Imperial Valley press., 1922-01-21
PRINCIPLE OR EXPEDTENT?

months and submitted the people constitution
consisting of only articles including the enactng
clause or section providing for ratification The work of
those fifty five has endured 194 years 1t has
been amended less hana of times and even so has
been changed essential and not always improved.
this with the constitution of the state of Cali
forna which half century has been wholly revised
and amended we know how many times and is yet
unsatisfactory that today someone has said that we
get up in the night to amend It.
Now what is the reason?
The constitution of the United States touches only
first principles Doubtless the fifty five trainers of the
constitution had ideas enough fill big book the
constitution of California but they knew that only prln
cps endure and that expedents serve to confuse They
had of their mission and they building
for all time. 49,
from fishing to the revolutions of the planets There are
fundamentals it doubt for the trainers freely plagar
Declaration of Independence but what there is OF
Now. is there not a lesson in this for those who
concluding the abors of the disarmament conference?
understoodand they last Expedens temporal They
are confusing and esve and such they the ground
work of discord and not OF peace
The abors of the dsarmamen conference are now
drawing to close, and may begin to speculate
what has all amounted to- AS to Details OF course no
wisdom enough foresee how everything Will work
out but broadly speaking the world documents which have
of the Washington conference Will endure or
perish just the proportion that they have adhered to
principle and eliminated expedent The conference has
been dominated by of vision. We do not mean Wis
ionaries" but who have read history correctly ana
UNDERSTANDINGS men grounded IN the rgn men aose 10
conceive world unit, having knowledge OF the
power of metaphysical forces and with courage to apply
the truth them-men like own secretary
Hughes and Arthur Balfour
Whenever Mr. Hughes and Mr.. Balfour have been
sdetracked from principle indeed they have been SO
deracked has the of public opinion
which has been directed by narrower vision and sgner
understanding If, the work of the conference 1as
it will be the respects where it has apped restrictive
measures which survive the fundamental instincts
of the human We magnanimous people we
this We do not cove everything that any otner peope
possess We of this and it might seem untnnk-
able that should introduce factor which could wreck
the peace ship and yet this could be-
nation or a race cannot be restricted to limits of ex
panson which would starvation extermnaop Such
an issue involves sefpreservaon and that is first prn
ciple which ordinance change. No matter what
people might agree to do they would not do it if the doing
meant death Now to be specific If the United States
Canada and Australia have unoccupied land which Is not
cutvaed and not necessary for the existence of their
people and japanese have occupied and improved all
their land the last degree OF intensity and sti tnere
not enough to sustain their people, the japanese lies
down to die there is going to be fight This fact might
lust as well be understood for the detum of the dsarm
noent conference cannot make the thing otherwise Reg
ulatons world affairs which touch the material pros
pery of people endured until they reach the
point survival determination And then that Is the
end The the approach to that point the more
source of irritation regulations become.
1t may perhaps be too Ethiopian to say that in enter
ing the conference should have waived matters which
bear closely upon prosperity and happiness; put IN
approaching this delicate question should keep IN mind
that we are trespassng upon fundamentals Moreover
it is necessary consider how far conclusions ia
fuenced by fear The law of adjustment is such that
freely to the relief of Necessity but is afraid
that the supply will hold out and wthholds what an
other must have, the law becomes nopraNe mus ooeo
Fear oppose Principle.
proposition of laying down basis Of peace for the
world is not different from the problem OF under
our roofs The husband and wife who live through
the state Of harmony the ones who have
learned unessentals Most issues not issues
at all when in the right perspective and In the true
relation of thing to another Only few things are
necessary all the be waived reconced.
this whether of the world of the home. Two
words loyalty unselfishness would form pretty fair
constitution the OF the home and when
thinks of it. the would not be bad for world
gram The question of mandates, spheres of influence
everything repreSsve restrictive characters merely
the mist that went up from the earth They are the
fabric of that Of confusion which fills the human
with expedieney anda world peace program cannot come
to basis in such No man. body of men, is wise
enough bring senterest TO basis of adjustment The
Almighty Himself could not do it and would not try for