South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1919-01-22
Other Editors Than Our,
THE MISTAKES OF MOSES.
saturday Evening POsf.l

Years Bob Ingersoll had lecture that delighted
an enthusiastic following of agnOstcs. 1t called
Some Mistakes Of Moses But in his anxiety discredi
the lawgiver Bob overlooked vital point In spite
all his mistakes Moses brou GIT back the from Sinai
greatly the moral profit of his people And in the
face of that achievement one except Bob and his
fellow knockers attached any special importance TO
the mistakes OF Moses.
With all his achievement Prest Wilson has very
generous list of mistakes o debit but we do
believe that he France hear the bands play
him down the Champs Elysees and the populace
out welcome. If he made mistake in going made
greater in not telling the American people just
why he went. But if he brings back what fought
for many mistakes can be forgiven him.
To anyone who could read between the lines of
foreign press dispatches during late November and
early December the compelling motive that took the
president fairly clear. anyone who talk
ed with well-informed pro-American Americans
turning from Europe at the same time the
crystal clear. Whether the president might
eXerted greater influence from America is another
question There possible advantages and quite obv
embarrassments arising from his being in France.
the military censorship lifted the armistice
the political censorship settled down like fog bank
between America and Europe and between Paris and
people the allied countries Americans were
kept i'll total ignorance of what really going on
abroad We walked aroundin a soft blue of sent-
mentality, without the slightest notion powerful
dictionary influences at work trying shape up
advance a peace that would their liking The
things for which and the people of the allied
tries had fought in grave danger being lost in
all SO busy being pro-Brtsh pro-French. pro-Italian
and pro- Belgian that time for being
pro American where national interests were in
volved. Things had reached the point among our ex-
patriates-the and form Of cootie-and in
certain home circles that TO be pro-American was
really bad form These folk were tiptoeing round with
finger lip, whispering Hush" whenever anyone so
far forgot his manners. BY reducto ad absurdum
unpatriotic hint any word or action Of
one allies could absolute perfec-
ton In short 1t OF soothing sirup
We need good strong reaction 20 common sense.
There is plenty Of it about among the allies. 1t is
time for to recognize facts and to weigh them calm
lly and saney. Among other things have done
silly stun about forgving the nations
their borrowings from us They do not want it. and
our head talk about II humiliating to them
las hard-headed business men. Besides. when get
through settling bills abroad-and we have paid
our literally. even prodigaly-the balance in our
favor Will not je large OF think. All this
of agitation simply tends nullfy the good
preston that the work done by Hoover and the Red
Cross created There is and there should be limit
what individuals give through the Cross to
alleviate actual want and suffering in Europe That
is the to express our sympathy and to
tend help.
Much of our nonsense and hysteria is the direct
result OF censorship and the consequent Withholding
the truth aboU: conditions from the people tner
time in the history OF the world when there
should be pitiless publicity uncensored press
an table and the whole truth whole
world. this is the time. There must be no scrambng
spos old fashioned hog peace. every ma
ton crowdng get its feet in the trough-and there
viii be no peace or that sort If the who did
lighting know what is going The soldiers OF the
entente and OF America laid down their lives for an
ideal And any peace that is not made in the omen
involves secret understandings and agreements that
distributes spoils and that is guarded by league
OF teeth-is simply a new,
and unthinkaby horrible war-a 10 be preceded
for for the others by CONSUMPTION competitive
ornaments by everything that fought TO escape,
by the sacrifice of everything that has America
the worthwhile country in the world. Unless
IS than likely such peace is followed by a
world uprising Of the deceived overburdened PEG
plea blind plunge from the age-long deviltrie,
kngmade and politican-made into the bloody ev
cesses anarchy and bOlshevism
III there the slightest danger that the peace con-
ference may become congress OF Vienna the people
every should know the facts Any secrecy in
settling the affairs OF the world would be the great
rretrievable mistake With fully informed public
behind them. there is little doubt that the allied and
American leaders who working for just and
permanent peace VIII triumph the reactionaries.