The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-10-27
Opportunities in Navy
Intensive Campaign for 900 Young Americans for Naval
Branch Started by Department.

World war diplomacy In Europe was
but another name for warfare, blood
less, but without conscience or consid-
Grafton for the rights of weak nations
The successful diplomacy has been
that which could demand the greatest
military force if it needed to call upon
it. The diplomats masked what they
were doing with such fine words as
influence" and the like; but actually
all these words have meant the con-
quest Of peoples too weak to resist.
Behind each set of successful diplo
mats stood power-armies and navies.
With these the imperialistic nations
carried on their expansion by coercion.
Navy Backs
Up Diplomats.
1t is not long ago that the school
Biographies showed a large part of
the north coast of Africa belonged to
Turkey. 1t was territory over which
the Sultan had either direct temporal
power or the influence that was his
by virtue of his being head Of the
Mohammedon religion. Today France
has Algiers, Italy has Tripoli, and
Egypt is independent. The turks were
skilled diplomats; they were even
fierce fighters on land; but they lacked
navy strong enough to command the
respect of their more powerful advel-
saries.
And what was true of the Mediter-
ranean coast and other parts of Afri-
ca has been true also of Asia Parts
of China were Topped off, and it is only
the firm assertion of an open-door poll
cy by our own state department that
prevented perhaps the dismemberment
of China. In southern Asia and among
the rich archipeligos of the South Sea
has the same story been repeated
defensless peoples exploited by those
| who had the power to conquer, if need
be, by might.
| One great section Of the world, and
| only one, has been exempt from the
raids of European diplomacy-the
Western Hemisphere North ana
! South America A hundred years age
! this government enunciated the Mon
roe Doctrine and since that time has
! been prepared to maintain that doc
| trine by force, principally by nava
| force. AS result, no European flag
| flies on American soil today except
over land occupied before the United
| States became a nation. We car
than force, the potential force of tht
American navy, floating in our has
| bors or cruising up and down ou1
| coasts, for our immunity.
There is no reason to believe tina
the same diplomatic game is not goins
forward in the same old way. Their
was brief moment in which it seemed
that the nations of the earth might az
1 tempt to DO away with warfare alto
! gether, but that moment has passed
Militarism is as progressive as ever
! The mandate" now substitutes for tn,
sphere of influence"-a change il
name and nothing else.
/ We are beginning, too, to realiz
that most Of the nations of Europe d.
not abhor war as do we Americans
| We suffered with them in spirit a fey
years ago, hut now it is dawning o.
our people that millions of them act
uauy preferred the fighting. with it
assurance Of adequate food, clothes
and shelter, to a half-starved existenc
in city slums or peasant villages. 7
these swarmiug 6, thwarted population
America is now a more glittering priz
than ever. They picture US with GU
pockets heavy with gold taken at tn
expense of their present misery.
The navy is costing now abou
$500, 100000 a gear-about five cent
a day for each American household
This is a small ? rice to pay for the pr
lection it gives, US amid the frightfI
dangers that nong beset the earth.