New Britain herald. [microfilm reel] (New Britain, Conn.) 1890-1976, 1919-01-29

loo suspicious. For over half CEN
fury England has been making it a
cardinal point in her policy TO agree
with US.
George Bernard Shaw observes that
We cannot get far in discussing the
peace conference until we get rid of
the war legends. He adds:
The common soldier, who has 10
risk life and limb i'll the business, and
the common taxpayer and elector who
has to SUPPORT the soldier and main
tain the government in power, is never
trusted With the truth. He may not
be statesman enough to grasp it's
scope and Importance. He may not
he capable Of understanding it at all.
His marrow personal and parochial
morality might be revoltcd by it. 1t
is, therefore, deemed necessary to
present the war to him as q crude
melodrama in which his country Is the
hero and the enemy the villain
The present war is no exception to
this rule. The legend of the crimes
of Germany which has nerved millions
Of Britons and Americans Frenchm EN-
and Italians to devote themselves to
the destruction of German military
power through the wholesale slaugh-
ter of their fellow-creatures is no
truer than the counter-legend of the
crimes OF England which rallied mill
lions of Germans to the defense Of
their country by the same method,
Now that the war is over the legends
have served their purpose and must
! be discarded"
An extremely interesting statement
has been made by the president Of
China. as follows: If, unfortunately,
the proposed League of Nations fails
! to become a fact, the result will not
! only be that the world aspiration viii
remain unrealized, but that the Far
/ East may become the first region dan
| aerously affected 1t is our earnest
| hope that, seeing the calamity mill
| tarism has wrought in Europe, the
| powers will check the nordinatc am
| billions of militarists in every part OF
| the world"
| However, the Far East is not alone.
| The Serbs are fighting the Montene>
| grins; the Poles are fighting for ter
| ritory in all directions; the Czecho-
! Slovaks are warning the Austrian
! Germans that they are not to decide
! for them selves whether they will join
| Germany, etc. etc.-thus dramatically
| illustrating what We are coming to if
we do not fix up league of all thu
| great powers to keep the. world
| straight.
Meantime. public opinion in the
! United States moves. Various meet
| ings of significance including more ex-
| pressions by labor unions are being
! held constantly.
To the universities of the country 7
| would especially call attention to what
! Dart mouth has done. Hanover, New
| Hampshire the town in which Dart
! mouth is located, has organized
| branch of the League Of Free Nations
! association, having for its honorary
! president William J. Tucker, presi-
dent emeritus of the college, and for
its active president Erne est Martin
Hopkins, now president of the college.
The chairman of the executive COM
mittee is J. P. Richardson, head of the
department of political science and
active organizers We're Frank H,
Dixon, head of the departm ent of eco
nomics. and Herbert d. Foster, head
of the history department. Most Of
the faculty re members. A cable has
been sent to President Wilson de-
st.ribing he orga nzation and adding:
'i'leC}gc support to movement BE
Iievc il essential basis for Just settle
mont.
The colleges have a great field for
leadership in this international crisis.
Itx-President Tucker. in his letter Of
acceptance to the New Hampshire
state branch said:
And now the question is beginning
to press hard upon the Am erican con-
sciences: What is to be our attitude
toward the rising or struggling de-
mocracies of Europe" We cannot
avoid the conviction that we must in
some way take a responsible part in
che political reconstruction Of tho