The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1920-09-03
DR.. EVANS BELIEVES
IN AMERICA AS HOPE
OF WORLDS FUTURE

Dr. Arthur Walwyn Evans, nephew
OF Lloyd George, prime minister OF
England, was the speaker at the Rich
mond chautauqua Friday at p. m.
His topic was What America Means
to Me-
DR.. Evans is a graduate Of the Uni
versity of Scotland and has resided In
this country for eight years and Is
now a citizen. He is professional
lecturer.
DR.. Evans said: 81 became citizen.
not only because l like the country
but because / think that IL man eats
the bread of a country and claims
the protection of it's government every
day, that if he lives in the land and
gets his livelihood and enjoys its pri-
vileges, he should become citizen.
II furthermore believe" he said,
that it would be a proper thing to
make citizenship compulsory. After
a man has resided here for certain
number of years, he should either be-
come part of US in reality or go back
TO that country or the country or his
allegiance"
Says Patriotism Shrieks
He first described patriotism here
as false kind of patriotism. merely
highly exaggerated nationalism, or
boastful jingoism, which America
seems to be trying to prove by DEM
onstrating how thoroughly she can
hate every other country. We seem
to perpetuate national antagonism.
DR. Evans said that historical rec
ords show that in the last 500 years
there have been 13 years OF fighting
to every one year Of peace, which he
said was a highly gratifying express
sion of civilization.
For the league of nations he said:
mo matter what we may think we
must create an effective method and
covenant for the preservation OF
peace by the leading nations OF the
world. Otherwise we have only one
resource which is to go back to the
old machinery of the balance Of power
and that is no resource at all. The
balance of power is nothing more than
an international see-saw. 1t would
amount to the return to peace that
gave us six wars in IA years.
War to be Horrible
Dr. Evans described the new and
terrible inventions of the great war
which would make future wars SO
horrible.
"Au agencies of modern science,
he said, would be used to kill. The
time has undoubtedly come when we
must devise a saner method for secur-
ing the life of the word. In the words
of Franklin. it is a case Of hang to-
gether or hang separately
America" he continued, "has
shown the world generous leader
ship in. the pra ctice of the spirit of
brotherhood upon her own soil. The
miracle of her country was that the
races which were constantly at war
in Europe over here mingling had a
chance to understand each other
men in the same lodges, women in
the same clubs, and children in the
same schools.
America is Successful
America has produced a successful
experiment in human brotherhood
which mingles the hostile races into
one loyalty under one flag We can.
the Mick the 'Hunke,' the 'Dago,
etc. without lowering rather than
roising ourselves.
while Europe owes a great debt
TO America. never greater than since
the war. it is mutual debt. We owe
to Europe, in a sense of history as
much as Europe owes US. We must
preserve our national independence,
but this does not mean that we should
surrender that moral lea dership in an
international sense that we have
given the world in a national sense
through our brotherhood of races
here at home"
I'm other Words he concluded, eve
must extend this spirit by all just
means within our power and believe
that what America is as a brother
hood Of races, so the world may be-