The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1922-03-21
BALFOUR GAINS PRESTIGE

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land of making Mr.. Balfour prime
minister, to succeed Lloyd George.
Mr.. Balfour is a big man, but Lloyd
George is a bigger man and if he is
willing to stay on the job, the British
people had better be willing that he
should.
Mr.. Balfour did great work at the
Washington conference, and it is this
that has brought him into public
favor especially at this time. He did
not win a triumph in the sense that
British statesmen are in the habit of
attempting to win. He simply threw
his influence, in almost every matter
of Importance at Washington, in favor
of the American proposals, virtually
stood for years.
In accepting the naval reduction
program, Great Britain renounces her
time-honored claim to superior
strength on the seas; in signing the
Four-Power pact, the British Japan
csc alliance was scrapped; in agree
ing to the Shantung settlement, the
British concession at Weihai-wei was
returned to China; and in asserting to
the American open-door policy in
China, Great Britain limited to that
extent her traditional effort to ex-
tend British spheres of influence to
all parts of the world. Heretofore |
British statesmen have been acclaim
ed in proportion to the material adj
vantages they have won for the |
crown. Mr.. Balfour's triumph involves |
the loss of naval supremacy, an inter
national alliance and foreign conces-
sions, but he has gained what is in
finitely more valuable, the good will |
of the United States and of the world
for his efforts in behalf of world peace
and better understandings.
This does not mean, however, that
he would make better prime minis
ter than Lloyd George, or as good.
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WORK MAKES THE FLAG FLY
America must get out Of her head
the idea that she can ever pay her
debt to the service men. Their SER
vice is beyond value and beyond doll
ars
But America can serve them in re-
urn. She can give them, if she tries,
What they need most of all-iobs.
The employment drive of the
American Legion should grip this
country. 1t should reach the hearts
# the men who employ AS business
,ains momentum and jobs long va
ated are filled with new men, the
Employers can see to it that the arnlyI
which served America in war serves
hem again in peace.
1t is not to be advanced in refuta-
ion of this that some men who were
oldiers are so worthless they Go not
eserve our job-finding efforts That {
light be very true if we judged them
My as unemployed. But they are I
lsO soldiers of the flag and they did
OF say, when they went out into
anger with the colors, that you and !
some of us, anyway, were not worth g
ghting for. Some of us were not y
orth it, for fact, but they went on
st the same, burying themselves in i
e army machine, losing individual D
entity for the nations good I
What the secretary of labor has ;
id about the employment drive is 6,
spring: n
During our emergency they t.
served us, offering their all, and A
placed the national interest above Sc
their own. 1t is now the duty of
all good American citizens to see IS
that they are provided for They rs
ask no charity, but only chance is
@ render further service in hon III
,st employment tE9
Work makes the flag fly. lis
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