The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1921-12-15
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An Embarassing Moment

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An Embarrassing Moment
Prince Tokugawa of the Japanese
delegation predicts as an outcome of
the disarmament ''the fulfllment of
that happy time which your great
president, Thomas jefferson, foresaw
in his famous inaugural address
Peace, commerce, and honest friend
ship with all nations 1t should
make the average American look
blank to have a Japanese quote to him
American history he had never heard.
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Let the People Vote on War
when a free people, turn over the
question Of life and death, even of ma
tional life and death, to a small group
of men," said Senator Borah in his
New York speech, ''they are no long
or a free people"
Borah makes the same point Bryan
makes, that there should be a consti-
tutional amendment requiring a refer
endum and permitting the people to
vote on declarations of war, except in
case of sudden invasion. This would
be a powerful deterrent of war were
beading nations to adopt it.
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ScrapPing BattleshiPs Highly Profit
able
Secretary Hughes offered to scrap
thirty first-class American battleships
If Great Britain would junk nineteen
and Japan seventeen, This would
leave the worlds three greatest navies
in the same relative position, ours and
Great Britain's nearly equal and
Japan's more than half as strong. It
would also take sixty-six huge war
ships off the backs of three leading
nations, and in connection with the
tcn-gear naval holiday Mr. Hughes
proposes, would save this country not
less than 200 million dollars a year in
the upkeep Of these thirty dollar-con-
Stunning leviathans. At the present
time, the worlds most profitable bust
ness IS the scrapping of battleships.
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Four Former World Wars
Editor Capper's Weekly
For 1000 years the dark-skinned
man of Asia has been pressing the
fair-skinned man west toward the At
lantic shores of Europe. Four times
since the Christian era the dark-skin-
ned man and the white man have met
an decisive combat In central and
western Europe. At Chalons and
Tours, France, 451 and 1872; at LEG
nitz, Germany, 1241; and under the
walls of Vienna, 1858.
Only during the last 400 years has
the white man successfully pushed
back the dark-skinned races and in
vaded their home lands; often to hold
them in subsection There are many
facts that show the yellow races are
economically superior to the white
race. A Jap, for instance, is econ
omically more efficient than an Amer
lean, and a Chinaman can starve
either to death in the economic strug-
gle.
So says Stoddard in his Rising
Tide of Color" a very stimulating
and instructive book that everyone
who is interested in world problems
viii enjoy reading. w. S. Robb.
Clay Center, Kansas.
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Will Investigate Steal in Wheat
Manhattan, Kans., Dec. IA
resolution has been introduced in the
United States Senate authorizing the
Federal Trade Commission to invest
igate the smashing of wheat prices
during the past year, according to C.
H. GustafsOn, president of the U. S.
Grain Growers who attended a con-
ference Of the organization officials
here last week.
Mr.. Gustafson says that one of the
main reasons given by the grain inter
ests for the decline in grain prices
was lack of export demand. How
ever, he states that 25S, sos, 737
bushels of wheat were exported in
the first ten months of 1921, as
against 166,OOO,OOO bushels for 1920,
and an average of 6O,5OO,O bushels
for the years 1910 1914. In the
me wheat growers in Sweden
and countries, are asking an
EN- against cheap American
wh- cause it Is being imported
at lie n the Swedish cost Of pro