The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1921-11-17


America is not that England
WANTS to be closely allied with
japan. Her greatest. most valu-
able colonies, Canada, Australia,
hate such an alliance. and England
knows it.
1t is that England as an Empire
is in deadly FEAR of Japan. with
two fighting brown men for every
English white man.
H. G. Wells. tells the difference
between England and Japan, and
the danger for England when he
says that the English child is
taught to believe that his country
belongs to him. The Japanese
that he belongs to his country.
Every Japanese can be used to
fight in any kind of war.
Englishmen would pick and
choose before enduring conscrip-
tion again.
I EnHi4nd's fer Of japan II
understood. by Americans whose
memory gdes back to slave own
ing days when "a rising of the
Blacks" with fire and murder.
was the ever present nightmare.
Japan could drive England from
Asia. and would II she got started.
The Englishman locks arms
with his brown brother. not be-
cause he wants to. but because
he wants to keep close by.
Fortunately this country doesn't
own and exploit benevolently or
otherwise three hundred million
Asiatics in India, carry the bur-
den of old Nile in Egypt, control
gold and diamond mines and wild
game In Africa. or face the prob
lem of keeping Asia out of Aus
tralia and New Zealand with those
places not one tenth populated.
Our task is to be different
from the microcephaiic idiot. who
forgets in ten minutes that fire
burns, and gets burned again.
If we remember what Europe and
our own profiteers taught us in
the late war, the rest will Be
easy.
We have to keep ourselves
safe and keep our Government
WHITE. It is to be hoped that
Mr.. Hughes read yesterday in
Washington dispatch from
Baltimore telling how the mag
nificent oyster beds in Chesa-
peake Bay are in danger Of utter
destruction by mussels. The
latter, inferior shellfish, outbreed
the oysters, settle down on them,
smother them, keep them from
spawning. Oyster production in
Chesapeake Bay is cut down
nine-tenths. Those poor oysters
couldn't help themselves, no way
to keep out the mussels.
The oyster population of the
United States can keep out the
mussel population of Asia, in
just one way-by saying, rYou
can't come in" and having physi-
cal force to back it up.
The whole world has been dis
organized and reorganized. Japan
rises as the ruling star in Asia
and shines as one of the three
brightest here in America, where
we think we are settling world
affairs.
And, while we humbly recog-
nize Japan's power and rights,
welcome her with her Chinese
booty, we see indifferently half
of Europe's white population,
Russia and Germany, reduced to
economic slavery, financial bank
ruptcy, governmental chaos. We
ought to worry more about help
ing the white men on Europe's
eastern boundaries, less about
PLACATING Japan. No need to
worry about Japan if we keep
our common sense, our navy.
and our preparedness instead OF
becoming in this grand impro-
vised love feast a collection of
peace-ship blathering Henry
Fords.
A nation unable to learn of
preparedness from what we have
gone through ought to get the
other kind of lesson, the lesson
of poor China as she squirms on
the operating table, wondering
whether Japan will take all or
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