The Washington times., 1921-11-24
Today:
said Gladstone to Japan.
New Kind of Beetle.
Even Wells Turns Savage.
4 Half Crazy World.

eAs Iovernment, listen politely to
soft words Of the japanese dele
gates at Washington. Consider q
remark to the Japanese ambassa-
dor by the late Gladstone Of Eng
land, who was no fool:
why should pay attention to
wnat you say, my dear friend,
when what you do sounds % loud
In my ears?"
Nobody threatens Japan. Korea
10 her slave, China is her farm, the
rest OF Asia doesn't count. Europe
I! seeking no quarrel on that side
81 the Pacific ocean. Yet Japan
spends, getting ready for war,
,haif her total income. No states
man with intelligence will listen
TO Whist Japan SAYS with the
hammering Of Japanese war prep
.arations in his ears.
What this country needs is not
soft, Asiatic phrases, but prepara-
tion such as will persuade Japa-
nese that the safest side Of the Pa
cific is her own side.
News from France that will in
terest the Japanese. It tells Of an
ordinary automobile with folding
wings. Two engines are in the au-
tomobile. One Of ten horsepower
French Observation-Disclosures
the light automobile along the
ground. The wings spread, and
an engine Of 3O0-horsepower car
ries it, at high speed, through
the air.
You have seen a black beetle,
running around, suddenly spread
its wings and fly. Such creature
the Frenchman has made. It
would be convenient to invade q
country with such machines, turn
them loose at first with dynamite
and gas above the cities, then run
around in them on the surface COL
Letting things worth collecting.
The intelligence of Washington
should be investigating that new
French contrivance. and the new
submarine on which the French
are working, rather than devising
methods of making this country
weaker. unable to defend itself.
High up in the air. according
to Eddie Rickenbacker. a wind
blows. as the earth turns. at 500
miles an hour. 1t blows from
Japan toward California. A Jap
anese machine. once in that cur
rent. could cross the Pacific in
fourteen hours. without using
fuel. Our statesmen might think
that over. Fourteen hours from
Japan to California. six hours
from San Francisco to New York.
War will travel fast in a few
years. IS
1t is a fighting world. and you
know it when you find even H.
G. Wells, who almost invented
peace. worrying about war be-
tween France and England. Says
he: "A clamor comes to US from
across the ocean. from tlns French
Senate. for unlimited submarines.
These will be to attack Great
Britain: there can be no other
possible use for them"
When the British friend of
peace is talking about war be-
tween France and England 1t is
time for this country to get ready
for war with almost anybody.
France and England won't de-
eide to fight. Of course. although
they bitterly hate each other. for
they are not quite insane.
But if they should fight. it is
to be hoped that they won't hasti-
ly borrow ten billion dollars from
us again. on the ground that they
are going to save US from de-
struction.
You were told here the other day
of bitter feeling between Italy and
France. Have you seen the article
by Rastignac, in the Tribuna OF
Rome, two days ago.
Rastignac mocks France for an
nouncing herself "the most heroic
and noble nation that has ever
existed"
Mr.. BRAND told the conference
at Washington that France must
nave q mliilOn soiuhcIo ioI ioo,
Germany, bankrupt. disarmed and
discouraged. should attack her. AS
a matter of fact, there is more
danger of war between Italy and
France, or England and France, or
England and Italy united against
France, than Of war between Ger
many and France.
Wells statement that France
can want submarines only to attack
England shows that even a peace
lover like Wells thinks Of his own
country when things become ex-
citing. Wells forgets that France
has been blockading, fighting and
starving Russia, in a preposterous
effort to collect thirty thousand
million francs stupidity lent to the
czars.
Wells knows-he has been in
Russia-that as soon as they are
able the Russians will come down
through the Dardanelles into the
Mediterranean. France has that in
mind when she builds submarines,
not an attack on English shores.
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