and determinations of
order.
sort OF thing that will save America from
bolsheviksm. instead OF breeding it, it builds
social democracy. necessary condition precedent
10 industrial democracy social jusce-the lack OF
which the very foundation of bolsheviksm.
u America emerging from this world the cham
pion democracy is step forth the face o
the world. the gigantic hypocrite upon which
heavens shone have got begin to prac-
tce what preach.
The local Y. NJ c. A. apparently has caught the
spirit Unlike many other American institutions in
stead OF hanging onto the old order social snobbery
is making ready sidetrack it. and a very
srable Its plan is evolutionary, rather than
dictionary. setting boys with
The order and let them grow manhood with
today to be the Of tomorrow, you expect
them to have a different regard for each other,
ognizng their Heterogeneous
South affairs should get solidly back o
boys department reformation a the NJ. c. A.
rather expansion. It will fill considerable
niche the plans that the reception
growing population and will equally good for
boys already here the plant. 1t is
ony question OF broad minded and humanity serving
utility; a scheme that bears 6ut well that old saying
that "the less Christian you pretend to be the
Christian you are"
In other words the service that should from
the Y NJ C A. should be o repeti-
OF the name. but the performance of real Chris
such thing Christian democracy, to reverse
it: a thing democratic Christianity. Indeed,
there be other
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1919-02-09
WAR HAS CHANGED
BRITISH POSITION.

British policy has been actuated by the very frank
recognition that the changed the whole posi-
ton Of Great Britain world The costs in men,
deeply the effects Of the submarine warfare
phase of years desperate campaign have
left their marks the Englishmen. Therefore
turning TO the Leasue OF Nations he turns 20 something
which for him does merely have ideastic Ut5-
plan value but practical and solid value IN a world
organized under the League of Nations the British
pire would escape of its difficult problems
future and would be assured Of its maximum OF
security in the time that is il is far
Great Britain than of France OF Italy
concerns are European mainly. after all French and
policies therefore far less professionally
by the Of Nations question British
Both will be dragged along the French will make tho
necessary contribution Of clarity and logic but ths
League Of Nations is going TO be AngiO-AmerlcaH
experiment. There would be such experiment Il
British policy had adopted Mr.. Wilson's purpose
translated that purpose solid of scheme
plan put behind It the resources of the
skiIfu diplomats the world acutely alive
issue stake. British policy upon
and ceded everything which the president
persuade their colonies abandon reasonable
claims German soil. They have been ubiquitous i'm
helping everywhere. The League Of Nations project
danger: and il is the conception Of the British
that the future belongs in great measure America.
that cooperation with America is Of the utmost impor
the British empire and that any solution Of the
Paris conference which misses this Will be total dis
aster for Britain.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1919-02-09
Copyright. 1879

PARIS. Feb. 3.-Last 1 discussed at length
basis of French policy expressed at the Paris
conference indicating that the chief OF
France provide security the north against
possible new German British policy
pressed at the peace conference somewhat less
simple seeks various objects indirectly.
Above all else. British policy at the peace confer
ence is based upon a Interpretation of the world
by British craftsmanship and diplomacy. One ought
10 say at the outset that Britain incomparably
better represented at Paris on the technical
the diplomatic side any the other great
powers There are more brains and better brains
in the British than any other.
brains are concentrated clearly thought pro-
gram.
The lessons of the have been clearly under
stood by British statesmen than BY any other; they
alone realize the relations of the great
have changed. decisive role peace
belongs America for precisely the that
Great Britain held it often in the past. We have
relatively fresh upon the stricken field We
are strong, lighting as otherwise There
fore necessary America British policy
accepted this situation skilfuly. keynote o
policy that there shall break any
kind between America and England, that every
ceivabie concession shall be made, large small
the political contrasted with economic phase,
the end that Ango-American relations and Anglo
American Friendship may be placed a solid
future. In the matter the League Nations
the thing little than vague formula.
after Wilson had outlined his IA points the
when the president came to Europe it became
the mission British work out the presidents
and give them form. them conference; and
they done this. Later will be the French
TO hold and make them ineligible by translation
the French language
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1919-02-09
British Policy At the Conference

do almost impossible task of creating League of
Nations and have had not one, but half a dozen
plans originating amongst the British statesmen all
aiming to transform Mr.. Wilson's idea into European
machinery.
If British had accepted Mr.. Wilson'S League
Nations idea, if they had undertaken part
of the task OF bringing it down from the clouds to
concrete ideas there would been much chance
for that scheme Paris; British
keen enough to see Ist that Prest Wilson desired it
second that their people desired third that
they failed to render substantial and necessary aid
TO bring il Of they would be criticised home and
suspected abroad.
Now the scheme of the League of Nations which the
British have formulated which, with certain essential
but not numerous notifications viii be advocated 5y
Prest Wilson, seeks preserve certain Influences in
the world. 1t is designed certain things IL
the world. Before this great conflict came England
had reached point of saturatiOn in The matter OF i'm
perial expansion Her great problem had become to
20 increase and the burden of her empire
and heavily felt domestic conditions
foreshadOwed complete transformation home.
Germany struck at the moment when she believed
that both domestic problems and imperial problems
would combine insure her She failed but
her failure she transformed many conditions
she upset the world that existed she has
three continents with ruins of the ancient systems
which must be revised.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1919-02-09
The Returning Soldier and Industry

found ourselves in a sort of between the acts"
period, with neither a peace basis to oper-
ate from, pending the signing of the treaties.
Millions on millions of dollars of war supplies,
of various orders, with hundreds upon hundreds of
firms, were In process of manufacture that had to
be stopped.
The administration, responding to a popu-
lar demand that the "red tape" be cut, and prep
arations "speeded up had "cut'' it, and these
manufacturers found themselves with lot of con-
tracts their hands, made by wire, others
by exchange correspondence, but without the bind
ing authority on the part of the government to
sure them just compensation for their preparations
and disappointment
The president went before congress, urged the
ratification of these contracts, and authority to
iquidate them peace basis, but it appears that
congress, the red tape" once cut, and the speed
ing up" process put in motion, really did not want
it so bad as it had previously walled
1t is still flirting with the problem, it firted
for long with the revenue bills and mean
while industry and particularly those ndustralists
that would be affected, are standing some Of them
able to readjust themselves,-whie congress par
leys on, meddling with pretty much everything
save its own business.
GIVE industry chance. Let it know what its
NJ taxes will be, that transportation will be
available under some process that it calculate
from the government squarng itself and encou-
aging business as it should, within the bounds of
reason-and there will be plenty Of work for the
soldiers and everyone else.
Il isn't necessary either to endow industry
with the privilege Of wholesale robbery any
bounteous gratis.
The business is here, there and everywhere, and
industry will go after it, fast feel It's way.
You talk about period of mrest''and dol
shevili possibilities" The unrest isn't
much that of the proletariat as It is that of the
putocrat capital is the most mrestful, and the
biggest coward earth, pessnnistic, and even
sometimes nihilistic when adversely looms UP IN
the distance.
We go back on a peace basis much more
readily than we left it If we will. The machinery
of peace was not destroyed but only slowed away,
and frequently only diverted to
Let stop humbugging and being hunbugged.
Our peace machinery needs only to be set up and
started. Ii Is quite intact-and need the sol
ders that are coming back to operate If.
The soldier wasn't the problem IN the war. We
were. We knew he would do his part If we fur
nished him with the sinews, and thus we had
Liberty loan, War Savings stamp, Red Cross and
other drives and the problem was to keep him
going.
We did it. but we were his-the soldiers-
problem then. and we are his problem now.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1919-02-09
BY FRANK II. SLlNONDS

among the powers in the world the Americans could
take over portion of these burdens without threat
ening British safety
Therefore. from the first moment after I reached
Europe heard on al sides from Englshmen tho
same formula II was the duty OF Americans to square
their principles with their words apply the humanity,
and idealism which was instinct in Mr. wilson's
speeches. to stand ready to do part in the world to
bring order and justice and liberation at tho
proper time TO the oppressed nations
The British view of the League Of Nations which
viii prevail has already envisased system of manda
tories by which the respective great powers undertake.
the guardianship OF waste unhappy regions 81 ha
earth, responsible TO the Nations on the on,
hand but authorized administer the regions Of TIA,
other.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1919-02-09

7 UNEMPLOYMENT ought to be in the
United States the cebergs at the equator.
This talk of the returning soldier being a
problem is only the squayvk of scarecrow The
problem is the returning soldier. Il Is the de-
signing politician and, in partial consequence, the
cowardly ndustrialist.
The returning soldier is only two million of our
twenty million workmen at the most,-and we
all either workmen, or leeches, and If leeches in
fnitely more of problem than the who
works.
The soldier is not coming back in the least ex-
of the number who away and If the
casualty lists read true there are numbers of them,
up in the tens and twenties of thousands who will
never return at all.
The idea that he is to double dependent
population, or that he is to become public charge
to be hurried off to work the next morning, fear
full else they may for a moment fail to their
WAYS magniying molehi into mountain.
The big postwar problem is not the returning
soldier. Instead of his being burden he is the
reserve force that will put the country cover the
top" if industry, and the politicians, will let him.
Industry is the problem, and partisanshp-as
entrenched at Washington-is the stumbling
block; the industrialist uncertain to what to do
ana, the politician afraid to let him do It-eSt he
do it well, and therefore, without partisan advan-
tage.
I Use of the term Reconstruction" in this coun-
~ try, as an "after the war; necessity is a
misnomer. The only thing have to reconstruct
is some shattered limbs, broken bones-wounded
soldiers. To that extent the soldier is problem
and to that extent only.
The term we mean to is ''readjustment"
and industry would have that job pretty well under
way had congress only done its part, and done it
promptly it must eventually do it anyhow-in-
stead of poutng, pareying and pill-blasting about
peace conferences which are of its present
business.
When America entered the war we were
prepared. No question about that. AS nation
of peace it to credit. We have not been
hypocritical m that. at least. We have not been
declaring for peace while like Germany and Eng
land, literally breaking our necks in preparing for
However, the came and we had to prepare;
did prepare. We shifted from peace to a
basis IN one, two, twenty and-two months, with
speed that surprised US less than anyone else.
Them all of sudden, firing ceased" and we
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1919-02-09
BRITISH LINE UP
SQUARELY WITH PRESIDENT.

But the fact that il is worth while notice is
that, recognizing that America committed to the
League of Nations and that Prest Wilson about
make fight for it, and suffer material loss
prestige home the project in form
adopted Paris, British have squarey lined them
selves up with the president They have undertaken