Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1920-01-27

reservations, anu dShS IHe SuSo-OloNo "
give definite reply" before the end of the
week. In other words, the supreme effort
is not supreme, and the Slavs are asked to
make super-supreme effort in the hope Of
getting somewhere before the guns begin
their work.
The influence of bad habit is notably
shown in this tapgle. After fourteen months
of debate over the Adriatic, preceded by
year of informal discussions, neither side
can bring itself to regard any proposal from
the other as being more than point OF de-
parture for further argument; nothing is ac-
ceped as final, and when the most menacing
uItimatum is laid down its recipients regard
it as merely another bid in the amending pro-
cess of bargain. But it cannot continue for
ever: some time there must be an end, and
the possibility of very bad end is always
present.-NEW YORK TIMES lind. Dem.)
OPENING RUSSIA TO AMERICAN TRADE
The interest of the United States in the
new diplomatic departure is sufficiently plain.
Russia desires to buy the manufactured
products of the world and to self#gast guam
titles of raw materials which have been &C
cumulAting during the last four or five years.
Russia offers an enormous market for ma
chinery, tools, locomotives, rails, automobiles,
agricultural implements, textiles, clothing,
rubber goods, chemicals and great variety
of other products produced here In ex
change, Russia has to offer certain amount
of gold besides materials like hemp,
hides, flax and other products which this
country is prepared to buy. The fact is uni
versally recognized that the most pressing
economic need of Russia is transportation.
The empire as it was before the war had an
area of 100000 square miles, or about one
sixth Of the surface of the earth, while it's
railroad system included only $4,000 miles,
or one-tenth of that of the United States.
When Russian railroads were built the chief
subject of attention was their strategic value,
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nary freight transportation being a secondary
consideration. In several cases the railways
pass cities at distance of several miles, and
less efficient system either for industrial de-
velOpment or the utilization Of the latent
agricultural and mineral resources of the
country could hardly be imagined. For the
conveyance of the accumulated stocks of food
stuffs and raw materials to the nearest ship
ping point there will have to be develop
ment not only of Russian railroads. but of
Russian highways. These latter have been
shamefully neglected, and the motor Iorres
that must be called into service by the thou
sand will be able to function only after an
intensive campaign of road-makng. In the
supply of the motors no less than in the new
railroad building and equipment the United
States may naturally be expected to bear
prominent part, and there is hardly an ele-
ment in the economic reconstruction of Rus
STA to which the United States is not able
anu iSduy 10 COMPLIMENTARY YORK JOUR-
NAL OF COMMERCE Ond.).
THIRD PARTIES AT A DISCOUNT
Persons whom New York dispatch desig-
mates ass some politicians think Herbert
Hoover might, if the demand were sufficient,
lead a third party.
The politicians probably are commission
men or mining engineers who are friends of
Mr. Hoover Everybody else knows that in
view of the elaborate experiment of 1912
there won't be a formidable third party in
the United States for several years yet
KANSAS CITY STAR (Indl. fss
MINORITY RULE IN IRELAND
In the United States the minority in every
election is obliged to submit to the Will or
the majority and it does not feel that in
doing so it is coerced But England, which
has her learned writer's over here boasting
that she is the mother of American liberty,
refuses to allow majority rule to prevail IN
Ireland That is a sample of the benefcent
type Of British democracy of which her
propagandsts are Boosting in this country.
In Ireland the Ulster minority has veto
power upon the rights of the nation. That
was the case in the convention held couple
of years ago. Because the majority would
not abandon its demand for home rule ana
agree with Carson, the world was informed
that the Irish people could not agree upon
what they wanted. Under the proposed plan
of home rule the formation of central par
lament would depend on the consent of VI
ster. That is one of the reasons why it will
probably not be accepted It's aim is to per-
petuate the ascendancy of Ulster and to keep
up a pretense of sectional strife when none
exists except what is fostered by the govern.
ment in Ulster. ...
If the Irish people were left to themselves
they could live peacefully as any people
on earth. but the pampered Ulster clique, of
which Carson is the leader, wants to rule the
roost, and that is what it is doing with the
support and collision Of Premier Lloyd
George-PROVIDENCE TRIBUNE Qnd.
Rep.).