Evening star., 1924-10-12
EUROPE KEEPS TAB
ON j. S. CAMPAIGN
Foreign Capitals Watching to
See if Nation Leans To-
/ ward Cooperation.
BY MAMMALIAN HARDEN
BY Radio TO The Star

BY Radio to The star
BERLIN, October II. - Generally
Europe hears from the speeches Of
candidates for the presidency OF the
United states only what concerns
Europe. oGsequeutly the old conti-
nent easily overestimates the impor-
tance of its affairs in the elections.
Nevertheless it has the right to put
to the politicians certain questions
on the answers to which it has no
influence, though its fate be partly
dependent thereon.
Is the alternative before the United
States. as John W. Davis is supposed
to have said at Albany. of insuring
world peace by conference or by
arming on land and sea and in the
air so tremendous that she would
have nothing to fear from any possi-
Bile coalition?
In this case the United States
would have the choice between two
unattainable aims Conferences can
be as uneventful. despite good will
and beautiful words, as the recent
meeting in Berlin called by the proud
name of peace conference" or as
fruitful as that at Washington. Con-
ferences and the most freproof
League of Nations protocol can just
as little insure permanent peace as
the greatest armaments and the
greatest power can protect it from
possible future coalitions and from
che mico technical deviftries.
Still Chnnce for war.
Despite the Geneva protocol. a
Russo -German-Ita or perhaps
East Asiatic, coalition might threaten
France and its dependents, Poland
and Rumania. This is just as possi-
BILE as an air attack on the Pacific
Coast of America. which might have
consCription and a hurriedly built
navy after Wilhelm'S example.
Such an America is scarcely safer
today than the America whose eff
cheney in the last war was revealed
even to those who were blind previ-
ously.
Is the question asked from the Re-
publican camp more correct? 1t was
said in Ohio that the November elec-
tions would decide whether the
American people would preserve un-
hindered its self-deternination or
whether foreign influence would open
the flood gates. Albany appeals to
profit; Ohio to ethics.
1t is not known what great power
or Moloch or Leviathan league is
capable of governing tyrannically the
United States, her liberty, religion,
education, administration, trade. GUS
toms. tariff, immigration laws, etc.
But everybody knows that from
Eden to The Hague disarmament
conference, from Socrates to Ghandi
every attempt to ennoble humanity
has stranded on the fear of deterio-
rating individual or national determi-
nation.
L. s. Faces New Ideals.
Insulted and robbed persons, who,
instead of knocking down their as
sailants must appeal to Judge: a
village, town or federal state which
must no longer resort to arms and
may find compensation only through
the law. all declare their liberty cur
tailed and exposed to foreign influ-
ence. And not without reason, for
the very feeling of human solidarity
is chain curtailing liberty, which
everybody depending upon himself
alone knows as the greatest joy. But
is not individuality in solidarity the
noble purport of all human history?
Now. at last, thousands of years
after Buddha's and Christ's teachings,
their recent terrible experiences have
caused even the big powers to decide
their readiness to adjust interna-
tional actions, not according to the
relatively narrow compass Of their