Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1920-02-06

strange that two years nsStt5r cne war rnaS
was to end war tne military expenditures
should be placed at seven times pre-War total
and that the best that can be done is to re-
duce them to three and a half times the
cost in 1915" and the SPRINGFIELD
REPUBLICAN Gnd.) suggests that we walt
until we know definitely what this coun-
trys foreign policy is to pc, The peace
treaty with Germany has not yet been dis
posed of. Our future military policy can
not be divorced from our future foreign pol
icy. Nor future military policy be
divorced from the success or failure OF the
League OF Nations, with its disarmament
provisions and system for international ar
bitration."
The FLORIDA TIMES UNION (Dem.) cal
culates that ''in about twenty years (under
the senate plan} we would have trained
force between the ages of 20 and &c of near
IL 15,000,000 men," and asks what use
have we for so many soldiers?' And adds
the CHATTANO OGA NEWS (Dem.):
"Mr. Mondep Republican leader in the
House} declares that the scheme will cost
the country one billion dollars year.
This estimate makes no account of the loss
! to the country from decreased production
which will result from taking the young
men to the training camps. =. :. Mr. Mon
delrs danger signal is abundantly justified"
| The COLUMBUS DISPATCH (Ind.) takes
a middle ground. There is no question: it
says, "but military training is splendid
thing, but to have every one in this country
| serve for a term of years, even a term
of months in the army, after the German
plan, is certainly not to be thought of at this
time-unlcss we want to get into war for
wars sake" The GREENSBORO DAILY
| NEWS (Ind.) would 'leave the question
open until after the election returns are in,
and the EVANSTON NEWS-INDEX (Rep)
believes our policy fought to be determined
! by the policy of armament that is adopted by
the other nations of the world
PLYMOUTH ROCK TERCENTENARY
Three hundred years ago the Pilgrim
fathers came to America and set up for them
selves on the bleak Massachusetts coast The
anniversary of the first permanent English
settlement in this country bids fair to receive
appropriate attention. 1t will be celebrated
here and also in England and Holland
four-day program in Leyden, Amsterdam
and Rotterdam, when the Pilgrims sailed
three centuries ago to the American wilder
ness where they might find freedom to wor-
ship God" will start on August 80, when
committees from the United States and Eng
land will be received at the University of
Leyden. Addresses commemorative of the
occasion will be delivered by scholars from
the three countries, including the rector of
the university DR.. Rendel Harris, of Man
chester, England; Viscount Bryce and
famous American who has not yet been desig-
mated.
The next day. August 81, the birthday of
the queen of the Netherlands, will include,
beside a congress in the town hall, re-
! lfgious memorial service in the Pieterskirk
/ in which the Rev. John Robinson, who led
| the separationists from the Church of Eng
land (the Pilgrims) to Holland in 1909, was
| buried.--Rock Island Argus (Dem.)
a ANGLOPHOBIA
There are several factors that contribute
to the certain dstrust of Britain against this
country. One of them is that sort of school
History" which gives wholly distorted view
of the War Of Revolution, in that it entirely
negects the basic fact that the people OF
| England were, for the most part, in sympa-
thy with us in our struggle against the
! tyrant, whom they were fighting at home
! also. Then there is the vague, natural an
| tipathy that people of the same race, Ian
guage and traditions have toward each other:
| a sort of family jealousy And there is ALSO
unhappily,, an efficiently organized and power
full anti-British propaganda carried on in this
country by the Anglophobes and the Ger
| manaphiles. Never opportunity is me-
| elected by these trouble-making forces to dis
| credit England in the eyes of the American
people. There are publications in this coun-
| try whose only purpose, apparently, is to at
tack the English government and people
| Happily. because of the broad tolerance on
the part of our government and people, and
| those Of England, these forces are of no more
effect generally than the idle wind But it
| is we'll to be wary of them and to judge them
in their true perspective-San Antonio Ex-
p ress (Ind. Dem)