The Elk Mountain pilot., 1922-09-28
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treaty, but should we have risen in
the interest of humanity and to re-
buke a nation that viciously counted
solemn treaty a mere scrap of
paper? Nobody can fairly claim
that such knight-errantry is an obli-
CATION on nation in such despe-
rate crisis. Should we then have en-
tered the lists on May z, 1915, when
the Lusitania went down, carrying
ia Americans to their death? That
was probably the most indefensible
outrage in the history of navigation,
yet was it sufficient cause for war?
That is a matter of opinion. Per-
tive to affront as it might have been,
yet that the nation was conscious of
meekly and cravenly submitting to
wrong is, / believe, contrary to fact
Likewise, there can be no final judg-
ment on the question whether Ger
many's ruthless submarine policy
should have brought us into the war
on any occasion between May 7, 1915
and April 6, 1917. But that America
cowardly submitted to wrong,-well,
don't believe that any man who
really knew the spirit of our people
in those days can honestly affirm that.
Unfortunately, all Britishers have
been encouraged to put sordid con-
ing the war. Mr.. George Harvey, in
his first speech as United States Am
bassador at the Court of St James,
was moved to declare that we did not
go into the war from any high
motive We did not go ito rescue
humanity from all kinds of menacing
perils. We sent them (our soldiers)
solely to save the United States of
America, and most reluctantly and
laggardly at that----We were afraid
not to fight. That is the real truth
Of the matter"
If George Harvey there told "the
real truth of the matter, then Rud-
yard Kipling's alleged remark con-
tains the real truth of the matter,
too. at least it charges us with no
greater baseness than Harvey did.
kipling, if he talked in the fashion
ascribed to him, is merely an apt pu-
! pill of Harvey. Why, then, should
sundry senators and others who sang
low at Harvey's outbreak, now "tear
a passion to tatters, to very rags?
: Another Slab OF the Sunburnt West.
Last week l called attention to
Sandburgs slabs of the Sunburnt
West, and offered to our readers
one of the best poems in the volume.
For the pathos of helpless remorse
can you match this, which he calls
Ambassadors of Grief?
There was little fiiv of a woman
loved one. man and lost out. And she
took up with another and it was a
blank again. And she cried to God
the whole layout was fake and a
frame-up- And when she took up
Number Three she found the fires
burnt out, the love power. gone. And
she wrote letter to God and dropped
it in mail-box. The letter said:
20 God, amt there some way you
can fix it up so the little fiivs of
women, ready to throw themselves in
front of railroad trains for men thew
love, can have a chance? l guessed
the wrong keys, battered on the
wrong panels, l picked the wrong
roads 0 God, amt there no way to
guess again and start all over back
where had the keys in my hands,
back where the roads all came to-
gether and had my pick?
: And the letter went to Washing
: ton, d. c., dumped into dump where
all letters go addressed to God-and
a no house number"
Uncle Sam and the Rent Problem
S Uncle Sam is said to be leasing
. so3 post office buildings at total
: annual rental of more than s12.-
5 oo0,o00. Although this seems to be
an extremely high rent bill, YOUR
Uncle Sans landlords too often be-
tray disposition to raise the rent
on him So Postmaster General Work
Will ask Congress to invest in post
office buildings. 1t is figured that
under the present arrangement a pri-
vate investor might borrow money
at to 1919, pay his taxes, and still
profit by renting to the government
whereas Uncle Sam can borrow money
for these buildings at 40, and they
will be tax free. Perhaps, Gunnison
may secure Federal building yet.
The Passing Of Enos A. Mills.
The passing of Enos A. Mills of
, Estes Park removes one of the most