The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1922-06-16
GIVES lecture ON
PACIFIC PROBLEMS
ED. T.. DEVINE HOLDS INTEREST
OF AUDIENCE ON BIG
NATIONAL QUESTIONS

DR.. Edward t. Devine, editor of
Survey, and well known writer and
lecturer on sociology and information
al atkairs, gave very interesting and
scholarly lecture on Problems of the
Pacific" Thursday evening in the I'm
1versity auditorium. The talk was
part OF the series of entertainments
being put on by the summer school
directors, of the university, and al
though the crowd was quite small, it
was very appreciative
DR.. Devine is one of those few
people, though the number is stead
lily growing, who believe that the
United States cannot remain definite
ly aloof from foreign affairs and still
prosper as a nation of it's standing
should.
Presents Vivid Description
In the course of his lecture, he
described very vividly the present sit
uatiOn of the United States with re-
gard to her ten Latin protiges of the
South and Central Americas, the prob
lens which this country will have to
meet in solving the Mexican tangle,
and the logical middle path which
should be followed in our foreign rel
atlOns with Japan and China.
"The beginning point of the whole
Pacific problem is that good many
of the American people think that
we should consider the Pacific ocean
as an American lake. Just recently,
however, I was reading report from
Japan, wherein the writer thought
that Japan should consider the Pa
cific as a Japanese pond, so there
you are"
Defines National Obligations
"Then there are again, other people
who think that an obligation of a !
country depends on some contract,
some treaty by which that nation
could be hauled into a court of ma
tions to be made to stand by that
agreement or to pay interest on it in
some measure.
mo, our obligations do not depend
on these things. They depend on the
position in which we stand with re-
gard to the rest of the world"
Discuss Open Door Policy
In regard to the Open Door Policy,
and the delicate relations existing be-
tween Japan and China and the
United States. DR.. Devine expressed
his opinion that China was goin4
through a great civil war; war not
80 much of physical fighting, but of
mental, political and economic con-
flict. The Chinese, he thinks, are
gradually gaining technical know
ledge of business, and Of government,
which, when they do awake, they will
need, but which period will probably
not come within our lives.
''The strength of the Open Door
policy does not lie in the strength of ,
our navy, or in the strength of Great
Britain's navy" said Dr. Devine, "but
like the Monroe Doctrine, it's strength
lies in it's reasonableness, it's fair
ness to everyone. We need not be !
afraid that it will bring war The
Monroe Doctrine, which at first SEEM s
ed likely to entangle us in many ar {
and even wars, has never
brought us into any serious difficult i
ties" ;
Be Friendly with Japan
we should be friendly with Japan, S
0ut we should not be misled by nice e
phrases, such as character Z
zed the 21 demands made on China b
)y Japan, which sounded very well il
% the average person, but which were a
nevertheless of a nature which no, c
nation could sanction" fl
During the morning session of the
summer school, Dr. Deyine address, o
ID the summer students on some of g
he problems of education, what they Il
should stand for, and how it should c
'e used by members of the profession. it
The talk was very interesting and in "
tructive, as Dr. Devine was during his d
youth, school teacher himself, and O
ince that time has been engaged ex- p
ensively in social problems Of this tt
ountry as we'll as Europe il
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