South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1920-10-24
Heart to Heart
Talks With Ne7e,
Voters on Some
Things Calling
For Thoughtful
And PrayerfuL
analysis
Ladies Are Especially
Invited to Participate
The yellow PerilI Get
Into the League or Else Get
Ready to Fight Alone Within
Another Ten Years.
BY JOHN HENRY ZUVER.
Editor Ncws-Times.

IuILOF y GHs3- Il lines.
When Mrs. Harry Stuart New,
speaking at the high school
auditorium the past week,
launched her League of Nations
bark on the sea OF yellow
peril" she steered not away
from, but closer to the imme-
date reason why the United
States should hurridly align it
self with that world movement
for peace, than anything else
that could be said-barring the
ethics OF humanitarianism.
Get il out OF your head that a
League Of Nations TO preserve
peace involves the preservation
OF peace exclusively by the Unit
ed States or necessarily for the
protection Of other powers.
II japan is making the strides
toward militarism, imperialism,
preparation for war, that is said
OF her, IL means a war for eX-
pansion, and the Philippine
islands and Hawaii, United
States territory,-iS the prize
toward which she Is casting her
longing gaze.
Any attempt 10 acquire those
islands will be external aggres-
sion" threatening the "terTitor-
ial integrity" of the United
States, and her political indie
pendence" as sovereign over
those islands.
Ex-Gov. Samuel NJ. Ralston
Of Indiana, speaking from the
same platform the next evening.
following the address by Mrs.
New, seems also TO have grave
apprehensions involving the
yellow peril" and sensibly
enough, if there is any rea-
son for such apprehension. we
need the League of Nations
than The League needs US.
From every present indiCa-
ton, without the League of Ma
tions with its proposed disarma-
ment program working, 10
check the japanese imperialistiC
designs, and TO say hands or
10 the mikado. when katserlike
ne makes his bolt for a place
in the sun. not across Bel
Serbia headed for the MesOpO-
tamia wheat fields, but across
the Pacific for the Philippines.
Hawaii. and perhaps lower Cali
fornia. present indications are
that the United States Will be
involved in another war within
the next 10 years.
Ladies. are you ready 20 be-
gin again the making OF Red
cross bandages. knitting sweat
crs. stockings, kissing your sons
and sweethearts goodbye. take
ND the sale OF war savings
stamps. of Liberty bonds. TO
scrimp yourself on sugar. coffee,
tea. butter. bread, 10 have
"meatless days and wheat
less days and "gasless sun
days" 10 worry away your lives
watching the casualty lists?
That is exactly what IS in store
for millions OF women and girls
now living. sure as the yellow
peril" is "A yellow peril, and
sure as the United States stays
out Of the League OF Nations.
We must add 20 our own Mon
roe doctrine-U1der which we
might protect lower California.
the Monroe doctrine OF the
world. CouChed in Art X, bring
ing TO our support all members
OF the League "as against eN-
ternaI aggression" from Japan
in Hawaii and the Philippines.
without our membership I'm
the League OF Nations, Japan's
Monroe doctrine-'Asia for the
Asiatcs. lis just as good inter
national law "a our Americas
for the Americans.
oh. but YOU may say in your
jinEoistiC egOtism, we can take
care Of ourselves. we can whip
the yellow Jackets Yes, but IL
would require a war and why
have a war? Isn't IL war that
we are trying 10 get rid OF
Does L. make any particular diff
ference which war;
Would IL require any les kiss
inc goodbye OF sons and sweet
hearts. any fewer heart-aches.
any less apprehension over cas-
ualty list, would YOU refuse
any quicker 10 make Red Cross
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