Evening star., 1919-02-25
Trained zone Way"


One of our American humorists,
meeting the criticism that Amer
lean soldiers were not trained long
as long to train an American SOL
dier as any other. because You only
have to train him one way, and
he did only go one way. and he
never came back unti1 he could do
it when he pleased"
And now do you realize that tnis
confidence we have established
throughout the world imposes a
burden upon us-if you choose TO
call it a burdene 1t is one of those
burdens which any nation ought
to be proud to carry. Amy man
who resists the present tides that
run in the world will find himself
thrown upon q shore SO high and
barren that 1t will seem as X he
had been separated from his
human kind forever.
The Europe that left the other
day was full of something that It
had never felt fill It's heart so full
before. It was full of hope. The
Europe Of the second year or the
war, the Europe of the third year
of the war, was sinking to sort
did not see any great thing to be
achieved even when the war
should be won. They hoped there
would be some salvage; they hoped
that they could clear their terri
tories of invading armies; they
hoped they could set up their
homes and start their industries
afresh. But they thought it would
simply be the resumption of the
old life that Europe had led-led
in fear, led In anxiety, led in con-
slant suspicious watchfulness:
They never dreamed that 1t would
be = Europe of settled peace and
Of JUSTIFIED hope $50.
And now these ideals have
wrought this new magic. that all
the peoples of Europe are buoyed
nm and confident in the spirit OF
hope. because they believe that we
are at the eve of a new age in
the world when nations VIII un-
derstand one another, when ma
tions will support one anotne. IN
every Just cause, when NATIONS
will mite every moral and every
physical strength to see that the
right shall prevail.
America Hope Of World.
rf America were at this junction
to fail the world, what would come
Of IL, I do not mean any dfsre-
spect to any other great people
when say that America is the
hone of the world. ana II she does
not justify that hope the results
are unthfnkable. Men Will be
thrown back upon the bitterness OF
disappointment not only, but the
bitterness Of despair. All nations
will be set up as hostile camps
again: the men at the peace con-
ference will go home with their
heads upon their breasts, knowing
that they have failed-for they
were hidden not to come home from
there until they did something
more than sign a treaty OF peace.
Suppose we sign the treaty OF
peace and that 1t is the most salts
factory treaty OF peace that the
confusing elements of the modern
world viii AFFORD and so homo and
think about our labors. we will
know that we have left written
upon the historic table at YER
sailles, upon which vergennes and
Benjamin franklin wrote their
names, nothing but modern scrap
of paper. No nations united to de-
fend it, no great forces combined
to make II good. no assurance given
to the down -trodden and fearful
people OF the world that they shall
be safe Any man who thinks that
America will take part in giving
the world any such rebuff and dis
appointment as that does not know
America